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April Fools Wrap Up

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the its-been-a-fun-day dept.

Thanks for the usual April Fools Day flame- every year people fall for it. It never ceases to amaze me how angry and venomous, yet utterly clueless a few people can be despite the blatant obviousness of the joke. Lastly, jfengel sent us the annual April Fools RFC: RFC3251 describes "Electricity over IP" and RFC3252 on "Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport" reformulates IP to work over XML."

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  1. Be glad there is no story moderation by donutello · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Otherwise all of CmdrTaco's stories would be at -1 after today from his karma being beaten to the ground for all the troll stories that were posted today.

    Interestingly, I noticed one story (about the retiring carrier pigeons) that was a true story posted today. Any others?

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  2. Re:Taco, you're an ass. by ralian · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hrm. I personally really liked the time they posted the stories in all sorts of Dialectizer-ed dialects. Although the best would be to redirect slashdot.org to Suckdot. :)

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  3. I have to mention ... by fm6 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    My favorite April Fool's media prank occurred back in 1988. NPR solemnly announced that the Reagan administration had found a very creative way to balance the federal budget: Arizona had been sold to Canada.

    Not just a brief item either. They did a whole half-hour segment on the "news", including interviews with Reagan administration staffers (not actors or impressionists, real staffers who were in on the joke) and with "acting provincial Governor-General" Bruce Babbitt. Really over the top stuff. I've always wondered why it never raised more of a fuss than it did.

  4. Anyone remember the first year? by CMiYC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does anyone remember the first year all of the major geek-sites got together for a April Fool's joke? I barely remember what happened (AKA: This account maybe somewhat off from what really happened). I think Segfault annouced that Microsoft was bascially shutting them down through legal action. So Freshmeat (I think) and Slashdot played along. I couldn't believe it, because they pratically fooled everyone. They lead up to it over the course of a week or so. Quite funny and original.

  5. The problem with today's theme... by gilroy · · Score: 4, Interesting
    is actually manifold but can be summed up as
    • The more like a legitimate news site you try to make slashdot, the less valid -- and less funny -- randomly placed, intentionally wrong stories are
    • A lot of awfully weird crap is happening these days -- ASCII Quake, free-form case mods, CBDTPA -- and it's getting harder to tell what's been made up
    • People subscribe to slashdot and expect some return, not a lost day
    • Not everyone has the time or inclination to go slogging through an entire day's worth of fakery to see if there's a nugget of truth anywhere
    • As Josh Lyman might put it, you forgot to bring the funny... the "humor" simply wasn't humorous, for most of the "articles". Of course, YMMV -- but don't tweak people in an area as subjective as humor and then be angry if people flame you

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