Best reader-submitted /. logo of October 2012?
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Archive of them? (Score:5, Insightful)
Is there a web page to show all the animated logos so we can see?
Re:Archive of them? (Score:5, Informative)
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Thank you. I missed a few and now can vote the best one! :)
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I was happy to get into the additional ones also, but I think it can use some explanation. It is the second form the bottom on a black background (Avrum Cohen).
It is 15 years of planetary motion, with the % of orbit and size of planets to scale. The distances of the orbits are definitely not to scale. I sent it to a couple of friends and they did not get it. They referred to it as "bubbles"
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I thought "bubbles" too. it's because the size of the logo is so small.
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Robot bugs? (Score:1)
Thank You. Note that I still can't find "Avrum Cohen's robot bugs".
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Okay, I see now. When I first viewed it, the animation for that one was broken for some reason (on my box), so I only saw the finished product. Now that it works, the description makes sense. Mystery solved. Thanks.
Missing option (Score:1)
-Couldn't care to remember what each animation looked like.
Re:Missing option (Score:5, Interesting)
tessellation? (Score:5, Insightful)
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I rather liked the Pac-Man tribute logo. Even if you don't, I'm not sure why you think it being (at one time) in the lead is "disgraceful". It seems like a very silly thing to get worked up over.
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It seems like a very silly thing to get worked up over.
You're forgetting that this is Slashdot... people get worked up over misplaced or excessive commas.... ;)
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I see what you did there... .
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I rather liked the Pac-Man tribute logo. Even if you don't, I'm not sure why you think it being (at one time) in the lead is "disgraceful". It seems like a very silly thing to get worked up over.
I think disgraceful part was about the fact that pacman is eating non-blue ghosts. In the game, you could only eat ghosts once you picked up the "pill" that made them go blue and run away from you, or otherwise, they would eat you!
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In the game, you could only eat ghosts once you picked up the "pill"
Life's not a game, son.
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Not sure if its the best one, but its the best one that will look cool on a t-shirt.
Thank You for the Compliments! (Score:4, Interesting)
I would have voted for eldavojohn's tessellation but it ain't listed, it's Bebb's Saturn for me.
Thanks Fast Thick Pants! Kind words on Slashdot are rarer than a Nexus 7 tablet so I'll take them over the device :-) I really did only spend a half hour on it so I would feel guilty if it went up against some of these logos that obviously took a lot more time. My vote went for Avrum Cohen's robot bugs, though. I used to write software for multi-agent systems in graduate school and I felt like this one was a great marriage of form and function -- on top of that it was one of the most tasteful gifs to me.
... but again, the pixel limit! Still a fun thing to do! Glad you enjoyed my logo!
When I was a kid I used to make tessellations non-stop of anything and everything. All you needed was graph paper.
One of my ideas that never worked out was to do a Back to the Future gif since that movie takes place in October but the number of pixels just wasn't enough to make meaningful digits on the display or do a DeLorian or anything. So I went this route instead. Also, I agree with other posters that my logo didn't quite mesh well with the background. What I would have preferred to do was complete like a 4x3 block of the logos (which would have made like a postage stamp size) and put a slightly thicker black border around that
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>Kind words on Slashdot are rarer than a Nexus 7 tablet so I'll take them over the device...
Bah! I only entered for the tablet :-)
I take comfort in knowing that mine was too complex for the unwashed masses of /. to understand, and hence it didn't make the final multiple choice cut... :P
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I'm interested to know the intended message. I can only see "lSaNniu", which doesn't compute.
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>I'm interested to know the intended message. I can only see "lSaNniu", which doesn't compute.
See, I told you it was too complex! ^lSaNniu^15anniv :-)
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+1 for eldavojohn.
Seriously WTF?
2012 presidential election :
* green candidate
* pinko candidate
* commie candidate
* tea party candidate
* white pride candidate
* CowboyNeal
* Some other candidate (whether Obama or Romney)
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Nah, thats too easy, this poll is more like:
2012 Election
(1) the one that went to Harvard Law School
(2) the one who's grandfather was not born in the USA
(3) the third party candidate
(4) the forth party candidate
(5) ???
(6) Profit
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Nah, thats too easy, this poll is more like:
2012 Election
(1) the one that went to Harvard Law School
(2) the one who's grandfather was not born in the USA
(3) the OWS candidate
(4) the pot legalization candidate
(5) ???
