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ThinkGeek writes "ThinkGeek ThinkGeek ThinkgEEk ThinkGeek! ThinkGeek ThinkGeek THINK geek think GeEk thinkgEek. ThinkGeek. (TG is owned by OSTG, the parent company of Slashdot, so activate all conspiracy theories now). You can also look into the new iPod accessory iCopulate which allows intimacy between mp3 players never before fantasized. And for the suit that has everything, Executve Pong. "

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Move

[mboverload]

For the 3rd time, Nothing to see here, move along.

What the hell?

[c0ldfusi0n]

It's the 3rd story promoting ThinkGeek today. April Fools is one thing, but drop the propaganda.

Re:What the hell?

[m50d]

At least they're being open about it this time.

ThinkGeek?

[suso]

ThinkGeek

ThinkGeek? ThinkGeek

Just like Malcovich

Re:ThinkGeek?

[xstonedogx]

+1, ThinkGeek

iPod pedophilia

[calibanDNS]

The two iPods in the iCopulate image are from different generations! That 3rd gen iPod could be the 4th gen iPod's father!

ENOUGH! STOP ALREADY!

[furry_wookie]

From the Wikipedia "April Fool's Day" entry:
Traditionally, pranks are supposed to end by noon. Those done afterwards are supposed to bring bad luck to the perpetrator.


Curse the /. editors. for not having enought sense to stop the 4/1 torture at the appointed hour.

Re:Slashdot is starting to suck now.

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

I must respectfully disagree with you, dear sir. Slashdot started sucking years ago. :-)

Hmmm...

[Twisted Grind]

I do believe all the "waaah it's april 2nd i need my slashdot or my leprosy kicks in!" posts just goes to show how little a sense of humor the non-NorthAm /. community really has. Quit browsing /. and get back to work if it offends you so much. Or hell, go OUTSIDE! Let us with a sense of humor laugh our asses off at crude humor for another 8 hours!

This is the first story today

[soupdevil]

that made me laugh out loud. Yeah, the April Fools and Think Geek thing is over the top, way over the top. Come on guys, this is performance art here. Andy Kaufman would be proud.

Taco's revenge

[hankaholic]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this is CmdrTaco's way of annoying the collective Slashdot readership in response to people nagging him about the natural-language parsing story posted a few days back being a dupe.

If that's the case, I'm amused that he'd spend the time giving a collective "Fuck you, it's my site" to the readers. If that's not the case, I'm honestly curious. Taco and associates can't be so clueless as to think that the majority of the readership is pleased with the day's stories.

Re:Taco's revenge

[Eil]

If that's the case, I'm amused that he'd spend the time giving a collective "Fuck you, it's my site" to the readers.

In an interview that Malda gave a few years back, he openly admitted that the worst part of running Slashdot was all the incessant complaints, questions, and suggestions from people who were under the delusion he actually cares what they thought. Someone once asked why readers shouldn't be able to moderate stories the same way they moderate comments and his response was simply that the editors picked the stories they liked and that the site would never change from that while he was in charge.

I'm honestly curious. Taco and associates can't be so clueless as to think that the majority of the readership is pleased with the day's stories.

People continue to read and comment in them, don't they? Most webmasters dream all day long about owning a site like Slashdot where you have this large captive user base (some with paid subscriptions) and all you have to do is hire a couple of desk jockeys to post moderately interesting stories every hour or so. Marketing? None. Improvements? Hahahah. Managing? There's nothing to manage, it's a damn blog.

Admittedly, Slashdot April Fool's days have gone downhill every year. Next year, as an April Fool's gag, they should simply not post any April Fool's stories at all. Or even take the whole site down, not even under any humorous pretense or anything, just have a single page that says something like, "Sorry, we've all taken the day off. Why don't you update your software or flip through a newspaper if you've got extra time to kill?"

I just tried to order

[crabpeople]

I just tried to order that free shirt from thinkgeek. aparently, i have to order another item more than 10 dollars as well. Ok i said, and i picked out a nice Network Security shirt. Then it came to select my shipping options and put in a credit card.

Thats all good too, but when i put in my address, it tells me that because im in Canada, it will be 18 USD to ship!!! (that btw is the CHEAPEST shipping method)

This is an order of two shirts with the first shirt costing 14.99. So basically, if im understanding this, I would have to pay more for shipping a light cloth shirt, than the actual shirt is worth. Obviously i would be a fool to do that as it just doesnt sit right in my head.

So in conclusion, to fix think geek and get people to buy from there, LOWER YOUR INTERNANTIONAL SHIPPING

Re:New poll?

[KarMann]

I guess I should have included the relevant links for those stories, since they're falling below the fold so fast:

• Tokyo Zoo Adds Giant Penguin
• NASA Builds Worlds Largest Paper Airplane
  • Nothing about any volcanoes, it was just a passing fancy of mine.
• Apple Japan Announces/Pulls iPotty Dock
• Apollo Bacteria Destroying the Moon

Fake ghostlike photons....

[porter235]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/05shirt.shtml

FOOLS SHOP AT THINKGEEK

You silly, unobservant fools...

[kureido]

Am I the only one who actually moused over the links?

ThinkGeek writes "ThinkGeek ThinkGeek ThinkgEEk ThinkGeek! ThinkGeek ThinkGeek THINK geek think GeEk thinkgEek.

(If you don't have the linky-checky-in-brackets thing on, the links are actually to cmdrtaco.net, fark.com, randomdialogue.net, penny-arcade.com, deansplanet.com, mccarthy.vg, cowboyneal.org, homestarrunner.com, and sarcasta.net)

iCopulate

[Frodo Crockett]

iCopulate

This is slashdot. Nobody believes you.