April Fool's Day Roundup 95
It might be a holiday for most of us today, but for tech companies, April Fool's is the day when they work overtime to send weird press releases. So far we have seen Google Maps help users find Waldo, and Google Australia rethink its brand name (to Googz). T-Mobile has revivedthe Sidekick as the world's first smart shoe phone. Google has also added a feature to its file manager app Files Go that detects bad jokes from your phone. Snapchat has finally found a way to make fun of Facebook. Languages learning app Duolingo has launched a range of craft beers. Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has launched a cryptocurrency. Some more here. What's your favorite prank so far today?
It's april 2 this year (Score:2)
When april fools is on a sunday it moves to the nearest monday. Post this tommorrow.
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Internet Stupid Day (Score:2)
I keep forgetting this day exists.. The day that you can't trust anything you read(well, less so than normal) and a lot of good stuff is lost in the wave of crap.
Still, at least it starts and is over quickly enough.
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Still, at least it starts and is over quickly enough.
Some places, it's customary to prank on both the first and last of April. It's not too common these days, but you may still see odd prank news on April 30th, propagated by news aggregators where the editors aren't culturally aware enough to know this.
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Thank You (Score:5, Insightful)
For not wasting my time posting otherwise bad joke summaries of fake stories on the front page today.
Re:Thank You (Score:5)
I dunno, I miss when April Fools Day was Slashdot Shitpost Day. Yes, it meant Slashdot was entirely useless for a day, but it helped build a sense of community. There's a lot of dumb things about Slashdot that I end up missing, like coverage of anime or video games that no one cares about. Things that made it seem more like a site for nerds and not this weird corporate pseudo-open source thing it's become. The loss of incredibly stupid April Fools pranks doesn't help.
I agree, Slashdot is usually my first site of the day and as such were the one site who had a chance of actually getting me with a story before I clued into the calendar.
But the greatest Slashdot April Fools was the OMG Ponies theme [google.ca] from.... holy crap 12 years ago!
Re:Thank You (Score:5, Insightful)
OMG Ponies!
That's still my first reaction to April fool's day on the internet every year.
While many other sites have tried shitposting like that over the years, I've found few anywhere near as successful as that one was. It was so fucking annoying and traumatizing. Unbelievable we remember one day from 12 years ago that wasn't some monumental event in our lives.
Or, maybe it was.....says a lot about our history with this site, eh?
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OMG Ponies!
It was so fucking annoying and traumatizing.
What are you babbling about? It was so awesome I used a plugin to view this site like that for years until the compatibility problems became too much to keep up.
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We miss you CommanderTaco!
OMG Ponies was the best! If you really used a plugin to keep it alive, you are my hero
(my id# misrepresents how long I've been reading slashdot)
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I almost got fired from a project because of that RFC. Or, rather, my reference of that RFC with my official uploads for one day's work. It also involved photos of a squirrel, which I viewed as a network disrupter.
Re:Thank You (Score:4)
April 1st is the one day when people pause to consider if things they read on the internet are true. If only they would do that for the other 364...
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Those days are long gone. Now every day is Slashdot Shitpost Day.
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You're welcome, fun police. Now go outside and yell at some clouds.
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Maybe that is the trick. Readers are expecting fake stories and stuff on /.. :P
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It's Easter. It's the clash of the religious versus the pranksters. After all, Easter is one of those holy days in Christianity.
Easter hasn't fallen on April 1 since 1956, and it will again in 2029 and 2040, after which it won't until 2108.
Re: Easter (Score:1)
I was waiting for a numbskull like you to say something about the resurrection. Obvious target. But before you get on your high horse too much about the misdeeds of Christians, perhaps you should brush up on your history as to the actions of atheists. Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, all weren't just atheists but enforced atheism on their populations and murdered hundreds of millions in the process. Given that, whatever Christians may have done to you is a minor inconvenience.
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Ah, but before you use a few examples to decry atheists, bear in mind that as a group we have no shared philosophy. I have nothing in common with Pol Pot despite agreeing that there is no god.
Christian philosophy is that there is a God, that everyone should worship it and non-believers should be converted or punished either in life of an eternal hell.
You should take your own advice. There are Christian groups that only agree on Jesus being the son of God. Nearly all other aspects of their systems are at odds with each other. I know Christians who do not believe in Hell, which actually the Pope apparently just said as well, according to Yahoo News.
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Athiest have the high moral ground. You are absurd. Pol Pol and Stalin and Hitler breathed oxygen. Do you? Fuck you
Hitler was a Christian not an Atheist. Stalin WAS atheist though.
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he did stay a member because he said it would allow him to control it being a member. You can see all of this in the Kirchenkampf.
He rejected Christianity and God but did seem to believe in a supreme being so most historians consider him a deist with a non-Christian god.
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While Hitler grew up in the catholic church from his own words we know he was against it and all Christian groups because it was not the right religion for the third reich.
he did stay a member because he said it would allow him to control it being a member. You can see all of this in the Kirchenkampf.
He rejected Christianity and God but did seem to believe in a supreme being so most historians consider him a deist with a non-Christian god.
Hitler's objection to the church was not religious, it was about power. He wanted the church to be subservient to the state. He wasn't a religious man in his later years, but his own writings show he was certainly very religious in his early years. He certainly didn't "reject God", he would credit God when he won certain victories, or when he survived assassination. He was no priest, but he certainly wasn't an atheist.
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It's fitting that April Fool's and Easter are on the same day. The resurrection has got to be the greatest April Fool's joke ever.
