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Wikipedia Covers April Fool's Hoaxes
vladd_rom writes "Wikipedia maintains an up to date list with April Fools hoaxes from this year. The list already includes hundreds of entries. Among the most popular, one could find Google Romance, a new Google.com project, Google Browser, as well as Yahoo!'s desire to buy all Web 2.0 companies on the web. However, it seems that this year hoaxes will be more interconnected: the wiki page already includes some websites that announced that they have been bought by Yahoo!, and linked to Yahoo!'s blog post from their pages."
Finally, back to the old green color... more comfortable.
Chuck Norris rides horses, not ponies. He kicked slashdot so hard that it turned green.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
You mean Yahoo didn't take over the world? I feel somewhat cheated.
Where'd my pink ponies go ?!?
I think that "pink ponies" is perhaps the most annoying april fool's joke I have seen on the net so far...
And by the way, I posted this already
Do not follow the links! It's a Hoax and my anti-virus went crazy when I clicked the links!
Get worse every year and get taken to far to the point where the site is unuable for a day. Have one good joke and thats it, don't screw up the user experience.
"Go into the hall of mirrors and have a bloody hard look at yourself" - HG Nelson
aka hoax 2.0
Is the color scheme still pink, or did we switch back to the green? I shouldn't have clawed my eyes out...
At least my typing skills are still omysvl//////
Pink Pony CSS
They used their normal Google logo, instead of one that highlighted the season or some current event (like basketballs, snowflakes, 4 leaf clovers on St. Patty's day, olympic rings).
"But remember, most lynch mobs aren't this nice." (H.Simpson)
-- Joe
The best April foold's DAy joke that Slashdot ever covered was the .
Wikipedia even talks about the evil bit. I hope Slashdot remembered to set the evil bit to on before posting their Pink style sheets. CSS now means Crippling Stye Sheets.
Oh You POS
totally agree
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I used to love April Fools hoaxes, but it's become lame. Attention! A HOAX IS NOT FUNNY WHEN EVERYBODY KNOWS IN ADVANCE IT'S A HOAX!!!! If you want to do an April Fool hoax, make at least a token effort to suprise your audience. Like this email, which got delivered to every employee of a certain large hitech company this morning:
I immediately fired back a letter pointing out that it would be more efficient to simply fire employees with non-unique names. Of course, I didn't remind them that I have a long, unusual name...3. What is Soulmate Search?
Here on the Google Romance team, we follow the philosophy "Don't be medieval," so we brought only the latest psychographic and search algorithms to bear on the problem of hooking up our users. First you fill out an extensive personal profile carefully designed by a team of both married and single Google engineers for the express purpose of gathering and analyzing romantic information. Then you fill out an equally obscure and elaborate profile describing various attributes of the person with whom you wish to spend the rest of your life and click 'Search Romance.' It's that simple.
Where was that single hoax among the serious articles that sucked you in, until you did the double-take and realise you'd been 'had'? I expected something intelligent from /., something subtle. Instead we got 3000 comments about PONIES.
For shame /.
Slashdot came out of the closet on April 1st
we should give everyone mod points for the whole day.
I'm a Book
On the Bookshelf
Let's face it, anyone who finds themselves personally antagonized by Slashdot's non-serious antics is an addict. CmdrTaco could stomp on your toes and give you a wedgie and you'd still be coming back.
Those of us who do not take Slashdot so seriously, however, shall either be amused or indifferent, and very unlikely irked.
You suffer from the same problems of the Democratic/Republican bases--sure their leaders keep screwing them over, even they're the ones who put them in office, but their unwillingness to vote for someone else is precisely why the voting blocks will always be ignored by those they vote for.
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
with that evil color scheme and having to disable the foolish css after every reload or link I quit my fav pretense of being busy entirely.
Which in fact raised my productivity but looking at the number of comments I feel I wasnt the only one to do so.
What about taking
605413? Yes, it's a prime.
Slashdot headlines were better than the articles attached to them.
It's still April 1st.. Slashdot isn't pink anymore, now a genuine post?! What is happening to slashdot? Noooooooo...
Gentoo Linux - Wouldn't have it any other way. And fuck beta.
Pissant whiner. Go kill yourself.
Wait... so I shouldn't have registered boycottyahoofortakingovertheweb.org? Damnit!
http://www.coderoshi.com/
Reading the above warning will make you sick! Much like reading the OT III of Scientology before you're ready!
AccountKiller
Just noticed this as it occured for this story. When the tags are clearly wrong, it should be possible to vote them negatively. For example, -gay would score down the tag and, hopefully would eventually disappear.
Alas ye olde pinkdot, we barely knew ye. Return unto us hither in a better life, anew.
I laughed out loud when I read that one.
After reading the vitriolic posts on Slashdot today, you'd think someone had pissed in everyone's Wheaties. It's just April Fool's Day. The editors of Slashdot wanted to have some fun. They do a great job of providing geek fodder 365 days a year, and this is the one day of the year they get to goof off. Maybe it could have been done better. Maybe it could have been done worse. Still, I don't really understand why everyone has become so unhinged.
