April Fools, 2003

Here are some of this year’s April Fools internet gags — not all of them great, but dem’s da breaks! I’ve linked to the sites, but since the April Fools pages themselves may have changed after the fact, I’ve included screengrabs from today. Enjoy.

	Google Buys Metafilter — the ‘Metafiiiiiiiilter’ graphic at the bottom, aping the ‘Goooooogle’ search results navigator, was priceless. go there \| screenshot
	Some of ThinkGeek’s products got slightly outlandish, but I’m gutted that I already have a George Foreman grill — those iGrill colours look great! go there \| screenshot
	Frightening numbers of people were taken in by Chris Pirillo’s “My web site has gone blurry” fool, achieved with a simple bit of CSS — even after having it explained to them, there were some who still believed there was a ‘fault’ somewhere! go there \| screenshot
	Somethingawful.com did their traditional altered splash screen — if only all pr0n sites were as exciting as this! go there \| screenshot
	Some are convinced that the Whitespace programming language (composed of spaces, tabs and line breaks) is an April Fool, others claim to have successfully compiled and run the demo code … I list it here for completists sake `:)` go there \| screenshot
	Alien invaders! The Astronomy Picture of the Day site seems rather nonplussed about it! go there \| screenshot
	CPAN to Merge With Matt’s Script Archive, was the underlying message here — bit lame, but probably gave a few people quite a fright! go there \| screenshot
	End Of Free with a banner ad?! go there \| screenshot
	Gentoo Portage to Adopt RPM for LSB Compliance — had I not known this was an April Fool, I’d have cursed Gentoo for a month, as everyone knows the one true package management system is apt/deb `:)` go there \| screenshot
	A blogger told by Google not to use term “Blogger” — still to be verified as a fool!!! go there \| screenshot
	minidisc.org give up, and accept the inevitable demise of MiniDisc in favour of hard disk based devices … go there \| screenshot

Well, that’s it for this year, see you next April 1 :)

	Google Buys Metafilter — the ‘Metafiiiiiiiilter’ graphic at the bottom, aping the ‘Goooooogle’ search results navigator, was priceless. go there \| screenshot
	Some of ThinkGeek’s products got slightly outlandish, but I’m gutted that I already have a George Foreman grill — those iGrill colours look great! go there \| screenshot
	Frightening numbers of people were taken in by Chris Pirillo’s “My web site has gone blurry” fool, achieved with a simple bit of CSS — even after having it explained to them, there were some who still believed there was a ‘fault’ somewhere! go there \| screenshot
	Somethingawful.com did their traditional altered splash screen — if only all pr0n sites were as exciting as this! go there \| screenshot
	Some are convinced that the Whitespace programming language (composed of spaces, tabs and line breaks) is an April Fool, others claim to have successfully compiled and run the demo code … I list it here for completists sake `:)` go there \| screenshot
	Alien invaders! The Astronomy Picture of the Day site seems rather nonplussed about it! go there \| screenshot
	CPAN to Merge With Matt’s Script Archive, was the underlying message here — bit lame, but probably gave a few people quite a fright! go there \| screenshot
	End Of Free with a banner ad?! go there \| screenshot
	Gentoo Portage to Adopt RPM for LSB Compliance — had I not known this was an April Fool, I’d have cursed Gentoo for a month, as everyone knows the one true package management system is apt/deb `:)` go there \| screenshot
	A blogger told by Google not to use term “Blogger” — still to be verified as a fool!!! go there \| screenshot
	minidisc.org give up, and accept the inevitable demise of MiniDisc in favour of hard disk based devices … go there \| screenshot