Christianity being an anti-sex death cult is one big joke. And considering the harm that Christians have caused this country - especially the Evangelical kooks - it's a very cruel joke. All based upon a fairy tale.
A lot of America's earliest settlers came from the British isles- Scandinavia and Europe. If Christianity hadn't existed and those people still believed in the Norse Gods and/or old Celtic Gods Americans might be having human sacrifices made even today- or at least throughout a lot of her history she would have. With that in mind, Christianity can't be too bad by comparison.
/ Agnostic... no horse in the race.
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It's funny how your butt still hurts 18 months after Hillary was defeated by the most hated man in America.
You sure that was a joke? (Score:3)
Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has launched a cryptocurrency.
DogeCoin was started a joke, but has a current market cap of $340 Million.
Kodi Rebrands Itself (Score:4)
https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-n... [kodi.tv]
"As such, starting today, we are officially changing our name back to XBMC.
But we're not stopping there. We've had a good long run being a multi-platform system, but at the end of the day covering six or more platforms has become far too much of a stress. Android support alone taxes our resources in a way no volunteer development team can ever reasonably be expected to handle. And all the other platforms just makes this worse. So, in an executive decision that we believe the entire community will support, we at Team XBMC have decided to fully embrace our roots.
Starting today, we would like to announce that we are exclusively supporting only the Xbox One"
Pokemon go (Score:2)
Pokemon go got a graphical upgrade to 8-bit graphics https://www.pokemon.com/us/pok... [pokemon.com]
Did you hear? Creimer lost his virginity! (Score:1, Funny)
Nah, sorry, that's too ridiculous even for April 1st.
The best are those you think might be real (Score:2)
Like the Guido Faukes Fool posting today, where he takes a load of recent political issues and dresses them up as yet another exposé.
https://order-order.com/2018/0... [order-order.com]
If you've been following the UK media (no, not the mainstream one, who tries to hide all this) then you'll start by thinking its true. By the middle you think "surely not", and by the end "it must be a fool".
Trouble is, you could take any of the recent revelations as fool jokes if they'd been announced today.
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Fair enough. Alan Dershowitz suggests to give Mueller 90 days to wrap it up and present the evidence: put up, or shut up.
Then appoint an independent commission to look into everything, including IRS Luis Lerner, Fast and Furious, and the rest of the Obama crimes (and Trump crimes, if any).
Question for you: why did Obama's Attorney General take the Fifth? The top justice officer took the Fifth!!
Was the asshole covering up his own crimes, or Obama's? Shouldn't that be looked into?
So fake news site publish more fake news (Score:2)
Yes very funny.
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oh, good attempt there mate. Fake news site - the one with links and quotes and references to all the people in Westminster, you claim is fake news. Trouble is you have to do an April Fools joke before midday or it doesn't count, sorry.
Those Bastids at Fark Rick-Rolled me! (Score:1)
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WaPo's entire front page... (Score:2)
...rife with claims that Donald Trump got elected president.
God, I'm tired...
DC Universe Online Loot Box (Score:2)
They're called Time Capsules. And they gave us one free today.
Open it up and you get a different colored one. Open that up and you get a different colored one. Etc., etc.,.....*sigh*.....etc., etc.....
Because everyone loves loot boxes, right?
Re: DC Universe Online Loot Box (Score:1)
Yo dog, we heard you like loot boxes. So we took loot boxes and put them inside loot boxes...inside YOUR car. Thanks to west coast customs.
Thank you xzhibit.
The Register ... (Score:2)
Has a job advertisement for AI programmers to teach their computers to write their headlines.
Australian English. (Score:2)
For the American and British out there yes the 3:10 mark of the Googz video is actually how we speak. And if you don't know what a Maccas is http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Fi... [wikia.com]
Re: Australian English. (Score:2)
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And you casually call each other "cunt" aa a term of endearment.
Yes, you have to really start to worry when someone calls you mate. Depending on the tone of voice he's either your BFF or about to end you via a good ol' fashioned glassing.
The Chocolate Whopper is not a joke (Score:2)
Corsair's take on cryptocurrency is better! (Score:3)
Corsair on Youtube: Stop GPU abuse. #GPURESCUE [youtu.be]
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Don't forget Trump (Score:2)
After months of wanting a DACA bill he's now on Twitter pretending he doesn't want DACA [twitter.com].
What a kidder! Like we'd really believe he'd just switch positions like that!!
what happened at thinkgeek? (Score:2)
I dropped in there and didn't see any front page or "new" items of absurdity.
Bummed. may not get out of bed until next April 1.
My favorite (Score:2)
My favorite is Slashdot, for not doing one.
Reddit is quite amusing... all-caps.
My anti-favorite is Minecraft, which is painful to look upon today. Guess I'll have to get some work done.
That's why (Score:2)
I am avoiding most news sites today. They're all full of shit, more than the usual.
The Chinese have the best one (Score:2)
The Chinese "Heavenly Palace" space station due to smash into the Earth within the next few hours. The ultimate April fools prank!
Fake History (Score:1)
A man told me that today is the anniversary of a famous man, a son of a carpenter, being resurrected 3 days after his death, making his followers speak in tongues, and then joining his father, an invisible man in the sky. I laughed pretty hard at that one, but for some reason he seemed offended...
Best Easter April Fools Joke (Score:1)
a friend stocked her child's easter basket with an assortment of oddities, Jiff Muffin Mix, box of Carolina Instant Rice, box of Kleenex, can of hairspray, etc.
april fools 1&2 (Score:1)
onmilwaukee -Good Stuff on Instagram (Score:1)
It's Easter! April Fool ! (Score:1)