Want to Change the Slashdot Logo? For 1 Day in October, You Can 128
The Slashdot logo has been around for a long time now; the truth is, we're rather fond of it, and have only rarely introduced substantial changes. But for the month of October, as a way of celebrating the site's 15 years of delivering News for Nerds, we invite you to help us temporarily change it. If you have an idea of what the Slashdot logo should look like for one day in October, this is your chance to see it on the page. Starting September 15th, we'll be accepting entries, and sending limited edition anniversary T-shirts to the artists we pick to show off on the page throughout the month. (And a Nexus 7 tablet to the artist who ranks best in show.) Click through for information on what we're looking for, how to enter, and the long list of rules that the legal department has provided for your reading pleasure; we look forward to seeing and sharing your ideas.
OMG Ponies (Score:5, Funny)
What else is there?
I'm still bitter that the constant Firefox updates broke the add-in that made that layout permanent.
Re:OMG Ponies (Score:5, Insightful)
Since it is such a part of the history of /. I propose that we use the ASCII version of Goatse.
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Since it is such a part of the history of /. I propose that we use the ASCII version of Goatse.
The logo is a picture, so why stick to the ASCII version? Just use the current slashdot logo, but instead of the letter o, have you-know-what. At that small size, it wouldn't even be obscene...
They even hinted at such idea, see very last item of "brainstorm" list:
full moons and other events tied to certain days
But then the first condition says:
Every entry should be your own original work
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But then the first condition says:
Every entry should be your own original work
I don't understand. How is this a problem? ;-)
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My vote would be for a bunch of tacos. And a millitary commander of sorts. A tribute to CmdrTaco, the founder of the site. We miss you, Rob!
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You didn't get the pun in his name? Hint: The taco is pink.
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Since it is such a part of the history of /. I propose that we use the ASCII version of Goatse.
The logo is a picture, so why stick to the ASCII version? Just use the current slashdot logo, but instead of the letter o, have you-know-what. At that small size, it wouldn't even be obscene...
They even hinted at such idea, see very last item of "brainstorm" list:
Hey, if it's good enough for the olympics [guardian.co.uk]
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Yeah, and the Trail of Tears [wikipedia.org] is an important part of U.S. history, but I don't seem anybody proposing a dead Indian as national symbol.
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Is the Trail of Tears mentioned every time there is a discussion on the U.S. History website?
If so then perhaps it should be part of that websites icon.
Your argument was not worth the time you spent to type it.
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Jeez, what weird little button did I push in your resentful little brain?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_(logic) [wikipedia.org]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_a_mountain_out_of_a_molehill [wikipedia.org]
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How about making the whole web site in ASCII format? ;)
Re:OMG Ponies (Score:5, Funny)
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OMG Ponies [desiringmachine.org] was my first thought as well. I'd imagine it wouldn't be hard to get enough vote to win either, given how popular the AF joke was back in 2006.
After all, Slashdot did ponies before they were cool [clubpenguininsiders.com] :)
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Pestilence Pony?
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Changing Slashdot's lay-out is as simple as a custom stylesheet [userstyles.org].
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How about " \ . " to profess our love of windows. Of course if we can round up a few million bucks, maybe we can get a corporate designer to come up with something as exciting as 4 colored squares in a square pattern.
(FYI, the new windows logo reminds me of the millions AT&T spent when spinning off Lucent to come up with the "coffee stain" logo that was ridiculed by most including a Dilbert [dilbert.com] strip [dilbert.com].)
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Love of Windows??? I think you're on the wrong site, buddy. Any nerd who has used both MS products and almost anybody else's hates MS's apps and OSes.
Why in the hell would you love an OS that has nothing going for it except shiny? Windows is NOT a nerd OS; Windows is your grandma's OS and the jock down the street's OS. Nerd gamers put up with it because they have to. Nerds who aren't gamers almost universally hate it.
Sorry to break it to you, but if the only OS you're familiar with is Windows, you're proba
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On a website like slashdot, it surprises me that my earlier comment was not immediately recognized as sarcasm.
As you mentioned, professing a love of windows on Slashdot is not a normal reaction. Anyone on this site doing so is either trolling or trying to provide comic relief. Seeing how I logged in instead of posting as an AC, believe me that the latter is true.
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it surprises me that my earlier comment was not immediately recognized as sarcasm.
You forgot the <Bazinga!> tag...
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I've lost track over the past 40 years or so, all the OS's I've used. Sort of like programming languages. Windows popularized home PCs. Didit/does it suck for security? Yes. Every OS has holes though, even if it is social engineering (as you know). Hate Windows? Nope., preferred Desqview when Windows 3 came out. Hate MS? A bit. MS business practices? Absolutely hate. And I have friends who work there (and others at RH)
Anyways, I vote for a pink unicorn with a rainbow out it's butt for a logo, sorta a Linux
I suggest the "new" logo (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I suggest the "new" logo (Score:5, Funny)
We could use Comic Sans instead of that ugly old font.
Re:I suggest the "new" logo (Score:4, Funny)
Wait. I thought that was Comic Sans.