The site is FREE, and unless you're in a really bad domestic situation, nobody is pointing a gun at your head, forcing you to read Slashdot. If the site makes you go into a homicidal rage every April Fool's Day, get stoned, sit in a corner, and don't point your browser at Slashdot for 24 hours. Better yet, come up with some witty responses like Kethinov's, rather than all of this foaming at the mouth, all caps nonsense. Nothing is more ludicrous than reading some mouth-breather's spelling-deprived, syntax-challenged account of how fucked up Slashdot gets on April Fool's Day.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
was getting a little tired of all the pink crap on /. I mean, next time cant ya'll pick a color thats slightly more condusive.
I liked 2 or 3 years ago on slashdot, when they still made slashdot look... normal, and act normal. Ya know, like posting news, to obvious fakes, but still posting news. Last year's dupe on dupe sucked, and the pink ponies was stupid. April Fools should be about hoaxes and practicle jokes, and turning the SITE PINK DOESNT COUNT!@!!!@!23113 OMG PONIE RUSH!
snowulf.com
Let me see if I understand what you are trying to say. You are so addicted to slashdot that you can't skip it for a day? Some of us welcome April 1st. It is quite healthy not to take yourself too seriously for 1 day out of 365.25. I don't like Thanksgiving Day, but you wont see me trying to convince people to cancel the celebration.
...the green got eaten by the weevils from the best BBC april 1st stunt of all time (and possibly one of the best april 1st jokes anywhere of all time).
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
"From the Citadel of Ultimate Darkness, oh Silver Dragin, bring forth to this plane PomyPuff, demonic spawn of cuteness, to do thy will!"
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Fourtunately, for the majority of the web, they still use internet explorer and thus firefox induced breakups will be averted.
i call upon the googods to delist firefox!
Google has registered the domain gbrowser.com.
I continually reloaded /. hoping to see the latest April 1st RFC. I'm somewhat disappointed. ):
What's up with the tagging? Why the need for people to tag all the April 1 stories as "gay".
I appreciate the people who rebutted with "straight" tags, but honestly, how juevenille.
They're stuck in a nasty rut? It's their the rut, we're the ones stuck in it. If you can't handle a little humor on our one humorous holiday you need a new rut my friend.
I always look forward to this day, can't wait till next year.
OK! After reading /. for 12 hours straight, I cant get the OMG, LOL and 111111 out of my head. I suspect many geeks are now having the same problem and these words are going to be introduced into the mainstream geek culture. As such, being a geek is equivalent to having a "Kick me in the nuts" board! Now this 1111111
...OMG! LOL!
Damn you Slashdot !!!
Oh! Shiney
Hey, at least we had a whole day without dupes!
They do a great job of providing geek fodder 365 days a year, and this is the one day of the year they get to goof off.
You must be new here.
Since when was wikipedia "gay, ponies" (tags) ?
That is what you get for running Windows, IE and Norton at the same time =)
Warning: Corny karma killing post above.
Did anyone else see this? http://indieish.com/2006/04/01/boingboing-and-fede rated-media-join-riaa-to-promote-digital-rights-ma nagement/
More than any other site, Slashdot completely ruins itself on April Fools. They post so many garbage stories I usually avoid the site completely April 1st & 2nd. Not so this year, though I wish I would've and might stop slashdotting for few days in protest. While the pink might have been "funny", all the stores that look like they written by a 14 year old girl on MSN really are awful. Not funny, not -gotcha, April Fools!-, just awful.
Let's face it, anyone who finds themselves personally antagonized by Slashdot's non-serious antics is an addict
What about those of us who find ourselves horribly blinded?
Hot pink on white, FFS?
Not too long ago, April 1, 2002 Slashdot pulled the following prank:
Slashdot announced that it would start posting advertiser-sponsored news stories, and disable anonymous posting.
Guess only half of that was true.
I especially love how the whole world gets into the April Fools tradition, from big companies to news organizations to governments.
That sentence probably disappeared due to Wikipedia's NPOV policy, which makes me sad.
The shareholder is always right.
I wish one of these years people would actually take timezones into account. I live in New Zealand, so it's well into the 2nd of April before I start seeing April Fools jokes appearing on slashdot, and because slashcode takes my timezone into account, the stories appear with April 2nd dates on them, making it even harder (okay, not this year cause they were all in pink) to work out which is which.
That's why I run my IE and Norton under Linux.
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Well, that and I can power my deathray from the moron-antimoron energy thus produced .
Pug
An Invisible Entity of Vast Power whose existence must be taken on faith alone: Liberal Media
That should be 365.24.
If people weren't notified right away that their moderation wouldn't count, but, say, a day later this could really work on some people; they'd be moderating all say. ;)
A more elaborate verion of this idea would be to seemingly allow *every* slashdotter to post news which would even show up on the(ir modified local) main page.
And when you gaze long enough into the code, the code will also gaze into you.
For a while, all the front page stories are now tagged as "!gay", perhaps because the number of well-meaning Slashdotters outnumbered the trolls, but having "!gay" is just as effective as "gay" from the trolls' perspective. Slashcode tags need to be updated so that an exclamation point at the beginning of the tag makes it not visible while also performing the expected negation of the incorrect/offensive tag.
Is there an url that will let me see the original april 1 /. article in its original pink?
Speaking of ruts, recycling the same irrelevent comment over and over is not an argument. This is not about handling humor. I'll say it one last time: jokes are fine. Repeating the same joke over and over is extremely tiresome, no matter how good the joke was the first time it was told.
Just to establish the stupidity of your "can't handle humor" mantra: here's my favorite April 1 prank.
Yes? You called me?
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