I really loathe April Fool's Day on the Internet. I've already been taken in by that horrible report about an order for 13 eps of Torchwood US, involving Gwen's cousin. Yesterday, a whole mailing list I was on fell for something that Patty debunked via Snopes. I will not even address the legion of surprise pregnancy posts. I AM DOUR AND FORMAL AND NOT FUNNY, AND I HATE APRIL 1 ON THE INTERNETS, AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME CHANGE MY MIND.
In other delightful Torchwood news, there's a contest to have a TW short story pbulished in Torchwood Magazine. You must have never received payment for fiction in the past and you must be a UK resident, which rules out nearly everyone I know, which means I can pop popcorn and kick back over this baby.
Werewolves are almost done. And they are good! Tonight, it should be FINALLY off to the editor. I'm thinking I should be done in time for Project Runway.
I really enjoy April Fools on the Internet, but I've never liked anything that felt mean-spirited. Jokes about harm in general don't do it for me. Making a coworker's life difficult by stealing their computer? Not cool.
The article saying they caught the time traveler who's been spoking LHC? Funny. Google saying they've done something utterly absurd? Funny.
But then, my favorite April Fools things on the Net aren't really fooling people, or at least not very many for not very long, and not about anything important. It's more a chance to do a neat trick and show people without damaging your credibility.
Vittana.org (a microlending site) is published all in LOLspeak today until you get down to the actual people who need loans. (They haven't been tampered with.) XKCD has a command line interface to navigate the comic. Dinosaur Comics archives are all done in birds instead of dinosaurs, which is a very cool technical trick.
But actually fooling people about things? Not my bag, baby.
Oh, LHC was Large Hadron Collider. (lol. I'm a member of the Long Hair Community. snerk.)
But hey, thanks for the link. And that so has to be a Doctor Who bunny. Or is it a descended/ascended Daniel again?
Hmmmm Kit-kats for everyone in the future... do they have dark chocolate?
What other bunnies could be spurred by this article? (I keep picturing Stargate, and Jack saying "Oh fer cryin' out loud" when they bring Eloi Cole in.)
I always thought that This (http://api.ning.com/files/8fil5gmLgTbnvHiB9qe7ZlP*PesdnleY89Wa1XSwTN2VJOF-MRR*27IOl5yulIJ9a4-EFM6xPdeCTe4IvZZRdFoRF1G9upzR/GordonFreemanSpottedAtCERN.jpg) was the reason the LHC was not quite working right.
It's a video game called half-life. The guy you see in the picture is Gordon Freeman, who takes part in an experiment that creates a rift in space/time and allows alot of bad nasty creatures to come to our side of the fence.
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Date: 2010-04-01 07:03 pm (UTC)The article saying they caught the time traveler who's been spoking LHC? Funny. Google saying they've done something utterly absurd? Funny.
But then, my favorite April Fools things on the Net aren't really fooling people, or at least not very many for not very long, and not about anything important. It's more a chance to do a neat trick and show people without damaging your credibility.
Vittana.org (a microlending site) is published all in LOLspeak today until you get down to the actual people who need loans. (They haven't been tampered with.) XKCD has a command line interface to navigate the comic. Dinosaur Comics archives are all done in birds instead of dinosaurs, which is a very cool technical trick.
But actually fooling people about things? Not my bag, baby.
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Date: 2010-04-01 07:45 pm (UTC)Doctor, get your fingers out of The Long Hair Community! NOW! Dagnabbit...
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Date: 2010-04-01 07:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-02 12:32 am (UTC)But hey, thanks for the link. And that so has to be a Doctor Who bunny. Or is it a descended/ascended Daniel again?
Hmmmm Kit-kats for everyone in the future... do they have dark chocolate?
What other bunnies could be spurred by this article? (I keep picturing Stargate, and Jack saying "Oh fer cryin' out loud" when they bring Eloi Cole in.)
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Date: 2010-04-02 06:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-02 07:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-02 03:40 pm (UTC)