That crazy first of April thing
Sadly, the post about Turq was no April Fool’s, but there’s plenty of fine frivolity out there on the net for those so inclined. A few nifty ones that we’ve run across so far include:
- Google’s spiffy new “Google Romance” search engine, which manages to be a pretty hilarious spoof of both people’s reliance on search engines and the whole (and, IMHO, strange) idea of on-line dating. Credit to WeatherGirl for finding this.
- Slashdot has gone all pink and unicorn-y. Really. We can only hope there will never again be quite such a high density of “OMG”s and exclamation marks on their site in the near future.
- In the much more subtle realm, those crazy kids at Flagrant Disregard have tweaked their nifty Flickr Scout (one of their excellent set of image toys) so that it reports that every one of your photos that’s made to Flickr’s Explore page is actually in the #1 spot! Go here to see a few of my shots at a vastly higher spot than they’re likely to ever see in real life. Credit to Montana Raven for pointing this one out.
You might want to check these out while you still can - I’m sure some sort of normalcy will likely return tomorrow… And I’m sure there are vast hordes of this kind of craziness out on that amazing IntarWeb, so keep an eye peeled.
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April 3rd, 2006 at 15:08
One of our technical gurus sent round a note about a ‘New Coding Initiative’ which started with the usual waffley preamble, and then managed to segue into pointers on how to code PL/X according to Feng Shui concepts.
A small but highly amused audience!
April 4th, 2006 at 07:24
I didn’t have any work related things happen, but Sub-Evil Boy did attempt (somewhat unsuccessfully) to sabatoge his parents’ morning cup of tea. He made a really nice pot while we were still in bed, poured it in mugs, and then stuck them in the fridge so they’d be cold. Unfortunately they weren’t in the fridge long enough and mine, at least, was still drinkably warm. WeatherGirl’s standards are higher and hers had to be redone, I quite enjoyed mine (much to his dismay).
I love the idea of coding according to Feng Shui. Maybe I’ll suggest that to my students this afternoon :-).