Following April Fool's Day Around The World? 168
Here are some other questions that were submitted along the same vein:
David the Drunk asks: "Well this year, with people being much more comftable with the internet, the bogus stories were thick and heavy. I suspect my favorite is from The Age newspaper in Australia, citing The UK Guardian in an article of some humor claiming that Superman is communist and Batman should be a terrorist. Apart from the Slashdot postings (they don't count) what else was good. Pity the Age article is dated on the 2nd, but the Guardian article is from the 1st."
...and this one from mcdade: "Being Sunday and all it wasn't a good day to pull pranks on coworkers, but i'm sure some people have some good stories out there. Mine goes something like this:
A few years back I worked at a University for a small spin-off IT group put together to implement Lotus Notes across campus. So for april fools day, the developers wrote an email with a button to "optimize" your computer, telling people to click it. It would give a bunch of random terms and junk, run a percent meter then report to the user that the computer was optimize anywhere from 1 to 1000 percent (based on random number). It did absolutely nothing, besides report back to our db who had clicked it (and how many times, yes, people were clicking it multiple times to see if they could get bet optimization). Well those that figured out that this was a joke found it refreshing, those that didn't, well they complained to IT, who inturn went to the VP.
So we were all summoned to the VP's office, figuring we were on a death march, and it turned out that he found it funny and figured that people on campus should lighten up. He even told us a story about how his daughter and her friends really got him one year.
Time for everyone else to share."
For the record, all of the Ask Slashdot's that were posted during April Fool's stretch were all actually submitted to the bin, with the names changed to protect the victi-..er...guilt...I mean, innocent parties.
Superman adn batman (Score:1)
Re:NT does have some usefulness (April Fool's Tale (Score:1)
I did that once to. The bad thing, the NT admin on site see _ALL_ servers BSOD, flipped the fuck out and 'HARD_POWERED' then entire fucking room, routers, switches, other people's unix servers...
The admin thought their had been a massive electical discharge coming from the main circuits, cause _ALL_ devices (atleast all his servers) to go "hay wire"
He called _everyone_, even consults... Entire site down... hunderds of people called in at 2:00 in the morning...
Needless to say they found it quite humorous...they even gave me a _long vacation_ in fact I havn't been back their since (2 years ago)...
Coworkers who use MS Word... (Score:1)
For one coworker, I *corrected* all of the critical english declarative verb forms to their opposites. As soon as she hit the space bar at the end of one of these words, is became isn't, was became wasn't, isn't became is, etc. I got her admin in on it too, so that when the victim asked me to look at her machine and I said, "I think you have a virus", her admin exclaimed "Yeah! That's JUST what they do!"
The only limit to your evil imagination on this one is that you can't match or substitute very long strings, but there is room for short sentences...
Re:Tobacco Industry April Fools (Score:2)
Everything2 April Troll's Day (Score:5)
The worst April Fool's joke by far was on e2 [everything2.com], mentioned a while back in slashdot.
The e2 gods write a Perl script to convert write-ups in to l33t-speak, or backwards, and that was funny.
Then they started playing with the buttons and the XP, and that was funny.
Then they created troll accounts, and turned the chatterbox in to an AOL chat-room which was funny. For about three minutes.
Then they pretended e2 had been rooted, and while it was a little funny, people started getting seriously panicked.
Then they started flaming/impersonating users' who had left the system(respected noders in one case), which wasn't funny.
And their trolling continued for fourteen hours. Which was not funny.
As a result, at least one furious noder has left, and the reputation of the e2 Gods has become, well, a little tarnished.
Granted, it's their database, etc., but it relys on noders, and it relys on noders respecting the power structure of e2. To quote a node on the subject: "Ack! You've lost the trust of the noders!"
Posted as AC because I have an acct. with the same nick on e2, and and the e2 Gods have already displayed more than a little bad judgement when nuking write-ups.
Re:Tobacco Industry April Fools (Score:1)
Get LUNIX! (I'm not making this up.
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This year's 4/1 jokes suffered terribly.. (Score:5)
This year was weak; Slashdot's attempts fell flat because, well, most were way too obvious (eg the Dalnet being bought by X has been done *every* year somewhere on the net). The online cartoonists didn't appear to band together this year to do much as they did in the prior two. Usenet posts that were in the 4/1 flavor were also too obvious.
