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foolish roundup

Chris — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:34:25 +0000

Rather than post a bunch of (LOLized) individual articles, here is a rolling list of some of our favorite fools from around the Interwebs today.

invisible fools

Chris — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:42:00 +0000

You might notice that Global Spin has a flavor today. You might even say there’s a hint of something feline. Well, you’d be correct.

Do not adjust your set. We have control of the language and the grammar. And we have a cheeseburger.

Update April 2: If you didn’t see the site yesterday, this may not make sense. All articles (including past posts and comments) were translated into LOLspeak by the excellent TFS LOLcat plugin for WordPress. So basically the whole site didn’t make sense, and this post fit right in.

Google and Virgin Join Forces, Plan Mars Colony

Deana — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:05:09 +0000

The new endeavor, named Virgle, has been written up on the Google blog by Sir Richard Branson.

Radcliffs, get your rockets ready!

The Algorithm Inspires Nerd Viral Marketing Take Over via Google

Deb — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:47:49 +0000

THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS

THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES

THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA

THE ALGORITHM IS FROM JERSEY

This is rich; hope you don’t mind Chris! Explanation here.

a tale told by a chicken, full of sound and fury

Chris — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:21:53 +0000

So you may have wondered why I’m so busy at work these days. Well, here’s the deal:

Eventful, Inc., the leading global events service, announced today that it would cease the operation of its popular Web site Eventful.com on May 1st in favor of next-generation interface Twitter, provided by Obvious Corporation of San Francisco. Twitter is a service which allows users to get instant update messages (“tweets”) from friends via SMS, instant messenger, Web, or by way of a number of custom desktop clients.

Once the commitment was made, it was surprisingly quick work to adapt the Eventful API to the new platform. Development of the Twitter-based service, dubbed Eventful Chicken, took just over a week to reach the public beta stage, including event search, recommendations, watchlists, reminders, and Eventful Demand (renamed “I wish they’d come here”). The service can be previewed currently at http://twitter.com/echicken.

There’s more, but you get the idea. Take a look and let me know what you think. I’m too tired to comment intelligently.

Happy April Fool’s Day

Deana — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:23:19 +0000

This, like many Agnes cartoons, amuses the heck out of me:

the voice of god and other pranks

Deb — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:51:15 +0000

I love The Onion: The Voice of God Revealed to be . . .

In Case You Missed It

Deana — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:00:06 +0000

On April 1st, Scientific American published an apology for their one-sidedness in the presentation of so-called ‘scientific’ ideas. I finally found the text. Go, you snarky scientists!

NASA finds water on Mars

Chris — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 19:06:23 +0000

“This photo”:http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html speaks for itself. Wow!

share and enjoy

Chris — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:07:49 +0000

“Google Gulp!”:http://www.google.com/googlegulp/index.html Think fruity. Think refreshing.

Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3 gigabytes of your base pair genetic data in a fraction of a second, fine-tuning your individual hormonal cocktail in real time using our patented Auto-Drink� technology, and slamming a truckload of electrolytic neurotransmitter smart-drug stimulants past the blood-brain barrier to achieve maximum optimization of your soon-to-be-grateful cerebral cortex. Plus, it’s low in carbs!