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President John F. Kennedy
wrote in to say that
Propaganda 5 is out.
Another outstanding series of background images.
RPoet wrote in to
say that The Gimp had
a 1.1.3 developer release come out.
Bill the Cat
sent us another strange eBay Auction Item.
Les VanBrunt sent me
a picture from LWCE that
should be destroyed.
netweasel sent us
a link to Jesus Action Figures!
Collect All 12 Apostles! Jesus! With Super Healing Grip!
I bet Boba Fett would win.
Bowie J. Poag wrote
in to say that CopyLeft
now has Themes.org shirts for sale.
unitron sent us a
link to Phone Spell
which converts ph#s to words. I found some cute ones for
mine- wish my area code didn't have a 1 in it.
Lastly, another reminder to go to the User Account
page and edit your preferences. Slashdot article filtering
should be working. More coming tomorrow, assuming this
stuff works as advertised.
what's that /. on the Jesus action figure page all about?
I don't know what you're referring to (in the /. article) but I've had pseudo-transparent terminals for quite awhile. Eterm does it, and I think there's a few others as well..
(pseudo-transparent as in it grabs your background, and manipulates that, but it won't show any windows behind it)
Check out Eterm.org if you don't already know the URL.
rob posts an article poking fun at bible action figures, and sticks a link to guy's page who is an evangelical christian.
oh the irony...
There are some nice screenshots on that propaganda page. On several of them they have a really awesome mp3 player (it looks like the sonique player, www.sonique.com). Where can I get it?
Look it up on Freshmeat.
Jon Katz's entire purpose for being on slashdot is to elicit flames - more fun to watch people call him an idiot than to filter him.
Can someone please tell me what that eBay item was? The link is invalid. I'm dying to know. The curiosity is killing me!
Try aterm for transparency/tinting/shading of your X terminals.
e rm-0.3.4-1.i386.html
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/freshmeat/aterm/at
eterm and others will do transparency and shading, but they take so much RAM/CPU it's not worth it. aterm works so efficiently I use it for all my terms even on my 32MB system.
weird.
It took me a few minutes to realize that they are really selling apostle action figures, at least it seems like they're really selling them. . .
I'd toss those fuckers in with my Transformers
:)
and Voltron toys, and launch lion heads at 'em.
Tee hee.
...some RMS voodoo dolls? :}
> fellow with the rather large cheeks. ;)
No, that sounds like one of Rob's finely trained attack chipmunks.
Linus
Richard
Eric
and the evil Billy G.
I saw these figures for real at the NYC toy fair last month at the Javit's Center. They are real!!
--netweasel
Now THATS comedy! =D
Nah, I'm sure he'll find something to bitch and :)
moan about it. Just like me right now.
Shouldn't Adam and Eve be naked....or is this after they got kicked out.
BTW, this is the funniest thing I have seen in ages.
I reckon Goliath would kick everyone's ass. Have you seen the size of the guy!?
I can't seem to be able to reach it.
Unless we're thinking of 2 different ideas of shading, wterm does support it. Check out the latest version.
I keep getting "Document contains no data" when I hit the "new user" button.
- Dennis
Read a good book lately?
http://people.qualcomm.com/dburke/
Heh, my phone number spelled a-jet-oops.
I'm glad I don't live near the airport.
DG
Anyone else STILL having trouble getting their password? I'm tired of being an AC...
man, the phonespell thing is lame-o. check out PhoNETic to see the way it should really be done.
JFK + Desktop themes? Could anything be less likely? Nobody in their right mind would make that association. This is the kind of site that makes my life worth living. I can't stop laughing. I love it! (Plus they have some killer backgrounds.)
I didn't see any link to pix of individual figures, but if they do have an Adam (nude?), he had better not have a navel... that would be so stupid.
:P
The ONLY reason we have navels is because of umbilical cords. Since Adam was not grown in a womb, of course he wouldn't have a navel.
as the wallpaper on my Windows NT 4.0 machine!
I am not buying, there was no lucifer figure, and where is the minon
Anyone want to bet whether they're logging all phone numbers that get typed in, and selling them to telemarketers?
Some Linux users are pathetic. You worship the creator of your favorite OS like God. He isn't god people, he is just a guy (a very intelligent guy). A lot of Mac users are just as devoted to their OS as Linux users are, but I have never heard of a Mac user setting up an alter to Steve Jobs in their bedroom and praying to it every night. Get a life people, its just an operating system.
Erik,
Are you outraged that a believer tells you Jesus saves sinners?
He can only save people who acknowledge that they have fallen short of God's expectation for loving behavior. Christians are told to treat others as they would like to be treated, and they are told to love their neighbors as they love themselves. Often times we fail!
We are all sinners seeking (and receiving) forgiveness through faith in the blood sacrafice of Christ on the cross.
Dennis Smith
sinner | jesus | >> forgiven.life
>When you change your "signature", it changes retroactively! That's bizarre.
Nope. It's efficient. Your sig is probably just encoded on a ptr.
> sinner | jesus | >> forgiven.life
Jesus passes a sinner and appends to the forgiven.life pile
must hurt
Part of that it because Linus does useful things for Linux, whereas Steve Jobs is just an egomaniacal ass.