I think that like how USENET and other parts of the web have suffered from the masses being introduced to it, so has the internet tradition of 4/1's. It's not some jokes were well planned, but the majority of what I saw was certainly not in the flavor of how it was done years ago.
Observer (Score:2)
On TV, "On The Record" had a topical pre-election piece about proposals to increase voter turnout by giving voters lottery tickets and free sherry just for turning up... also advertising on voting slips (Coca Cola ads were okayed, but a Wonderbra "Hello Voters" ad was supposedly vetoed)....
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Re:Oldie but goodie (Score:2)
As I remember, that was paid for by the folks doing it, not by Sun.
I sure hope this is a joke. (Score:2)
Re:Not a joke... (Score:1)
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Re:Not a joke... (Score:2)
What's most perturbing, though, is that it'd so damn illogical. Toilet paper: deemed essential and therefor not taxed. Tampons/pads: deemed *non*-essential, and taxed!!
It's fucking stupid.
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Re:Perhaps we need... (Score:1)
Re:Tobacco Industry April Fools (Score:1)
Who needs April Fools? (Score:1)
Re:Superman:Red Son (Score:2)
I think Millar was picked up for the X gig on the strength of a 'Marvel Elseworlds' about a year ago, which was an alternate take on this and various other Marvel characters. This isn't Millar's first Marvel work though, you need to go back to Skrull Kill Krew co-written by Grant Morrison.
With Earth2, I think it was Frank Quitely's artwork that rounds it all off, it looks wonderful. I might be biased though, I used to live with a stone's throw of all of the aforementioned. That Grant Morrison is a weird looking guy...
Superman:Red Son (Score:3)
Currently Millar is working on the ultraviolent Authority & Ultimate X-Men. That's a pretty elaborate April Fool.
The gift that keeps on giving (Score:1)
Hopefully the editors will add updates to the front pages of each of these stories once they get stale, stating that they are AF gags. That way people using /. as a reference won't be fooled in, say, September, when they aren't expecting it.
What am I saying? This is /. after all.... Who in their right mind will use it for reference ? :-)
squant (Score:1)
Truth is as strange as fiction, just with a less whimsical name?
/. doesn't do comedy - on purpose, that is (Score:5)
Forcing comedy is like the government issuing an edict: "This material is intended to be funny. Under section 314(d) of the Lighthearted Material Act, under penalty of imprisonment, you are now required to laugh."
I will say, though, I enjoyed the Python/Perl merger. I still think it would be a good idea!!!
Re:Not a joke... (Score:2)
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Re:West of Alaska? (Score:1)
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Re:For X-rist's sake, just stop it !!! (Score:1)
No, not every article. The article about the keystroke capturing dongle was actually not an April Fools prank. There really are [slashdot.org] devices like this.
That's the problem with having so many April Fools stories. Legitimate stories don't get taken seriously.
CBC interview with Jimmy Carter (Score:1)
Of course, the whole thing was a joke, and Mr Carter's part was played by an actor. It was not really very funny. However, this little bit slipped past BOTH of Canada's national newspapers, and they reported it as real front-page news this Monday morning.
Now, THAT'S the mark of a successful April Fool's joke.
I don't seem to be able to load the Globe's article [theglobeandmail.com] from their website [theglobeandmail.com], but I am not sure why.
It seems to have disappeared from their website while I was typing up this comment. Hmmm...
Better than this? (Score:1)
Anything Slashdot didn't do yesterday. That was god awful.
Not an AF, but it's too good not to spread... (Score:1)
This is an extract from a book called Apollo, The Race to the Moon which I'm currently reading
Chris Kraft's console in the Mercury Control Center included a screen showing a live television shot of the launch pad. During simulations, the Redstone or Atlas of course just sat there but the camera was nontheless always turned on. One day a controller names John Hatcher substituted a tape of a launch for the live picture. Hatcher synchronized the tape with the simulated countdown and waited for the moment of the pretend launch. As always during Mercury, Chris Kraft was the flight director. At T-0, as Kraft pushed the lever that started the clocks, the Redstone on the screen belched smoke and fire and lifted of the pad.
The lever wasn't connected to anything that could have conceivably have launched a rocket but the sight was too compellingly realistic to be discounted. "Look at that!" Kraft yelled in dismay to Kranz, who was sitting beside him at the assistant flight directors console. "Did you see that?!" Kraft cried again, pointing insistently at the screen.
