New Slashdot T-Shirts On Sale Now

ThinkGeek has opened up their Slashdot Store, which among other fineries, is selling the all new Slashdot T-Shirts. We also have a surprise: In addition to the 3 winners we announced previously, by popular request, we added a 4th winner to the roster: Dan Sandler's 'Soothing Green Light' design. So go, buy all 4! And a hat! Do it! Also, Scott Lewallen made Icons & Wallpapers based on his Volatile Hyper Linkage design.

Yay!

[__aagmrb7289]

Advertising! I could hardly wait!

Just remember

[Anonymous Coward]

These shirts are neither free as in beer, nor free as in speech. Slashdot owns the new logos/designs, and YOU can't use them without their permission. Yay copyright!

Also remember

[NDPTAL85]

That the dot.com boom and bust has come and gone, you still need REAL MONEY to pay for things geeks like such as computers and internet access and that in order to make money you need a better business plan then "Lets just give away the fruits of our labor and hope our product sucks badly enough that our customers will need to hire a lot of support services from us!"

Yay mature individuals who realize money doesn't grow on trees!

Re:Also remember

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't have a problem with them selling shirts. Yay for them.

What I do have a problem with is the "Submit t-shirt suggestions which will then be our property." It just violates what the Slashdot seems to be about. Information wants to be free and what-not. They could've made the shirts, and still kept the logos open-source if someone else wanted to go around printing their own shirts (which I doubt too many would).

Re:Also remember

[NDPTAL85]

I hear what you are saying but Slashdot or OSDN isn't overflowing with money. Everything they do has to make financial sense. The money from these shirts will probably help make Slashdot self-sufficient without needing to be subsidized by the rest of the OSDN. It would be hard to garuntee that revenue if someone else could make the shirts.

Whats more important, Slashdot surviving or adhering to a saying that isn't even true? Information isn't alive, it can't "want" anything.

Re:Also remember

[isorox]

People subscribe to slashdot, and dont get any real benefits (you can block ads in mozilla anyway, and seeing another dupe 20 minutes before the rest of the public?). Why do I spend 10 bucks on a tshirt when matalan have 5 for five pounds? Because I prefer to support slashdot. Why buy "fair trade" coffee over nescafe? Because you care were your money goes.

The people buying slashdot tshirts will buy the official ones. In the worst case, simply have a trademark (the slashdot image should be a trademark) on the tshirt. Remember trademarks are for consumer protection, so you know you get the real thing.

Re:Also remember

[Geek of Tech]

Why pay to see a page early? So that you can be the first one to start the slashdot effect!

Re:Also remember

[los furtive]

Information isn't alive, it can't "want" anything.

Everyone either forgets, ignores, or is oblivious to the next line of that famous quote.

"Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive."

That comes from Stewart Brand's 1987 The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT [amazon.com].

Re:Also remember

[Anonymous Coward]

It just violates what the Slashdot seems to be about. Information wants to be free and what-not.

That bullshit has NOTHING to do with what Slashdot "seems to be about." Don't confuse the site's message--basically none--with what the trolls have co-opted it into.

Re:Also remember

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's a clue: what did OSDN's sites do when most sites in the world protested against software patents adoption in the EU, by putting a blank page or at least a notice?
Zero. Nothing. Nada.

Not a single word came from any of their sites, and it would have helped the cause a big fscking lot, but also give them a bad PR in the corporate world.

No trolling intended. Companies are after profits, there's nothing wrong with that, and OSDN is a company. We must expect a change of mind in the corporate direction w

information wants to be free

[jagger]

but cloth prefers to cost money.

Re:Also remember

[EpsCylonB]

What I do have a problem with is the "Submit t-shirt suggestions which will then be our property." It just violates what the Slashdot seems to be about. Information wants to be free and what-not. They could've made the shirts, and still kept the logos open-source if someone else wanted to go around printing their own shirts (which I doubt too many would).

So don't buy the t shirt then, no one is forcing you to. Maybe if they hadn't told the people who entered the competition that /. would own their design

Re:Just remember

[FatAlb3rt]

yeah, and i suppose you believe taco's lawyer will be breaking into your house to patch your shirt if you cut a hole in it.

