Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff! 508
It's been some time since we had a new shirt design for folks to buy,
and it's time to change that. More specific guidelines for the contest
follow, but in short, we're taking design submissions starting
immediately. Winners will get a $75 credit at ThinkGeek, as well as 3 copies of of
their t-shirt design. Winners will be chosen by me.
Technical Specs
- Designs should be for Black or White shirts. Or even better, both!
- No larger than 12" wide by 15" high
- No more than 5 colors (Black & White Count as Colors People!)
- Entries must be either 300 DPI Bitmap (JPG, PNG, Tiff etc), or Vector Format (PS, EPS, PDF)
General Recomendations
- I strongly recommend the use of Slashdot's favorite shade of green in any design submission. Slashdot's "Green" is 006666 in hex. 0,102,102 in RGB. Entries will not be excluded for failing to use the green, but I like it, and I'm the judge!
- You can try anything: From witty slogans to fancy design.
- Avoid photographs & shadows since they don't print very well at 5 colors.
- Parody is fine, but I'd rather designs be original.
How to Submit?
- Email tshirts at cmdrtaco.net, and provide a URL to your design(s). If this isn't possible, you may attach your submission to an email.
- Winners will be selected in a few weeks by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda (Me!) based on their creativity and design.
- There may be more than one winner if there are several good entries! I have permission to select as many as 3 winners if there are many good entries!
Prizes!
- The submittor of each winning design will get $75 credit at ThinkGeek
- 3 Copies of your T-Shirt Design
- Bragging rights at LUGs, CompSci Labs, Cubicle Farms, and Tech Tradeshows around the world.
Finally our lawyer demands that you read the Official Rules. Do it!
006666? (Score:1, Funny)
Huh??? (Score:3, Funny)
Does that mean you'll also hire a personal bodyguard for the mockery and continual muggings?
If so, IM IN!!(snortchuckle)
How about... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:006666? (Score:5, Funny)
My submission (Score:5, Funny)
you forgot... (Score:1, Funny)
Judges (Score:4, Funny)
Why do I feel like the first place entry will be merely a repost of the second place entry, only with misspellings?
hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
easy (Score:5, Funny)
Im' with the SlashDORK ---->
well... (Score:2, Funny)
Official Rules (Score:5, Funny)
I knew it!!! SCO is sponsoring this contest...
Would this be allowed? (Score:1, Funny)
How about... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:My suggestion (Score:4, Funny)
Option 2: Shut up.
Sheesh. "I have an idea, but not enough talent to follow through. If anyone else does have the talent, I want something for spouting off for 10 seconds!"
Increase Your Odds of Winning (Score:5, Funny)
go ahead... mod me down.. you know you want to.
goatse (Score:5, Funny)
Regardless of the design, I think a tshirt with the following on the back would be pretty funny:
click here! [goatse.cx]
Unfortuantely /. doesn't allow the <u> tag, but you get the point.
Re:006666? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Would this be allowed? (Score:2, Funny)
Here's one. (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot: (Score:5, Troll)
I want one already!
KGTO - "All GOAT, all of the time!" (Score:1, Funny)
karma whoring (Score:2, Funny)
2)
3) Karma!
New T-Shirt design (Score:3, Funny)
A unique approach? (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
IP rights in
this logo
and all I
got was this
lousy t-shirt.
So if you wear that shirt, (Score:5, Funny)
I'm damn sure not buying one that says click here for goatse.cx
I wouldn't do that even under doctors orders.
Re:Deadline is August 1st...? (Score:5, Funny)
CmdrTaco was threatened by the T-shirt mafia in those states...
Re:Question for Taco or others (Score:5, Funny)
No larger than 12" wide by 15" high
Considering the average
Troll shirt (Score:2, Funny)
Someone already managed to get a version of it (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Deadline is August 1st...? (Score:0, Funny)
I wonder why..
They have anti-sodomy laws there and Taco would like to thank the winner personally.
Re:easy (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot THIS!
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Re:My suggestion (Score:1, Funny)
Shocker.
Re:goatse (Score:3, Funny)
Regardless of the design, I think a tshirt with the following on the back would be pretty funny:
click here! [slashdot.org]
Unfortuantely
b0w b4 m3!!! (Score:5, Funny)
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Beat that! Mess with the best, die like the rest! Sorry folks, contest over, move along...
Cheers,
IT
Re:How about... (Score:3, Funny)
Karma 50, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt
Re:Aren't we the ones buying it? (Score:5, Funny)
Don't be silly. What's next, readers moderating the story submission queue? Catching dupes? Fixing typographical errors? Posting Google Cache links or no-registration partner links to NYT articles?
