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Slashdot Design Changes for Wider Appeal
Our marketing department has done extensive research over
the last 3 quarters and discovered that our audience is strangely disproportionately
skewed towards males. Like, 98.3% males to be precise. To correct this
oversight, we have decided to subtly tweak Slashdot's design and content
to widen our appeal to these less active demographics. Don't worry! We'll still
continue to serve our core audience, but we hope you'll work with us as
we try to find a balance that will work for all.
I can definitely feel myself getting in touch with my inner....oh, never mind...
http://www.busyweather.com/
You guys are totally invited to my sleepover.
We're gonna talk about servers, and soldering irons, and building your own computer, and cameraphones, and open source software, and
OH! oh oh oh!
I heard that Linus and Richard might try to sneak in! They're sooooo cute! *SQueaL!*
*giggle*
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
As strange as it feels looking at this, it still is better looking than the IT color scheme... ;)
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I think I need to upgrade from this grayscale monitor.
Don't lead me into temptation... I can find it myself.
I was more amused when there was no official explanation and we were all going "WTF WTF!". I mean with no explanation some of us were forming complex theories involving girls raised to be hackers by their evil masters, barbie, who have trained to seek out and destroy geek culture starting with slashdot.
Philosophy.
I can't wait for them to publish the other extreme with the "OMG!!! Titties!" theme.
After calming me down with some orange slices and some fetal spooning, E.T. revealed to me his singular purpose.
F' the other 1.7%
I'm trying, I'm trying!
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
So, now we'll have a site full of 30 year old male geeks who have never been on a date, and 13 year old girls. I forsee a period of thousands of "hookups" being made, followed by herds of Feds swarming Ann Arbor shortly thereafter.
...
So...
ASL?
jX [ Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Einstein ]
I'm sorry, I was distracted.
No, it's ok, I think I'll remain seated if you don't mind, ma'am.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
So, I think you should add a couple of unicorns. Mad science! Robots! Underwear! Cute girls! Full comic online! http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
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Mad science! Robots! Underwear! Cute girls! Full comic online! http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
So many commments, and yet not a single one is modded as insightful or interesting. You know it's April Fools Day.
I think it should be an automatic thing.
If somebody becomes a fulltime troll, their stylesheet is permanently locked to "omg ponies".
liqbase
This may be a good thing, most of the site has become compleatly illegible.
Try date -u and you will see that it is in fact April Fool's Day.
Note that April Fool's Day, as defined by the International April Pranksters Association, goes by UTC, not by local time zones. Because IAPA is not widely recognized as an international standards body and many people's problems to understand time zones, this has led to some problems since its introduction in 2002. It is especially uncertain for regional publications, which are reluctant to adopt the new standard because they fear to irritate their audience.
One example is the Hubsborough Gazette, which famously spread confusion on the evening of March 31st, 2004 (EST) when an article claiming that aliens have attacked the Whitehouse appeared on their website. Despite the seemingly obvious nature of the hoax, many believed it and called the authorities or local clergery for guidance. One family even is reported to have spent two weeks in their backyard bunker. Since then, the editor has announced that they will only publish April Fool's articles during the hours when April 1st of their local time zone and UTC overlap, and take down articles afterwards. Many publications have followed their example in the following years.
Slashdot, which serves an international audience, of course sticks to the IAPA standard -- maybe in a (presumably failed) attempt to beat Digg at least once a year.
Come on, CowboyNeal, it's a dead give away.
"I wish I knew how to quit you!"
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Slashdot is what you keep loaded in the OTHER tab, in case the wife walks in and you are looking at pron.
You just switch tabs right quick, so she sees you are looking at Slashdot, which guarantees she will not have any interest in looking at the computer screen any futher. She won't even notice the other tab with the "Want to play tonight?" title.
Unless of course Slashdot has a pink ponies theme, which will actual pique her interest. Bastards.
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I field tested the new design on my techie, smart wife, and she said "if this is how they expect to attract women, no wonder most of their readers are home alone jerking off".
...and her reaction confirms that she really is a girl techie. She's bitter, surly, and hostile to men.
*ducks*
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
But, I turned it all back on, and
<SQUEAL> OMG I LUV IT! </SQUEAL>
I'm telling all my girlfriends to do their site just like this. It is so t3h cuteness!
XOXOXOXOXO
Friends 4-Ever!
It's soooo special, I almost cried.
Actually, I am crying.
And a little nauseous.
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I love the Web Developer plugin for the Mozilla browsers like Firefox. When it's installed, it's trivially easy to select the CSS drop down menu, the select the Disable Styles - Individual Styles and uncheck slashdot_fool.css. The pink goes away just like that. I'm sure there are other ways to do that, but this was just so cool that I had to share. Though, I guess that using the Edit CSS sidebar is even more cool because you can see the colours change AS YOU TYPE in the CSS window.
Signatures are a waste of bandwi (buffering...)
Except for, possibly, mine. I wonder if this counts as "insightful".... oh well, fuck it.
I'm a pretty purple pony, flippity-flop, flippity-flop, such a pretty pony, flippity-flop, flippity-flop. I like to have my hair brushed, flippity-flop, flippity-flop...
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As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
Program Intellivision!
Wait... you mean there are actually people living outside North America? You just blew my fucking mind!