Registration Is Open For ROFLThing-NYC

AW HELL YEAH WHAT WHAT

Yes — it’s true. Registration is now open for ROFLThing-NYC. And best of all, it comes in two tasty flavors:

$30 — Normal Registration (Full Day of Conference/Evening Afterparty)

$50 — Bodacious Registration (Full Day of Conference/Evening Afterparty AND One Ballin’ Conference Shirt)

Drop any questions to tim AT roflcon DOT org, or rachel.m AT roflcon DOT org.

Enjoy!

T-shirt designs of awesomeness, all for you!

Since none of us team members here at ROFLThing have any friends who are not, in fact, fans of robots. We decided to bring our love of robots out and share it with you guys, our beloved attendees. Teaming up and collaborating with the super awesome print-on-demand crew over at Spreadshirt, you’ll soon be checking out the super slick limited edition designs printed on comfy American Apparrel tees.

Our uber lovable Bigeye design is super friendly, and bound to be a good conversation starter. These babies are twenty bucks each, in conjunction with registration for the conference. Keep eyes peeled for our other robot designs at the conference — the staffers have something special hidden up their sleeves!

It’s True: Rex Sorgatz Will Present At ROFLThing-NYC

So wow, uh, so 2009? That stuff is bananas. This event is coming up QUICK.

In any case, I’m glad to announce today that the ROFLTeam has officially confirmed that the talented Mr. Rex Sorgatz, massively prolific blogger @ Fimoculous, one of those consultant dudes and all-around microcelebrity dilettante/genius, will be a featured attendee at ROFLThing-NYC! You’ll catch him around in the crowd wandering around to see the talks, and generally partying down the night of the event. Should be good times.

Stay tuned for this weekend: as promised we are going to be opening up reg just to people who were on our early alert list over the weekend (with access to exclusive conference shirts), with the open ticketing coming up on Monday.

The Firefox Art Panel at ROFLThing-NYC

In celebration of New Years, the team is super happy today to reveal our final mystery speaking slot for ROFLThing-NYC.

Specifically: we’re glad to announce that Jamie Wilkinson (who’ll be rolling deep with Serious Business later in the evening on the 24th) will be heading a panel showcasing “Firefox Art” — creative, experimental add-ons that twist the web experience (see e.g. Add-Art) — and discussing creativity on- and with- the web, and the specific possibilities presented by Firefox extensions, advances in javascript, and open-source generally.

In addition to Jamie, the panel will feature fellow F.A.T. member Steve Lambert (who you may remember from the NYTimes Special Edition project a month back, among other projects), and Tobias Leingruber, programmer of China Channel and the co-creator of Pirates of the Amazon. They’ll also be talking about ArtZilla, an awesome repository for Firefox add-on projects usually denied from listing on the addons.mozilla.org universe for being “useless art.”

Badass? You betcha.