October marks 10 friggin years of Slashdot, and nobody is more surprised
about any of this than me. Throughout the month we'll be running a series
of navel gazing meta news articles about our history, infrastructure and plans for the future. We're also
going to give away 500 t-shirts and
ThinkGeek gift certificates to people willing to
organize and attend their own local Slashdot parties. One lucky winner will get a cool grand to blow at ThinkGeek! I'm going to attend "official" gatherings in Ann Arbor, MI on Oct 20 and in Palo Alto, CA on Oct 25. But you can read on for details about party organization and how you can win the grand prize.
The idea is simple. Visit
the Slashdot Anniversary
Party Web Page. You can sign up to attend a party, or if there's nobody
hosting near you, you can create your own. The details of your local parties are up
to you- each has a corresponding discussion so you can work it out amongst
yourselves. The Ann Arbor gathering will be at a bar because dammit I'm old
and don't have time to go out for beers much these days. But you do whatever works for
the folks in your area. Dorm Room. Bar. Gym. Wherever several Slashdot readers
gather, we shall attempt to mail shirts until we run out.
To be eligible for schwag, you need to schedule your party by Oct 8 and sign up to attend a party
by Oct 9- this will give us time to figure out where to send the shirts, and time to send them before
you all start partying naked during the official party window of Oct 19-28.
As for the one thousand dollar ThinkGeek Gift Certificate grand prize, the winner
will be the party attendee who submits the coolest thing for our "scrapbook".
Videos. Pictures. Songs. Anything you can email. Something that proves that your party was the one we all wish we were at. The deadline for submissions will
be Oct 28. We'll have an official
submission email address posted later. This is all about creativity and coolness
so good luck with that. The grand prize winner will be posted on Oct 31, the end of the
month when we can all forget that any of this ever happened.
Oh, and happy birthday to us. Here's to wasting another decade, same as the first.
Slashdot Mirror
So when was the first "First Post" post?
:)
The first "all your base are belong to us?"
The first "in Soviet Russia" joke?
The first time someone imagined a Beowulf cluster?
Ah, ten years of Slashdot cliches. Here's to ten more, you crazy nerds.
Gifts for Geeks - Stuff that really matters!
Who wants to go to a party with no girls?
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Cool, I don't think i've ever had a slashdot editor comment in one of my threads before. I feel like my original post was even more of an accomplishment now. :-)
http://slashdot.org/~Surt/journal/183407
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
Rob contributed the 1-digit spot, so I'll fill the 3-digit spot. I guess I could have registered a little earlier, but I didn't post much back then (and don't now).
- Will that involve a Halo3 multiplayer setup?
... and I suppose that by real dolls you mean real *plastic* dolls dont you ?
- Real Doll giveaways
- Coke, Beer, Pizza, and cookies?
Halo? Coke? what world are you living in uh?
Mountain dew, D&D
please hand your geek card at exit...
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"Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents"
The only present most of us want from Slashdot is more care in posting stories.
You must be new here.
The site in its very early days had the following threat for the comment posting system:
If you don't have anything worthwhile to say, don't say it. If people continue to abuse this feature, I will have to remove it.What I want to know, is does that threat still apply?
In Soviet Russia the insensitive clod is YOU!