I don't have an altar to ANYONE.
Jesus was a black man. NOT white. For thousands of years, people have had this perception that the Lord Savior was white. This is a false perception, Jesus was a man of color. Not the pale skinned white devil. The "Jesus action figures" are biologically incorrect, has it is a scientific fact that Jesus Christ was a negro.
Praise be to the negro Jesus.
Now, was that so difficult?
Wow, what a bizzare site... But I like it. The images are really cool, too. How were they generated? Some of them look like photos of molecules taken through a microscope, some just look like someone spent entirely too much time fiddling with really nifty filters and stuff. It's really sort of mind-boggling...
Posted by sweeheng:
wterm works well in WindowMaker.
It has pseudo-transparency.
I "flood" my desktop with a borderless transparent wterm. It hogs resources - but not much IMHO.
Too bad no shading though.
Maybe a new version has it?
Posted by Tr0ll3r:
You are gay.
Linux Rox
:)
:)
Windows Sux
Sin is Stupid
No way! I love that game. I spend more time than I care to admit, "sinning".
Oh yeah, I break the laws and commandments of your god on a daily basis.
Among the many slogans that we need to remember for a healthy, happy life.
How about "do unto others, as you would have done unto you?", you know, the one good phrase in the bible that many christians just don't seem to get. After all, how would you like it if I posted something like "Satan Saves: Molest a Small Child today" on slashdot?
You'd be outraged, right?
The door swings both ways...
-Erik-
Do not give in to the urge to purchase action figures of myself and the apostles. For, I am not getting any royalties, and my lawyer is calling them tomorrow!
:)
This would be much more fitting as your webpage.
-Erik-
I never thought Linus could be photographed with ordinary mortals like that. Don't you have to be transcended to see Linus in person or something? And then you can't return to Earth.
eh, i thought you were pretty far away from san jose. I did end up buying a t-shirt at the booth, and I believe i purchased it from the fellow with the rather large cheeks. ;)
When you change your "signature", it changes retroactively! That's bizarre.
The next Cmdr Taco duplicate will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
The Jesus one looks like Stallman. And I see the Adam and Eve ones are post-Eden :)
axolotl
Yeah, no kidding.. now no one will be able to use the excuse "i hate seeing this crap on Slashdot so i submit flamebait" when they dont enjoy the articles... maybe the KDE and Gnome crowds will mutually exclude each other, as maybe all those ready to jump on any non-Linux OS story or editorial will exclude the BeOS and FreeBSD threads.
I personally wanna read every article on Slashdot... I mean, jeez, does it REALLY take that much time or energy to read an extra 200 words?
Binary Boy
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
-- Derek Bok,
Linux Rox
Windows Sux
Sin is Stupid
Among the many slogans that we need to remember for a healthy, happy life.
--= Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?
Was that the "16-year-old teenage girl" someone was auctioning a week or two ago?
> Okay.
>
> The "Adam" action figure has a navel.
Hey, not only that, but Mary, David and the Angel are blonde! And everybody is caucasian! And Job and David are wearing PANTS which I thought happened in the middle ages (at least in europe).
And you have to love Job's "Festering Open Wound Action". Get that man some Neosporin, stat!
--
Posted with Mozilla
Yeah, haven't you seen unitron's signature lately?
Software sucks. Open Source sucks less.
He shoots. He scores!
(Sorry, but somebody had to say it.)
Software sucks. Open Source sucks less.
It's pretty nifty what one can accomplish with perl. Good job rob it's pretty spiffy.
I for one don't really use it, mostly because I don't want to exclude ANYTHING slashdot carries, but it's very cool to be able to do that type of thing.
What would be interesting to me is to get stats later on to see how many people excluded Jon Katz articles. I certainly didn't, and I'd love to see how many people that act like they hate him actually go through with it. After all, if they excluded him, they wouldn't have anything to bitch about, right? They're not going to do it IMHO.
-- Truth goes out the door when rumor comes innuendo. -- Groucho Marx
Propognda really is absurd, but it isn't really funny either. Just kinda flaky. Just my 2 cents.
the backgrounds are cool, though.
support gun control: take guns from cops
I'm surprised nobody thought of making RMS (Richard Stallman) action figures given his extremely devoted FSF followers.
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The reason someone else allows him to be here may be to elicit flames but I suspect his own reason may have something to do with his next book (as mentioned on C-SPAN)which is going to be about the rise of geekdom.
In that same interview he mentioned that many of the fans of "Running to the Mountain" thanked him for making it short. My sides ached for the next two days.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Is it just me or does that look like the Kenobi figure with a different head, in which case I can just swap parts on my nephew's ridiculously large collection.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
You know, that phone spell thing is a little too fun to play with.
The sad thing is that Al Gore is (or is spun as) one of the more technology savvy politicians. Rob for president anyone? /. the vote.
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
oops, wrong article.
