36 Comments

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   nixternal on January 13, 2009 at 7:30 am

   I know I haven’t had that damn much to drink tonight!

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   ethana2 on January 13, 2009 at 7:32 am

   So this is like some kind of teaser or something, right?

   <

   p> Could you disclose the /nature/ of the announcement, perhaps?

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     ethana2 on January 13, 2009 at 7:32 am

     This

     is a test..

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       ethana2 on January 13, 2009 at 7:32 am

       WOOHOO! Normal formatting! Thanks, Jono!

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     Ilan Rabinovitch on January 13, 2009 at 9:03 am

     In hopes of getting the rumor mill spinning:

     1) Launch of the new LoCo communty portal he mentioned on his blog a few weeks back. 2) Hes been invited to the White House to help Obama get Ubuntu installed. 3) LUGRadio is being resurrected and will be syndicated on the US radio waves by Clear Channel 4) Hes found his 4th horseman. RMS will use his polyglot skills to lead the Ubuntu Translations team. 5) They’ll be expanding the Global Bug Jab event in February to be an Interplanetary Bug Jab event, when the Astronauts and Cosmonauts on the International Space Station, contribute their 5 a day. 6) Theres no real announcement. Jono just wanted to test if I’d actually digg a blog post that has NOTHING in it.

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3. 

   /me on January 13, 2009 at 7:42 am

   Will announce that he is getting married. But not in California, because that type of marriage there has been repealed.

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4. 

   Ian McKellar on January 13, 2009 at 7:51 am

   you take terrible photos.

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5. 

   Sander on January 13, 2009 at 9:01 am

   I think it’s a community website of some sorts.

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6. 

   Tobias on January 13, 2009 at 9:42 am

   Don’t shake the monitor, if you are taking screenshots.

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7. 

   Antonio Roberts on January 13, 2009 at 9:59 am

   The more I keep staring at this announcement the more it starts to look like a sailboat.

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8. 

   jaduncan on January 13, 2009 at 9:59 am

   Launchpad redesign?

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9. 

   mrben on January 13, 2009 at 10:08 am

   Heh. Jono in self-promoting teaser scandal! 😉

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10. 

    mattj on January 13, 2009 at 10:26 am

    LRL 2009?

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11. 

    jg on January 13, 2009 at 10:44 am

    Hopefully, he’ll announce that Ubuntu sucks, and everyone should use Debian instead.

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12. 

    Niels on January 13, 2009 at 10:45 am

    I’m already excited!

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13. 

    andylockran on January 13, 2009 at 11:00 am

    This is the announcement of MicroCommunity – jono’s new job @ MS to include the community more in the creation of Windows 7.

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14. 

    nixternal on January 13, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    I wonder if it is a new brainstorm website redesign. Seems my QA servers are down this morning for a major update.

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15. 

    levelnext on January 13, 2009 at 2:35 pm

    Dude, haven’t you ever heard that Shift+Ctrl+Super+Alt+PrintScreen = Take screenshot with auto-focus?

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16. 

    mmiicc on January 13, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    New Ubuntu News website?

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17. 

    Sense Hofstede on January 13, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    The dark-blue part of the title does look a bit like ‘community’. :O

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      Sander on January 13, 2009 at 4:06 pm

      Yeah, just sharpen it with the Gimp. It clearly says Community.

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18. 

    jorge on January 13, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    This is actually Severed Sixth, the new bluegrass sensation.

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19. 

    oliver on January 13, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    The colors look like Github 🙂

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20. 

    DeeJay1 on January 13, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    Well, I think that happens if you keep staring at the monitor for to long…

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21. 

    andylockran on January 13, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    jono,

    please put us out of our misery 🙁

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22. 

    Landon on January 13, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    UbuntuForums redesign? Forums have been down for hours this morning…

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23. 

    Adam Petaccia on January 13, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    New Ubuntu website?

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24. 

    Brian on January 13, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    it can’t be Ubuntu related, it’s not orange or brown. D:

    the colours slightly remind me of the Gnome website.

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25. 

    Jeremy on January 14, 2009 at 12:06 am

    I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

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26. 

    Markus on January 14, 2009 at 12:36 am

    Tried to sharpen the image.. Didn’t come out very well:

    http://conic.se/static/experiments/sharpened.png

    I think the blue blurb says “community”-something..

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27. 

    Kyran on January 14, 2009 at 3:32 am

    unblurred 🙂 http://i43.tinypic.com/14u9m3k.jpg

    http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/

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      Sander on January 14, 2009 at 10:49 am

      Wow, nice job!

      And good luck Jono!

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28. 

    Joshua on January 14, 2009 at 5:43 am

    Filthy astronauts…

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29. 

    Mamarok on January 14, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    Well, not many Konqueror users here as it seems… so now let’s guess: todays Nokia PR about Qt being relicensed under LGPL? Kubuntu ppa repo featuring KDE 4.2 RC1? Or just Jono announcing his new book 🙂

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30. 

    wyrless2002 on January 16, 2009 at 2:01 am

    If you crank up Enslaved by Pain to 130 db and head bang appropriately the image becomes very clear.

    You have to put yourself in the authors shoes sometimes to understand his muse.

    Great work J.B.!

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31. 

    Stefano F. (tacone) on January 18, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    What were you doing with the free hand ?

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