(6) Profit
FTFY
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I cast my vote for tessellation as well.
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The original (Score:2)
The original, non-animated png file.
Re:The original (Score:4, Interesting)
That said I really love the nature of eldavojohn's and the colour choices are excellent and it worked well - but not as a logo. It was also clearly the work of a brilliant and sick mind which is probably why I love it so much. Toned down it would make a great background. Or the brown turned into a large Slashdot it would make a great logo. As it stands though it just doesn't work as a logo no matter how much I love it.
My vote has to go with the existing logo.
October 7 by Jack Thompson (Score:1)
The memory test was good, but... (Score:2)
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I couldn't remember the memory test.
Whah (Score:1)
What's with the hard coded limit of 8 choices, come on Slashdot!
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Maybe someday the poll interface will get a revamp. (I can think of some ways to improve it!) For right now, though, there actually is a hard-coded limit of 8 options, hence 7 named picks plus wild-card option :)
Best what? (Score:2)
Re:Best what? (Score:5, Insightful)
I suppose the criterion is 'like'. People will vote for the logo they liked most for whatever reason, whether that be surprised, amused or delighted. I voted for Pong, for me it was instantly gratifying, nostalgic and made me smile.
Re:Best what? (Score:5, Interesting)
Yep. I chose the memory test, because it brought back fond memories of trying to get that extra 3kB of base RAM so Wing Commander would run with speech enabled. I did have computers before that (TRS-80 and C64) but that logo stuck out the most for me.
Pong was my second choice. It'd be more interesting for everyone to pick their top three in the poll and see how that changes the results.
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Yep. I chose the memory test, because it brought back fond memories of trying to get that extra 3kB of base RAM so Wing Commander would run with speech enabled.
Long-lost-twin brother, is that you?? That was exactly the same thing I was thinking of when I saw that logo. Aaah yes... getting those last few kBs somehow to hear those terrible, but terribly cool, Wing Commander voices.
Slashdolt? (Score:1)
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nerds don't see anything special about 15 (Score:5, Interesting)
Really not sure what all the fuss is about. The big anniversary is next year, when slashdot gets an extra digit in binary!
(Goes to two digits in hex, too.) :)
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Tessela (Score:1)
memory test? (Score:1)
There was a memory test?
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It only went up to 640k.
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They were all cool... (Score:2)
... and I could no sooner pick one over the other. Kudos to the creators of the various logos.
Artists (Score:2)
One of those guys actually has a PhD in nuclear engineering. I'm sure he never imagined being presented as an Artist :P
'Turtle' Logo Animation (Score:1)
Oct 14 (Score:2)
Morse code for the win!
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It says that the morse code logo was animated but I never saw that - it seems pretty static to me while other logos are animating just fine. Anyone else? Any explanation?
Animated gif FAIL (Score:2)
My favorites were (in order of approval):
Pete Mendoza
Jack Thompson
Nathan Bebb
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Goes Thompson, Mendoza, then Bebb for me. No need for animation.
Some other logo (Score:5, Informative)
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OMG Ponies was by-far the best slashdot logo, ever.
Bring back the pink css, and OMG Ponies logo!
Anything that's not animated (Score:5, Insightful)
While some of the logos are great artist creations, they were mostly, or totally I can't remember exactly, animated. Web page logos shouldn't be animated. Anything animated calls or attention to it and distracts us from the rest of the page. If the purpose of a web page is to show off animated icons, then by all means, proceed. But if the purpose of a website is to provide content to the user the best thing you can do is banish all animation.
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I agree. Repeatedly catching random movement out of the corner of my eye became extremely distracting. Enough so that I ended up using Adblock on the logo. :-(
Moar! Moar animated gif! (Score:2)
Indeed. As proof, when they put all the logos on one page, the result looks like Homer's first website (which someone made, www.homerswebpage.com/ [homerswebpage.com].)
Nothing animated (Score:2)
I hate animated gifs so much I turned them off in my browser. Most of the animated logos are just blank or near-blank to me.
I like Jack Thomson's one best.
Special days (Score:2)
I had to vote for 4 and 18 (the elfish script). Both have meaning. I do love the saturn and sputnik after that.
Oct. 31st (Score:1)
Sean Murphy's from Oct. 31st gets my vote.