Re:Just remember

[tmark]

I think it would be fitting if some entrepeneur ripped their copyrighted designs and sold their OWN shirts (they are charging quite a lot for them, considering they paid an absolute pittance for the design). After all, it's not like printing off t-shirts with the exact same design is depriving anyone else of physical property now, is it ? How would VA be hurt ?

Makes you wonder why /. saw fit to ensure they own the copyrights when it seems like the editors and many of their more vocal readers are always po

Re:Just remember

[Binary Gibbon]

Only the most insane, irrational zealot would pooh-pooh /all/ forms of copyright. Of course images and designs deserve to be copyrighted - or does anyone find acceptable the ridiculous treatment Bill Watterson's creations have at the hands of profiteering tee-shirt makers?

The community at large has always been more concerned with fair use; you should be able to listen to a song as much as you like, or mod your xbox if you paid for it, and by that same token you should be allowed to display whatever you wan

I bought this one!

[teamhasnoi]

We added a 5th winner by popular demand! It's the *people's* choice! [pixeltees.com]FP!

Re:I bought this one!

[FortKnox]

I'll buy one of these (people choice shirt), myself.

Honestly, if they wanted us to buy a shirt, why didn't we get a vote on them instead of the editors? I guess that just falls into the 'slashdot persona'

Re:I bought this one!

[Pirogoeth]

Honestly, if they wanted us to buy a shirt, why didn't we get a vote on them instead of the editors? I guess that just falls into the 'slashdot persona'

Because then the winning shirt would read: "I wear the same size as CowboyNeal!"

Re:I bought this one!

[ramzak2k]

why was this modded down? , thats a nice T shirt :)

Similar...

[Gudlyf]

Reminds me of the design [gudlyf.com] I should have submitted.

Re:

[account_deleted]

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Re:Troll?

[proj_2501]

I believe the word is 'trawl'.

Re:

[account_deleted]

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Karma whoring

[mbourgon]

My original idea...

Front: Anonymous
Back: Coward

Re:I bought this one!

[Sevn]

No doubt. Actually though the ripples of earning it would get to you before the light and gravity of the t-shirt. There would be a precursor event to the UPS guy showing up.

Re:I bought this one!

[Sevn]

Indeed. Laughed my ass off. It's a treat to see how strongly people feel about things. Exposing the cracks in character. I don't do it often either, but I do it differently. Every once in a while I strike gold.

This brings back memories [slashdot.org]

I should write for CSI or something.

I'm going to keep an eye out for /. t-shirts

[gfody]

so I know who the slackasses are around here

No XXXXXX-Large :-(

[jabbadabbadoo]

You don't have XXXXX-Large? You insensitive clods.

By special request only....

[AriesGeek]

So far one has been ordered. The guy wouldn't give us his name, he just went by the the initials "RMS."

Re:By special request only....

[Seth Finklestein]

RMS doesn't believe in money, sillypants.

What's in a name

[KalvinB]

The XXXXX-Large is known as the Cowboy Neal Edition T-Shirt.

Ben

just wondering

[kaan]

does one of the shirts say, "just imagine a beowulf cluster of these shirts!"

or how about, "can your shirt run linux?"

Re:just wondering

[netsharc]

You don't want Yakov Smirnov's men after you, do you? Or, will you be after them?

Dammit

[snipingkills]

As if I already can't do any work around here anyway without pausing to check on /. no I can wear it. Now if only we can make it update itself with the latest headlines...

What size are you?

[waynelorentz]

I predict the XXL, XXXL, and XXXXL shirts will sell out first.

Maybe there should be a Slashdot bib for all that Dorito/Chee-to dust.

Actually...

[Gudlyf]

For a lot of the geeks I know, where the heck are the XS and XXS sizes?

Re:What size are you?

[namespan]

What about the XML and XSLT sizes?

No black on black version?

[192939495969798999]

What if I'm so goth, I'm dead? Where's my black-on-black version of that shirt? :) I must say, that is a pretty nice logo.

My God

[Anonymous Coward]

Talk about ruining your chances of EVER getting laid...

Re:My God

[Aadain2001]

Don't forget, there is a large geek girl, or cHiXoR, crowd out there that are actually pretty damn cute. Just check out some of those action shots for the ladies tshirts on thinkgeek ;)

I'd like to buy one

[Anonymous Coward]

But couldn't they have selected a shirt with a non-pretentious slogan? All of these are a little too much like "Can't live without Dasani". I mean "mainline geek culture" and "volatile hyperlinkage"?
What's wrong with a plain white T-shirt with the slashdot logo and "News for Nerds, stuff that matters" on the back?

