OMG!!! OMG OMG!!! LINUS LIKES PINKDOT!!! LOL!!!

fimion writes "Linus Torvalds seems to be pleased by the new slashdot look. Slashdot has appeased the linux gods! Let us all rejoice on this happy day!" He is totally invited to my next sleepover/pajama party. We're watching The O.C. OMG Marissa tried DRUGS!!!

Comments

Nice...

[Caduceus1]

No replies here yet, and its already slashdotted... :) Must be allergic to the ponies...

Re: Nice...

[Anonymous Coward]

"No replies here yet, and its already slashdotted... :)"

Obviously they are running Linux...

*ducks*

Re:Nice...

[cultrhetor]

LIKE LOL! U guys write just like some of the Freshman English students we teach! Did u see how CUTE those kittenz were?!?! hahaha. NE1 who doesn't get this is a WAY EVIL H8R!

Re:Nice...

[Dracos]

We can rename the boring "slashdot effect" the "slashdot pony stampede"! LOLZ!!!!111oneoneeleven

(holy shit, I participated in puss^H^H^Hinkdot day)

I'm damn glad this will only last a day. In high school, a friend of worked at Toys-r-Us for the Christmas season, and got stuck stocking the Barbie aisle. In 3 weeks he went color blind, and his vision didn't return to normal until the following February.

Re:Nice...

[Anonymous Coward]

OMG ;);) I 3 /. It should B /! 2Day! LOL! HEHE

Re:Nice...

[Kelson]

Must be allergic to the ponies...

Ahhh...CHOO!

Re:Nice...

[niXcamiC]

It was down before it even got on slashdot...

He's not the only one

[Raleel]

This cracked me up when I saw it yesterday. Thanks for recovering your sense of humor, folks :)

heh

[c0rruptc0d3]

heh

YOU SLASHDOTTED LINUS

[LennyDotCom]

YOU BASTERDS!!!

Re:YOU SLASHDOTTED LINUS

[Ulrich Hobelmann]

It's spelled and written "base turds," not basterds, you insensitive clod!

Re:YOU SLASHDOTTED LINUS

[Anonymous Coward]

YOU BASTNERDS! ;)

Re:YOU SLASHDOTTED LINUS

[MichaelJE2]

I feel offended by this because I am a true bastard. (look it up)

OMG!!!!

[spiritraveller]

Linux Kernel Mailing List slashdotted.

Re:OMG!!!!

[Wabbit Wabbit]

you mean pinkdotted

Re:OMG!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

OMG!!!! LKLM P0WN31D!! LOL!!

OFFENDED

[caffeination]

Let's see, who's left to feign offense? Ah yes, here goes:
Oh no! I'm a postman, and sarcasm offends my kind! I can't believe Slashdot could be so insensitive! I hate you all!

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people today? The barely-disadvantaged-at-all are out in force bitching about every little detail. These are jokes, get over yourselves!

Re:OFFENDED

[idonthack]

Rotors: S L A
Stecker-board: SH DO TX
mpuhj uwbcr cblzx qksye beyyk pwkfg wtmao wvnmu ohmgs zqrve vkeaa vrrgb aiwxh zdrzi fzwxq ffpuo ozicw

Re:OFFENDED

[tlacuache]

I, for one, being easily offended, am offended by your accusations against the easily offended.

Re:OFFENDED

[Atzanteol]

The nerds are just once again furthering the stereotype that they have no sense of humor. Remember this guy? He's not just a Simpsons character...

We can't have this

[Centurix]

I think the pink'n'ponies scheme has already been patented somewhere, so even the GPL can't save us this time.

Re:We can't have this

[cdrudge]

Yeah, but we have Hello Kitty as prior art. It's been around for years so the patent has got to have been expired by now, right?

Huh?

[ErikZ]

What new look?

I've noticed that there hasn't been any dupes today, keep up the good work Slashdot Editors!

Re:Huh?

[Kierthos]

I could live with the dupes, because I don't check Slashdot as often as I used to.

The April Fool's setup however... I have a new entry for retarded. Thankfully, it's only for another several hours.

Kierthos

Re:Huh?

[Rocketship Underpant]

Aside from the pink and the lack of dupes, it does seem to be business as usual today at Slashdot! Particularly in the editing department. :)

Re:Huh?

[nmtservice]

I'm agree!!
(Another happy lynx user)

Re:Huh?

[RoloDMonkey]

Your new here aren't you? Or, do you remember last year? You should be on your knees, thanking $god_of_choice for "pink poneys" [sic for the clue impaired].

P.S. Mod me up.

