¶ Yesterday was a pretty good day for April Fools. First mention has to go to all the folk who adopted the SimpleBits logo for their own site, here included:
Patrick Haney created a Flickr pool of the SimpleFools and Lauren Smith has a comprehensive list of participants. Dan himself has threatened legal action against all of us.
Other notable April Fools include:
- The fantastically tempting, and beautifully executed @media Antarctica.
- The news that WCAG 2.0 has finally become a full candidate recommendation.
- Ethan’s new hairstyle (I don’t actually know if this was an April Fool – it’s not as if it looks bad).
- The ThinkGeek 8-bit tie which they are now having to actually produce, due to public demand.
- Release of Spiekermann FF MT, the space-saving, money-saving typeface.
I’m sure there were plenty of others – any that caught your eye?
Comments
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The SimpleFools thing was quite fun, glad you joined in too. I’m sure Dan got a kick out of the whole thing. Plus I thought the @media Antarctica site was hilarious. Definitely my favorite of the day.
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I’m embarrassed to say that my own attempt at an April Fools joke backfired horribly. I won’t be trying that again next year.
http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2007/04/april-fools-joke-backfires.html
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Two that caught my eye:
http://webkit.org/blog/100/webkit-shutting-down/
http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-new-timers
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google TiSP? http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html
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The formation of “Respect the Artists Respect The Audiences (RARA)” definitely caught mine. On www.artistaudience.org this new trade group of artists, music and entertainment industry companies and hardware and device manufacturers announced a few enlightened ideas on the future of the industry:
Maybe EMI took an example ;-)….
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I thought Gmail Paper was the winner:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/
Richard – I think you’ve got at least 1 Doctor Who fan in the clearleft office… Send them across to my blog – love to know if people agree with my thoughts on the first episode :)
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Do you know how I was fooled? My boss told me that I was fired. Really funny! :(
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The worst joke as for me is here – http://pointfiveblog.com/index.php/2007/04/1246
I wasn’t joked in any way. I was at home alone
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Google’s TiSP was THE shit! I actually heard that some guy from US that had Verizon as his ISP closed his account and tried to sign up with TiSP! :D So basically he had to pay $175 to close his current account and he was so pissed about that… Oh boy!
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Max Thrane, what do you mean? I didn’t know that Google joked somehow
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Not an April fools comment but all your other threads seem to be closed and your contact form is broken.
I put together a little tool to help generate CSS with vertical rhythm: http://drewish.com/tools/vertical-rhythm
I’m hoping you can take a look at it and double check that I’m doing the math correctly when the target font size is greater than the line size.
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