Waxy.org is the sandbox of Andy Baio, an
independent journalist and programmer living in
Portland, Oregon. I created Like every year, I'll be rounding up my favorite pranks on Internet Jackass Day (aka April Fool's Day). In case you're thinking of getting involved, Anil's got some advice for you. We're a day early, but it's April 1 somewhere, so let's get started.
* ThinkGeek's annual lineup of unusual new products
* Flickr goes catty on all "Explore" pages, in a timezone-sensitive hack; some screenshots
* Google Adwords unveils two new image sizes
* Google Rooms
* Bioengineering firm to create pet dragons
* Slashdot finds its feminine side (yawn!)
* Ask.com's RhymeRank
* Yelp buys rights to the Pets.com sock puppet
* Bungie's Pimps at Sea video game
* Yahoo buys Web 2.0, all of it
* Ars Technica reviews Duke Nukem Forever
* Google Romance (though Google isn't far off entering the personals market, in reality)
* TeeVeePedia: TeeVee's 10th annual entry carries on their tradition of the best written pranks ever
* SQL on Rails, don't miss the screencast
* Gamespot previews World of Starcraft, among other news coverage
* Google Earth adds some visitors to Area 51
* Wordpattern, Wordpress merges with Textpattern
* LinkFilter cribs Metafilter's design
* Homestar Runner goes upside-down
* DeviantArt previews new Web 2.0 redesign
Comprehensive lists: If you feel like drinking from the firehose, try Urgo's definitive list and Wikipedia's rapidly-growing collection. As Greg put it, be prepared for "less than half-assed humor."
Conclusion: Eh. The only two that made me laugh were the Flickr cats and SQL on Rails.
11:05 AM
The girlfriend already played a very mean prank on me :(
Damn the fact she's +8. I didn't get it till she told me April Fools.
11:18 AM
First one I saw today: http://ipodcolo.com/
2:21 PM
Hmm, looks like they took that one down.
5:45 PM
Me == forgetfulidiot. It was http://nanocolo.com/
8:09 PM
"Car Tech" reviews at CNET:
1973 Mercury Marquis Brougham
http://reviews.cnet.com/4660-10863-6481077.html
1988 Ford Crown Victoria Country Squire LX
http://reviews.cnet.com/4660-10863-6481080.html
10:36 PM
Geeks.com offers the new "thing": http://www.geeks.com/pix/2006/geekthing.html?sourceid=qIqiRC4eG6i-AnqQSzSQ&cm_ven=CJ&cm_pla=0041586763
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=geekthing&cm_mmc=geekmail-_-daily_html-_-31mar06_GEEKTHING-_-GEEKTHINGmain
12:09 AM
www.leakymug.com
Emerson and Melissa Anelli, due to constant pressure by slash fanfic writers, have married and merged their sites.
www.homestarrunner.com
It's... upside down. That's all I can see.
1:15 AM
You missed Zawodny defecting from Yahoo to Google.
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006571.html
1:30 AM
http://www.fark.com has a rotation going, including "the hottest frog porn on teh intarwebs"
http://www.google.com/romance - 'nuff said, I think.
7:55 AM
http://www.mySiteFeed.com is adding new features to their automatic RSS Feed generator service. Instead of just scanning your website and creating a RSS Feed from the content, they will now also scan your answering machine, your spouse's wallet, and your diary. To get the new service, create your feed(2 easy steps) and click on the "Gottcha" button.
8:35 AM
No hoax: Google released another April Fool's joke after Google Romance -- Aliens on Google Earth. Just search for "area 51" and scroll a bit to the left to find two blue aliens BBQ'ing and washing their UFO.
8:04 PM
A subtle one:
Gullible.info, which usually has trivia that seems unlikely and is false, today has trivia that seems unlikely and is true. (Although I have seen the cat-falling study discredited.)
3:47 AM
My point of view; the most foolish is that Apple hasn't announced any new product or any special event at that day, though it's Apple's 30th anniversary.
4:11 PM
Another great round up can not wait for next years!
11:51 AM
This year's April Fool's Day seems to largely have been a let-down. But then, how can you really top Gmail?
11:20 AM
Awesome roundup! I missed a few of these.
6:34 AM
Interesting list. I did notice the "Wordpattern" gag on my Wordpress site. I groaned.
3:24 AM
Why is that YAWN?: Slashdot finds its feminine side (yawn!)
'Males can express themselves online better than in real life?' - is that the resoning behind that?
So what if you're a female that doesn't feel comfortable in the real world then? Maybe men should separte the internet into MALE-SIDE/ FEMALE-SIDE then so they don't have to come accross our FLUFFY pages??
9:33 AM
I wrote the "yawn" because I was disappointed and embarrassed by Slashdot's stereotyping of girl culture as dumb and pink and flowery, which really only alienates more women from the geek community.
1:38 AM
Useful site. Thanks!
3:23 AM
Useful site. Thanks!
7:15 AM
If you want to see a great April Fool's joke, do check out youtube's "Featured Videos" today. That's hilarious!