There are some cool April Fool's pranks on the net today. It's been a banner year so far. The biggest one I've seen today is the www.cpan.org is serving up the homepage for Matt's Script Archive. Well done, that.
ThinkGeek has some interesting faux products today: George Foreman's iGrill, Celebrity DNA, and The Executive Atom Collection are three of the seven items on sale.
RFC 3514 adds an "evil bit" to IP packets. Slashdot's April first joke seems to be to post this item as many times as possible. Eh.
Whitespace is a new programming language that uses nothing but whitespace. The Whitespace compiler is written in Haskell. Somehow, I thought this was funnier when it was a 15-minute hack written while waiting for the plane to board. It's much less funny when it's an elaborately crafted prank that's just reinventing something Damian did over two years ago, just because he could....
Oh, and Gentoo is switching from portage to RPM to help gain LSB compliance. That would have been funnier if it were actually believable. :-)
6. IANA ConsiderationsThis document defines the behavior of security elements for the 0x0 and 0x1 values of this bit. Behavior for other values of the bit may be defined only by IETF consensus [RFC2434].
