Given the propensity of april fools jokes among the tech sites, I figured its probably a good idea to collect them in one thread as opposed to being individually submitted.
Thanks. I don't have FF4 on my Ubuntu laptop yet, but my testing with telnet says it's working. If you have the extension installed please check for me: http://ourdoings.com/2008-04-01 should redirect you to a picture of llamas ignoring April Fools Day if you've turned on DNF, otherwise it shows a fake "OpenID Support to be Removed" blog post from a prior April Fools day.
EDIT: One reply saying if it worked would be most appreciated.
In all honesty, I am struggling to figure out if this is an April's Fools Joke in and of itself, or if this is legit. The comments definitely don't help much.
It's both. The "DNF" header can't be a serious proposal since it doesn't follow the convention of other HTTP headers. They're leaving "Do-Not-Fool" unused in case it later becomes a serious proposal. But it does actually send the header, so in that sense it's legit.
The rationale for "DNT" is to minimize the bandwidth/latency impact of adding a new header to every single HTTP request (for users who enable the "do not track" option).
While I love the idea, I think that the shift is too subtle and somewhat causes the page to look out of focus and amateurish. Sorry - just pointing out how it looks to me with the effect on.
(Edit: After a few refreshes I see the more skewed pages and that makes more sense - I guess if the degrees is just slightly off 0 it doesn't look right)
If you want to do it on the router for a network of machines, the trick is to redirect all HTTP traffic through a dedicated box running the proxy. Pretend this machine is 10.0.2.15.
First, ensure that that machine's traffic gets through normally and isn't redirected to itself:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -s 10.0.2.15 -j ACCEPT
Then, redirect all HTTP traffic on your network (say, 10.0.2.0/24) through that machine:
Apparently you can't just run the script with node and point your browser's http proxy to 8080. I suppose transparent proxy and http proxies act differently?
Yeah, I saw this last night. I'm not a subscriber anymore and it was really annoying and I was confused. I didn't even think of April Fools though. Good one.
I don't get it. What is this supposed to do? Is it supposed to style the page with the Helvetica font?
If this is the joke, I guess it doesn't work for me since this font is not available on my machine (using Ubuntu). Or is it something else I'm missing?
Adblock releases Adblock Freedom - augmented reality eyewear that detects and removes ads from the world in realtime. http://chromeadblock.com/freedom/
Just watched the kickstarter video but with my headphones pluggeded into 'The Prodigy: Fighter Beat' by accident. It made their video very cool. Sorry for the lack of value - I just wanted to share.
Yeah, I was so happy to see it because I've been thinking about this exact thing for quite a long while. I like the idea of replacing all ads with random images from my photo albums.
No, it's not just you. I despise this crap. I particularly hate the way /. always became "nothing but AFD jokes" on April 1, and I really, really hope the HN crowd never jumps on that particular bandwagon.
There are many different kinds of humor spread over the world - starting from creative deviations from the (perceived) norm, up to classical jokes.
I'm pretty sure anyone will find some stuff he likes, and lots of other stuff he doesn't account to be funny.
With a little more tolerance, appreciating all those different types of humor will become a fun in itself, even when most of it doesn't suit your personal taste.
Creativity, not mere laughing, is the key ingredient for humor.
Would have been even more awesome if the BBC reported on a very poor harvest the next year, due to an inevitable crop pest: the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Is fair pricing such an obscure concept that this is a credible April Fool's joke? Why shouldn't people get discounts for losing weight and saving the airline fuel expenses? Is there a implicit moral norm that those who consume less should subsidize those who consume more ("to each according to his need"), or is mentioning an awkward truth like "heavy people take more energy to lift" a social taboo, or do people just avoid thinking about this entirely?
I assume this would be illegal discrimination from a private New Zealand company, even though it's dandy for the NZ government:
Sorry, my bad ... It was Carl, he's new.
This was an April Fools prank, thanks for all the fun
feedback. Glad that we could give (most of) you a
laugh. Have a great weekend!
Hey guys, My goal since 2004 has been to keep a list of all AFD jokes on the web in one place. Check it out if you like. Have 66 there so far this year :) Feel free to submit any ones from THIS year to the site as well.
I would love to learn Morse code to use it for text messages. Not related to Twilio, but this reminded me. Maybe we could take care of two problems at once by hooking up a Morse code transcriber hooked up to a cell phone to the horn in every teenagers car :)
Hi Everyone, I am super excited to announce the release of The Hoffington Post: http://thehoffingtonpost.com
The Internet Newspaper: 100% dedicated to David Hasselhoff.
Just paste this before your body closes:
<script>
// Uncomment the next line if you want the prank to happen only when the url hashtag is #april
// if (document.location.hash.indexOf('april') > -1)
document.body.style.webkitTransform = document.body.style.MozTransform =
'rotate(' + [45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270, 315][Math.floor(Math.random() * 7)] + 'deg)';
</script>
http://zodb.ws is one of the more impressive April Fools hacks I've seen this year. It runs the ZODB, a pure Python NoSQL database that's been around for a while and originated in the Zope project, on top of CPython -- in the browser! Uses emscripten which compiles LLVM bytecode to JS. Complete with a localStorage backend for ZODB.
Milkyway@Home on iPhone / iOS. The small tests that run on my desktop in about 10 seconds take 20 minutes on my iphone 3g, and drain the battery about 8%.
Thanks to the coming Canadian election Demeure was able to add a special rental property. http://demeure.com/special-offers/sussex. Come and stay in the former Prime Minister's house for only $3000/night!
We switched the colors on the cards in our solitaire games (http://greenfelt.net/freecell). It's a subtle effect that just makes things look weird without you being able to identify what is wrong, at first.
At Sporcle, they've added a 'Boss!' button. Now when you're playing games on their site at work and the boss comes around, just click the boss button and something else will pop up in the window!
If you use Harvest for time tracking, they have a nice, simple gag today: The usual nameplate link in the bottom right has changed to "HARVESTVS • SINCE MMVI" and clicking on it will change all of your time entries to Roman numerals.
and the marquee and frames based website :)
Be sure to scroll to the bottom, where there are a geocities affiliate button, the omni present (at the time) under construction gif, guestbook, netscape and ie 3 buttons, and green-led counter.
Back in the day I had the very same last three on my angelfire and then geocities websites... Ahhh, the memories.
IDG has a story about mozilla recalling firefox 4 because of serious bug. Every user should return their version using an online upload form or by sending a usb-stick by mail.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/do-not-fool/
If you are planning an April Fools joke on your web site, I urge you to support this important new web standard. :)