I had enough =) (Score:3)
Re:Not a joke... (Score:1)
Re:Tobacco Industry April Fools (Score:1)
Re:What filthy rich people do... (Score:2)
Okay, maybe that was a bit over the top, but you get my drift. Socialism doesn't work! It devolves into statism. Read Hegel, pay attention! Try real democratic capitalism.
Reaching beyond the bounds of Earth, however, is a worthy endeavor, not at all to be confused with subsidizing a couple dozen people with more money than sense per trip across the Atlantic supersonic, mainly for the glamour / cachet of merely having done it, a few thousand times (less the unfortunate losses). Bunch of self-important rich assholes, that's all. Exploring space is a very worthwhile endeavor, though. We can have no higher ambition than to get off this little rock eventually, if we're really going to survive long term. Explore and grow, or die. That's the imperative for intelligent species, which we may be approaching. The jury's still out, but I have to hope we're worthy.
And the Moon missions were the highlight of our many thousands of years of evolution. It is tawdry and tragic that they were cut short by a stupid little losing war (Vietnam costs killed NASA's funding). That a space program still exists at all is simply a reflection that scientists still have some voice in politics, and that some politicians are not the dolts we assume (and are right about, mostly). It is an imperative that we continue to expolore, and to question. The alternative is stagnation and a host of concomitant evils you can barely imagine. You won't want to live on an Earth that gave up on exploring science, and space. That's the threatened Armageddon, last days, everyone dies!
I reject your major views, in the strongest terms. If we have no surplus for science, for space exploration, then we are just animals, and we will die and fade away, forever.
I Overheard this One (Score:5)
"Mmm hmm..."
"Well, I sort of stopped taking the pill a few weeks ago."
"<Stammer>"
Unfortunately the train arrived at my stop and I couldn't stay to hear whether she was messing with him or not.
AFJ (Score:4)
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Worst ever (Score:1)
802.1D (Score:2)
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My joke for the year (Score:2)
I then walked out of the bathroom yelling, "Heather, I think it went in too far!"
She was not amused...
Rader
Re:Tobacco Industry April Fools (Score:1)
Re:This year's 4/1 jokes suffered terribly.. (Score:2)
IP over Avian Carriers?
TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option?
The Naming of Hosts?
And the rest aren't any less obvious. No, you're just nostalgic... or you didn't look in the right places. I thought E2's was pretty cute, and I had fun with TinyTIM's (although there was some animosity that could have been prevented).
Recursive april fools joke.. (Score:5)
It includes a excellent Russioan one where a news program reported that the government was to make April the 1st a National holiday to reduce inefficiences resulting from dealing with April Fools jokes. The story was, of course, a Joke.
EZ
totl.net on the honor system (Score:1)
That one had me worried for a while.
Filtered April Fools Email... (Score:4)
We filtered all of his incoming email through a redneck filter we wrote in Perl. That is we translated all of his incoming mail from english to redneck english (ie 'computer' becomes 'new-fangled-computatin device' etc...)
What we did was write a little perl script that contained about 30 substitutions from english to redneck. We then wrote a
Star Wars April Fools (Score:2)
Oh, also, Lucas announced that he WILL make episodes 7, 8, and 9. CNN has the story [209.142.3.23]. Like a friend of mine found out, you should probably read ALL of this article before you start celebrating.
Re:What about gaim's April Fool's joke?? (Score:1)
It's funny, the jokes about AOL accquiring things (like DalNet one or GAIM) are the ones that sound the most plausible. I'm not sure if it's because even mentioning AOL kills brain cells (aka it infects my brain to make it like an AOL user), or if it's because it's so easy to see AOL/Time Warner accquiring things left and right.
Re:Not a joke... (Score:2)
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ThinkGeek? (Score:1)
Re:Tobacco Industry April Fools (Score:2)
Teeheehee Oops!
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Re:I had enough =) (Score:1)
I had to remove that sig, though, because of an AC who likes going around un-obfuscating people's addresses and posting them repeatedly. And once your e-mail address is out in the wild, there's no getting it back.
So beware.
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Obfuscated e-mail addresses won't stop sadistic 12-year-old ACs.
Re:Not a joke... (Score:1)
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Burning Fiber (Score:1)
The Best workplace prank I've seen (Score:1)
Then he set it up with ACDSEE I believe with another image that just stated: April Fools! and set the images to repeat every 30 seconds or so. WuG was still monitoring in the background so he didn't jepordize any services or anything. If an Alarm went off it would have been taken care of.
