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OMG!!! OMG OMG!!! LINUS LIKES PINKDOT!!! LOL!!!
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CmdrTaco
on Sat Apr 01, '06 11:15 AM
from the because-we're-the-cutest dept.
from the because-we're-the-cutest dept.
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)(http://scifistorm.org/)
He's not the only one
(Score:1)YOU SLASHDOTTED LINUS
(Score:5, Funny)(http://www.lenny.com/)
OMG!!!!
(Score:4, Funny)OFFENDED
(Score:3, Insightful)(http://caffeination.net/)
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:5, Funny)We can't have this
(Score:5, Funny)(http://chris.brimson-read.com.au/)
Huh?
(Score:5, Funny)I've noticed that there hasn't been any dupes today, keep up the good work Slashdot Editors!
Que trolls
(Score:4, Funny)April Fools
(Score:5, Funny)Re:April Fools
(Score:5, Funny)(http://www.sdonag.plus.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday June 07, @05:05AM)
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.
Well yeah
(Score:5, Funny)Oh wait...
Mirror
(Score:3, Informative)(http://www.split.org)
Working link to Linus's post
(Score:2, Redundant)(Last Journal: Monday June 27, @04:46PM)
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=11
More Links!
(Score:5, Informative)(http://fabulousgeek.com/)
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!
Coral Cache Slashdotted
(Score:1)(http://jrmcferren.isa-geek.net/ | Last Journal: Sunday March 05, @07:46AM)
lol
(Score:1)Whew...
(Score:1)it was hard...
(Score:2, Funny)WTF!!??
(Score:1)(http://steigenlinux.org/ | Last Journal: Thursday October 02, @04:46PM)
lol!!!
(Score:1)(http://jtox.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday January 14, @03:35PM)
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.
PInk?
(Score:1)(http://stormtower.invisionplus.net/)
what do we slashdot now ?
(Score:1)(http://meltir.ath.cx/)
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
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, David S. Miller wrote:
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> April 1st is upon us again.
I really like the new slashdot look. "OMG!!! Ponies!!!"
I hope they keep it after Apr 1st.
Linus
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List: git
Subject: Re: Moving to BK
From: "Randy.Dunlap"
Date: 2006-04-01 6:42:28
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:30:40 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > April 1st is upon us again.
>
> I really like the new slashdot look. "OMG!!! Ponies!!!"
Goes with the sandals and pony tails.
> I hope they keep it after Apr 1st.
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Now, everybody hit "Refresh" a couple of times, and lets burn slashdot to the ground!
MUAHAHAHAHAR*cough*cough*HARHAR!
APRIL FOOLS!
(Score:1)(http://likeicare.net/)
I am shocked that...
(Score:3, Funny)What the Hell has Taco been smoking..
(Score:1)OMG!!1
(Score:1)(http://www.zpin.ch/)
Someone AOL-kiddie-translatorzored [homestead.com] them?
PinkDot
(Score:1)Re:Damn! I'll have to let the virgin go...
(Score:2)(Last Journal: Wednesday May 24, @09:42PM)
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:4, Insightful)(http://www.fordi.org/comics/ | Last Journal: Monday November 07, @12:50AM)
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:The new slashdot is not readable
(Score:2, Funny)Oh wait...
Re:not funny
(Score:1)(http://www.localdisturbance.com/)
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)(http://www.speznas.de/)
Re:Damn! I'll have to let the virgin go...
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