Re:I'd like to buy one

[gosand]

What's wrong with a plain white T-shirt with the slashdot logo and "News for Nerds, stuff that matters" on the back?

They used to have one, I got it. Has "Slashdot" with "news for nerds, stuff that matters" under it in small print. That is on the center of the front of the shirt, and on the back is a barcode, and under it, it reads "anonymous coward". I got mine through thinkgeek a few years ago, but I guess they abandoned that design. I got it because it was simple.

Hey, go to cafepress.com and make your own.

Re:I'd like to buy one

[Gudlyf]

Will Cafepress allow you to put copyrighted material on a shirt, even if you're planning to be the only one buying it? They seem pretty strict on that point when uploading images.

Re:I'd like to buy one

[gosand]

Will Cafepress allow you to put copyrighted material on a shirt, even if you're planning to be the only one buying it? They seem pretty strict on that point when uploading images.

Technically, yes you can put copyrighted material on a shirt. (anything you create is copyrighted) :-) Oh... you mean you put unauthorized copyrighted stuff on a shirt? I think you probably can, but you shouldn't because it is illegal.

I have never done it, but I am guessing that they will. They can't really check everything

Re:I'd like to buy one

[MBCook]

I agree. I like the "volatile hyperlinkage" shirt's icon, but I don't want the words "volatile hyperlinkage" on it. Just the logo on the front, the URL on the back. What more do you need?

That said, the one that I like exactly as is is the "soothing green light" one. It sounds like an old soda ad or something.

Come now...

[somethingwicked]

Okay, can't ever seem to Slashdot Slashdot itself.

But, maybe, if we try really hard, we can Slashdot the Slashdot T-Shirts about Slashdotting

Re:Come now...

[RobertB-DC]

But, maybe, if we try really hard, we can Slashdot the Slashdot T-Shirts about Slashdotting

Been there, done that [thinkgeek.com], got the T-Shirt.

Membership has its privileges

[jbellis]

As a Subscriber I got my order in before the unwashed masses! Booya!

Wait... that means I paid money for the privilege of being one of the first to pay more money. Go me.

Re:Membership has its privileges

[nob]

I usually hate people who make serious replies to "Funny moderated" comments, but here I go.

I'm not a member, but I subscribe to the ThinkGeek What's New RSS Feed [thinkgeek.com]. They showed up several hours ago on there.

Speaking of RSS, do Slashdot subscribers get an uncrippled RSS feed too?

Re:Membership has its privileges

[chef_raekwon]

Wait... that means I paid money for the privilege of being one of the first to pay more money. Go me.

yeah, and you didn't even get First Post.

Since Getting Laid off...

[mesach]

Since getting laid off in April.

Ive been wearing this [thinkgeek.com] when ever I leave the house, Yes I own several and wash them regularily

Re:Since Getting Laid off...

[mabhatter654]

oops! I saw "Since Getting Laid..." then stoped reading. guess your not. sorry

Buy all four? Why?

[WIAKywbfatw]

Why would any geek buy all four? Doesn't one t-shirt last a lifetime?

And what's the deal with the "Mainline Geek Culture" t-shirt being only available in white? How the hell is that going to hide the pizza and jolt stains?

Re:Buy all four? Why?

[Mononoke]

And what's the deal with the "Mainline Geek Culture" t-shirt being only available in white? How the hell is that going to hide the pizza and jolt stains?

If you're part of the "Mainline Geek Culture", you aren't ashamed of your pizza and jolt stains. Why hide them?

Mainline design got changed

[cybermace5]

I noticed that the hypodermic needle design actually was changed to RJ-45; some were complaining that the RJ-11 design didn't make sense. Any respectable Slashdotter would have an Ethernet port installed, not a modem line!

Re:Mainline design got changed

[garcia]

Bah. While I am a HSD user and haven't used analog since 1997 I don't see it making much of a difference on /.

You can change your prefs to be pretty easy-going on your bandwith...