Anyway the CEO was walking one of his suit friends around the office around 8:30 that morning, giving his usual drawl, "And around this corner we have our Network Monitoring Machine. As you will see if everything is red we have a major issue...." At that point he walked around the corner and nearly died, until the screen changed to April Fools. Someone still had to explain to him that at no time was the network actually fully down. That the person who set up the prank didn't down the whole network just to get the image etc..
Runestar
Re:I like the one (Score:1)
Re:/. doesn't do comedy - on purpose, that is (Score:2)
The two best jokes I've seen on the net this year were the color Squant (I even fell for it, albiet with a lot of questions in my head), and The Register [theregister.co.uk]'s announcement of a $20 million advertising deal between them and Micro$oft.
Re:I Overheard this One (Score:2)
Haha, I'd have loved to hear that one. Sorta reminds me of a retouched photo I once saw of a billboard. Imagine a B&W photo of a pretty woman lost in thought, with the following words in the foreground:
Pregnant? For free information and advice, dial 1-800-YER-WHAT?!
Re:squant (Score:2)
That was why I believed it at first. I was just sorta thinking they had given it an official name.
Fake computer club closing down message (Score:2)
Dear YUCC members,
It is my sad duty to tell you that after the 2000-2001 academic year YUCC will cease to exist.
During the past year we have had our share of problems. The venture that the YUCC executives had invested heavily in, spatulaXchange.com, has died a gruesome death at the hand of current economic conditions. Not only that, but several of our executives have become addicted to caffinated meatloaf (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/things/looflirpa/
Likewise, discussions with the computer science department for funding ended when department chair Prof. Jenkins said "You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha ha ha" and faded from our view screen.
What is left of YUCC will be sold to AOL, since they own everything else and we will be auctioning off the patents that we received on hamster-powered computers that is so desperately needed in second world countries such as Elbonia.
On a personal note, I would like to thank everyone for their continued support - especially my agent Brian Eno and the good folks at RedMeat. YUCC will surely live on in each any every one of our hearts.
Sincerely,
Alex Anglin
YUCC President.
Yesterday... (Score:2)
I had planeed this out since mid-February and only a few other people (most not associated with the site) knew about it. I think it's pretty funny given the current dot-com climate.
OS X Springboard module (Score:2)
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Re:Not a joke... (Score:1)
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Re:Not a joke... (Score:1)
Because, believe it or not, tax dollars actually come back to citizens in the form of services. The more socialist the system, the better off the poor are, and the worse off the rich.
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planetquake (Score:2)
Overdose of humor (Score:1)
I bet my next month's paycheck, that everybody in Alaska appreciated the extra dose of humor. :)
Riiiggghhhhht.
West of Alaska? (Score:2)
What in the hell is west of Alaska???
Sadly, this thinking is so true to some here in the US...
Except... (Score:2)
Rich
Re:Not a joke... (Score:2)
Rich
Re:Perhaps we need... (Score:2)
Rich
Re:Perhaps we need... (Score:2)
Rich
Re:Perhaps we need... (Score:2)
As the above poster said, there is already a ubiquitous global time, UTC which is pretty much the same as GMT. Why would you need anything else? The French tried to introduce metric time after their revolution and it failed.
Two things I would like to see change in the time systems we use though. 1)Daylight Savings. If you want an extra hour of sunlight in the evenings, just get up an hour earlier and 2)Lose the AM/PM thing. military time makes much more sense.
Rich
Re:Not a joke... (Score:2)
Rich
Re:Not a joke... (Score:2)
Rich
NPR claims ads on the Moon (Score:2)
http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2001/01
Basically, Weekend All Things Considered ran this story about a company called LunarCorp projecting ads on the moon with a laser. Except LunarCorp is the former name of a GE bone density company, and *no one* else had the story.
Steve Jackson Games (Score:2)
It's clever, because people think of claims, not denials, as being the usual April Fools day fodder.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Not a joke... (Score:3)
It wasn't!
NT does have some usefulness (April Fool's Tale) (Score:4)
I did this one last year.
I was working at a large company in their web development group. They had a small server farm that the web group used for testing new stuff and for new development. I was not really in charge of the farm, but people would always come and bug me when they needed help with it. The servers were almost entirely NT.
SysInternals [sysinternals.com] has this really spiffy NT screensaver that looks like the WinNT BSOD, along with a fake reboot, which will then go into a fake disk check, which finds fake errors, and repeats. So, the night before, I wrote a little script that made the BSOD screensaver the default on all of the servers.
