April Fools Pranks
Do you have any idea how hard it is to post news articles on April 1? Over half of the web sites I frequent were subjects of length April Fools pranks. Case in point:
FARK.com changed is main page not once, but three times: First was a horribly designed page for some connecticut local news page (with all links pointing to Fark), next it was a mocked up fetish site called “Traffic Cones & Brillo Pads”, and the last of the pranks was a modified page with nothing but “Boobies” links. Drew is so awesome.
Homestar Runner is a weekly web cartoon (home of Strong Bad) that changed it’s main page to seem like the domain had been bought by some spammer, but if you watch long enough a character comes out and proceeds to fight the stick figure “under construction” man. Yay Pudding!
Slashdot posted SEVERAL fake stories that had be almost believing them: A text based Quake, Homeless to be tagged with electronic tracking devices, just to show a few examples.
Google even got in on the action, although to its own dismay. First the story came out about gMail, Google’s new email service said to give its users 1gb of email storage space. This great story was overshadowed by it’s sister story, a prank about Google opening a facility on the Moon by 2007. The combination of the real and fake story led everyone to believe both were fake. It turns out that gMail is, in fact, real.
And finally, my personal favorite prank from yesterday: The inebriated bunch of Rooster Teeth Productions, creators of Red Vs Blue, made a “very special episode” where Sarge and Simmons die, Tucker marries Doc, and Caboose is foiled by “those meddling kids”. The series then declares it’s “The End”. “Except you left me my SPOON! That soft soil was like a butterscotch brownie to me.”
Unfortunately, a lot of REAL stories came out yesterday that were so over the top it was hard to accept that were passed over due to the rash of internet pranks.
Alas, it’s April 2 now, and the real stories remain and follow this article. April Fools Day is the best.
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