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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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