The next morning, people kept coming to my cube and...
PERSON: All the servers crashed!!!!
ME: Really? (clickity clickity) I can still ping them. Are you sure they're dead?
PERSON: They look dead. I'll go look again.
Minutes later...
PERSON: Really! All of them! BSOD!
ME: ROFL
I caught 3 different people that morning.
Re:Not a joke... (Score:2)
(1) Busses. If you can find a free parking space in town, it's a damn sight cheaper to use your car. It costs me £1.20 for a 10-minute bus journey, which isn't exactly an incentive.
(2) Trains. As a single national network, they could plan nationally. Split into multiple companies running different sections of railway, and yet another company responsible for maintaining tracks, the result is chaos. And when anything does go wrong, they just play "pass-the-blame" around the various companies instead of actually fixing it.
(3) Telecoms. Instead of providing a service to the ppl of the UK, BT (the national carrier) charges way over the odds, and is busy screwing all the country's ISPs as hard as it can. This has gone to the extent that the government regulator is having to step in and tell BT what to do. As an example, BT is doing its level best to stop anyone installing ADSL, simply bcos it's got a monopoly on ISDN lines. If it needs the government to tell them what to do, why not have the government running it in the first place and cut out the middle-man?
The only reasons private enterprise can work better than publicly-funded government departments is (a) where there are economies of scale, and (b) where the expertise is seriously esoteric. When the government itself has the economy of scale (as it often does), there's no point contracting out; and when the expertise required is merely that of running a business effectively (as with the railways), there's no skills required which any manager anywhere couldn't do. I'll grant you, government departments may be inefficient, but that's just due to poor management and the "corporate style", not to any inherent feature of the job, so all they need is training on how to do it properly. Long-term, training is always cheaper than getting "hired guns".
Grab.
April 1st? Not everywhere (Score:3)
Re:For X-rist's sake, just stop it !!! (Score:2)
UserFriendly had a hilarious gag (Score:2)
Not everyone has a sense of Humour (Score:3)
Basically the banks web site was going to have an online ATM that printed money, so that really lazy people didn't have to go to the hole in the wall.
Money coming out of your printer .... I wonder how many people would have tried it - I know I would have :-)
A bad one (Score:2)
Re:What filthy rich people do... (Score:2)
Because one Concorde had a fatal accident (because a part fell of a crappy old DC-10 onto the runway), does not make it a wreck!
We Brits are proud to have a hand in the only Supersonic passenger airline, and the day they stop Concorde we may as well shut up the Commonwealth and elect a president!
Anyway: what was the Pilot wearing when Concorde crashed?
Blazer and flares
Innocent's Day (Score:3)
The definition of "innocent's day" on slashdot should be updated to read:
Innocent's Day: the first time a newcomer clicks on the g0atse link from behind his corporate websweeper proxy"
Doh!!
Re:For X-rist's sake, just stop it !!! (Score:2)
What about gaim's April Fool's joke?? (Score:3)
So is it a joke or not?!?
"Well, your story seems very compelling, Mr. Jackass, I mean, uh, Simpson. So I'll just type it up on my invisible typewriter. Dum dee dum dum." -- Chief Wiggum
Divx lives on (Score:2)
It goes on to say that people will pay $.25 for each download and will only be available on your hard drive for 48 hours, at which point you pay again. I especially like the part where it says that when you sign up, you'll be sent a "coin recognition box" that connects to your USB port, thus requiring you to pay cash: "It even takes Canadian coins."
I had a pretty good chuckle.
Rediff.com (Score:2)
They carried a story which said that there was a new box, which can be put onto your telephone, and which will download all the webpages onto your hard drive, so that you can browse offline. and then it went ahead to say that it uses some kind of latest wireless technology that there is no telephone bill for you ;-)
sadly, the link is gone with time...
Re:This year's 4/1 jokes suffered terribly.. (Score:3)
In addition to being too obvious, they were also a little too prolific. If you tell someone, in quick succession, that there's a spider on their back, aliens have just landed, and Elvis has just come out of hiding, then they aren't going to believe you when you claim something vaguely plausible, such as George W. signing an executive order mandating prayer in school as a means of dealing with school violence.
Besides, as I pointed out in this post [slashdot.org] in the "Slashdot During War?" thread, a number of the "legitimate" AskSlashdot's have been more absurd than the April Fool's Day ones.
