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:
– 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
– 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?)
– Inmate wins freedom in new reality show
– 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.
ok… funny, but damn, that was annoying.
Thank goodness for the windows magnifier.
Or a browser that can enlarge text in 2 keystrokes. Go Moz.
Gotta love ‘Whitespace’. Python and Brainfuck combined … a horrible, horrible trick.
News Askew has a new April 1st format: http://www.newsaskew.com
Hey! Y’all missed the news about the new Powerpuff Girls movie…
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,
GAIM’s April Fool’s joke is pretty good.
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/.
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.