On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 11:24, Ben Ostrowsky wrote:
> > As I stand here with my laptop atop a box in a server romstorage hole, I
> > find myself wondering what neat things Google, and Slashdot are going to
> > come up with for today...
>
> Well, there's an Omniscience Client RFC at ISI, mentioned on Slashdot.
> There's a Copernicus Base job opening at Google, and of course smaller jests
> at SLUGgers' offices, no doubt.
>
> I sent mail from the director's account to everyone but myself, asking
> everyone to please gather in his office at 9am to find out about an April
> Fool's joke aimed at me. Many people actually did show up, although the
> director had been tipped off when our office manager reminded him that he
> also had a conference call at 9am.
>
> And then I told a user-group mailing list (not this one) that it would be
> turned over to the vendor they love to trash, as a result of a cease and
> desist letter which was really just a PDF saying "April fool!" in big letters.
>
> Fooling people is easy -- as easy as a trip to Venus!
>
> Ben
www.thinkgeek.com always has some good ones, and this year is no
different... I especially like the remote hunger eliminator with 802.11
support for wireless web-based hunger control.
I gave a friend of mine the idea of changing all of his users' login
shells to MudSH overnight, I have yet to hear the screams as processes
fight back against kill and wizards and force fields enforce file
permissions. http://www.xirium.com/tech/mud-shell
Tyler
-- > Sorry, at this point we are not allowed to publish the source code
of the > lcs and qeth drivers (due to the use of confidential hardware
interface > specifications). We make those modules available only in
binary form > on our developerWorks web site. > Gosh. I didn't know you
guys were so advanced that you didn't use an electronic hardware
interface! Your 'hardware interface specifications' use
magnetohydrodynamics, and they are top-secret, right? - Richard B.
Johnson on linux-kernel
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