Linus, irresponsible

[Anonymous Coward]

Linus should learn about the responsibility of making such comments in public. His words brought the whole kernel mailing list down.

First Dig

[Anonymous Coward]

I totally DIG this story! This should be on the front page!!111!1!!!!!!!!!!!!

Que trolls

[thedogcow]

Okay, lets see how many comments there are saying "This is not funny". Relax. Wash your face. Apply a Biore strip. Put some cucumbers over your eyes. Breath in the good, exhale the bad. Everything will be alright.

Re:Que trolls

[Anonymous Coward]

i for one vote this best post ever

Re:Que trolls

[Kelson]

Que trolls? Siempre hay muchos trolls aquí. Es Slashdot.

Oh, you meant cue trolls! My mistake!

Re:Que trolls

[Anonymous Coward]

you probably meant:

z0MG!!!!11111 TH1S P0ST 1S L1K3 DA BESTEST P0ST EVAH!!!!!111111111111exclamationmark I <3 IT!!!!!

April Fools

[metalix]

Besides the pink theme, how come there isn't anything out of the ordinary with slashdot today?

Re:April Fools

[m50d]

People tried to think of a way to make the site more laughable and gave up.

Re:April Fools

[RLiegh]

They're going for subtlety; notice the fugly green-on-white scheme when you post? Thank god they don't have that for the front page!

Thanks god for Coral Cache

[masklinn]

Coral Cache managed to magnificiently save the post

Warning: mysql_select_db(): Too many connections in /home/sites/lkml.org/scripts/getmail.php on line 56 Warning: mysql_select_db(): A link to the server could not be established in /home/sites/lkml.org/scripts/getmail.php on line 56 Warning: mysql_query(): Too many connections in /home/sites/lkml.org/scripts/maillib.php on line 182 Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /home/sites/lkml.org/scripts/maillib.php on line 182

Thanks CC, now I can at least see what lkml looked like right after the mysql server burst in flames.

Well yeah

[MK_CSGuy]

But does he run linux?

Oh wait...

Re:Well yeah

[kfg]

Well, D'oh!

He needs it to run his CoCo OS-9 emulator.

KFG

Re:Well yeah

[WilliamSChips]

No. He has a Mac.

Re:Well yeah

[alphamugwump]

No, he runs Windows Server.

so who is marissa?

[Anonymous Coward]

Cowboyneal or Hemos?

Mirror

[complex]

Text of Linus' short message can be found at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114 386596009004

Re:Mirror

[McDutchie]

And here is the google mirror. The editor could have used something like that instead of slashdotting the main lkml site, eh? :-/

Working link to Linus's post

[ScytheBlade1]

Hey Taco, fix yourself! ;)

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114 386596009004&w=2

How can we trust this?

[Paulo's News]

Like, if Taco puts this up and the link is dead immediately, how do we know he's not just makin' it up to show off for his girlfriends?

This is nor funny

[Anonymous Coward]

This is not funny.

Re:This is nor funny

[thedogcow]

You still have an oily T zone.

More Links!

[fimion]

Here are some mirrors!

http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg /d364afd75f736cf7
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel /0603.3/2627.html
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114 386596009004&w=2
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel /635456#635456

There we go!

Damn! I'll have to let the virgin go...

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn you, Taco! You already appeased the Linux gods this year?

What I am supposed to do with the 72 virgins now? I guess I'll have to let them go...

Re:Damn! I'll have to let the virgin go...

[Guppy06]

Yeah, like it's real difficult to find virgins on Slashdot.

Re:Damn! I'll have to let the virgin go...

[executioner]

NOOOOOOOO don't let the virgins go..... Send them to me I need to appease the money gods. oh never mind I just what the virgins

not funny

[Anonymous Coward]

sexism is not funny

Re:not funny

[Seta]

Oh come on. If he actually meant to be sexist, that's one thing, but this can also very easily be a pun on the stereotypical way a large number of teenage girls actually act. Just because of this it doesn't mean he's automatically insulting all members of the female gender. If you are so arrogant to think that every event like this is an attack directly on your gender, then you need to grow up and learn to think critically. Even if he meant this event to be sexist, which I really doubt, then would he even do it on such a large scale? Do you honestly give the mods such little credit in the common sense department? Come on now.

As far as stereotypes go, this is a very real one, I have a teenage sister and friends that follow many parts of this stereotype. You should be less worried about overreacting because you didn't actually read between the lines, and more worried about what society has done to your gender and what a majority of teenage girls of this age have become.

As far as funny goes, this was meant as a joke. If he were to theme it after all of the stereotypes surrounding what "real man" is for example. There would be people for an against that as well, but that doesn't change the fact that it was done in jest. He wasn't trying to insult a gender. He was merely poking fun at a popular stereotype. If you're incapable of thinking for yourself and need to follow these stereotypes for acceptance, then that's your problem, not ours.

