Comments on: Unintended comedy?

Unintended comedy?

mathowie — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:58:46 -0800

The End of Free has an ad on it now. [actual april fools sightings inside]

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 01:01:10 -0800

Some good ones: The perl guys at CPAN have renamed themselves Matt's Script Archive The Google Weblog is now the Overture Weblog Joi Ito meets the Pope [via a little waxy]

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 01:12:38 -0800

And, for the record, your co-conspirator in Australia spilled some beans.

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 01:21:21 -0800

Also, Chris Pirillo proves unequivocably, that TechTV ruins your vision (at least with IE6).

By: twistedonion

twistedonion — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 01:32:18 -0800

Googlifilter - fantastic job!

By: hama7

hama7 — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 01:45:41 -0800

Holy Smokes! This is great! Can we keep it?

By: antimarx

antimarx — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 02:07:07 -0800

Metafiiiiiiiiiiilter

By: XiBe

XiBe — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 02:17:23 -0800

I can't understant why t.d.n. wouln't bless us with another April Prank this year. Mmmh. Great work on the templates, Matt! =)

By: jeblis

jeblis — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 02:46:58 -0800

For once "I'm feeling lucky" went somewhere interesting.

By: Kino

Kino — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 02:53:36 -0800

fookin brill. still startled. googlification has blew me away. top marks. surreal.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 04:40:32 -0800

Thinkgeek has some fine new products available.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 04:53:58 -0800

So there really is a cabal? That was a great prank. Truly great.

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 05:05:32 -0800

10 out of 10!

By: brand-gnu

brand-gnu — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 05:22:44 -0800

I surrender!

By: mrplab

mrplab — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 05:26:49 -0800

this is fantastic!

By: BigPicnic

BigPicnic — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 05:40:31 -0800

Everyone, stop! It turns out that April Fool's Day is actually french! Please join me in observing April Freedom day instead.

By: twine42

twine42 — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 06:13:08 -0800

Other big news is that the American public are more inteligent than the American Government (even Uncle Cletus and his dancing pigs) and think this whole Anti-French thing is getting bloody old and stupid. And if you want to be picky, the French try to pin paper fish to people, so using black cable ties to tie everyone's phone cords short is still allowed [/tartrazine fuelled rant]

By: PenDevil

PenDevil — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 06:57:00 -0800

Cape Town to be flooded in 30 years. Our papers always pull some prank.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 07:07:43 -0800

BigPicnic, thanks for that link! I don't know how historically accurate that really is, but it's good for a giggle. Poisson d'Avril!

By: JoanArkham

JoanArkham — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 07:18:58 -0800

For some reason the word Metafiiiiiiilter fills me with glee! Thanks Matt!

By: DBAPaul

DBAPaul — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 07:25:15 -0800

Not to leave out my fellow comic geeks, check out Elfquest.

By: jlynford2

jlynford2 — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 07:56:31 -0800

Ahhhh, happiness... the sideblog is still in the original metafilter colors. So soothing a site as I watch co-workers tie each other's shoes together and gleefully fill umbrellas with confetti from the paper shredder.

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 08:16:24 -0800

something awful is quite silly today....

By: verso

verso — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 08:21:06 -0800

If April Fool's day came from France, shouldn't we start calling them Foolish Fries? sorry, I'm off to go get coffee now. in my uncaffeinated state it was funny...

By: photoslob

photoslob — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 08:21:47 -0800

matt, you've made my morning!

By: jann

jann — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 08:41:10 -0800

very nice.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 09:16:15 -0800

Flutterby is fantastic today.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 09:17:30 -0800

Even the Astronomy Photo Of The Day site has gotten into the act.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 09:32:12 -0800

April Fools R Us keeps a list of historic pranks and seasonal foolery. (via presurfer) Matt, thanks for making the day festive here!

By: mattpfeff

mattpfeff — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 09:46:47 -0800

I suspect, overall, that this is another one (but I just can't be sure): The so-called Arseblogger says he got a cease and desist letter from Google, saying that he's violating their "Blogger" trademark. (The guy's playing it straight in his comments section, and the language of the letter quoted does match that of at least one previous such request -- but who knows if Google's corporate counsel really would use identical language in the two cases. (Also, there's no permanent archive for this entry yet, but it should end up here.))

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 09:53:47 -0800

The Top 100 April Fool's Pranks of all time (via k5) my personal favorite is #8. #16 talks about the very first internet-based prank, and thanks to google groups, here it is.

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:13:45 -0800

Metafiiiiiiilter! It sounds like something one says while wearing tights and a cape...

Faster than a usenet flamewar, Able to leap grammatical problems with a single bound, it's a blog, it's a community...it's Metafiiiiiiilter!

I love it. Like some of the others, it fills me with joy.

By: hammurderer

hammurderer — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:39:49 -0800

This is the greatest thing I have ever seen!

By: me3dia

me3dia — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:44:00 -0800

Woohoo!!! MetaGoogle rocks!

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:50:00 -0800

The Top 100 April Fool's Pranks of all time (via k5) posted by mathowie at 9:53 AM PST on April 1 I've been waiting thirty-five web-years to say this: DOUBLE POST, MATHOWIE! (Don't ask me where MY April Fools contribution is... I had a seriously bad-taste warblogger parody in the works, even bought a domain name just for the occasion, but the real world interfered big time, and, boy, does my life suck.)

By: Inkslinger

Inkslinger — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 12:00:18 -0800

something awful is quite silly today.... Of course, it's not the first time (and not nearly as good as their "Page is Too Stupid" fake.) Metoogafille is still my favorite of the day. Nice job, Matt.

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 12:11:25 -0800

And mad props to the annual April Foolish page at ~~BradLands~~ ~~BardLands~~ ~~BrandLands~~ BradyLands! (As usual, the Bradys omitted any mention of The Black Sheep of the Family.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:13:26 -0800

Heh. Check out this new reality series: From the Toronto Star Get out of Jail! Inmate wins freedom in new public television reality show Public TV networks enter fray, seek ratings Concept outrages victim support and legal groups

By: pmurray63

pmurray63 — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 18:52:44 -0800

NPR wasn't sure if they'd be able to squeeze one in this year, with all the big news going on, but they did.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 19:25:38 -0800

OMG! I heard that report on NPR and thought to myself, "Why, that seems odd." But never for a second did I think I was being duped. Even when they were talking about the importance of chronicling Eminem for the ages. Even when they said that it would take until 2089 to log all the audio. Brava, NPR. You gots me.