Comments on: April Fool’s

By: joejoejoe

joejoejoe — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:55:16 +0000

I’m late to this but WordPress and Textpattern merged to form, “the greatest CMSMS ever, WordPattern.”

It’s a pretty involved joke with it’s own site, http://wordpattern.org/, and quite a bit of supporting shenanigans. Their attention to detail comes through even in their nonsense.

By: Gary Farber

Gary Farber — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 04:23:39 +0000

Here are a couple of the obvious sky-fi related. Watching some of the dimmer bulbs on the right splutter is more amusing, though.

By: Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:21:48 +0000

Don't miss "Selfish Minds."

By: Molly Black

Molly Black — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:29:52 +0000

From The Ferrett: "And speaking of videogames, "Yendi" turned me on to this awesome mushroom-growing kit."

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:21:34 +0000

Radio 4 is replacing its theme tune with a European medley including Sibelius and the theme from Van Der Valk.

By: Ralph Luker

Ralph Luker — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:57:47 +0000

How about Adam Kotsko's dropping his theological studies at Chicago Theological Seminary and entering the Business School at the University of Chicago!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:31:09 +0000

Let’s see… I woke up this morning to the news that Mike Doughty is running for New York State Senate, which was mildly surprising, to say the least. And while it was an odd email, it wasn’t entirely out of tone with Doughty’s other oddness, so I just sort of shrugged…

…and then read about Joss Whedon casting Kate Beckinsale as Wonder Woman. And got my head out of thesishell long enough to think about the date and realize it’s April 1st. ;)

By: Mr. Bill

Mr. Bill — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:03:54 +0000

Pageoneq.com : “Congressman Barney Frank” (first openly gay member of Congress)”Resigns to take of Human Rights commission”..Click on and it’s April Fools.. And a bit of sophistocated humor at The San Diego Union Tribune: http://tinyurl.com/fbh36

Let’s just say that Congressional Canidate Kagoolian, the guy who posted pics of an Istanbul Suburb as Baghdad to show how swimmingly things are going in Iraq dispite a hateful press, gets another shellacking…

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:23:06 +0000

*Apple has introduced a new corporate logo in honour of their 30th birthday.* See here and here.

By: Tim Worstall

Tim Worstall — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:58:57 +0000

The Groan reran part of it’s San Seriffe piece and also has a great one of Chris Martin recording a song for the Tory party.

The rest of it in the UK papers seemed rather tame.

By: foo

foo — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:52:06 +0000

tia and ogged are sekritely dating. it’s hilarious.

[link added – E.]

By: L

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:51:15 +0000

Crooked timber is too high brow to engage in their own April fool’s joke, of course.

By: Eszter

Eszter — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:50:09 +0000

Chuk - I mentioned that in my other post this morning, but if we're going to be systematic, it does make sense to list it here as well.

By: Doormat

Doormat — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 16:52:12 +0000

For those with an interest in computer games, this is priceless.

By: marcel

marcel — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 16:32:52 +0000

Ezter – I am glad to see Crooked Timber taking an implicit stance in this post on what is arguably the most pressing issue of the day: The War on April Fool’s Day. I have been unable to get any other blog to take a position, one way or the other. Even the pastafarians, it seems, could carve a better backbone for themselves from a plate of overcooked spaghetti.