Really? (Score:3)
Are you really going to choose from one of those logos? They are interesting as a contest to see who creates the nerdiest animated gif, but none of them work as a serious logo.
eldavojohn Oct 21 (Score:2)
Loved eldavojohn's logo from the 21st. Very strongly hated all animated logos after the 10th iteration through the loop.
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Oct 21 - Tessellation (Score:1)
I liked the "tessellation" by eldavojohn - Oct21. That looks cool. ...and the "memory test" second.
I voted some other (Score:2)
If you must have a pong, Heiko Selber's honourable mention beats Piotr Dabrowski's hands down, in my opinion -- yours is pretty classy Piotr but I prefer the full field, myself (same reason I detest tablet-ized interfaces).
But I don't think the logo should go crazy on sideways references; hence I cannot vote for any of the other "presented" options. My top 6 are, therefore, #1, #7 and #9 from the accepted list, and Pocholo Peralta's, Erik Berglund's and Pete Mendoza's honourable mention entries.
* #1 refers
No logo (Score:4, Informative)
Pac-Man? (Score:2)
Did it bother anyone else that the Pac-Man one had Pac-Man eating ghosts that should have normally killed him? And he was running from blue ghosts? Is this a Bizzaro-world Pac-Man?
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Yes, I have to admit that immediately bugged me. Sad, too, because it was otherwise pretty good. But if you are going to spend all that time get the basic game mechanics right!
Dennis Ritchie, Oct 12 (Score:2)
I don't see Thompson's logo s/ashdt. in the poll. (Score:4, Interesting)
I admit I liked Jack Thompson's S/ashd.t idea. It would be even better not capitalized as s/ashd.t.
The logos in the poll are awfull.
Where are the images?? (Score:2)
Animated Logos = 2012's Blinking Text (Score:2)
Those animated logos were bloody annoying. They are the modern day equivalent of Blinking Text.
I hope they are never incorporated into the page, regardless of how clever each of them was.
In Other News: Get off my lawn, you pesky kids.
None of the Above (Score:1)
None of these are good logos. Almost all of them are good tributes. I vote for either the pre-October logo or a new, good, logo.
I mean no offense to any of the contributors - I like almost all of them a lot, but I don't think they make good permanent logos.
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Be Homosexual. (Score:1)
Jack Thompson (Score:2)
Pacman error (Score:1)
I like the Pacman one from Barbara Selber, but I find it a little irritating that Pacman is munching normal coloured ghosts without suffering any ill effects.
Normally Pacman can only munch them when they've turned blue after he's eaten a power pill :)
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No, it's not lame, and it's not copying Google. Is the celebration of many years of Slashdot, not a couple different logos celebrating lots of events all the year...
Re:A lame attempt (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:A lame attempt (Score:5, Insightful)
Seconded (Score:5, Interesting)
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Many of these logos feel too cheesy for me. In many ways the original logo still looks elegant. Many of the animated logos just remind me of *blink* *------* *blink*.
I think the chosen logo should look good at 32px high or 122 pix high. Many of those presented would fail that requirement.
NOO I DON'T LIKE CHANGE *DERP* (Score:1)
That's what every one of you sound like to the rest of us. It as a single month out of 180, you still win regardless.
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That's what every one of you sound like to the rest of us. It as a single month out of 180, you still win regardless.
Maybe we do, but I am not against change. I just have some expectations of what a good logo looks like. For me Google has the right approach, in that they have a fun but static logo, but on special days replace it with something that means something. The closest we had here was the 'OMG Ponies' look. Sure I don't think many of us would have accepted for more than a day, but it was fun while it lasted.
There are a few logos that were submitted that looked good, but they tended to play on the /. theme, rather
Thirded (Score:1)
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It is simple and unique.
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Same here - I found the animated logos extremely annoying and distracting when trying to read the news.
Google at least keep the artistic stuff in the front page, where no information of interest is.
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Google has a front page?
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to post a relevant comment
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Did anyone decrypt it?
I got as far as "Be sure to drin" and gave up.
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Almost all of them were at least decent and fun. Except that silly barcode one.
I couldn't get the barcode to scan. What's up with that?
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The most stupid part about that one was that due to scaling and/or compression artefacts, the barcode being displayed on the site wasn't even readable. If you are going to put such an effort into creating a barcode, at least make it readable.
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Bar codes are so '70s; the slashdot logo on the slashdot home page should be a QR that goes to the slashdot home page. That would be nicely meta.