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Kobalt
March 20th, 2007, 12:01 AM
Hi all !

I was wandering in Notting Hill (London) a couple of weeks ago, and in a small deco stuff shop I stumbled upon a mug which had... Ubuntu written all over it !
I learned that an association named Whateverittakes (http://www.whateverittakes.org) had the idea of asking a famous person to decorate a mug and then it would be sold for charity purposes. Turns out Samuel (maybe it's not him after all) chose Ubuntu values to decorate its mug.
Kind of very black, but the Ubuntu label does make it geeky-appealing :)
Thirsteh
March 20th, 2007, 12:20 AM
That's just plain slick.
dbbolton
March 20th, 2007, 01:30 AM
shouldn't it say motherf*****' at least twice on that mug ?
kevinf311
March 20th, 2007, 02:00 AM
So... you bought it, right?


...Right? :D
Kateikyoushi
March 20th, 2007, 02:24 AM
That's cool, wish they had them here as well.
Kobalt
March 20th, 2007, 10:02 AM
No I didn't buy, it was £14,90 ...
OrangeCrate
March 20th, 2007, 01:43 PM
Though I'm quite sure he's referencing Ubuntu as an ideology, and not Ubuntu as a Linux distribution, it's still a cool mug. Nice find.
kevinf311
March 20th, 2007, 06:47 PM
That is pretty steep for a mug.

Yeah, I'm sure that Sammy wasn't promoting our Linux flavor. It would be interesting to see how he would respond to seeing the Distro that embodies the same principles he chose for his mug.
excom123
August 28th, 2007, 03:19 AM
It think it is true I watched a documentary on Sam.L about a year ago and it had a shot of him using a laptop with what was either ubuntu or a very ubuntu looking debian on it-he seemed to be using firefox aswell! Though my memory might be decieved-it was a year ago,though I am sure I saw Ubuntu or at least some offshoot of Debian.

It's nice to see celebrities endorsing the open source movement instead of telling us to try out alternative therapies and scientology all the while,eh?
AlphaMack
August 28th, 2007, 06:13 AM
I can see him appearing out of nowhere and in your face after pouring your drink, asking, "How's it taste motherf**ker!?" :D
Sporkman
August 28th, 2007, 06:33 PM
http://www.blackfilm.com/20050304/features/samueljackson.shtml
salsafyren
August 28th, 2007, 06:40 PM
http://www.blackfilm.com/20050304/features/samueljackson.shtml

That's a great movie.

They mention Ubuntu a couple of times, not the distro, but the African word.
Sporkman
August 28th, 2007, 06:46 PM
Here's the mug for sale, BTW:

http://madisonavegifts.com/index.php?page=shop/flypage&product_id=9580
notwen
August 28th, 2007, 06:59 PM
Anyone able to translate the rest of it? The red text along the outer edge also looks be of African origin. =x
dca
August 28th, 2007, 07:58 PM
shouldn't it say motherf*****' at least twice on that mug ?

HAHAHAHA!!!!!
DarkN00b
August 28th, 2007, 08:36 PM
Anyone able to translate the rest of it? The red text along the outer edge also looks be of African origin. =x

I'm pretty sure the yellow text is a translation of the red text.

On another note - where I work, truck drivers of many nationalities arrive all the time. I had a man who said he was from South Africa ask me what Ubuntu meant. I told him about the philosophy and the origin of the word and he said he had never heard of it. :?