My gender has plenty of these stereotypes as well, but we'll leave that for when someone posts disapprovingly after the mods decide to theme slashdot after macho men, football players, etc, etc.

I'm not trying to say you follow any of these at all, merely giving you plenty of what if questions as food for though. I appologize if you take any of this negatively, but I aim to inform, not to insult.

Anyway, happy "april first", As in "april fools day".

Re:not funny

[yurnotsoeviltwin]

No, but people who take jokes way too seriously are. LOL@U.COM!

Re:not funny

[Anonymous Coward]

It doesn't say anywhere that it was about females. You just immediately made the link with pinkdot -> females. This makes you a sexist by definition.

Re:not funny

[sfraggle]

Regardless of whether it's intended as a joke or not, it is sexist, and I don't find it funny.

My issue is less with the colour scheme and more with news posts like this one. This is basically implying all women are stupid. If your teenage sister writes like this post, then slashdot is basically implying that all women have the mentality of a teenage girl.

I think this extract from "How to encourage more women in Linux" explains it better than I can:

Sexist jokes are the number one way to drive women out of any group, and they are more common than many people realize. I have more than once heard a man say that he doesn't make that kind of joke, and then hours or minutes later, hear the same person make a joke about pregnant women or PMS. Sometime he just doesn't realize that he made a sexist joke, for example, "blonde jokes" are actually "dumb women" jokes. Sometimes he tells me that it's okay to make a sexist joke if it's true, or it's funny (funny to whom?). What some people fail to realize is that jokes about gender of any sort almost always make fun of women, and will make most women angry, regardless of the context. It doesn't help to first make a sexist joke about men and then one about women.

Taco says that 98.3% of slashdot readers are men. Assuming that's a real statistic, I bet by tomorrow that figure will be even higher. I'd like to see read what some real female slashdot users actually think of this year's april fools joke.

Re:not funny

[MustardMan]

This is basically implying all women are stupid. If your teenage sister writes like this post, then slashdot is basically implying that all women have the mentality of a teenage girl.

Shut the fuck up, and get me a beer, bitch.

Seriously, because slashdot changed the color of its website and did some posts in myspace teenage-esque, now they are somehow implying that all women are stupid, or even that all women act like a certain teenage stereotype? For fuck's sake, grow a sense of humor, and maybe a personality too, and stop over-analyzing everything you read. It's people like YOU who help establish the stereotype that women are complete whackos with no ability to think rationally or apply logic to every day situations. If you don't want women to be stereotyped - stop acting like a stereotype!

Re:not funny

[kfg]

sexism is not funny

If you do it badly.

KFG

Re:not funny

[Fordiman]

Actually, considering the personality I've seen of most of the women I see on Slashdot, I would assume they'd think, "*snort* Thank god this is an april fool's joke. I would hate for the priss element to start showing up."

Na, really. Stop taking yourself so seriously. If you don't think it's funny, that's fine. If you're offended by it, let me offend you proper by telling you that you've been brainwashed by your college professors. You're one of a dying race, as most women I've run into of late can take a freaking joke.

Seriously, men don't get offended when you call us lumbering sweaty fur-covered oafs with an obsession with sports and an aversion to anything involving pink, girliness, gayness or anything else that could be in some way construed with being unmanly - even the ones of us who are pretty much not of that breed.

This is because we know we're either a) laughing at ourselves; very healthy, b) laughing at behaviors we've overcome; also very healthy, or c) laughing at what we've never been, but seen other behave like, if not healthy, very satisfying.

Meanwhile, I didn't see anything about PMS, pregnancy, blondeness. Sure, the site motif at the moment is making fun of stupid catty 15 year old girls. Meet one and admit to me that they don't deserve your ridicule. Then and only then are you permitted to hold off limits an entire 51% of the population from satire.

Which is really what it's all about. A 'sexist' joke is not necessarily mean-spirited, which is what matters. Still, a small, loud, obnoxious portion of the female human population is under the impression that specifying the hilarity of the difference between sexes - or even segments of a population that happen to include gender as part of the behavioral model (in this case, 'teenage', 'female', 'shallow', and 'catty' come to mind as specific identifiers) - is morally wrong and should be outlawed and litigated against.

These people need shot. Or at least, need to be drugged, 24/7, with a 20-80 nitrous oxide-pure oxygen mix.

No, seroiusly. Laugh. Getting angry only proves that you lack the one vital personality component that keeps most humans sane and likable: a sense of humor.

