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LEGO Stack Overflow Hat
Basically I made a life-size and wearable LEGO ball cap with Stack Overflow logo.
(Yes, it's 100% LEGO; I'm a purist. Angles achieved mainly by SNOT building via hinged ...
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A Moose, Some Silly Putty ... And A Desperate Plea For Help
For this hat, I wanted to put together something that reflects my experience on Stack Exchange. So, I looked at my top sites, the sites I've been using for the longest time.
I went in search of ...
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I've made a Stack Overflow tin foil hat that from now on I'll be wearing everywhere with pride:
Possible use:
Tin Foil Hat - Protect the network from evil forces by raising 5 helpful spam / ...
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Winter Bash 2017 Hats
Secret Hats
Click on each of the hats for a larger image.
Ooh, Shiny!
Flag a question for closing, cast a close, delete or reopen vote on a question. You don't have to be the last vote, and hammers ...
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Since Alexander O'Mara beat me to the Lego, I decided to go with cards instead.
I first tried a self-supporting card-tower helmet (I knew, like you do, that it was never going to work. I tried it ...
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This is the Stack of hats! Possibly awarded for, I dunno, Getting All Teh Otehr Hats!!!? *
Not the most comfortable to wear, and I definitely can't mosh with this stack on, but it's a very special ...
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Winter Bash 2017 Hats
Regular Hats
In celebration of the 6th anniversary of Winter Bash, some of the most beloved hats from previous Winter Bash are making a comeback. (Stack Overflow Blog)
The year and name of a hat's ...
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The helmet of festive illumination
Which is simply this hat-shaped frame, with a several hundred Christmas lights interwoven into it :)
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Great Old One
Simply looking upon the creature drives the viewer insane.
Materials used:
A jar of gluten-free, edible kids glue
1 non-edible glue brush
Edible green glitter
1 dark green felt-tip
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Connection Maker
For finding 5 duplicate questions in a given day. (Connections...get it?)
Materials
Cat6 (Straight and Xover)
Tape
Cardboard
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Six Cornered Hat
Synonomous to the necromancer badge, since floppies are a thing of the past
Materials
Floppy Disks
Black duct tape
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Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town Hat
Possible task to get this:
'Tis the season: Visit any site in the network every day between Dec 24th and Dec 31st.
Using all my talent with pointed-tip scissors ...
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A Moose, Some Silly Putty ... And A Desperate Plea For Help
My wife crocheted the following cap. When I wear it, I significantly more often observe people around me bursting into uncontrollable laughter for no apparent reason.
Possible uses:
Confuse the ...
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The Eyes Have It
I have many eyes. I see all...
Turn me around...
Possible trigger:
Be the first to view and comment on a post, which is later edited and becomes +2. 5 times.
Bonus SVG:
<svg ...
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How about a pi-rate hat:
Materials: warm hat, sharpie (black and silver), paper, scissors, tape.
A pirate hat might be awarded for having an answer accepted after another answer was initially ...
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Suggestions for Winter Bash 2017
Keep cross-site hats
This year there were two hats, Polymath and Running Ragged, for non-trivial participation on multiple sites. A few years ago there was a hat for asking (or answering?) on a new-...
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Suggestions for Winter Bash 2017
Flip the hats!
The hats can only be rotated or moved. But for some avatars, the hat may look better (at discretion of the hat and avatar owner) if the hat was flipped over. This would make hat wearing ...
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So... in the past we've seen the somewhat controversial Hairboat and Hairboat's Revenge hats. In the spirit of continuing that tradition (perhaps to our own demise) I present you the following:
The ...
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Suggestions for Winter Bash 2017
Add a hat for finding duplicates
Can we have a hat that you get if you find, say 10, duplicates and the questions are successfully closed as a result of your 'possible duplicate suggestion'?
Note: ...
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It ain't easy being cheesy
As per the time of the year and my (general) location, I decided to crank out the new Fondue pot and give it it's first spin in the real world, as a hat.
I present the It ...
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Winter Bash 2017: When will it start this year?
If it's hats you want, then have no fear;
The next Winter Bash is drawing near!
To know when, you must be fast,
And look up dates of winters past.
But finding the year will be a strain.
You might even ...
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The Moosestalker
Named after the headgear now eternally associated with Sherlock Holmes, and inspired by Stack Overflow's current moose crisis, the Moosestalker plays on the classic deerstalker design....
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The Freehand Circle Hat
Awarded for: Making a post that contains a freehand circle.
This deluxe model comes with handy ear grips that hold the hat in place better than should be expected of pipe ...
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Suggestions for Winter Bash 2017
Sportsmanship Hat
I'm a big fan of the sportsmanship badge. It'd be nice to have a hat to honor those that are good sports and up vote competing answers.
Maybe something like. Up vote competing ...
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Suggestions for Winter Bash 2017
Don't bring Archimedes back
I haven't missed the secret hat for correctly guessing a secret hat. There's still an appropriate amount of secret-hat research going on, but it's taking place in a more ...
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Rubberducked!
I liked the idea behind the "Selfie" hat, however IMO a better theme would have built on the concept of "rubber duck debugging".
Self-answered a +2 question with a +2 answer.
Made ...
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🐔 The Quest for the Winter Chicken of the Bash, Part 2
You missed this:
Which means the page returns error code:
497 Not a Chicken
So I'm afraid this means... this is not a Chicken.
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