April Fool's Day Roundup
It might be a holiday for most of us today, but for tech companies, April Fool's is the day when they work overtime to send weird press releases. So far we have seen Google Maps help users find Waldo, and Google Australia rethink its brand name (to Googz). T-Mobile has revivedthe Sidekick as the world's first smart shoe phone. Google has also added a feature to its file manager app Files Go that detects bad jokes from your phone. Snapchat has finally found a way to make fun of Facebook. Languages learning app Duolingo has launched a range of craft beers. Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has launched a cryptocurrency. Some more here. What's your favorite prank so far today?
Is Facebook pretending they actually don't spy on you for April fools days?
I keep forgetting this day exists.. The day that you can't trust anything you read(well, less so than normal) and a lot of good stuff is lost in the wave of crap.
Still, at least it starts and is over quickly enough.
https://youtu.be/_KpqqAUHcpw
For not wasting my time posting otherwise bad joke summaries of fake stories on the front page today.
Not a big one, but if you're a fan of woodworking - Paul Sellers had a good one
It's fitting that April Fool's and Easter are on the same day. The resurrection has got to be the greatest April Fool's joke ever.
Christianity being an anti-sex death cult is one big joke. And considering the harm that Christians have caused this country - especially the Evangelical kooks - it's a very cruel joke. All based upon a fairy tale.
When everything feels like an especially cruel prank foisted upon you every day, by a population at least partially fooled (or using) the influence of a foreign dictator (Putin), and rabidly supported by a large community of active online trolls - the idea of having 'fun' with that on a special day kind of loses a lot of meaning, doesn't it?
(My Little Bronie) site theme to celebrate the spirit of April Fool's though :)
Captcha was 'stagnant' which slashdot seems to be, this year especially :(
Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has launched a cryptocurrency.
DogeCoin was started a joke, but has a current market cap of $340 Million.
Nope, no sig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_5X6N6DHyk
https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-n...
"As such, starting today, we are officially changing our name back to XBMC.
But we're not stopping there. We've had a good long run being a multi-platform system, but at the end of the day covering six or more platforms has become far too much of a stress. Android support alone taxes our resources in a way no volunteer development team can ever reasonably be expected to handle. And all the other platforms just makes this worse. So, in an executive decision that we believe the entire community will support, we at Team XBMC have decided to fully embrace our roots.
Starting today, we would like to announce that we are exclusively supporting only the Xbox One"
I'm not crazy,I'm actively irresponsible.
Today, all hats are double their normal size.
Pokemon go got a graphical upgrade to 8-bit graphics https://www.pokemon.com/us/pok...
When april fools is on a sunday it moves to the nearest monday. Post this tommorrow.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Nah, sorry, that's too ridiculous even for April 1st.
Like the Guido Faukes Fool posting today, where he takes a load of recent political issues and dresses them up as yet another exposé.
https://order-order.com/2018/0...
If you've been following the UK media (no, not the mainstream one, who tries to hide all this) then you'll start by thinking its true. By the middle you think "surely not", and by the end "it must be a fool".
Trouble is, you could take any of the recent revelations as fool jokes if they'd been announced today.
First time evar
...rife with claims that Donald Trump got elected president.
God, I'm tired...
They're called Time Capsules. And they gave us one free today.
Open it up and you get a different colored one. Open that up and you get a different colored one. Etc., etc.,.....*sigh*.....etc., etc.....
Because everyone loves loot boxes, right?
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
Has a job advertisement for AI programmers to teach their computers to write their headlines.
For the American and British out there yes the 3:10 mark of the Googz video is actually how we speak. And if you don't know what a Maccas is http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Fi...
PornHub is now HornHub
is it?
Corsair on Youtube: Stop GPU abuse. #GPURESCUE
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
After months of wanting a DACA bill he's now on Twitter pretending he doesn't want DACA.
What a kidder! Like we'd really believe he'd just switch positions like that!!
I stole this Sig
Yes very funny.
Magic the Gathering dating service by Channel Fireball is pretty great:
https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/presenting-channelfireball-heart/
Babies in the rollercoaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4mJPDRXyQc
(Maxi cosi & Efteling joke with english subs).
I dropped in there and didn't see any front page or "new" items of absurdity.
Bummed. may not get out of bed until next April 1.
https://app.box.com/WitthoftResume Code: https://github.com/cellocgw
My favorite is Slashdot, for not doing one.
Reddit is quite amusing... all-caps.
My anti-favorite is Minecraft, which is painful to look upon today. Guess I'll have to get some work done.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I am avoiding most news sites today. They're all full of shit, more than the usual.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
The Chinese "Heavenly Palace" space station due to smash into the Earth within the next few hours. The ultimate April fools prank!
I was just about to hit unsubscribe when I saw this in my inbox from Jabra "https://www.jabra.com/jabra-sneakers"
Then I realized what today was...
https://home.cern/about/updates/2018/04/humpty-dumpty-particle-discovered
Royale. Accidentally wonderful game mode!
OMG!!!!
Pornhub.com went to some effort to rebrand today...
I like Howie.
https://www.cnet.com/news/best-april-fools-day-2018-pranks-on-web/
the idiot occupying the office of the president of the united states. password: UNIIONIZE
ProtonMail: Introducing Delete-Everything Verifiably Null Universially Lossy Logarithm Encryption (devnull)
https://protonmail.com/blog/april-2018/
A man told me that today is the anniversary of a famous man, a son of a carpenter, being resurrected 3 days after his death, making his followers speak in tongues, and then joining his father, an invisible man in the sky. I laughed pretty hard at that one, but for some reason he seemed offended...
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
The one where everybody agreed to say that this guy had come back from the dead - but he wasn't a zombie!
And some people STILL believe that it happened!
Ha! That one never gets old.
A Classic!
a friend stocked her child's easter basket with an assortment of oddities, Jiff Muffin Mix, box of Carolina Instant Rice, box of Kleenex, can of hairspray, etc.
OH. So we don't believe yesterday OR today's Slashdot and /or news? It almost has ceased to work as a prank since all "news" seems to be bogus these days.
I"m a fan of C.A.R.L.
Compliance And Regulatory Liaison, from Trading Technologies, available April 1, 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnn94Onovyk
Not sure if these are funny everywhere or just in Milwaukee? https://www.instagram.com/onmi...
i have a flawless record thus far... i've never failed to trick at least one person :-)