Re:not funny

[Guppy06]

"My issue is less with the colour scheme and more with news posts like this one. This is basically implying all women are stupid."

So talking about slumber parties and episodes of OC is automatically "stupid?" Liking the color pink and enjoying pictures of kittens and unicorns means you're weak-willed and subservient? Women who don't act like men aren't sufficiently intelligent, strong-willed or self-reliant?

Men can have their childish moments as well (after all, fawning over Linus? 4/1 nothing, that happens 365.2425 days a year around here), but when it takes a slightly more "girlish" hue it's automatically degrading to women? And what of the women that really are like that? Are they automatically stupid?

"I have more than once heard a man say that he doesn't make that kind of joke, and then hours or minutes later, hear the same person make a joke about pregnant women or PMS."

To my knowledge, no allusions to female hormones have been made in the articles.

"Sometime he just doesn't realize that he made a sexist joke, for example, "blonde jokes" are actually "dumb women" jokes."

To my knowledge, no comments about either hair color or intelligence has been made in the articles.

Ultimately, it seems you're equating "girlish" with "stupid," and if anybody has issues with sexism, it's you.

Re:not funny

[ZoneGray]

What's the problem? It was a woman who taught me to make fun of this crap. Most women, after the age of 12, seem to think "pink and pony" themes are pretty lame. My friend's mother gave her some unicorn pajamas when she was 15, and it scarred her well into her 30's.

Besides, the rest of the year, Slashdot is pretty much a parody of teenage boys, even if they don't intend it.

Re:not funny

[Neko-kun]

Dude, it doesn't matter how good your argument is.

He'll still be mad.

And here's my reasoning behind it. His About Page states this

              My favourite colour is purple.

And we all know people fall into two categories, the Pink supporters and the Purple supporters, who for the most part tend to dislike the other color. I for one like pink and don't even recognize this 'purple' he speaks of as a color!

Re:not funny

[sorak]

sexism is not funny

Not if it's true sexism, but don't you see that this is a parody of sexism? In a field made up predominantly of men, our best attempt to appeal to women is a pink "My little pony" theme. Sure, some may be sitting at home thinking "yeah, more women will read our sight, now. They're so stupid", but I promise you, 95% of the people who read this were laughing at the lapse in judgement that would have lead to this decision.

Re:not funny

[sillypixie]

I think you need to take life a little less seriously.

If you think that somebody turning a site pink and writing "OMG Ponies" makes anyone out there assume that all women are stupid, then you aren't as smart as you think you are.

The were looking for the opposite of "news for nerds", they got "OMG!!! Ponies". It wasn't a patriarchal plot to put all women in their place, it was an attempt to be lighthearted. I happen to agree - if ever there was an anti-nerd (and I mean that term in the most unisex of ways), it is a teenage girl. That's the best part -- it grossed out just as many geekgirls as geekboys, making it pretty damn successful as a joke, I think.

Personally, I think a lot of people are going to miss PinkDot, come tomorrow...

*grin*

Pixie

Re:not funny

[Anonymous Coward]

Um dude....

He's not a her.

I mean she's a he.

Uh - good to jump to conclusions like that though... no stereotyping there. Can't say your personality shines at this exact moment either.

Re:not funny

[Seta]

Uhhhh, don't put words into our mouths. I said that it is a common stereotype followed by a large number of teenage girls. I did NOT say that every female follows these stereotypes. Before responding, please do some research on "stereotypes", and read some articles on studies about the youth of today.

"Regardless of whether it's intended as a joke or not, it is sexist, and I don't find it funny."

Fine, you don't like it, you're entitled to your opinion, I personally think they went a little overboard as well, but calling someone sexist is a very sharp comment. You're baseing your opinion solely on the fact that they were making fun of a stereotype, not the people that follow it, not the female gender, just the basic patterns and ideals that make up this common stereotype. This never has, and never did, and never will have anything to do with insulting the the female gender.

My issue is less with the colour scheme and more with news posts like this one. This is basically implying all women are stupid. If your teenage sister writes like this post, then slashdot is basically implying that all women have the mentality of a teenage girl.

If you're going to insult someone, please, please learn how to read into sentences better than you have. As far as I can see, all you're trying to do is pick out the most negative meaning you can twist my sentence to mean, and given I don't have 300 flame posts yet, perhaps you should try going through and reading it again. I wasn't implying anything larger from that sentence, I implied that it was a very real stereotype.

"and more worried about what society has done to your gender and what a majority of teenage girls of this age have become."

