You can become a Patreon, make a one-time donation through Ko-Fi, and now, by popular demand, we have a third option to support OSNews: merch! We’ve just launched our new merch store, currently selling three items – two T-shirts and a coffee mug.
First, we have a plain logo T-shirt. It’s a crew (round) neck T-shirt available in ‘Night Sky Navy’ or ‘Herb Green’, with our logo printed top-left on the chest. Second, we have the same logo T-shirt in the same two colours, but with an additional quote printed below it for those of you who really long for the olden days when Eugenia ran this place. This second shirt is a limited edition, and will eventually be replaced by a shirt with a different quote, so get it while supplies last. Both T-shirts are made of 100% organic cotton for that extra soft feel. Each shirt costs $29.99 and ships worldwide.
Third, there’s a coffee mug with a logo and a quote for people who are kind of sick of my shit. It’s a mug. It holds coffee (or tea, or gasoline). It’s white. It sells for $19.99 and also ships worldwide.
Since I want to be transparent about this – we’re working with a third party store from Richmond, Virginia, US, who produces the shirts and mugs, since we obviously can’t produce them ourselves. The pricing has been carefully set so that for each item sold, OSNews gets about $8. Do note that the items are made-to-order, so shipping takes a little longer than in-stock items from regular stores.
I intend to add more items and maybe more colour options in the future (lighter colours are hard with our current logo), but we all have to start somewhere. As always, thanks for all your support – whether it be monetarily or just by being here. It means a lot.
“OSnews was better with Eugenia”… haha.
+1 if you think OSnews was better before wordpress 🙂
You mean the 11 year old PHP that compromised? 🙂
Believe me, as much as I loved the old code, it needed to be fully green-fielded if we were going to use a custom CMS.
Adam Scheinberg,
Yes I am aware. The PHP code didn’t escape user inputs, which lead to sql and html injection attacks. You probably don’t recall but I actually reported some of those vulnerabilities.
I intended my comment to be read ironically because we no longer have a “+1” feature.
The old site did comments better. WordPress comments are frustrating for longer discussions, and I miss the ability to sort them by date. Speaking of which, I thought you were interested in using the client side sorting script I submitted years ago, but then I never heard back.
Not to mention WordPress comments are near-unusable on mobile.
What about releasing that old code open-source? Who knows, might be a nice project for a rainy day for some of our loyal readers…
Yeah, the Eugenia reference gave me a chuckle and I ordered it.
I found the mug very funny, Good work Thom 🙂
I wouldn’t mind a mug without a quote, I’m probably one of the few people here who agrees with just about everything Thom has said over the years, and he and I share some fandom (BeOS, Fiona Apple, obscure computers from the 70s and 80s…).
With that said I’m in for a logo shirt for sure, and no offense to Eugenia who I adore, but I’m interested to see what quotes come next for the shirts so I’ll pass on the quoted one for now.
Agreed. Although, I may reconsider. One of my favorite tech items is a 1980’s DEC Family picnic coffee mug. I’d love for an OS news on in the same style. Like we had a physical meet up somewhere and made custom coffee mugs to commemorate the occasion. Like maybe Or a DashCon* for Osnews. Or we just pretended we met somewhere random like iceland , and made mugs anyways.
I’m so out of the loop, I was at DashCon’s hotel during DashCon, but didn’t realize until last month that a whole wikipedia page was created for its notoriety.
Breaking OSNews: BeOS fanbase doubles!
Seriously though, I wouldn’t mind a mug with just the logo if its possible?
I like the idea of the merch, glad to see you’re such a good sport Thom. Tshirts and mugs are always good sellers. But, anyone else here up for a hat of some sort? Baseball / Toque something like that? I’m also less likely to buy merch with inside jokes, so thanks for the joke free option. I hope you do understand how appreciative I am for your, David,, Eugenia, and Kroc’s contributions over the years.
I love the obscure jokes that only make sense to an old guard of people who’ve been following OSNews for more than a decade ( OG over here)
skeezix,
I only join in 2011, so I guess I’m “the next generation” of OSnews 🙂
A lot of old history shows in the “Related Posts” on the right, sometimes it’s interesting to go read those articles and comments in the 00’s. Like the short lived osnews comic strip, haha. I like things like that.
There was a comic strip?!?!? I don’t remember that! That’s hilarious!
It was called “Focus Shift” and I think there was only one issue of it ever. However, that comic has survived and been copied ad infinitum, I guess it could almost be called a meme, So one could say Thom really made a lasting contribution to nerd culture with that one comic. 🙂
I did manage to find a copy of the original here:
https://muhammad-rahmatullah.medium.com/wtf-per-minute-an-actual-measurement-for-code-quality-780914bf9d4b
For a while (when I was still working as a software developer), I had that comic as well as this one taped to the office door:
https://xkcd.com/612/
Hahaha OG. 😀 Too bad we don’t have user numbers like on Slashdot, but for reference, I’ve got a 5-digit Slashdot number, and I’ve been visiting OSNews for about as long.
The idea is brilliant. But I need a bigger size! Sorry, your four hundred pounds couch-potato here.
As usual, shipping to overseas is steep for these things. But I gotta have a coffee mug from OSNews, so its just pay up.
You should sell some stuff with the old logo too! A lot of early 2000s tech stuff can make great souvenir.
Maybe in the future OSNews could licence some dead “opsys” logos and sell stuff featuring those not to be forgotten branding.
Yes! Now *that* I would like to see! Make a shirt with this logo and color scheme and I’d be mighty tempted to buy it, for the nostalgia alone.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040602080835/http://www.osnews.com/
Something with the old logo (or old logo and new logo) would be great.
Ahahahaha I love it! Also the old color scheme of the Eugenia T-Shirt. I definitely do feel that way sometimes about Thom’s takes and I love that he is OK with, and even aware of, these takes of his takes. 😀