That's crazy talk, man!
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Re:goatse (Score:1, Funny)
I think you mean:
click here! [goatse.cx]
In large print (Score:3, Funny)
This shirt produced without patents, however Amazon has a few patents pending on the concept of printing T-Shirts.
Re:Slasdot Membership Credit (Score:5, Funny)
While your at it throw in a Taco big toe nail (lightly chewed) and some CowboyNeal bellybutton lint (size large)
Idea (Score:1, Funny)
My other shirt has buttons.
On the back:
My other ass is smaller.
Re:How about... (Score:5, Funny)
I thought that was considered ASSCI art...
I have a loosing idea (Score:2, Funny)
I doubt that would win.
re: read the T&Cs! (Score:3, Funny)
might i suggest reading another news site that isn't slashdot?
ed
Re:What prize??? (Score:3, Funny)
I'd enter if I wasn't totally lacking in american ability.
Trolls' design! (Score:1, Funny)
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My awesome submission (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Read the T&C's! (Score:5, Funny)
Your plans for proxy-submission are in violation of the DMCA (see: circumvention device). Cease and desist immediately or face legal action.
Sincerely,
You know who we are!
P.S. YVAN EHT NIOJ!
Re:Question for Taco or others (Score:2, Funny)
"Do you have a receipt?"
"No; I won it as a lucky door prize at the Star Trek convention. Though I must say that I find their choice of size highly illogical, as the average Trekker has no use for a medium sized belt."
Re:My submission (Score:5, Funny)
Even the bloody shirts will be DUPES! Dammit, man, that'd be just a little too real for me.
What we need is a Beowulf cluster in Soviet Russia figuring out why the secret to life, the universe and everything seems to have something to do with Natalie Portman petrified, and hot grits. 42 of 'em, I guess.
Re:What prize??? (Score:5, Funny)
Very simple (Score:3, Funny)
WARNING!
If this shirt dissapears then it has just been slashdotted.
Back: Continue to hammer me until I respond.
This idea is free to anybody, unless it's chosen whereby it becomes prior art
I was thinking more long the lines of... (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot
Back:
-1 Overrated
psxndc
Re:goatse (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What prize??? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:2, Funny)
I gave
up my IP
rights in this
logo and all I got
was this lousy
t-shirt.
Re:easy (Score:5, Funny)
Not a T-shirt... (Score:5, Funny)
Back has little Slashdot logo. Front reads, "Karma Cap."
Thankew, thankewverymuch, I'll be here all week...
Re:006666? (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe you should spell/grammar/case/sense check your comments before posting them.
Profit! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well at least (Score:5, Funny)
Already done. In english-speaking countries it's called "laundry".
Re:Read the T&C's! (Score:2, Funny)
T-shirt design, 3 colors, then 5 (Score:5, Funny)
It started as a 3-color design, but ended up as a 5-color design [kobotica.com] once I read the happy-fun and absolutely agreeable T&C's. Yay! Lawyers!
Re:This is total BS (Score:4, Funny)
"I designed Slashdot's new T-Shirt and All I got was this Lousy shirt (and a $75 gift certificate)"
Please don't... (Score:3, Funny)
I strongly recommend not using the bright fucking purple from games.slashdot.org [slashdot.org]. I don't want to burn out anybody's retinas.
Re:hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
..a Beowulf cluster
of these!
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Re:Read the T&C's! (Score:3, Funny)
I am the newly appointed Finance and Accounts Director of INTC, meaning, Independent Nigerian T-Shirt Corporation. This organization, INTC is the sole body that produces T-Shirts and T-Shirt designs in my country Nigeria.
We have several winning slashdot T-Shirt designs, unfortunately as top civil servants of the Nigerian government establishment we are not allowed to enter them in the slashdot T-Shirt contest.
Therefore we have a proposal for you, which we hope you will accept. We wish to transfer the T-Shirt designs out of the country to any reliable U.S. citizen for the specific purpose of winning the contest.
All we need from you is nothing but to allow us to use your bank account to receive the winnings. We are going to give you 15% of the total sum for your support and cooperation in seeing that the designs get to you safely. There is no atom of risk involved. On acceptance of this request, which I believe you will give me a positive answer, I will appreciate you contact me indicating your capability and willingness to enable me to give you more details of my modus operandi of getting these designs to you hitch free. This matter requires your urgent attention and confidentiality whatever your decision may be. Contact me on my e-mail: olusegun_aka@hknetmail.com
Awaiting your urgent response
Chief Olusegun Akanni (actual nigerian spammer)
My entry... (Score:3, Funny)
A day in the life of /. [lanfear.net]