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In the name of the Holy Command Line, I demand that we switch to Courier!!!!!!
I just read the rules... (Score:5, Funny)
And I don't see anything that would prohibit a Goatse.cx inspired logo. I can see the hands wrapping around the "o" in Slashdot now.
Re:I just read the rules... (Score:5, Insightful)
And I don't see anything that would prohibit a Goatse.cx inspired logo. I can see the hands wrapping around the "o" in Slashdot now.
This one made the BBC's list of the top 12 alternative Olympics 2012 logos until someone realised. They deleted the link, but not the jpeg:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43006000/jpg/_43006883_sean_stayte_416.jpg [bbc.co.uk]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/04/bbc_olympics_cx/ [theregister.co.uk]
("Here is my design for the Olympic logo. It is very simple and so memorable. The hands represent Britain pulling together to reveal the Olympics.")
Design consultant (Score:2)
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Huh. That lame little application is just a design firm's way of snarking about The Gap's failed rebranding attempt. If you follow the link to their blog [underconsideration.com], you discover they know fuck all about web design. They actually allow the reader to choose either of two layouts, both using obsolete fixed-width designs. Kind of undercuts their smug satire of other people's failures.
I already have. (Score:2)
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What is the purpose of this?
I think they are throwing shit at the walls and seeing what gets them more page views.
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"I think they are throwing shit at the walls and seeing what gets them more page views."
You must be new here, Taco patented that technique back in 1999.
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What is the purpose of this?
I think they are throwing shit at the walls and seeing what gets them more page views.
Sounds primative.
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Google did it.
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I've already set up a greasemonkey script to replace the logo with one of my choosing. OK, I haven't really, but for anybody who really cared to do this, it would be a simple task. Why would you want to change the logo? What is the purpose of this?
Uhh...to have a fun competition and celebrate the site's 15th anniversary?
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If it aint' broke, don't fix it. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to make another post complaining on how SlashTV is a waste of electrons and how the old
Cheesy grin (Score:1)
Natalie Portman (Score:3)
...covered in hot grits...
(rather than Goatse, which is only better in Soviet Russia)
It's also the missing step 3
Re:Natalie Portman (Score:4)
Natalie Portman.
Covered in, well, nothing.
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How about... (Score:5, Funny)
How about a logo with Fonzie waterski-jumping over Slashdot while wearing a leather jacket.
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Sorry I misread your post the first time... Now I am picturing the Muppets Fozzie the Bear doing that. But then you have to face the wrath of Disney lawyers.
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Wait, shouldn't it be /. on the skis, jumping over a shark?
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How about a shark with a laser jumping over the \.?
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_ /._
=^=
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wow. that is awesome! Thanks.
I'm going to re-submit one of the early winners (Score:5, Funny)
And see if I can get a dupe Slashdot logo through.
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Logo - #! (Score:1)
15 Years ago... (Score:1)
I miss the real Slashdot, too.
For this "slashdot under new ownership" site however, I propose that the logo be a picture of rotting pig-poop (to match the smell and feel of the place).
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Game Over.
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Do you miss the old Slashdot, or do you miss that old world when IT was small and nerdy, instead of run by big companies that rule the world? /. has changed, but I think it still reports the same type of news. It's just that the world has changed around us.
I hear you old timers complain often about how
Slashdot started when Windows 98 was not even around. When the 2.0 Linux kernel was brand new. And dial up was the main method for connecting to the internet. I guess that old time made for good articles about
Fingers... (Score:3)
Binary numbers
...
Digits per se: fingers
Beware of October 4th!
Serious Commentator (Score:1)
Oh Pleeeezzee let it be purple, sparkly and Pony based! *Squee!* *faints*
There are not enough ponies on the Internet.!
Seriously. (Score:5, Interesting)
Are there a lot of people out there who have just been chomping at the bit to change the slashdot logo?
How about fixing some of the horribly out of date and broken website code instead? Just for one day. In October!
Maybe make a mobile version of the site that is more than barely functional? For one day! In October!
Shameful.
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Rich text editor for comments? The ability to edit comments for a brief period of time after posting? Better usage of JavaScript? Linking to original sources and not crappy blogs? Quit using question marks in headlines? Fact-check submissions when it's trivial to do so? (Bonus: Fact-check submissions when it's not trivial to do so?*)
For one day! In October!
The more I think about it, the more I realize the logo is the last thing that needs changing here.
* Note: It's almost always trivial.
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The ability to edit ones comments is always abused. If you fuck up your comment reply to your comment with the correction.
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It is only abused if there is no easy way to quote text you are replying to, or if the edited post doesn't include some indication it was edited.
Shockingly, those two features exist on basically every other web forum and large blog in existence.
These problems are long solved.
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Yeah, I know. I've been posting here under various accounts for 10+ years.
It seems like the general slashdot method of operation is to turn accidental success into intentional failure.
I imagine they will port it to Drupal eventually, but we need a really strong 10/10 book on it first and Packt hasn't released it yet.
