{"id":334,"date":"2006-04-01T17:51:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T22:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=334"},"modified":"2006-04-01T18:14:26","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T23:14:26","slug":"that-crazy-first-of-april-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/04\/01\/that-crazy-first-of-april-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"That crazy first of April thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/113442414\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/49\/113442414_b644e31fcc_m.jpg?resize=240%2C240\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Hallucinogenic horn\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSadly, <a href=\"http:\/\/unhinderedbytalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/04\/01\/it-is-done\/\">the post about Turq<\/a> was no April Fool&#8217;s, but there&#8217;s plenty of fine frivolity out there on the net for those so inclined.  A few nifty ones that we&#8217;ve run across so far include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google&#8217;s spiffy new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/romance\/\">&#8220;Google Romance&#8221; search engine<\/a>, which manages to be a pretty hilarious spoof of both people&#8217;s reliance on search engines and the whole (and, IMHO, strange) idea of on-line dating.  Credit to <a href=\"http:\/\/unhinderedbytalent.com\/WeatherGirl\/archives\/2006\/04\/01\/googlecom-is-having-way-to-much-fun-today\/\">WeatherGirl<\/a> for finding this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a> has gone all pink and unicorn-y.  Really.  We can only hope there will never again be quite such a high density of &#8220;OMG&#8221;s and exclamation marks on their site in the near future.<\/li>\n<li>In the much more subtle realm, those crazy kids at <a href=\"http:\/\/flagrantdisregard.com\/\">Flagrant Disregard<\/a> have tweaked their nifty <a href=\"http:\/\/flagrantdisregard.com\/flickr\/scout.php\">Flickr Scout<\/a> (one of their <a href=\"http:\/\/flagrantdisregard.com\/flickr\/\">excellent set of image toys<\/a>) so that it reports that <em>every<\/em> one of your photos that&#8217;s made to Flickr&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/explore\/\">Explore<\/a> page is actually in the #1 spot!  Go <a href=\"http:\/\/flagrantdisregard.com\/flickr\/scout.php?username=Unhindered+by+Talent&#038;sort=date&#038;year=0\">here<\/a> to see a few of my shots at a <em>vastly<\/em> higher spot than they&#8217;re likely to ever see in real life.  Credit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/montanaraven\/121431798\/\">Montana Raven<\/a> for pointing this one out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You might want to check these out while you still can &#8211; I&#8217;m sure some sort of normalcy will likely return tomorrow&#8230;  And I&#8217;m sure there are vast hordes of this kind of craziness out on that amazing IntarWeb, so keep an eye peeled.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, the post about Turq was no April Fool&#8217;s, but there&#8217;s plenty of fine frivolity out there on the net for those so inclined. A few nifty ones that we&#8217;ve run across so far include: Google&#8217;s spiffy new &#8220;Google Romance&#8221; search engine, which manages to be a pretty hilarious spoof of both people&#8217;s reliance on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/04\/01\/that-crazy-first-of-april-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That crazy first of April thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[11,1,14],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-5o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":913,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2009\/01\/22\/obama-opens-up-whitehousegov-to-search-engines\/","url_meta":{"origin":334,"position":0},"title":"Obama opens up WhiteHouse.gov to search engines","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"22 Jan 09","format":false,"excerpt":"Obama is opening up WhiteHouse.gov to search engines, where the Bush administration has large chunks of it blocked off.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":368,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/08\/08\/the-scary-power-of-search-logs\/","url_meta":{"origin":334,"position":1},"title":"The scary power of search logs","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"8 Aug 06","format":false,"excerpt":"My experience is that it's often hard to get people excited about things like Google's highly detailed records of what you've been searching for (e.g., check out \"Verbatim: Search firms surveyed on privacy\" for a survey of what four major search engines collect, \"FAQ: When Google is not your friend\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":101,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/03\/31\/wordpress-engaged-in-some-weird-gaming-of-search-engines\/","url_meta":{"origin":334,"position":2},"title":"WordPress.org engaged in some weird gaming of search engines","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"31 Mar 05","format":false,"excerpt":"2 Apr 2005: Matt has posted a very nice response to the concerns and taken all the weird stuff down. 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When I drill down into the search terms, it's clear that lots of people\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Events&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Feather, braids, and beads","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/226\/453870727_d2e53b7f40.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1653,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2013\/03\/18\/why-learn-understand-when-you-can-search\/","url_meta":{"origin":334,"position":4},"title":"Why learn &#038; understand when you can search?","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"18 Mar 13","format":false,"excerpt":"A recently and widely (in my nerd circles) shared XKCD comic featured ineffective sorting techniques. 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