Okay, that sentence wasn't very clear, i'll rewrite it for you: "You should be less worried about puns against stereotypes, and more about the image that society is presenting to the teenage female gender as "beautiful" and "attractive". Many young girls will do almost anything to try and be attractive to others and fit in, guys do it too, but the extremity (sp?) of the image portrayed to young women is horrible. Every day teenage girls starve themselves to death just because they want to look pretty. They get painful and disfiguring plastic surgery just so they can try to fit in. Not only am I, in my view, not sexist, i'm quite the opposite, but I don't take such out front and offending moves as to blatently insult someone without thinking about it first.

You post about "blonde jokes" and "dumb women" jokes. I hate those kinds of jokes. I don't tell them to anyone, and i'm all frowns if they tell them to me, but I don't attack them for it. Is it really worth the argument? No. The article is right, those kinds of jokes are offensive, but this was never about being offensive to women, ever. My brother and a number of his friends use AIM speak as well, it's not just the teenage female gender that is affected by this stereotype, it affects men as well. This was meant to be a simple play on the stereotype, just like if someone was to make a joke about l33t-speak. The people that use l33t-speak are still around, but just because they use it, is that to say every single one of them is stupid? No. The jokes made here today are hardly meant to insult your gender, however do to the fact that, as you helpfully noted, the slashdot crowd is so completely made up of almost all men, the sections of the stereotype that were most opposite to us were used. I think the joke was to create a site themed to make fun of, not as much the stereotype enveloping the female youth today, but as a direct counter of the stereotype about geek men being losers and never having girlfriends, after all this is a geek news site right?

In closing, I do not like sexist jokes, I don't intend on sounding sexist, however it is people that go off on things like this that make the imaginary gap between our genders eve

Re:not funny

[gryllotalpa]

There was a study that male weight-lifters could carry and maintain less loads with pink walls around them. I don't know if the female ones performed better.

Is there a possibility that male Slashdot readers will tend to be more vulnerable to believing whatever that comes around here?

And maybe I shoulda just let this go away since it's April First.

Re:not funny

[Anonymous Coward]

slashdot is basically implying that all women have the mentality of a teenage girl.

Where did you get the idea that this was meant as a parody of all women on earth, and not a parody of teenage girls ?

Re:not funny

[dunkelfalke]

yes it is.

Re:not funny

[sfraggle]

I'm a man.

Re:not funny

[sfraggle]

Where did you get the idea that this was meant as a parody of all women on earth, and not a parody of teenage girls ?

From Taco's post:

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.

"These less active demographics" implies he means women.

Re:not funny

[internewt]

And we all know people fall into two categories, the Pink supporters and the Purple supporters, who for the most part tend to dislike the other color. I for one like pink and don't even recognize this 'purple' he speaks of as a color!

Real men can only deal with primary colours, red, yellow and the other one You don't need to worry about art-farty other colours, the 3 colour system works fine Black and white are allowed too, I 'spose

Real men are also so masculine that even their sentence's don't have periods
(that's blatently paraphrased from a quote I saw on some maddox site)

Re:not funny

[Sepodati]

Make it two beers then, bitch.

Re:not funny

[sfraggle]

Fine, you don't like it, you're entitled to your opinion, I personally think they went a little overboard as well, but calling someone sexist is a very sharp comment. You're baseing your opinion solely on the fact that they were making fun of a stereotype, not the people that follow it, not the female gender, just the basic patterns and ideals that make up this common stereotype. This never has, and never did, and never will have anything to do with insulting the the female gender.

Actually, if you read Taco's post, he says this:

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.

He says that they are too "skewed towards males", so it is implied that they are trying to appeal more to females. Not teenage girls, just females in general. I understand that there is a stereotype of girls like this, but that doesn't make it any better. The use of stereotypes can be sexist as well, just like stereotypes can be racist.

By the way: to clarify for all the confused people who replied to my previous post: I am a man, that's why I was asking for the opinions of any women who may be reading :-)

Re:not funny

[MustardMan]

Not much of one.

Re:not funny

[Seta]

Err, I misread your earlier post and thought that you were critisizing my post, that was my mistake. XD It was only after I re-read that I realized you were talking about the parent story and not my post (I missed the "news" part, dur hur. ~_~).

Anyway, to some up what I was saying, I wasn't saying stereotypes were a "good thing (tm)", just saying that overall the original poster was overreacting. Stereotypes aren't inherently racist/sexist, but like you said they definitely can be depending on their usage, making the user more at fault. I mentioned in my previous post that do to the majority of posters being men, the usage of the stereotype is quite biased in one direction. I think you got that point nailed though.

Anyway, sorry for that mixup, most of that was geared towards my thought that you were critisizing y post, not what was originally said by commander lunch foods, I thought perhaps you were the previous poster, that was my bad. Thanks for further clarifying, sorry.

