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Cthulhu the Musical, Tentacular, Tentacular!
Tyler Too writes "Beware, mortals: Cthulhu has returned, and he's armed with bacon and an unhealthy obsession with geek brains. It's a really bizarre and hilarious choose-your-own-adventure saga starring the Great Old One himself, Sergey Brin, Anonymous, David Pogue, and non-Euclidian tacos with bacon."
Taste our new non-euclidean tacos with bacon. It's good enough for Cthulhu!
Bacon
Simply put .... I cant take it anymore. Bring on April 2nd ..... please .... pretty pretty, please!
Thou shalt not take the name of THE CTHULHU, THY SQUID in vain!
Your heads shall be eaten last for this!
Ia Ia Etc.
Seriously folks, this is a slashdot tradition here! It may not be a good tradition, but many traditions aren't. The admins here have been doing this for over ten years, if the whining didn't work in the 90's, it sure as hell ain't gonna get you anywhere now, so STFU and come back tomorrow!
Why settle for the lesser evil?
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
The best /. April Fool's stories are the ones that are actual links to other sites doing actual funny things for April 1st.
And this one is pretty funny if I do say so myself, but then again I ate too many non-Euclidean Tacos with Bacon and, after meeting the Tentacular one himself, well, ended up like this: "You have a powerful temptation to make Linux your primary operating system and start coding in emacs. So this is madness..."
Apparently meaning that I was already mad/i..
The enemies of Democracy are
Everybody knows Alcohol knocks them out, the fool!
Seriously, I usually end up dead in these "chose your own adventure" stories. I totally kicked ass this time.
Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller
As Lovecraftian musicals go I prefer Shoggoth on the Roof, a Lovecraftian version of Fiddle on the Roof. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaJckcCZtBQ is the opening song (they can all be found on Youtube).
This is pretty good as Lovecraft fan fiction goes. I'm reminded of a very short piece I wrote a long time ago:
http://www.everything2.com/title/Ye+Old+Lovecraftian+Bake+Shoppe
Although this thread is mostly offtopic, I feel compeled to comment here. Lovecraft in his writings clearly had an dislike of certain cultures, blaming them for the degridation of our nation. Sadly, he did make some accurate observations. The slums that he wrote of had seen decline from those immigrants just as our neighborhoods see the negative effects from influx of other cultures. We are quick to rightly point out the evils of the ganster lifestyle and the "gimme" attitude.
However, in reality that is the depraved nature of men - all men. We see the faults in others when we don't acknowledge our own fallen nature. A lot of our fiction, including the Cthulu mythos, seeks to create some moster or force that we can blame for the evil around us. In truth, the evil is in us. Unless we deal with that truth, we are doomed to invent and run from these fantasy villians.
That being said, this story contains tacos, and non-euclidian ones at that! Hmm... All this time I thought that Taco Bell forgot half my order. It turns out, that it just fell into another deminsion.
There are 10 commandments: 01)Thou shalt love the Lord Thy God 10)Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.Matt22:34-40
Not bad actually. Your eventual choices are:
a) go mad and get eaten
b) run away and spend the rest of your life haunted by what your saw
Pretty Lovecraftian. But I will never look at Hulu the same way again.
No good deed goes unpunished. - Avon, Blake's 7