Konqueror Icon Setting TVs Ablaze

Tuesday, 24 November 2009  |  Eike Hein

CBS' geektastic sitcom sensation "The Big Bang Theory" has joined a long list of KDE television outings with main character Leonard Hofstadter wearing Konqueror on his chest in last night's episode, "The Vengeance Formulation":

KDE software has previously been spotted on "24" (FOX), "Alias" (ABC), "Dexter" (Showtime), "Heroes" (NBC), "House, M.D." (FOX) and "Shark" (also on CBS). If you've seen it anywhere else, chime in below!

Comments:

Pure Awesome - Mark Kretschmann - 2009-11-24

I'm a big fan of the show, so that really made my day :) <br> (Some claim I'm starting to resemble Sheldon more and more. This worries me a bit...)

I don't see that. Sheldon has - Eike Hein - 2009-11-24

I don't see that. Sheldon has much more hair! ;-)

I do! - Mamarok - 2009-11-24

You didn't here him laugh recently...

nicotina - abrown969 - 2009-11-24

I've seen KDE in Nicotina (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337930/).

As previously reported on - maninalift - 2009-11-24

As <a href="http://dot.kde.org/2008/09/10/kde-congratulates-cerns-large-hadron-collider">previously reported</a> on dot, LHC control uses KDE and, um, that was on TV. PS <a href="http://i38.tinypic.com/2q37yh5.jpg">this</a>was in the comments of the link page above, classic. pps I never seem to be able to log in with blogspot openID "error:Invalid AuthRequest: 768: Invalid value for openid.ns field: http://openid.net/signon/1.0", something to do with drupal not liking blogger apparently, anyone know what to do about this?

Alias - ivan - 2009-11-24

Here's the one from alias <a href="http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t120/wdawn/alias-kde.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t120/wdawn/th_alias-kde.png" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Caps of that seem to have - Eike Hein - 2009-11-24

Caps of that seem to have found their way onto KDE-Look.org: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/KDE+in+%22Nicotina%22+%28Movie%29?content=60213

One DE to rule them all? - emilsedgh - 2009-11-24

And for those who dont already know, KDE was in use by creators of LOTR. Here is the dot story: http://dot.kde.org/2003/11/29/lord-rings-wields-our-precious Too bad those links [to screenshots] now point to wrong place.

The Wayback Machine at - Eike Hein - 2009-11-24

The Wayback Machine at <a href="http://www.archive.org/">archive.org</a> still has them: http://web.archive.org/web/20070208165528/http://static.kdenews.org/mirrors/thetwotowers/gollum_success.png http://web.archive.org/web/20070320223203/http://static.kdenews.org/mirrors/thetwotowers/kde_gollum1.png http://web.archive.org/web/20070208165507/http://static.kdenews.org/mirrors/thetwotowers/kde_gollum2.png

Want that shirt! - vanRijn - 2009-11-24

Nice!!! But where can you get that shirt from? =:)

Maybe one day on - Eike Hein - 2009-11-24

Maybe one day on http://www.sheldonsshirts.com/ :D

There's a fun bit of synergy - Eike Hein - 2009-11-24

There's a fun bit of synergy there considering the Big Bang Theory character wearing the Konqueror t-shirt is an experimental physicist, and the LHC is the ultimate physics experiment. Totally makes sense.

KDE in media - kanwar.plaha - 2009-11-25

If KDE is good enough for popular media, its good enough for me! :-)

Fan of dexter - ziggyfish - 2009-11-25

I must of missed the Dexter one, can someone tell me where and when

Ha, found the link finally: - Eike Hein - 2009-11-25

Ha, finally found the link: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2006/11/kde-on-tv.html Will add it to the article.

Free and Open Source in Movies/TV Shows - gouchi - 2009-11-28

A blog about : http://fosstv.wordpress.com

Nifty :) *adds to Akregator* - Eike Hein - 2009-11-28

Nifty :) *adds to Akregator*

KMail - jospoortvliet - 2009-12-01

Aaaand the first showing of KDE 4 on TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcRH61T2tOQ