Re:not funny

[sillypixie]

Well, NCalGal and I thought it was hilarious.

As well, I have at least 20 different girlgeeks friended, and I have yet to encounter a single one of them who are offended or even a little miffed, other than the complaints about their eyes bleeding. If you dont believe me go find them and look.

I don't think anyone's angry. Really, I don't. I'm pretty sure we're all too busy laughing. Sure, you can interpret it as a slur, if you try reeeeally hard. But why on earth would you?

Pix

Re:not funny

[RLiegh]

Don't be so sure; I've seen a number of women posters on slashdot but Zero teenage girls.

Re:not funny

[Copy, Paste, Repeat]

Haha. I love how you read the content of the post and assumed the poster must have been a she. I'd say you lost the argument right there.

Re:not funny

[Fordiman]

So you missed the joke about them being comically out-of-touch with the female gender. Very good, I think your humorless training is almost complete.

Twits.

Alternative Link

[mjbkinx]

Just use this link instead.

This is really poor humour

[wdawson]

I feel embarrassed for CmdrTaco.

Re:This is really poor humour

[Anonymous Coward]

That's very considerate of you! That means he doesn't have to, and can get on with other things.

Coral Cache Slashdotted

[jrmcferren]

OMG!!!! Not only is the original site slashdotted, so is the coral cache!!!! Is Slashdot fuckinking up the internet???!!!!?!?

Re:Coral Cache Slashdotted

[masklinn]

Actually, the Coral Cache isn't slashdotted, but it cached the slashdotted lkml page.

Re:Coral Cache Slashdotted

[Carewolf]

Slashdot has been fucking up the internet ever since it begun.

Can this be a permanent selectable theme?

[baryon351]

I don't know why, but staring at a page with this much pink is surprisingly comforting. Any chance we could have an all-pink look as a selectable theme?

I really *really* do like it.

(except on pages where it's half pink half grey, but that's just details to fix up)

Re:Can this be a permanent selectable theme?

[LiquidCoooled]

I suggested this elsewhere, your right it should be selectable for those that want it, but it should also be the default (locked) style for accounts with bad karma.
Serve them right for trolling.

Re:Can this be a permanent selectable theme?

[RLiegh]

Not everyone who has bad karma is a troll, just FYI. If your opinion goes against the prevalent slashdot consensus, your posts will be modded into oblivion. In particular, if you're a new poster who doesn't think windows is, like, the omg worst thing EVAR then you'll be in negative land inside a few posts.

However, that said; I do second the call for renaming the "slashdot effect" the "Slashdot Pony Stampeded".

I'm a *nazi* postman

[caffeination]

And I'm so offended by that, I'm going to send my own coded message using your heritage, you insensitive clod:

root:$1$LWO/x/f9$0RA8GM6cCQG5/bSbuZZEZ/:132 39:0:::::

How do you like that, bitch? Yeah, eat it! No wait a...

The new slashdot is not readable

[Anonymous Coward]

THE CONTRAST IS TOO LOW! It gives me a headache!. In order to be able to read I have to copy the text and paste it in another application in order to get rid of all that pink.Go back to green, it is readable. Pink is not! If you want to change, make it red or blue or other high contrast color, not pink!

Re:The new slashdot is not readable

[Ksisanth]

I would recommend other "female-friendly" colors like purple, emerald, and jade.

Oh wait...

Re:The new slashdot is not readable

[Anonymous Coward]

I hate this pink theme it is absolutely hideous and hard on the eyes. change it back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol

[spx]

Does no one here that seems to be 'offended' notice todays date? *grin* If you are reading most of the comments after the initial post, you wont see a ton of pink. Not that I am a pink person to start with, but I find this all quite humorous. Cheers.

Full Text

[Anonymous Coward]

Unlike you pseudo nerds, I actually subscribed ;-).

  Randy.Dunlap 1. April 2006 08:42
To: Linus Torvalds
Cc: davem at davemloft.net, pasky at kernel.org, junio at kernel.org, linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org, git at vger.kernel.org

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:30:40 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > April 1st is upon us again.
>
> I really like the new slashdot look. "OMG!!! Ponies!!!"

Goes with the sandals and pony tails.

> I hope they keep it after Apr 1st.

The sad thing is..

[Anonymous Coward]

That sad thing is, CmdrTaco knows which character from O.C. tried drugs.

Re:The sad thing is..

[Anonymous Coward]

Sadder still if you actually know if he's right.

I seem to remember a study about pink rooms

[Marrow]

Pink was being used because it initially caused calmness. After prolonged exposure however,
the color seemed to cause an increased level of psychosis.

