Fooled to tears
Peter has it right about April Fool's day. It'd be one thing if most of the April Fools jokes were understated and/or funny but by and large they're not. Today has seen a massive deluge of some of the worst jokes I've seen in a long time - subtlety is all but lost.
For a textbook example of what not to do, you need only visit slashdot.org today. 56 or so news entries so far today, and the most recent ones are coming in every few minutes so clearly they're favoring quantity over quality. What's most annoying about them in particular is that, because I read them in an RSS aggregator (PulpFiction), it essentially acts like spam does for e-mail.
I'm protesting and calling this April Douchebag's Day. Who's with me? ;-)
Comments
I hate April Fools Day, I hated it when I was younger and now the internet gives you an all new reason to hate it. Maybe there is something about being a touch gullible that does it...
Posted by: Kent Miller | April 1, 2005 08:12 PM
It's one thing when you are a little kid to come up with wild "lies" that are the least little bit plausible and then yell "April Fool" when someone steps into it. But that's a childish game and I got over it about 40 years ago.
Posted by: suellen | April 1, 2005 10:32 PM
Hmm, the UTF-9 RFC was not too bad...
Posted by: Anonymous & Coward | April 2, 2005 02:24 AM