april fools: the best of the best

[weekender]

anyone seen any good april fools today?

first ones out of the box -
BlueToothBrush (http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/BLUBRU.htm)
LA Pro Foil (http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/LAPRIF.htm) - geddit? LA-pro-foil?
Mobile razor (http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/MOBRAZ.htm)

great!

[weekender]

a nuclear bomb filled with chickens (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3588465.stm)? come on bbc!

[piersk]

Have you been searching the web for them or did you just come across them?

[weekender]

just came across them. the iwoot ones from their mailshot, and i always read the bbc website in the morning

[weekender]

police strap mini speed cameras to hawks to catch speeding motorists (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004150977,00.html)

[piersk]

In 8 minutes time (approx), it will be midday here in the UK (and other countries that use GMT as their time scale), thereby meaning that (traditionally) people have to stop their pranks.

However, if I do something that catches out a load of people in another timezone, do I have to cease the prank at 12pm my time or theirs?

Interesting point methinks...

[weekender]

well considering we're now on BST rather than GMT (assuming guildford isn't as backward as some people may think), then you actually have another hour until midday GMT

[piersk]

Originally posted by weekender
assuming guildford isn't as backward as some people may think

Cheeky... I meant BST

[pyro]

Did you guys hear about Douglas Bowman (http://www.stopdesign.com/) stealing Dave Shea's (http://www.mezzoblue.com/) design?

[goldbug]

Originally posted by pyro
Did you guys hear about Douglas Bowman (http://www.stopdesign.com/) stealing Dave Shea's (http://www.mezzoblue.com/) design?

Yeah, that's good stuff. More web standards goofs: http://webstandards.org/

[piersk]

Originally posted by weekender
a nuclear bomb filled with chickens (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3588465.stm)? come on bbc!

Apparently, this wasn't a joke (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3589239.stm)

[LordShryku]

None of you get the thinkgeek news? There's the PC Easy Bake Oven (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/ezbake.shtml), the PC Habicase (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/habicase.shtml), or the Infinite Power Generator (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/zero.shtml).

Anyone use 1337 900913 (http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/)?


Also, a message from Axel Thimm to the MythTV group:

Dear MythTV users,

I was gladly packaging mythtv and supporting software into rpms to
ease installation, but will have to immedately cease to do so. The
next apt-get update/upgrade/dist-upgrade will erase the mythtv rpms
from your system.

The reason is that a big US software company with large interest in
the PVR market under a non-Unix OS wants to see MythTV dead, and made
me an offer I cannot resist.

As I assumed that many of you would simply not update anymore, I
implanted a virus in the latest MythTV rpms that will wipe all your
recordings within the next days. I will also start DoSing Isaac's web
site to make sure noone gets the tarballs anymore.

Please choose a proper operating system and a commercial solution for
your PVR setup. Resistance is futile.

BTW what day is it? ;)
--
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

[Merve]

I am so getting a PC EZ-bake oven...i am wasting valuable surfing time grabbing snacks from the kitchen!

[goldbug]

Originally posted by LordShryku
Also, a message from Axel Thimm to the MythTV group:

Meh, april fools joke or not... RPMs suck. :D
It's hard to beat the simplicity of 'emerge mythtv' :)

[LordShryku]

His RPM is actually nice. Wish I had found it earlier. Picks up _all_ of the dependancies and throws it into a nice package. Think it's up to about 62 components in the RPM. At least, last time I checked...

More thinkgeek goodness:
The Gastron Hunger Eliminating remote Control (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/gastron.shtml )
A place to store your computer viruses (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/virus.shtml )
Beat that caffeine addiction! (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/caffederm.shtml )

[goldbug]

Well, I'm finding it hard to beat gentoo's ebuilds for mythtv+hauppauge cards
One could theoretically just do:

emerge lirc mythtv
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge ivtv

and pull everything in right after system install. I did close to that (manually installed ivtv + hauppauge firmware -- ivtv ebuild didn't exist at the time), and it's worked solid.

[dalecosp]

Originally posted by LordShryku
Think it's up to about 62 components in the RPM. At least, last time I checked...[/url] 62? Why, that's probably more than `cd /usr/ports/misc/instant-workstation && make install clean' ....

:D

Seriously, though, LordS, I appreciate you and weekender sharing the linkz .... :)