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
my guess is it was the severed human arm lost in a tug-of-war contest
... and missing.
a local Tampa radio station has been posting all sorts of strange items (eg, 1lb anthrax, severed human head) Today they finally got the email from ebay saying that they are prohibited from posting more items. They just may post more anyway. Can anyone verify if it was the arm?
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The art of flying is throwing yourself at the ground...
Don't forget Beard-grow-long Jordan!
Life in the digital age sucks, but the pic is here to stay guys!
Life was hell, then I discovered Linux...
No more of his constant verbose babel. Let's keep Slashdot "News for nerds".
--Ivan, weenie NT4 user, Jon Katz hater: bite me!
--weenie NT4 user: bite me!
"Computers are nothing but a perfect illusion of order" -- Iggy Pop
When you go straight to the comments page, it ignores your preferences. My threshold is always listed as `0' even though it's set to -99. The solution? Click `Flat'.
--jon. Postel is dead. May we all mourn his, and our, loss.
That phone spell was funny :)
.. or perhaps even better, gnu-mow ..
I found gnu-now which fits very nicely together with nn@linux.nu (nu == now in scandinavian languages)
Either should keep RMS happy
send + more == money?
Well, what do you expect from a site where the preferences page gets stored with a button called
SAVE USER
:)
(Don't forget, Larry Wall is an evangelical Christian. However, the fact that he's a nice guy, a thoughtful and effective project leader for Perl and a bit of a net.philosopher should remind you that evangelicals are quite varied and not all stuck in the Pat-Robertson-theocratic zone.)
--------
Bill Gates Is My Evil Twin.
I am *so* looking forward to when thousands of ACs bozofilter JonKatz so that we can have a civilized discussion of what he's writing.
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Bill Gates Is My Evil Twin.
Okay.
The "Adam" action figure has a navel.
I'm going to bed now.
Use enlightenment and eterms. Actually, you can just set the root image with esetroot (which comes with enlightement. You don't actually have to use that as you wm). You can then use etrm --translucent 50 (or something like that). It's pretty but resource intensive, so I can't imagine anyone using it all the time.
Okay... you idiots all managed to slashdot eBay?! Wow.
Taral
WARN_(accel)("msg null; should hang here to be win compatible\n");
-- WINE source code
1) The MP3 player shown in the screenshots in GQMPEG, using a skin available from GQMPEG's homepage.
:)
2) All Propaganda images are 100% GIMP. Nothing but the best, baby.
3) Its all GPL -- Enjoy.
Bowie
Bowie J. Poag
Or Operating System + Penguins for that matter..
:)
Heheh..Glad to see you dig the site. Thanks for your support!
Bowie
Bowie J. Poag
Sorry to disappoint you, but, i'm not gay.
Have a good one,
Bowie
Bowie J. Poag
When I choose "flat" in preferences (as apposed to threaded) would that then display all comments in flat mode? It seems intuitive, but it's not working.
Hail to the Sun God! He is the Fun God! Ra! Ra! Ra!
Actually, it turned out to be a RTFM thing on my part. *heh*
The custom stuff works if I clickity-click on the link that says "the dynamic slashdot page" in preferences. Live and learn.
Hail to the Sun God! He is the Fun God! Ra! Ra! Ra!
it's like that normally.
Speak for yourself... I for one am not sinning,
nor seeking anything from your god or "savior."
By the way, I think it's incredibly arrogant of
you and your 2000-year old religion to presume to
speak for me and my 4.5 billion year old planet.
This planet would be in a lot better shape if
people would stop wasting time placing faith in
imaginary things and preaching bullshit to others.
"Dear Lord, save me from your followers."
I asked that company if they had a "god" action ... but they said it doesn't exist.
figure
nyuk nyuk nyuk... I'll be here all week, be sure
to tip your waitress.
>The ONLY reason we have navels is because of >umbilical cords. Since Adam was not grown in a >womb, of course he wouldn't have a navel. "I will take these cotton balls from you with my hand, and put them in my pocket." - Robin Hood: Men In Tights
On "stating the obvious."
And Obi-Wan Deraadt.
--C
Not only will they not deserve liberty or safety, Mr. Franklin, they will be DENIED both!
Not when I rewrite history by giving David a GI Joe M16.
\//
spot that 'ISAPI.DLL' in the URL? IIS anyone!?
looks like they 'invested' all the cash from IPO's in NT....gee, that just seems to prove they just want to impress the investors instead of serving their customers with a decent system
Boy what an interesting mix!!
I ate my tag line.
-=Ellis (D)25=-
Seems like a perfect time to try out that message filtering...
"I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend." --Jack Handey
Is that eBay link wrong? "Item not found"...
My brothers and sisters,
Do not give in to the urge to purchase action figures of myself and the apostles. For, I am not getting any royalties, and my lawyer is calling them tomorrow!
J.C.
If you really want to impress people with your computer literacy, add the words "dot com" to the end of everything, do
Nope, the item's not found. Ebay must have deleted it sometime.
Have I been hiding in the closet too much? That would be the coolest thing to ever happen to my desktop, at least until Q3A comes out. He says they're not actually transparent, but is it possible?
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thats where I saw pseudo-transparent terms. He was using a darkened chunk of the bg image for the term.
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