Re:Mainline design got changed

[TeknoHog]

You can get DSL via RJ-11, which for some of us is the only way of connecting our RJ-45 LAN to the real world.

In fact, DSL goes well with the hypodermic needle, as it can be quite addictive (much more so than its inverse, LSD :).

Re:Mainline design got changed

[cybermace5]

That's extremely odd.

Re:Mainline design got changed

[cybermace5]

What's the deal with T-1 lines anymore...for downloading, not really a big deal. On a cable modem I usually get equal speed on up to 1000kbps more. So you can run a server at a higher upload speed, but on the Internet, it is always better to receive than to give. And it's dirt-cheap in comparison.

Say T-3, and then I start to get weak-kneed.

I got slashdotted ...

[Anonymous Coward]

... and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

Re:I got slashdotted ...

[Mr. Fusion]

Actually, ThinkGeek was slashdotted once, albeit a very long time ago (almost four years to be exact.) If your time machine ain't workin' or if archive.org just ain't your pleasure, here's the page seen on that fateful day, September 15th, 1999:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/slashdotted/busy.shtml [thinkgeek.com]

-Mr. Fusion

New site design?

[breon.halling]

I wonder if this means Slashdot's going to change their look to match the snazzy OSX-style "Volatile Hyperlinkage" design. Might be a nice change.

Re:New site design?

[cK-Gunslinger]

Doubtful, but I would like to see more options in the preferences for site design.

Something like:

1) Graphics heavy (new design with spiffier graphics)
2) Traditional (as is)
3) Low-bandwidth (for Lynx users)

Re:New site design?

[AgentUSA]

Graphics heavy would never work with the bandwidth demands. But it wouldn't be that hard to significantly modernize the look of the site without using more graphics.

My prediction....

[Archfeld]

this goes over just slightly better than the slashdot PeeWee cruiser idea, and thinkgeek holds on for a long time to the 10,000 they thought they would move to every slashbot on the net...

The Perfect Slogan

[Dimwit]

"T-shirts are optional, but recommended for you."

Gawd, and Slashdot has popups now.

[Tofino]

I just clicked on an article and was treated to a bunch of offensive pap and mindless, sophomoric "wordsmithing", that... Wait, it's the article threads. My mistake. Easy to make on today's /., you must admit...

Let me guess

[eyepeepackets]

They come with a big Microsoft ad at the top of the shirt?

Nothing cool about that. *shake*

Inevitable clod quote....

[GreggBert]

But I'm a nudist you insensitive clod !.

Not buying yet...

[ChrisHanel]

I'm holding out for other Slashdot marketing producets... like the Slashdot Home Enema Kit, Slashdot Hair Removal System, and of course, the Slashdot Herbal Penile Enlargement system.

"Slashdot the FLAME THROWER! The kids love this one."

Re:Not buying yet...

[miltimj]

They're all out already -- I get emails soliciting me all the time, especially the SHPE.

I see Mac and Windows Icons...

[cnelzie]

...but no friggin' Linux icons!

What is this?

We demand Linux Icons Now!!!

Slashdot meta stories

[gmhowell]

Okay Rob, we can't have /. meta stories about broken moderation, bitch slapping, and abusive editors, but we can have meta stories about selling t-shirts? Way to keep it real. You da man.

Re:Slashdot meta stories

[cK-Gunslinger]

Okay Rob, we can't have /. meta stories about broken moderation, bitch slapping, and abusive editors, but we can have meta stories about selling t-shirts?

It's called "running your website the way you want to." Don't like it? Get your own website, get 3/4 million members, then do whatever the hell you want.

A little self-promotion like this doesn't hurt, but I sure as hell don't want to see a half-dozen stories a day about people whining about unfair moderations to their posts.

Re:Slashdot meta stories

[onomatomania]

Except that the entire success and corpus of this website is from the "contributors", the thousands of people that dig up stories and post all these comments. Nobody comes to slashdot to read Malda's typos, bad grammar, and utter lack of editorial skill. Don't you think it's in poor taste to completely ignore that and proclaim "the website is where it is today because of Taco, and you get no say because you had nothing to do with it"?

Oh, and BTW, slashdot has nowhere close to 3/4 million members. Just b

Can't afford it

[YoDave]

Damn!!! New geekwear and here I am flat broke after buying that SCO license.

