Here Come Da Quickies 89

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 10, 1999 @06:59PM from the its-been-a-long-day dept.

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.

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Impossible (Score:1)

by Pasc ( 59 ) writes:

Unfortunately, ACs can't do filtering. You will (obviously) need an account to customize stuff. Oh well... maybe some of the ACs will just grow up and take 37 seconds to create an account.
Now, was that so difficult?
propaganda.t.o (Score:1)

by Peter Amstutz ( 501 ) writes:

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...
Transparent terminals? (Score:1)

by gavinhall ( 33 ) writes:

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?
fsck off bowie (Score:1)

by gavinhall ( 33 ) writes:

Posted by Tr0ll3r:

You are gay.
Re: (Score:1)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes:

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God I'd like to be in that picture with Linus. (Score:1)

by heroine ( 1220 ) writes:

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.
was that you, rob? (Score:1)

by jCaT ( 1320 ) writes:

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. ;)
Very Strange customization stuff (Score:1)

by ptomblin ( 1378 ) writes:

When you change your "signature", it changes retroactively! That's bizarre.
Jesus action figures (Score:1)

by axolotl ( 1659 ) writes:

The Jesus one looks like Stallman. And I see the Adam and Eve ones are post-Eden :)

axolotl
Preferences are your friend. (Score:1)

by Binary Boy ( 2407 ) writes:

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 [mailto]

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
-- Derek Bok,
Jesus Saves (Score:1)

by Forge ( 2456 ) writes:

Linux Rox
Windows Sux
Sin is Stupid

Among the many slogans that we need to remember for a healthy, happy life.
eBay item not found? (Score:1)

by acb ( 2797 ) writes:

Was that the "16-year-old teenage girl" someone was auctioning a week or two ago?
Biblical Action Figures (Score:1)

by mdxi ( 3387 ) writes:

> 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!

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Retroactive signature. (Score:1)

by booch ( 4157 ) writes:

Yeah, haven't you seen unitron's signature lately?
Gretzky rebounds... (Score:1)

by booch ( 4157 ) writes:

He shoots. He scores!
(Sorry, but somebody had to say it.)
Woohoo! Custom slashdot! (Score:1)

by Uruk ( 4907 ) writes:

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.
I don't get it either (Score:1)

by cthonious ( 5222 ) writes:

Propognda really is absurd, but it isn't really funny either. Just kinda flaky. Just my 2 cents.

the backgrounds are cool, though.
action figures (Score:1)

by arielb ( 5604 ) writes:

I'm surprised nobody thought of making RMS (Richard Stallman) action figures given his extremely devoted FSF followers.
Katz's purpose (Score:1)

by unitron ( 5733 ) writes:

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.
Obi-wan of Nazareth (Score:1)

by unitron ( 5733 ) writes:

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.
Phone Spell (Score:1)

by Cybervoid ( 6243 ) writes:

You know, that phone spell thing is a little too fun to play with.
Al Gore Rhythms? (Score:1)

by ocie ( 6659 ) writes:

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.
Al Gore Rhythms? (Score:1)

by ocie ( 6659 ) writes:

oops, wrong article.
eBay (Score:1)

by MentlFlos ( 7345 ) writes:

my guess is it was the severed human arm lost in a tug-of-war contest

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...
... and missing.
Need OSS action figures (Score:1)

by poink ( 7454 ) writes:

Don't forget Beard-grow-long Jordan!
Nice PIC! ;) (Score:1)

by Vskye ( 9079 ) writes:

Life in the digital age sucks, but the pic is here to stay guys!
Woohoo! Jon Katz filter is now on! (Score:1)

by NYC ( 10100 ) writes:

No more of his constant verbose babel. Let's keep Slashdot "News for nerds".

--Ivan, weenie NT4 user, Jon Katz hater: bite me!
Flat. (Score:1)

by jerodd ( 13818 ) writes:

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'.
gnu-now-0000 (Score:1)

by ja ( 14684 ) writes:

That phone spell was funny :)

I found gnu-now which fits very nicely together with nn@linux.nu (nu == now in scandinavian languages) .. or perhaps even better, gnu-mow ..

Either should keep RMS happy
oh the irony.... (Score:1)

by phred ( 14852 ) writes:

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.)

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Preferences are your friend. (Score:1)

by phred ( 14852 ) writes:

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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Biblical Action Figures (Score:1)

by Multiple Sanchez ( 16336 ) writes:

Okay.

The "Adam" action figure has a navel.

I'm going to bed now.
Transparent terminals? (Score:1)

by Fizgig ( 16368 ) writes:

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.
Slashdot effect destroys major Internet web pages (Score:1)

by Taral ( 16888 ) writes:

Okay... you idiots all managed to slashdot eBay?! Wow.
The Joy of Propaganda (Score:1)

by Bowie J. Poag ( 16898 ) writes:

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
No more stupid than Hamburger Restaraunt + Clown (Score:1)

by Bowie J. Poag ( 16898 ) writes:

Or Operating System + Penguins for that matter..

