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Geeky April Fools' Day Prank Roundup

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the joy-from-other's-anguish dept.

An anonymous reader writes "April 1st is the ultimate holiday for a geek — a little hands-on DIY, a little hacking and a lot of sub-par humor. Popular Mechanics and Instructables have teamed up for five pranks you can build in the office (including a stripped-down version of Gizmodo's CES TV blackout), while Wired has its top 10 practical jokes for nerds, Lifehacker is toning it down with 10 harmless geek pranks, and Slate gets you ready for the receiving end with an April Fools' defense kit. What's your best prank?" Be safe, head for the bunker on 4/1 and just assume everything you hear is a lie. Everything.

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  1. and if past experience tells me anything by night_flyer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Slashdot wont be worth coming to tomorrow... see you all on the 2nd...

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    1. Re:and if past experience tells me anything by Oktober+Sunset · · Score: 2, Insightful

      like most april fools jokes then.

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    2. Re:and if past experience tells me anything by Duradin · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's one thing when printed media does April Fools content as the date is pretty obvious afterwards. Now the internet, with all those content aggregators, diggs, duggs, slashdots and other assorted content recyclers you can lose that important bit of date information. So for as long as that AF content is on the web it is sitting there quite happily spewing out bad information which may no longer have April 1st, XXXX attached to it. In honor of this, April Fools should be upgraded to a week at least, or better a month or two to give the system time to weed out all of the useless content.

  2. CANNOT EMPHESIZE ENOUGH by superwiz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Slashdot needs a "spam" moderation category. These posts are becoming more frequent and pretty soon "off-topic" won't do it -- there won't be enough moderators with mod points to kill these off.

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  3. Re:For you EE people by calebt3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not light-sensetive, but still useful:
    http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/

  4. Re:Best prank by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But, surely the math geeks figured out they were base-2 pigs, right? Obviously not a math geek are you? Otherwise, you'd realize that in order to have a 4, you'd have to be at least Base-5.
  5. It's too late! by grcumb · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Slashdot wont be worth coming to tomorrow... see you all on the 2nd...

    Poor silly mortal. Have you forgotten the International Date Line? April Fools is already here!

    Stories emerging from the other side of the planet:

    A NEW Google program powered by artificial intelligence allows internet users to search web pages 24 hours before they're created, the company said today.

    Yahoo! Confirms MS Merger, Name Change

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  6. Re:Everything? by popmaker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Haha, just sleep in... then tell everyone that someone played a practical joke on you tweaking your alarm clock.