Re:Can't afford it

[KillerHamster]

Yeah, me too. Could be worse, though... I'm sure glad I also took the RIAA's amnesty offer.

Green light, huh?

[LearnToSpell]

The only way you can get a real geek to bathe...

Excellent!

[Flabby Boohoo]

This will make it easier to identify who needs an ass kicking.

Suit up, you freaks.

what ever happened to

[Alien54]

the old /. logo that had the picture of a foot with a tag hanging off the big toe?

I recall it as a logo that sites could put on their front page as a promotion of their status as victims of the /. effect

Polo shirt?

[acadiel03]

I'd love to get a polo type shirt with the ./ logo on it - I could wear it to work! :)

Re:Polo shirt?

[spoonyfork]

Naah, /. is regarded in my office as some of the best tech news that you can get on the web

Dear lord. Where do you work? I want to know so I can NEVER buy anything from your company.

/. subscribers

[garoush]

So for those who are /. subscribers, will they see the next design of he t-shirt before everyone else?

I'm at the check out screen

[dr_dank]

and I can't find the delivery option for my Moms basement. Now I'll never get my shirt.

I don't even have a subscription

[sielwolf]

What makes you think I would buy clothing from /. ;p And not like I want people to know how deep-rooted my addiction is.

*hits F5 repeatedly*

No handhelds?

[heroine]

Handheld sales must be down today.

LOL

[twifkak]

Another thing due to popular demand:

Old design [slashdot.org]
New design [thinkgeek.com]

They changed it from modem to LAN. :)

What's wrong with this picture?

[blair1q]

Let's see if any of you wannabes can figure out what's wrong with this picture [thinkgeek.com].

Hints to follow.

Re:What's wrong with this picture?

[Monofilament]

why is the last digit in the time '15' .. when my understanding is the only valid values for that last digit would be 0-9?

is that what you're looking for?

What?

[not_a_george]

during high school, the majority of us were trying to NOT get beat up by the jock, or try as much as possible to not be recognized as a geek. (the latter was foiled by our not-so-keen fashion sense)
now you want us to be a WALKING geek poster crowd?
uhh, OK
(no, serious)

Amazing

[Gefiltefish11]

It amazes me that some of the weirdest sites [www.oldmencrying] on the internet have their own lines of merchandise [cafeshops.com]

What no coffee mugs?

[Keeper_to_late]

Come on I need something to carry around the go juice...

The 4th winner

[spoco2]

One could argue that the 4th added winner... the soothing green light design, is indeed the second best design, better than others there... and I think Thinkgeek agrees, what with their ordering of the t-shirts on display... in fact I agree completely with their ordering of them.

Sometimes one has to wonder about the design sense that the Cmdr Taco has... :)

What about verisign?

[seebs]

VeriSgni: The Abuse of Trust [seebs.net] It's late for the t-shirt competition, but they're still cool.

Why "geek"? It's news for nerds.

[Bitsy Boffin]

Why the use of the word Geek (Mainline Geek Culture, Bathing Geeks...) ?

Slashdot is news for NERDS not GEEKS, where I grew up a GEEK is a very different thing to a NERD.

I'm proud to be a Nerd, but I'm not going to call myself a Geek.

Re:YAY!

[Anonymous Coward]

Speaking of which...it looks like it's about that time for #3

Re:Anti-SCO merchandise

[adilsonoliveira]

A few days ago I read something like:

I paid the SCO Linux License

I'm a SCOX-Sucker! THAT whould do a *hell* of a T-Shirt :)

History repeats itself

[EyesWideOpen]

Shirts with crap only on the front are SOOO 70's!

Actually shirts such as this are back in style now. Just visit The Gap or Old Navy and witness it for yourself.

I could insert a joke here about how Slashdotters don't shop at The Gap but ... I shop at The Gap so that wouldn't fly!

How will others see it!

[mabhatter654]

After all, most people only see the backs of /.ers anyway...always hunched over a keyboard on the computer.

Not so shameless

[EyesWideOpen]

I can't believe that these guys can do this! geez, have they no business morals? what next, Rob will post he is selling used cars on slashdot?

I don't think there is anything wrong with this. We were asked to vote for T-shirt designs and now we're being notified that the shirts are available for purchase. I, for one, would not have otherwise known had it not been posted.