So I'm poking around and saw several of Google's April Fools this year, and I must say, Tisp is far better than CADIE.

I didn't bother with any April fools at my sites; just not into them anymore :/...

So, my question to you; what was your favourite April Fools this year? How about of all time?

Did you see w00t.com or tdwtf? Bother were marvelous.

Oh, accuratereloading.com was also supreme.

I did enjoy W00t's big bag o'crap... the million dollar shipping charges held me back though ...

I publish a fishing site. One year I redirected my site to PETA. People were freaking out, thinking the site got hacked. A local TV station even did a story on it, thinking the site really was hacked. (They never even contacted me to check.)

Other years I came up with stories like the site being sold or me not having time to do it anymore. The board was closed down entirely for the day. People freaked and the emails poured in.

Yesterday I posted a bogus story about a new world record fish that many are seeking (largemouth bass). Not as over-the-top as other years, but it got a few people.

I "backgraded" the forum at UBBDev to an earlier 5.x series - was pretty funny when people showed up

One year we forwarded everyone to one of several other sites, most everyone thought we were hacked

Now that sounds fun... Hack all of the template files and stylesheets to make a theme that looks like an old (anciently old) classic or threads build... but it running completely current code lol...

Like the template joke.

I also wanted to find a away to serve the forum upside down. It would be fully functional, just upside down.

Possible for one of you coding experts?

Here ya go...

Not sure how possible, likely some odd javascript mirroring dealieo lol

Try it - it works

No fair, you posted a minute before i did lol... Likely when i was typing

Cool. Thanks driv. I'll give it a shot.

Seems it may not be supported by a variety of browsers though ...

Granted - but it's supported by the most widely used

Not necessarily; I went to a site demo'ing a lot of the filter css3 codes, and FFox3 would only render a small few of them...

No what I mean is...

Isn't IE in all it's variants still the most widely used?


Ooops - I guess not!

FFox has about 40% marketshare on my sites... up from 20% last year...

March 2009 Standings - Browsers:
IE: 44.8 %
FFoX: 35.8 %

March 2009 Standings - OS:
Windows: 80.9 %
Mac: 4.5 %
Linux: 3.9 %

Yes - I see that now.
I haven't been keeping up with the shares!!!

...and you are correct, it doesn't work with FF.

Well, it would still cause quite a stir in the community with a half to a third saying the screen was upside down and the others saying - what the hell are you talking about???

You have a point, that could make it more fun... then you can blaim it on ie...

Wait, lets just screw with the ie people and tell them to switch to firefox lol...

Good way to skew the statistics on browser share

I just did it on my forum. The flip works in IE8 but not in Firefox 3.6.2.

pour baby powder into your wife's blow dryer

I wouldn't live to see another April Fool's day

I guess my favorite was the post that Rick was leaving.
Got me good!

i love xkcd.com

today, they have a 'console' version going

http://xkcd.com :rawk:

try typing 'vim' at the prompt :rofl:

That's pretty good.

'pwd' is pretty funny as well

lol.. this is addicting

guest@xkcd:/$ nano

Seriously? Why don't you just use Notepad.exe? Or MS Paint?

guest@xkcd:/$ emacs

You should really use vim.

guest@xkcd:/$ vim

You should really use emacs.

guest@xkcd:/$ top

It's up there --^

guest@xkcd:/$ man

Oh, I'm sure you can figure it out.

guest@xkcd:/$ help

That would be cheating!

guest@xkcd:/$ cat

You're a kitty!

Anyone got any whacked out UBB themes or ideas for a good joke this year?