April 1st is always a fun day for technologists. Pranks, jokes, and spoofs have a special place in many geek’s hearts, and what could be more enticing than an entire day devoted to it? The allure is difficult for many to ignore, thus on April 1st productivity essentially goes through the floor as those who have devised something for the holiday release it to the world, and everyone else is constantly distracted as they are forwarded links for each newly-discovered April Fools prank on the Intercloud. On April 1st, it’s quite hard to stay focused…
Here’s my April Fools 2010 link roundup:
- Google renames itself to “Topeka”
- Lots of ThinkGeek items, as usual.
- F-Secure’s internal sample management interface joke
- F-Secure’s Rick-roll Protector
- XKCD console interface / MUD (tons of commands…)
- Razer Venom intravenous gaming stimulant
- YouTube text mode
- CERN LHC discovers a “paleoparticle”
- EFF time-travels to support robots’ digital liberties
- Metasploit’s new Cyber Warfare business model
- egypt’s “earsplitter” Metasploit Cyber War module
- Moog Auto De-tune
- L0pht’s Pwr2Own Pwn2Own spoof.
- AMD “lottery core” CPUs
- Solar minimum/maximum vulnerability in Juniper SRX
- Upside down kernel.org
- deadmau5 vs. Felix daHousecat
- Man from the future at the LHC
- Woot.com moves to “choose your own adventure” format
- Fermilab’s “unprecedented day without an outage” (among others)