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Geeky April Fools' Day Prank Roundup
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.
y goal for this letter is to go placidly amid the noise and haste. I shall do this in the only honest way that I can, which is by simply setting forth those principles that I personally believe in and that I personally observe and honor. Those readers of brittle disposition might do well to await a ride on the next emotionally indulgent transport; this one is scheduled nonstop over rocky roads. As soon as you're strapped in I'll announce something to the effect of how most law-abiding citizens disapprove of John McCain's methods. And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to fight scurrility and slander. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that some day, his apolaustic, illogical attendants may ask you why you think it's a good idea to get my message about McCain out to the world. If you're too stunned to answer immediately they'll answer for you, probably stating that the purpose of life is self-gratification. You should therefore be prepared to tell these shameless lumpenproletariats that McCain wants to support those for whom hatred has become a way of life. Personally, I don't want that. Personally, I prefer freedom. If you also prefer freedom then you should be working with me to give him a rhadamanthine warning not to spoil the whole Zen Buddhist New Age mystical rock-worshipping aura of our body chakras.
Not that I ever believed McCain's lies, but at least before they had some kind of internal consistency -- a logic, albeit twisted, that invited refutation. But now, it seems he is desperately flailing about for any pretext, no matter how ludicrous or slight, to drag everything that is truly great into the gutter. McCain plans to squeeze every last drop of blood from our overworked, overtaxed bodies. The result will be an amalgam of rabid interventionism and mawkish absenteeism, if such a monster can be imagined. Might I suggest that he search for a hobby? It seems McCain has entirely too much time on his hands, given how often he tries to destroy our country from within.
McCain takes things out of context, twists them around, and then neglects to provide decent referencing so the reader can check up on him. He also ignores all of the evidence that doesn't support (or in many cases directly contradicts) his position. His apologists are too lazy to let him know, in no uncertain terms, that his conjectures are an evil, slaphappy carnival of voyeurism. They just want to sit back, fasten their mouths on the public teats, and casually forget that what I wrote just a moment ago is not the paranoid rambling of a snarky wacko. It's a fact. The spectrum of views between careerism and snobbism is not a line but a circle at which lackadaisical knuckleheads and the worst sorts of perfidious, rummy jackanapes I've ever seen meet. To properly place McCain somewhere in that spectrum, one needs to realize that there are two classes of people in this world. There are those who stretch credulity beyond the breaking point and there are those who supply the missing ingredient that could stop the worldwide slide into chauvinism. McCain fits neatly into the former category, of course.
Perhaps one day we will live in a world where good people are not troubled by fear of uncivilized flag burners. Until that day arrives, however, we must spread the word that someone has been giving McCain's brain a very thorough washing and now McCain is trying to do the same to us. Most of us who have been around for a while realize that if I am correctly informed, I can't possibly be alone in my view that my contempt for him is boundless. In any case, not only does McCain fuel the censorship-and-intolerance crowd, but he then commands his legatees, "Go, and do thou likewise."
I would like to give you an example of how tendentious McCain can be. McCain has admitted that he intends to kill the messenger and control the message. Okay, that may have been a particularly bald-faced and unsubtle example but McCain fervently believes that scien
Where slashdot is basically useless because they can't help but barrage people with "clever" pranks (well I am sure they think it is clever, in reality it is just pure idiocy)
Why is it news sites insist on posting such unfunny and useless crap as "news stories" every year on April Fools Day?
The phrase "more better" is acceptable English. suck it grammar Nazis
I hope my mod points are good for tomorrow! Its a no-brainer! Everything is +5 Offtopic!!!!
...and it should be known by now