April Fools 2006 : Do's and Don't's

Beatnik on 2006-04-04T09:56:19

No Do yet.. But a nice Don't:

Live.com's MSN Search Engine doesn't display results but pops a message saying "April Fools".

I have an idea. Let's block access to our service for a complete day! I'm sure people can hold their search requests for 24 hours.

Nudography's thumbnails. You were able to click on thumbnails and enlarge them for the first time but all you were served was an April Fool's picture.

I have an idea. Let's block access to our service for a complete day! I'm sure people can hold their urges for nudity for 24 hours.

Perl related ones:

• RMS announced his plan to rewrite emacs using Perl, because of its acronym: Perfect emacs rewriting language.
• Larry Wall announced that Perl 6 will use the euro symbol (€) instead of the old USD symbol ($).

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It’s more involved than that

Aristotle on 2006-04-04T12:17:04

Actually, it seems like that hoax was a hoax – that someone forged a mail from Larry. Check the headers of that mail vs others.

Re:It’s more involved than that

Beatnik on 2006-04-04T14:26:15

Don't blame me, I just copy/pasted from Wikipedia :)