OMG!!! OMG OMG!!! LINUS LIKES PINKDOT!!! LOL!!! 133
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!!!
Nice... (Score:5, Funny)
Re: Nice... (Score:2, Funny)
Obviously they are running Linux...
*ducks*
Alternative Link (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Nice... (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Nice... (Score:2)
Ahhh...CHOO!
Re:Nice... (Score:1)
He's not the only one (Score:1)
Can this be a permanent selectable theme? (Score:2)
I really *really* do like it.
(except on pages where it's half pink half grey, but that's just details to fix up)
Re:Can this be a permanent selectable theme? (Score:2, Funny)
Serve them right for trolling.
Re:Can this be a permanent selectable theme? (Score:2)
However, that said; I do second the call for renaming the "slashdot effect" the "Slashdot Pony Stampeded".
I seem to remember a study about pink rooms (Score:1)
the color seemed to cause an increased level of psychosis.
Re:I seem to remember a study about pink rooms (Score:2)
YOU SLASHDOTTED LINUS (Score:5, Funny)
Re: (Score:1)
Re:YOU SLASHDOTTED LINUS (Score:1)
OMG!!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:OMG!!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:OMG!!!! need a better web server (Score:2)
OFFENDED (Score:3, Insightful)
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!
Re:OFFENDED (Score:2)
Stecker-board: SH DO TX
mpuhj uwbcr cblzx qksye beyyk pwkfg wtmao wvnmu ohmgs zqrve vkeaa vrrgb aiwxh zdrzi fzwxq ffpuo ozicw
I'm a *nazi* postman (Score:2)
Re:NOT OFFENDED BUT TIRED (Score:2)
Stecker-board: SU CK
widic dpxes qxwtq sbcqp okdhf iwzwr ntkkz ujysw vqdsp ohojd
Rotors: G E T
Stecker-board: LO ST
aascd epfxs cvsei ehmkr tnolt smioa
Rotors: O M G
Stecker-board: PO NI ES
rwabe
Re:OFFENDED (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OFFENDED (Score:2)
We can't have this (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We can't have this (Score:3, Funny)
Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
I've noticed that there hasn't been any dupes today, keep up the good work Slashdot Editors!
Re:Huh? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Huh? (Score:1)
Your new here aren't you? Or, do you remember last year? You should be on your knees, thanking $god_of_choice for "pink poneys" [sic for the clue impaired].
P.S. Mod me up.
Que trolls (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This is nor funny (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Que trolls (Score:2)
Oh, you meant cue trolls! My mistake!
April Fools (Score:5, Funny)
Re:April Fools (Score:5, Funny)
Re:April Fools (Score:2)
Thanks god for Coral Cache (Score:5, Funny)
Coral Cache managed to magnificiently save the post
Thanks CC, now I can at least see what lkml looked like right after the mysql server burst in flames.
ponies! (Score:1)
Well yeah (Score:5, Funny)
Oh wait...
Re:Well yeah (Score:1)
He needs it to run his CoCo OS-9 emulator.
KFG
Re:Well yeah (Score:1)
Re:Well yeah (Score:1)
Mirror (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Mirror (Score:2)
Working link to Linus's post (Score:2, Redundant)
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=11
More Links! (Score:5, Informative)
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/ms
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kerne
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=11
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kerne
There we go!
Re:Damn! I'll have to let the virgin go... (Score:2)
Re:Damn! I'll have to let the virgin go... (Score:1)
Coral Cache Slashdotted (Score:1)
Re:Coral Cache Slashdotted (Score:2)
Re:Coral Cache Slashdotted (Score:2)
lol (Score:1)
Whew... (Score:1)
it was hard... (Score:2, Funny)
WTF!!?? (Score:1)
lol!!! (Score:1)
linus likes slashdot? (Score:1)
The OC (Score:2)
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.
Re:The OC (Score:1)
The correct link would be The O.C. [wikipedia.org]
PInk? (Score:1)
what do we slashdot now ? (Score:1)
Ive got it!
Here is the message in question (before we burn all of the cache engines available):
List: linux-kernel
Subject: Re: Moving to BK
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: 2006-04-01 4:30:40
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0603312030060.27203 () g5 ! osdl ! org
[Download message RAW]
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> April 1st is upon us again.
I really like the new slashdot look. "OMG!!! Ponies!!!"
I hope they keep it after Apr 1st.
APRIL FOOLS! (Score:1)
I am shocked that... (Score:3, Funny)
What the Hell has Taco been smoking.. (Score:1)
OMG!!1 (Score:1)
Someone AOL-kiddie-translatorzored [homestead.com] them?
PinkDot (Score:1)
Re:not funny (Score:5, Insightful)
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".
Re:not funny (Score:2)
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:3, Funny)
Re:not funny (Score:1)
Re:not funny (Score:2)
Re:not funny (Score:1)
Re:not funny (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re:not funny (Score:1)
He'll still be mad.
And here's my reasoning behind it. His About Page [soulsphere.org] states this
My favourite colour is purple.
And we all know people fall into two categories, the Pink supporters and the Purple supporters, who for the most part tend to dislike the other color. I for one like pink and don't even recognize this 'purple' he speaks of as a color!
Re:not funny (Score:1)
Real men can only deal with primary colours, red, yellow and the other one You don't need to worry about art-farty other colours, the 3 colour system works fine Black and white are allowed too, I 'spose
Real men are also so masculine that even their sentence's don't have pe
Re:not funny (Score:2)
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
Re:not funny (Score:3, Insightful)
Besides, the rest of the year, Slashdot is pretty much a parody of teenage boys, even if they don't intend it.
Re:not funny (Score:3, Insightful)
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
Re:not funny (Score:2, Insightful)
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
Re:not funny (Score:2)
Actually, if you read Taco [slashdot.org]
Re:not funny (Score:1)
Err, I misread your earlier post and thought that you were critisizing my post, that was my mistake. XD It was only after I re-read that I realized you were talking about the parent story and not my post (I missed the "news" part, dur hur. ~_~).
Anyway, to some up what I was saying, I wasn't saying stereotypes were a "good thing (tm)", just saying that overall the original poster was overreacting. Stereotypes aren't inherently racist/sexist, but like you said they definitely can be depending on their usage,
Re:not funny (Score:3, Insightful)
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
Re:not funny (Score:2)
Twits.
funny! (Score:1)
Some background on my perspective: "blonde jokes" used to upset me, but then I realized it wouldn't matter if there weren't a bit of observable truth to it. E.g., when women dye their hair blonde, many begin acting the part, at least for a while. They become ditzy, bubbly flirts, and the res
Re:funny! (Score:2)
What's the difference between a natural blonde and a bleach blonde?
Potential.
Re:not funny (Score:1)
From Taco's post [slashdot.org]:
"These less active demographics" i
Re:not funny (Score:2)
Re:not funny (Score:1)
Re:not funny (Score:2, Funny)
If you do it badly.
KFG
Re:not funny (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:not funny (Score:2)
Re:The new slashdot is not readable (Score:2, Funny)
Oh wait...