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Get Your 15 Years of Slashdot Shirt (For free, Depending)

We'll be sending a passel of shirts to the crowd-sourced parties that we hope you'll get to, and to any artists whose Slashdot logo suggestions we end up selecting. (There are nearly 30 parties planned so far, in places as far-flung as Latvia and Nigeria!) But starting today the limited edition Slashdot anniversary shirt is also available from our brethren and sistren at ThinkGeek (still, for now, serving the same corporate overlord as Slashdot). So if you can't land one of the swag ones (sorry!), you can still swathe yourself in the Slashdot livery, which isn't so different from the colors of the Vogon constructor fleet. We'll only turn 15 once, but a clever T-shirt is forever. Update: 09/21 17:12 GMT by T : If you want to come hang out with the folks who post the stories to Slashdot day-to-day, note that Unknown Lamer is hosting a party in Raleigh, NC, Soulskill and Samzenpus will both be in Ann Arbor, and timothy will be at parties (coffee shops are awesome!) in Houston and Austin.

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  1. I'd rather have a first post T-shirt. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd rather have a first post T-shirt.

    1. Re:I'd rather have a first post T-shirt. by dasacc22 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd rather have a first post T-shirt.

      There's only one of those and someone already got it.

    2. Re:I'd rather have a first post T-shirt. by mcrbids · · Score: 2

      It would be awesome to make shirts like that but only for accounts that have actually managed to successfully negotiate a frist post.... sort of like a true geek badge of honor!

      I'd happily pay $25 for mine, if it listed the first date of frist post and my slashdot ID.

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    3. Re:I'd rather have a first post T-shirt. by omnichad · · Score: 2

      But only +5 first posts, not trolls.

    4. Re:I'd rather have a first post T-shirt. by isorox · · Score: 2
  2. To help out... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please send your name, address, SSN and a donation of at least $75 to the Nigerian Party Committee (NPC). Don't worry, your information will be safe, the committee is headed by a princess who has a pile of her own money...

  3. Why 15? by Chemisor · · Score: 5, Funny

    What kind of a geek celebrates the 15th of anything? If you had just waited until next year, we'd have a nice round number to be excited about. But 15? Meh...

    1. Re:Why 15? by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oooh, another thought. Next year they could re-do the 'Amazing Grace' song.

      When we've been here 10000 years...

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    2. Re:Why 15? by joe170 · · Score: 2

      Slashdot's Fth birthday?

    3. Re:Why 15? by Chemisor · · Score: 2

      Nice try, but no cookie. A 15th birthday is celebrated 15 years after the birth day. The 0th birthday is usually called celebrating birth, which is an entirely different affair. The former celebrates survival over a period of time, the latter celebrates a beginning of existence. So my point still holds.

    4. Re:Why 15? by Aaron+B+Lingwood · · Score: 3, Informative

      Don't tell the Koreans that.

      In Korea, you are age 1 the day you are born. To complicate things further (as with Japan and many other Asian countries) you report the age you are turning in that year (the year being Lunar in Korea and Solar and Japan). So if a child is born on the last day of the year, the very next day that child is already 2.

      So if you ever ask a Korean their age, you should ask them for their 'international age' which will be 1 to 2 years lower

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  4. Re:Slashdot party in Nigeria? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    A shitload of reputation managers, judging by the recent standard of comments here.

  5. Why 15? by Hartree · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They started counting with 0, of course.

  6. Age of Slashdot Accounts by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been around for about 8 years I think, probably 18 months to 2 years before I got my Slashdot account.

    Does anyone have any chart showing age of slashdot account by account ID? Something like the highest slashdot ID on Dec 31, 2001 was xxxx, highest slahdot ID on Dec 31, 2002 was yyyy? I would find that interesting.

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    1. Re:Age of Slashdot Accounts by Githaron · · Score: 2

      Does anyone in the single digits ever post anymore?

    2. Re:Age of Slashdot Accounts by TubeSteak · · Score: 2

      We of the Order of the Primary UID only wake the elders for their annual blood feast during the summer Equinox.
      During this time they are given 10 mod points and 20 minutes to make an Insightful post
      Then they are placed back into suspension.