Heheh..Glad to see you dig the site. Thanks for your support! :)

Bowie
Wishful thinking.. (Score:1)

by Bowie J. Poag ( 16898 ) writes:

Sorry to disappoint you, but, i'm not gay.

Have a good one,
Bowie
Flat. (Score:1)

by SissyLaLa ( 17392 ) writes:

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.
Flat. (Score:1)

by SissyLaLa ( 17392 ) writes:

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.
Ebay doesn't need /. effect to be slow (Score:1)

by tap ( 18562 ) writes:

it's like that normally.
Jesus Saves... money by shopping at K-mart (Score:1)

by William Wallace ( 18863 ) writes:

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."
Yeah but where's the "god" action figure? (Score:1)

by William Wallace ( 18863 ) writes:

I asked that company if they had a "god" action
figure ... but they said it doesn't exist.

nyuk nyuk nyuk... I'll be here all week, be sure
to tip your waitress.
I think a quote is appropriate here (Score:1)

by William Wallace ( 18863 ) writes:

>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." [emory.edu] - Robin Hood: Men In Tights
On "stating the obvious."
Need OSS action figures (Score:1)

by coreybrenner ( 19101 ) writes:

And Obi-Wan Deraadt.

--C
oh the irony....(they're real) (Score:1)

by warpath ( 19103 ) writes:

Not when I rewrite history by giving David a GI Joe M16.

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Ebay doesn't need /. effect to be slow (Score:1)

by databeast ( 19718 ) writes:

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
/. me... hehehe (Score:1)

by Ellis-D ( 19919 ) writes:

Boy what an interesting mix!!
Grrr.. shoo, coward! (Score:1)

by Mephistoph ( 20303 ) writes:

Seems like a perfect time to try out that message filtering...
eBay item not found? (Score:1)

by roddy ( 20621 ) writes:

Is that eBay link wrong? "Item not found"...
My action figures (Score:1)

by Jesus H. Christ ( 20849 ) writes:

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.
eBay item not found? (Score:1)

by Sorcerer ( 21176 ) writes:

Nope, the item's not found. Ebay must have deleted it sometime.
Transparent terminals? (Score:1)

by Detroit ( 165885 ) writes:

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?

d
Propaganda 5 article (Score:1)

by Detroit ( 165885 ) writes:

thats where I saw pseudo-transparent terms. He was using a darkened chunk of the bg image for the term.

d

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Impossible (Score:1)

propaganda.t.o (Score:1)

Transparent terminals? (Score:1)

fsck off bowie (Score:1)

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God I'd like to be in that picture with Linus. (Score:1)

was that you, rob? (Score:1)

Very Strange customization stuff (Score:1)

Jesus action figures (Score:1)

Preferences are your friend. (Score:1)

Jesus Saves (Score:1)

eBay item not found? (Score:1)

Biblical Action Figures (Score:1)

Retroactive signature. (Score:1)

Gretzky rebounds... (Score:1)

Woohoo! Custom slashdot! (Score:1)

I don't get it either (Score:1)

action figures (Score:1)

Katz's purpose (Score:1)

Obi-wan of Nazareth (Score:1)

Phone Spell (Score:1)

Al Gore Rhythms? (Score:1)

Al Gore Rhythms? (Score:1)

eBay (Score:1)

Need OSS action figures (Score:1)

Nice PIC! ;) (Score:1)

Woohoo! Jon Katz filter is now on! (Score:1)

Flat. (Score:1)

gnu-now-0000 (Score:1)

oh the irony.... (Score:1)

Preferences are your friend. (Score:1)

Biblical Action Figures (Score:1)

Transparent terminals? (Score:1)

Slashdot effect destroys major Internet web pages (Score:1)

The Joy of Propaganda (Score:1)

No more stupid than Hamburger Restaraunt + Clown (Score:1)

Wishful thinking.. (Score:1)

Flat. (Score:1)

Flat. (Score:1)

Ebay doesn't need /. effect to be slow (Score:1)

Jesus Saves... money by shopping at K-mart (Score:1)

Yeah but where's the "god" action figure? (Score:1)

I think a quote is appropriate here (Score:1)

Need OSS action figures (Score:1)

oh the irony....(they're real) (Score:1)

Ebay doesn't need /. effect to be slow (Score:1)

/. me... hehehe (Score:1)

Grrr.. shoo, coward! (Score:1)

eBay item not found? (Score:1)

My action figures (Score:1)

eBay item not found? (Score:1)

Transparent terminals? (Score:1)

Propaganda 5 article (Score:1)

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