Hell, if it weren't for the fact that the "What isn't on the Internet?" question claims "I have *never* not found anything I've searched for" (with a few exceptions), I would've pegged it as a normal, legitimate question (especially given that it got at least one serious, insightful reply here [slashdot.org], talking about the lack of scientific papers that're available. It's just hard to peg a legitimate question with a legitimate answer as an April Fool's joke.
Re:Not a joke... (Score:2)
A cooked and still warm BBQ chook is taxable under the GST, an cooked but now cold chook is not taxable - at what temperature does the chook become cold?
I think you may have this wrong, the cooked whole chook is GST free, the cooked chook that they cut in half for you is subject to GST
Interestingly frozen fried rice is GST free as it is not considered a complete meal.
Re:West of Alaska? (Score:2)
What in the hell is west of Alaska???
Technically, part of the Aleutian Island chain (which belongs to Alaska) crosses over 180degrees and is, therefore, in the eastern hemisphere. This oddity of geography actually makes Alaska both the easternmost and westernmost of the United States.
Re:NPR claims ads on the Moon (Score:2)
Re:Not a joke... (Score:2)
Yup same here in Australia. When they were planning the introduction of the GST here there was a huge arguement about exactly when a BBQ Chicken is taxable and when it is not.
A cooked and still warm BBQ chook is taxable under the GST, an cooked but now cold chook is not taxable - at what temperature does the chook become cold?
I don't think anyone actually knows...
[a detailed list of which foods are taxed and which aren't under the GST can be found here [ato.gov.au]]
Campaign Finance Reform -elaborate prank on McCain (Score:4)
This morning as Senators assembled in the chamber, somebody yelled out "April Fools!" and John McCain burst into tears. He knew at once what had happened. A vast conspiracy of 100 senators and 400+ house members worked dilligently to keep him in the dark, all the while adding amendments to ensure the bill's unconstitutionality (i.e. harmlessness).
The full story can be found here. [ridiculopathy.com]
Tobacco Industry April Fools (Score:5)
Game Company Signs Licensing Agreement with D.O.D. (Score:2)
http://www.cnn.com@sci-tech@3630071112/new_010401/ alert/breaking_news.html [3630071112]
OK, yes, I'm related to this one ...
Re:Not a joke... (Score:2)
Yeah, that's what the rich are always saying.
Strange, then, how in most northern European countries people live longer and report themselves to be happier than in the US and other less compassionate places.
The fact is, corporations with large advertising budgets spend an awful lot of money figuring out how to effectively manipulate people into spending their money on crap they don't need. If I had to choose between the "freedom" to buy 15% more crap, or safe streets and guaranteed health care, well, you can have my crap.
Re:Tobacco Industry April Fools (Score:2)
I had been a smoker for 7 years and had thought about quiting before, but I just never put forth the effort.
Then Truth started their ad blitz. While it didn't really give me more information, the constant bombardment of ads made me think about the negatives more than I had previously.
The result: Been smoke free for almost a year now..
stop your bitching (Score:4)
Aside from the typical Slashdotter, or other geek for that matter, I've managed to fool many people into thinking these some of the things were real.
So slashdot went a little overboard for one day... So what?! Its one day out of the year where anyone can be silly just as you were when you were a kid telling someone his shoe was untied then yelling APRIL FOOLS! Get a grip and stop bitching if April fools pranks offended you, its one day out of the year, and no one was hurt by it. (well maybe someone precious ego)
April Fool's hack (Score:2)
FuckedCompany.com [fuckedcompany.com] getting hacked by idealab! [fuckedcompany.com] employees angry at the beating and ridicule their company has taken on Fucked Company's news and message boards.
Classic!
Re:West of Alaska? (Score:2)
What people don't realize is it's also the most southernmost state because scientists have discovered the Aleutian chain goes under the earth's crust, popping out again just south of South America, all the way down to the edge of Antarctica.
For X-rist's sake, just stop it !!! (Score:5)
epic4-1.0 (Score:2)
Oldie but goodie (Score:2)
And it seems Sun [sun.com] has a sense of humour (and the budget) to pull stuff like "This year the wall between Scott and Bernie's office was removed to make a lovely 15 yard dog leg right golf hole. Complete with elevated tee and green. The green is protected by two sand traps and yes there is a small pond. It is completely turfed and a golf cart sits out front with a bumper sticker reading. "Honk if you are a Sun VP". (More here [2meta.com].)