Fruity restrictions - (Score:1)
Be careful about using rectangles with rounded corners, though. And any design with elements arranged in a grid
Why I would never participate (Score:5, Insightful)
"entrant agrees to allow Sponsor and its designees to use entrant's name, photograph, likeness, statements, biographical information, voice and city and state address for advertising and promotional purposes for this and similar promotions, worldwide, and in perpetuity, in any and all forms of media, now known or hereafter devised without additional compensation, review or approval rights, notification or permission, except where prohibited by law."
This is why I'm never going to participate to something like that.
Re:Got it wrong for 15 years (Score:4, Informative)
not really. It comes from joking about the pile of strange characters that are part of web URLs:
h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-[x]-dot-org
Where [x] is the website name. Adding "slashdot" there makes an even bigger mouthful.
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Yeah ! As suggested before, colondot could use a goatse logo ... Fits well ! ( what wouldn't ?)
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I'd rather buy a lottery ticket (Score:4, Insightful)
The question is tantamout to:
Wanna do graphic design work for peanuts?
I suspect a few graphic design students might take you up on it, and do well. Any pro will just be offended. Any real amateur will probably fail. It'll be fun to submit a penis or something just for grins and giggles.
This is really lame, even for Slashdot actually. I suggest we "penis bomb" the submissions. Send in doodles of a penis, in whatever fashion you please.
No thanks (Score:5, Informative)
8. PUBLICITY/GRANT OF RIGHTS Except where prohibited by law, by entering the Contest, as a condition of participating in this Contest, entrant agrees to allow Sponsor and its designees to use entrant's name, photograph, likeness, statements, biographical information, voice and city and state address for advertising and promotional purposes for this and similar promotions, worldwide, and in perpetuity, in any and all forms of media, now known or hereafter devised without additional compensation, review or approval rights, notification or permission, except where prohibited by law.
New Logo/Name (Score:2)
Ugh. Spec work. (Score:5, Insightful)
Sorry, but not from me. The powers that run Slashdot probably have good intentions, but more often that not, these design contest are really just cheap ways to get work for nothing (or relatively little). Considering graphic artists are already chronically underappreciated and underpaid by clients, this really isn't fair.
But hey, don't let me discourage any of you aspiring artists out there ...;)
Btw: yes, this is a real concern: http://www.no-spec.com/ [no-spec.com] http://www.aiga.org/position-spec-work/ [aiga.org]
CAPTCHA: usable
Based on recent stories (Score:2)
Yeah. Here's my idea:
<h1 title="We are sorry for the crap we have been posting">We know we need an editor</h1>
Slashdot: Further proving... (Score:4, Insightful)
they have no idea who their readers are or why they read Slashdot.
dot slash, please (Score:1)
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It's not a directory path. It's spoken URL hi-jinx. h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org
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/ is the root directory
. refers to the current directory
cd /. && pwd
should output
/
Please tell me that you didn't spend 15 years failing to realize that.
Notalgia (Score:2)
Amusing to see those old Slashdot headlines. Since I was working at Sun at the time this one [archive.org] is particularly poignant.
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logo (Score:2)
Plaid. You can never go wrong with a good plaid.
Here's some 2012 logo design trends I stole from another site with absolutely no attribution whatsoever.
Twixt – These contain odd little interlinks between points that suggest connectivity.
Angle bombs – These contain highly angled geometric shapes, oftentimes triangles, and are usually chaotic and without symmetry, like an explosion of sharp pieces from a central explosion.
Leaf amalgams – Leaves used to build cars, people, other leaves, whatever.
Copy – These designs use minute words as a graphic component, but the words could never be read. It is texture, not text.
Penumbra – Think of a halo of layered and colored light circles that are not quite centered on each other.
Monoliths – Squares or rectangles that are in perspective and that appear to be drifting.
So take these, hire some artists for, like $75,000, wind up with something so horrible you have no choice but to bury the only copies of the design in a lead casket far underground, and finally just toss up a loose variant of the Starbucks logo with "Slashdot" in Helvetica and the "d" rotated at a 90 degree angle like the M in the Animal Planet logo.
Keep the
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Considering the number of paid-for articles we seem to get around here, renaming the site to "Slashbucks" might not be a bad idea.
Here's an idea (Score:2)
A sword on the neck of Dot Matrix. That's your Slash Dot logo right there.
Country (Score:2)
You really want to change Slashdot ? (Score:2)
If you guys are really seriously want to change Slashdot, changing the logo ain't gonna make Slashdot better
You should start changing the modding system
Nowadays too many of great comments have been modded all the way down to "-1" just because their opinions do not fall within the "norm" of those who have tons and tons of mod points
You have to understand that the Slashdot crowd have changed - it ain't the same Slashdot crowd in the beginning, the crowd which tolerated a lot of different views
The original cro
Please design me something for free. (Score:1)
Does this remind people of Missy the lost cat? http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html [27bslash6.com]
Or asking for a logo to be designed to a certain specification? http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html [27bslash6.com]
This will most certainly be hilarious.
New Logo (Score:1)
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You've certainly got the absence of copyediting down.