Re:I seem to remember a study about pink rooms

[technoextreme]

Pink was being used because it initially caused calmness. After prolonged exposure however, the color seemed to cause an increased level of psychosis.

Meh... Just keep on scrolling through all the April Fools stories. It was probably posted on each and every one of them.

Whew...

[thecheeta]

And it was only today in honor of the Apple 30th Anniversary that I switched back to the tiny 4" black & white screen for a day... just in time, apparently.

Re:NOT OFFENDED BUT TIRED

[Anonymous Coward]

Rotors: Y O U
Skether-thingie: SU CK
HEIDFOPNVMDCTLKBDOCVYJCOFKBUCEENDVOQTFSPLVOPCZYEGJ RNXUCLGWKPTPNRCKVMRFWC

Rotors: G E T
Skether-thingie: LO ST
OVJGFFGIRYSYKMAEBMAPIBCWKIKRHPOZOEWIFSEYEQTXVEWDMK HBJFTTXUWUSZBKWAQDGRA

Rotors: O M G
Skether-thingie: PO NI ES
YWDEMKAEUZSZRTCOANZWVMMLTDNEOBJIZNHQAIPKFGQFQXMLTS MSTTBNWYSNNSLUPUPZSBSO

it was hard...

[EatChex89]

do you know how confused I was last night reading this site? first off I wasn't in my right state of mind, and then i come here and it's all pink. I was so confused.

WTF!!??

[inode_buddha]

WTF!!?? must... get... coffee.... Ow, my EYES!

I have mod points this weekend!

[Anonymous Coward]

And I will be using them solely against the social retards that can't take a joke or accept one light-hearted day out of the year.

Re:I have mod points this weekend!

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, well, if you see a joke be sure to let us know. 'Joke' meaning something funny, of course.

uhm, un-bitchslap and un-ban everyone

[Anonymous Coward]

who was ever unfairly kicked off the site for trivial crap like criticizing linux. you hypocrite

lol!!!

[Jtoxification]

Aw. Don't we all just looooove Loki's Day?

linus likes slashdot?

[escay]

er...maybe that's his own April Fool's joke....

uhm, but its not

[Anonymous Coward]

its basically linux nerds saying 'we hate girls'. we know you do. its not funny though. its like an ugly misshappen rock on the sidewalk. nothing funny.

Pinkdot? Pinkdot???

[Anonymous Coward]

Now that has to be a porn site.

The OC

[zakezuke]

I don't know what scares me more, the pink theme or the fact that Taco researched such mainstream programing such as the "OC". People like my self have to hit wikipedia to figure out what "OC" is as opposed to some other crap on Fox, let alone know one of the main characters tried "drugs"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O.C.

All I have to say is OMG... like totally well done... gag me with a microchip.

Re:The OC

[The Shrewd Dude]

The link you gave is bad, possibly because of the posting code automatically taking out the period.

The correct link would be The O.C.

Re:The OC

[Anonymous Coward]

They're making TV programs about overclockers nowadays? Cool!

PInk?

[Frozen Void]

My browser doesn't shows Colors/Backgrounds/Custom Fonts/CSS (since i disabled them all).I don't ever see this crap even if whole web was designed like a winXP.And it loads abit faster.Only thing some sites require JavaScript for extra features,but i can work without it.

what do we slashdot now ?

[Meltir]

Wait...
Ive got it!
Here is the message in question (before we burn all of the cache engines available):
List: linux-kernel
Subject: Re: Moving to BK
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: 2006-04-01 4:30:40
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0603312030060.27203 () g5 ! osdl ! org
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> April 1st is upon us again.

I really like the new slashdot look. "OMG!!! Ponies!!!"

I hope they keep it after Apr 1st.

                Linus
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:30:40 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > April 1st is upon us again.
>
> I really like the new slashdot look. "OMG!!! Ponies!!!"

Goes with the sandals and pony tails.

> I hope they keep it after Apr 1st.

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Now, everybody hit "Refresh" a couple of times, and lets burn slashdot to the ground!
MUAHAHAHAHAR*cough*cough*HARHAR!

APRIL FOOLS!

[Eideteker]

APRIL FOOLS!

I am shocked that...

[divisionbyzero]

the reference on Linux Kernel Mailing List didn't being down Slashdot, but the reference on Slashdot brought down LKML. Shocking, I say!

Re:OMG!!!! need a better web server

[SpecialAgentXXX]

That's why high-traffic web sites need to run MS IIS. :-)

How are you gentlemen?

[Anonymous Coward]

All Your Base Are Belong To PINK And SILVER!!!

