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Posted Apr 1, 2003

If you can read this, you're sitting too close to your monitor. (For those of you arriving late to the party, my homepage was displayed at 50% scale for the whole day.)

In other news on this lovely April 1:
- Google buys Metafilter
- Matt's Script Archive merges with CPAN
- Joi Ito met the Pope
- Tori Amos to play Mary Poppins
- Aaron abandons Google for Overture
- From Slashdot: the Evil Bit RFC, Gentoo switches to RPM, whitespace-only programming language, Distrowatch loves Windows XP, anti-cracker application for PC/Mac, Enlightenment goes gold, new Lord of the Rings movie delayed
- From the Mefi thread: The End of Free gets ads, Chris Pirillo gets blurry, Thinkgeek's new products, DC Comics buys Elfquest, SomethingAwful's boring fetish
- From the K5 thread: WinXPHints
- Word 5.1 for OS X
- Honda's Mecha car salesman
- Minidisc.com gives up on the format
- Dave Matthews fan site changes to John Mayer fan site (is there a meaningful difference?)
- Bradlands goes Brady Bunch
- Inmate wins freedom in new reality show
- Movable Bloggerland
- Phonescoop covers Nokia's rotary cell phone and Samsung's Gollum Phone
- New BBEdit pricing option
- Teevee's brilliant Reality Network
- Digital Web displayed upside-down and backwards

More April 1 updates throughout the day.

9 Comments (Add Yours)

Mar 31, 2003
11:04 PM  
jeremy wrote:

ok... funny, but damn, that was annoying.


Apr 1, 2003
1:39 AM  
Jack wrote:

Thank goodness for the windows magnifier.


Apr 1, 2003
9:45 AM  
jsled wrote:

Or a browser that can enlarge text in 2 keystrokes. Go Moz.

Gotta love 'Whitespace'. Python and Brainfuck combined ... a horrible, horrible trick.


Apr 1, 2003
12:12 PM  
Erica wrote:

News Askew has a new April 1st format: http://www.newsaskew.com


Apr 1, 2003
3:59 PM  
Destiny wrote:

Hey! Y'all missed the news about the new Powerpuff Girls movie...


Apr 1, 2003
4:40 PM  
jburk wrote:

Bill Gates to Lead New Private Mars Effort

A MARSNEWS.COM EXCLUSIVE

April 1st - In a stunning announcement made today, many of the world's leading financial barons will fund a new program of human Mars exploration and will launch a piloted mission by 2010. The group also hopes to claim the entire planet using existing laws,


Apr 1, 2003
9:24 PM  
leonard wrote:

GAIM's April Fool's joke is pretty good.


Apr 4, 2003
9:49 AM  
Waldo Jaquith wrote:

Thanks for the nancies.org link. :) Those that want to see our DMB site as the April Fools' John Mayer site can now see it at http://www.nancies.org/mayer/.


Dec 30, 2003
10:41 PM  
Rob wrote:

There is April fools potential for serious Dave Matthews fans this coming 04/01/04. Right now its just Weekly Davespeak. Available at http://www.weeklydavespeak.com.


 

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Waxy Links
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Regretsy gets a book deal — the anonymous author turned out to be April Winchell, collector of audio oddities
Google Chrome OS Demo — a world without a local filesystem and apps; also, the Chrome UI concept video (via)
Patrick Moberg's Internet Vices — funny, Tumblr feels more like beer than wine to me
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck's "Heaven Can Wait" — Keith Schofield's surreal video and insane treatment were inspired by FFFFOUND and Reddit, but maybe too explicitly (via)
November 19, 2009
YouTube adds machine-translated automatic captions — starting with some partner channels, but auto-timing is available to everyone today
Microsoft tries to patent Edward Tufte's sparklines — they were recently added to Excel
Leonard Lin's Retweet Avatars for Greasemonkey — a subtle change, but a big improvement
Web-ops god John Allspaw leaves Flickr to join Etsy — he's the last of the original Ludicorp team to go (via)
November 18, 2009
Laptop Steering Wheel Desk — don't miss the product photos
Interview with Ralph Eggleston, Pixar's production designer on WALL-E — from last February, but new to me; I didn't know the Axiom had three passenger classes
NSFW: Animated pixel-art video for Flair's "Trucker's Delight" — warning: very offensive and sexist, but the attention to 16-bit detail by director Jérémie Perin is incredible
NY Observer on Anil Dash's new government 2.0 incubator project — Expert Labs debuted at Web 2.0 today, funded with a $500k grant from the MacArthur Foundation
November 17, 2009
Google's Dan Morrill explains how the Droid autofocus breaks every 24.5 days — this gets second-place for quirkiest Android bug (via)
Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter on Zach Galifianakis' Between Two Ferns — his style of comedy usually makes me uncomfortable, but this made me laugh
The Pirate Bay shuts down their tracker for good — they're switching to DHT instead
November 16, 2009
How Darren at Link Machine Go found Belle de Jour's identity five years ago — Brooke was part of the early UK blog scene
ICU64, real-time visualization of Commodore 64 memory — the developer also posted videos of Paradroid and Boulder Dash (via)
Russell Davies on pretending and "barely games" — his SAP prototype looks like great ambient fun (via)
NYT Magazine on the indie gaming movement — nothing new here, but good overview with a wonderful closing anecdote from Cactus
Tim O'Reilly on the pending War for the Web — "more than that, it's a war against the web as an interoperable platform"
November 14, 2009
Jason Scott rounds up Geocities' top 10 most popular MIDI files — along with a torrent with 51,000 MIDIs rescued by Archive Team
Matt Haughey on the discovery of his brain tumor, treatment, and the Internet's response — there were about 1,000 #mathowielove tweets in 24 hours
Belle de Jour reveals herself after six year of anonymity — only six people in the world knew, she only told her parents yesterday (via)
Paul F. Tompkins debates comedy ethics with Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd — great discussion, and it's hard not to see where both are coming from (via)
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Rogue Amoeba stops iPhone app development after App Store idiocy — I'm with Marco, the only fix is allowing external apps, but it's unlikely (via)
Numb3rs on IRC — "Luckily, I speak l33t."
Prank War 8: The Skydiving Prank — hard to say if life-threatening situations are funnier than public humiliation
301 Works, Internet Archive works to preserve URL shortener data — the shorteners will provide regular backups and hand over data on closure, though TinyURL's conspicuously missing
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Quizipedia — simple game with trivia scraped from Wikipedia entries
Kill Screen, funding a new art magazine about videogames — sounds like the English analogue of Amusement I was hoping for

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