I finally silkscreened into reality one of the witty (I hope) t-shirt ideas I mentioned awhile back.
These </3 t-shirts are a really geeky double entendre: To IM addicts everywhere this is obviously a broken heart, but for the anal xhtml geeks among us it could also be a validated heart. Or, true, the end of a heart. I like to think it means my heart's written in valid xhtml.
Anyway, this idea came up during deliriously dorky IM conversations with coworkers at my last job. We were thinking that a regular <3 looked like it was going to get caught by W3C's validator and wondered if </3 would *have* to mean a broken heart.
So now I've got a bunch of </3 shirts in four different styles for sale in my new etsy store.
update: Broken heart/valid heart shirts (and mugs and stickers and magnets and mousepads) are now available at zazzle.com/kenspeckle. Hand silkscreened shirts will only be available while supplies last or by special request.
<3 … I mean </3 … <3
P.S. I want one in Men's Medium. K. Thx. Bye.
Haha, that is excellent!
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