amateur hour
[bitching]
posted by tom / April 01, 2006 / 
This April Fool's stuff has got to stop — on the internet, at least. Every year I dread this day a little more. It's not that the idea is a bad one, it's that the execution of most of the jokes/hoaxes is terrible. Just look at these PZ Myers hoaxes. Or this TechCrunch post. Or, worst of all, today's Slashdot. It's disgraceful: the same unfunny joke repeated over and over and over, at the cost of what was obviously considerable effort.
It makes me sad. Or maybe I'm just hungover and cranky. Definitely one of those, though.
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Ever see EchoDitto's prank last year, courtesy Mike and Jen?
http://codesorcery.net/old/misc/040105ed.pdf
They put it up and some of us found out when the clients started calling. It was a huge hit.
Come back to the Mineshaft... and to life!
Kinda glad I didn't try anything this year -- I would've had to sit across from Tom knowing he despised my mediocre attempt at humor. I hope you don't think any less of me for trying last year.
well, here in the light of an un-hungover day I'm feeling better about the whole april fool's thing. I like the Tom Delay one. And the fact that a lot of Gawker's sites went zombie-centric for 4/1 was pretty good, I think. It was really just the Slashdot thing that sent me into a spiral of rage.
But slashdot is never funny.
True, but they usually have the good sense to confine their unfunny-ness to a single sentence of unitalicized text at the end of each story. Taking the time to make the entire site useless is a new development.
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