My least favorite holiday

[cleolinda]

Item one: Why I hate April Fool's Day, or, at the very least, April Fool's gags that do not make their fooliness clear enough.

Item two: Google is totally okay by me, though, because they know how to do it right. Seen any other good ones? (Favorites so far: News announces the new member of the lj advisory board; Smart Bitches, Trashy Books taken over by Dear Author; ESPN to air Election Deathmatch Coverage.)

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[speakerwiggin.livejournal.com]

I just made a similar "loathe of april fools'" post.

but there are some good jokes out there. my fav so far- thinkgeek (http://www.thinkgeek.com)'s fake products on the front page! :D!

I want that shirt... and that lock... I want all of it!

[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

Gmail's is pretty good:

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html

I laughed.

[odontomachus.livejournal.com]

Moot (4chan) was so aghast at the spate of rickrolling he put up a banner about it on 4chan:
"YouTube, GameFAQs, LiveJournal, deviantART, and isoHunt are all running April Fool's Day pranks based on 4chan memes... Christ. More here." (http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU) ()

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

There haven't been many good ones today - though google always does something good! I used to on Padawan's Guide, and they usually went over really well, but I was out of ideas for this year.

My favorite might be from slashdot.org a few years ago when they changed their site to be pink and titled "OMG Ponies!"

[ms-treesap.livejournal.com]

*Squees* An Oban Races (?) icon!

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna say Blizzard's won the day with its two-pronged attack: Molten Core for consoles (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/moltencore/) (yes, the Atari 2600; the trailer is wondrous) and new bard class (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/features/bard/bardclass.xml). They're geek-heavy, but not so much that someone who doesn't play the games (*waves*) doesn't get them.

Wikipedia's front page was brilliant for a bit, but they seem to have taken down most of the funny (if entirely accurate) links.

This was cute

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1774394

[takethisstep.livejournal.com]

Gmail introduces "Custom Time". http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html

That's probably my favorite (but only because I hadn't seen Virgle yet).

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Check out XKCD.com's site today.

See, that's the kind of April Fool's stuff I don't mind. It's hurtful and or embarrassing things I can't stand. Or things that make me look foolish and/or gullible, which, hey, misplaced pride perhaps, but my oldest sister ALWAYS manages to get me with the kind of jokes that then make me look dumb for believing them. *sigh*

[takethisstep.livejournal.com]

Whoops. In the time it took me to find the link someone else posted about it. Sorry.

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me, I really should finish watching Oban Star Racers. Hmm.

[odontomachus.livejournal.com]

Oban Star-Racers, the one and only.

[ipomoea.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen the general Google one! I'd thought the Gmail thing (http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html) was it for them this year.

Oh, but also, I laughed and laughed when I saw that Gawker had allegedly sold Jezebel to Conde Nast.

[acaciakitty.livejournal.com]

I play World of Warcraft and a little part of me wishes the new Bard class was real. I want to fight evil with the power of rock!

[norwegianne.livejournal.com]

I like this: http://community.livejournal.com/ljdq/148794.html

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

My brother's birthday is today, and I am still attempting to think of a way to get him for the year that he got me to turn on the sink and the hose then completely soaked me (he wrapped a rubber band around it, ai yi yi). Since I really can't top that (it would resort to near cruelty, and I'm not that mean), I just wrap his presents up in odd boxes. One year, we gave him video games in a pizza box. This year, I've wrapped his present (an iPod) in a brown lunch bag.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

My cow-orker just said that if the bard class were real, he'd probably start playing WoW.

There just might be something here.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

The guy from Laughing Squid has dubbed today Annoying Internet Day. SO TRUE. (Although I also enjoy the things like GOogle and what have you :) )

Not to mention Annoying Older Relative Day. Gah. Glad I'm too old for that to be done to me now.

[sucrelefey.livejournal.com]

It is a fine line between being funny and being an ass. Usually intent indicates which it is. If it is to entertain others, odds favour funny if it's to entertain yourself odds favour ass, which is the key difference between jokes and pranks.

[allie-meril.livejournal.com]

OTW has decided that English is overrated. (http://community.livejournal.com/otw_news/28869.html)

[divinemissa.livejournal.com]

Every featured video on the front page of youtube (not the promoted videos at the way top) will rickroll you. Not hilarious but kinda cute.

[aymaera.livejournal.com]

I just went to check it out, and then realized that I had already seen the comic, and hadn't even noticed it was in the wrong feed! The Dinosaur comics in the QC feed had me a bit confused but I just scrolled right by it... duh.

[thecenterlane.livejournal.com]

I'm not really fond of it either, but more because I'm really, really bad at spotting the joke. Like this year, my boyfriend emailed me at work to tell me that my external harddrive (which is full to bursting, so to speak) had somehow wiped itself. I promptly emailed him back in all caps and spent about five or six minutes searching on google for ways to recover the lost files (nearly in tears the whole time) before he called me to say it was just a prank. >___

[poinsley.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of a few years back when a bunch of newspaper comics switched strips. I think there were at least 8 involved. It was a lot of fun to read.

[ms-treesap.livejournal.com]

I saw it a year or two ago, and looked for fandom on lj without any success :( At least there were a few fics on ff.net.