      Now let us pray
      01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000
      01101000 01100001 01101001 01101100
      00100000 01100011 01101111 01110111
      01100010 01101111 01111001 00100000
      01101110 01100101 01100001 01101100

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    3. Re:Age of Slashdot Accounts by Teun · · Score: 2

      Oops, sorry about your lawn...

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    4. Re:Age of Slashdot Accounts by velkro · · Score: 2

      Did somebody make a sound?

    5. Re:Age of Slashdot Accounts by velkro · · Score: 3, Informative

      Doubtful - the single digit users were the original cast of editors... who I haven't seen post a comment (unless it was a meta-slashdot story) for years.

  7. GIS reunion? by randomErr · · Score: 2

    Will there be a Geeks In Space reunion?

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  8. Well, there's one obvious candidate. by Medievalist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who on Slashdot is from Nigeria?

    I'm assuming it's user number 419 until proven otherwise.

    1. Re:Well, there's one obvious candidate. by RatBastard · · Score: 2

      419? And I thought I was an oldie!

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    2. Re:Well, there's one obvious candidate. by istartedi · · Score: 2

      Yeah, what really gripes my cookies is that I'm in the 90th percentile; but nobody cares about that. They just care about how many digits are involved. Lousy 1%ers, just like in real life. Occupy Slashdot! Randomize UIDs! Anarchy Now. LOL.

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  9. People with 4 digit id should get them free... by kdekorte · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just sayin...

  10. Re:Slashdot party in Nigeria? by satanclause · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who on Slashdot is from Nigeria?

    Is it that nice Prince who keeps sending me checks to cash for him?

  11. /. remembered my password! by AndyKron · · Score: 2

    Whoo hoo /. remembered my password after so many years, and I'm getting a t-shirt!

  12. Good news, everyone by Eil · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you ever wanted a punch a Slashdot editor in the face, here's your chance!

    1. Re:Good news, everyone by timothy · · Score: 2

      Hey, I've only been punched in the face a few times, and none of them was while editing Slashdot!

      Alternatively, why stop there, when there's the possibility of a full-on hubbub, or even a fracas?

      (We would love to hear complaints, though, esp. if delivered with good ideas on resolving them.)

      timothy

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  13. Obvious logo choice on the shirt by damn_registrars · · Score: 3, Funny

    You could have just written "slashdot", but instead to reflect the editorial standpoint of this site, you use a logo including a right-leaning slash.

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  14. Re:Slashdot party in Nigeria? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Subject: Dear Respected One,

    Dear Respected One,

    GREETINGS,

    Permit me to inform you of my desire of go to the slashdot party with you. I got your contact from the International web site directory. I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to it's esteeming nature and the recommendations given to me as a reputable and trust worthy person I can party and do business with and by the recommendations I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.

    I am Wumi Abdul; the only Daughter of late Mr and Mrs George Abdul. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan,the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discus on a business deal. When my mother died on the 21st October 1984, my father took me and my younger brother HASSAN special because we are motherless. Before the death of my father on 30th June 2002 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of $12.500.000 (Twelve Million, five hundred thousand dollars) left in a suspense account in a local Bank here in Abidjan, that he used my name as his first Daughter for the next of kin in deposit of the fund.

    He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance his from the deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose, (such as real estate management). Sir, we are honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.

    1) To hang out at the slashdot party.

    2) To provide a Bank account where this money would be transferred to.

    3) To serve as the guardian of this since I am a girl of 26 years.

    Moreover Sir, we are willing to offer you 15% of the sum as compensation for effort input after the successful transfer of this fund to your designate account overseas. please feel free to contact ,me via this email address
    wumi1000abdul@yahoo.com
    Anticipating to hear from you soon
    . Thanks and God Bless.
    Best regards.
    Miss Wumi Abdul

    PLEASE FOR PRIVATE AND SECURITY REASONS,REPLY ME VIA EMAIL:
    wumi1000abdul@yahoo.com

  15. Re:Parties? What? by lgw · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmmm, the shirt seem to come in "XXXL" and "Extra-Virgin", and the store asks for the address of the buyer's mother, in case no one answers the basement door. Talk about targeted marketing! You'd think they'd also sell the shirts in-game in WoW, though ...

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