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

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:15 AM
from the because-we're-the-cutest dept.
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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!!!
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  • Nice... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Caduceus1 (178942) on Saturday April 01 2006, @10:17AM (#15041697) Homepage
    No replies here yet, and its already slashdotted... :) Must be allergic to the ponies...

    • Re: Nice... (Score:2, Funny)

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

      Obviously they are running Linux...

      *ducks*
    • Just use this link [iu.edu] instead.

    • 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.

    • Must be allergic to the ponies...

      Ahhh...CHOO!

  • YOU SLASHDOTTED LINUS (Score:5, Funny)

    by LennyDotCom (26658) on Saturday April 01 2006, @10:18AM (#15041703) Homepage
    YOU BASTERDS!!!

  • OMG!!!! (Score:4, Funny)

    by spiritraveller (641174) on Saturday April 01 2006, @10:18AM (#15041706)
    Linux Kernel Mailing List slashdotted.

  • OFFENDED (Score:3, Insightful)

    by caffeination (947825) on Saturday April 01 2006, @10:20AM (#15041711)
    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!

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

  • Huh? (Score:5, Funny)

    by ErikZ (55491) on Saturday April 01 2006, @10:21AM (#15041714)
    What new look?

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

  • Que trolls (Score:4, Funny)

    by thedogcow (694111) on Saturday April 01 2006, @10:23AM (#15041722)
    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.

  • April Fools (Score:5, Funny)

    by metalix (259636) on Saturday April 01 2006, @10:24AM (#15041725)
    Besides the pink theme, how come there isn't anything out of the ordinary with slashdot today?

  • 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 (Score:5, Funny)

    by MK_CSGuy (953563) on Saturday April 01 2006, @10:25AM (#15041732)
    But does he run linux?

    Oh wait...

  • Mirror (Score:3, Informative)

    by complex (18458) <complex AT split DOT org> on Saturday April 01 2006, @10:27AM (#15041740) Homepage
    Text of Linus' short message can be found at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114 386596009004 [theaimsgroup.com]
  • 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.
  • 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 [wikipedia.org].

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

  • I am shocked that... (Score:3, Funny)

    by divisionbyzero (300681) on Saturday April 01 2006, @01:00PM (#15042382)
    the reference on Linux Kernel Mailing List didn't being down Slashdot, but the reference on Slashdot brought down LKML. Shocking, I say!

    • Re:not funny (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Seta (934439) on Saturday April 01 2006, @11:02AM (#15041885)

      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".

        • 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 personal

        • Re:not funny (Score:4, Insightful)

          by Fordiman (689627) * <fordiman&gmail,com> on Saturday April 01 2006, @12:10PM (#15042162) Homepage Journal
          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.
        • "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 happ
        • 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.
        • 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

        • 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 wel

            • Well, NCalGal [slashdot.org] 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
    • sexism is not funny

      If you do it badly.

      KFG
    • 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.

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