Re:NOT OFFENDED BUT TIRED

[idonthack]

Rotors: Y O U
Stecker-board: SU CK
widic dpxes qxwtq sbcqp okdhf iwzwr ntkkz ujysw vqdsp ohojd

Rotors: G E T
Stecker-board: LO ST
aascd epfxs cvsei ehmkr tnolt smioa

Rotors: O M G
Stecker-board: PO NI ES
rwabe

Justified!

[Anonymous Coward]

You know what you doing!

What the Hell has Taco been smoking..

[Semper_Liberae]

OMG...lol...like...ponies...ahhh! What has happened to Slashdot. This isn't an april fools joke, its more like Taco has been trippin on shrooms or smoking some powerful weed...like...omg...ponies....lol.lol.lol .... I came expecting some funny articles, not this psycodelic pinkness. Reading thru its like i'm looking at some 14 year old girls place...i guess thats the point. Anyway....Happy April Fools...gota go, my son wants me to go sit on that lump on the couch....wonder where that whoopie cushion is...hum? OMG PONIES.......AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

ponies!

[NuShrike]

Maybe poniesQL might have helped saved LKML instead. Every connection gives it more 5 more horse power.

lounge

[Anonymous Coward]

there used to be a pink pony "gentlemen's club" lounge in Atlanta..err, well, someone told me about it. Ya, that's the ticket, got told about it!

Who gives a phuck?

[Anonymous Coward]

Commander Dildo should just shove a knive up his faggot ass. This site is so faggish anymore it's not even funny, neither are the april fools jokes... bunch of faggot linux queers.

OMG!!1

[Zpin]

LOLOL!!!1 WTF IS UP Wiwth TEH Slashd0T HEaDLInez???---

Someone AOL-kiddie-translatorzored them?

funny!

[Ksisanth]

I think it's funny, and it's even more amusing because of the reaction to it as sexist, due to the irony of the expectations. I'm not saying it really isn't sexist (subjective grey area, perhaps), but it can be both.

Some background on my perspective: "blonde jokes" used to upset me, but then I realized it wouldn't matter if there weren't a bit of observable truth to it. E.g., when women dye their hair blonde, many begin acting the part, at least for a while. They become ditzy, bubbly flirts, and the rest of us have to suffer for that, but it's balanced by the fact that we do have other social advantages--consequences of the stereotype whether we deserve them or not. I made a choice. I could either continue to be upset over the inevitable references to "dumb blondes", or I could laugh at the irony of it. So now I laugh with everyone else, and I laugh at myself for taking it seriously before. Worrying about what other people think based on irrelevant features like hair color or gender is a waste of time, as there's no limit to the irrational leaps people will make in judging others (or trying to be funny).

The pink, "I love ponies" stereotype has some truth to it, too, mainly because that is a social expectation for girls. We shouldn't be surprised, then, when girls meet those expectations. If it really is "stupid", then why encourage girls to be exposed to this ridicule? Do we want them to be stupid, are we stupid for having this double-standard, or...?

I also read the "howto", and I think it's part of the problem for women (and men): expecting others to change to accommodate them. After all, I don't change just because other people expect me to change, especially if it encourages a result I don't really want. Should I expect men to be different? And let's face it, some men don't want women in what they consider their "domain". If women passively sit and wait for acceptance, or complain that the lack of accommodation is keeping them out, then they simply confirm the stereotypes and encourage the behavior despite their intentions.

Re:funny!

[Fordiman]

That reminds me:

What's the difference between a natural blonde and a bleach blonde?

Potential.

When parody makes reality

[Anonymous Coward]

Not if it's true sexism, but don't you see that this is a parody of sexism? In a field made up predominantly of men, our best attempt to appeal to women is a pink "My little pony" theme. Sure, some may be sitting at home thinking "yeah, more women will read our sight, now. They're so stupid", but I promise you, 95% of the people who read this were laughing at the lapse in judgement that would have lead to this decision.

I went out of my way one day to download some j-pop. I was struggling to make some cd covers for the respective discs. Looking at all the designs I decided that there are four basic steps to make a perfect j-pop cover for a female artist.

1. Make it pink. Use hot and cool pink for contrast
2. Add hearts, lots of them
3. When you think you have enough, add more
4. When you think you have too many, add a big one.

Of the things I never wanted to do successfully in my life is making pink cd covers for female j-pop artists... but from what i'm told they are making their rounds in pirate shops in taiwan.

bloody slashdot they think they own the place

[Anonymous Coward]

When will you America, start paying royalties for use of the English language?

The silence is deafening

[Anonymous Coward]

No comment

PinkDot

[bronsinbound]

Please spare me the politically correct, feminist bullshit.