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I Pity The April Fool!

Posted by emmett on from the we're-done-we-promise dept.

Well, we hope you had a good April Fool's here at Slashdot; we're done with weird translations for the day. It's been an interesting day online, from Andrew Leonard's Salon piece to the Google MentalPlex to the l33t.freshmeat.net post over at Freshmeat, and of course, the Advogato joke on Andover. Also check out the 'Windows Games' post on Linux Games. Special thanks to Rinkworks and Babelfish for translations. Personally, my favorite April Fool's site on the entire web can be found here. Oh, you mean it's not? Oh, dear...

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  1. Re:The Salon piece... by Mike+Schiraldi · · Score: 3
    Oh, and Freshmeat has at least two other April Fools stories:

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  2. The Salon piece... by Mike+Schiraldi · · Score: 3

    ...can be found here. There are a bunch of other cool pieces there, too.
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  3. You've all been fooled!! by Pinball+Wizard · · Score: 3
    OK, I'm not sure if anyone has properly analysed this yet, and I'm sorry if I spoil anyone's fun but...

    #1. Read the story at advogato if you haven't already.

    #2. Cordwainer Byrd from the "law firm" representing Andover has an email address from bbmma.com. A simple check at Network Solutions reveals the domain name is still available.

    #3. The patent #'s in question(45,487,338,209 and 46,773,228,287) looked a little suspect to me so I checked them out at the patent office. Nope, no patents.

    #4. It gets better. PR Newswire"(whoever they are, their website only has an IP address, not a qualified domain name) refers to a different patent, #5,876,324. I won't spoil this part for you. Just follow the link.

    Happy april fools day! Good one, slashdot & advogato. I for one am glad there's a day where you can take things not so seriously.

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  4. duck and cover by br4dh4x0r · · Score: 5

    Okay, don't take this the wrong way, Slashdot crew...

    I'm sure you're all very intelligent and quite accomplished... but...

    You might want to look into using some of the Andover money to buy a sense of humor. :)

    love,
    br4dh4x0r