Wednesday, April 1, 2009

WTF? OPF (Other People's Foolin')

YOU KNOW ONE of the sucky things about being a writermole is that when the weather turns and the spring comes, you must stay inside lest the frolic take your fancy. So it is that I'm reading and re-reading scripts, having a call, and getting ready to revise a freelance draft that missed le mark, while sipping Pellegrino with lemon and feeling the Sun Beat through the solarium window. It's not being outside, but it's a pretty good second. I feel like a cat.

Anyway, another break and lo and behold, some other people's pretty funny April Fool's jokes.

Did you know that the UK Paper The Guardian is soon going all-Twitter? Or what about this fantastic on Dashboard TV service?

Meanwhile, Bill Brioux thinks Obama should solve the CBC crisis by firing the middle managers (not a bad idea.) Alex has got a modest new proposal from Konrad, Google -- who LOVES its April Fool's jokes, introduced CADIE -- a sentient computer that gets better when you hit her homepage... and then there's the Hotelicopter.

Of course, in many ways, the BBC's spaghetti harvest is still the grandaddy of them all.

Oh, and the snow in Vancouver today was not an April Fools joke. Still, let me the first Torontonian to say...ahem... HAHAH!

Anybody else got anything awesome, put it in the comments below.

7 rumbles:

ettagirl said...

this got me going for a moment:
http://blog.attacking90.com/goal-post/2009/04/01/cristiano-ronaldo-signs-contract-with-mls/

webmaster said...

i like http://www.hotelicopter.com - it's a flying hotel in a helicopter!

Valerie Meachum said...

Breakdown Services flunked plausibility, but still made me laugh. I copied it over onto my LJ.

The mom-fetish Craigslist thing, sadly, not an April fool. 0.o

Elize Morgan said...

Upside-down Youtube vids were fine for about five seconds from the you-tube front page (the videos chosen, granted, were GREAT upside down)

MCF said...

I thought this one had a deft "tache".

http://graphicdefiner.wordpress.com/

Chris said...

The evil cow Anne Coulter fell for a great one. http://mediamatters.org/items/200904020008

Jennica said...

This is my favourite favourite favourite! http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/tauntaun.html

God truly is in the details.