Some of the better April 1 articles

[yendi]

TidBits, a Mac news e-letter, always does a great April 1 issue. Today's is over here. Mightywombat, in particular, should get a kick out of the renamed Mac OSX 10.4 (formerly Tiger). "We knew those rumor sites would never be able to guess this one, not in a million years. It's not a cat! It's not even fierce!" said Jobs. "It's one of those cute little marsupials from Australia."

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, showing water on Mars, is priceless.

Google is now selling Google Gulp (with Auto-Drink) in four flavors, including Glutamate Grape.

The Motley Fool, whose finanical advice has normally been against such things, has started a lottery.

Ambrosia, one of the better Mac software companies, has release Screen Cleaner Pro. They even got MacWorld to plant a fake review. The program itself is actually pretty ingenious -- Mac users should download it, run it, and keep using the computer for the ten minutes or so it takes to "work."

Teevee.org has turned into a celebrity blog site for the day.

And, of course, Kingdom of Loathing has finally given in and started selling ads. This battle sponsored by the McGriddle! :-)

I'm sure there's plenty of other good ones out there.

Comments

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you saw, but I'm collecting 'em today.

[yendi]

I hadn't (late-night posts are the ones I'm least likely to notice). I've added all the ones that hadn't been posted (everything but APOD, I think) to your post.

[tidesong.livejournal.com]

Scientific American's "decision" to throw in the towel on evolution (http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?SID=mail&articleID=000E555C-4387-1237-81CB83414B7FFE9F&chanID=sa006) is pretty good, too, though you have to be a member to read the whole thing.

[yendi]

Fortunately, the article's been reposted in lots of places (here, for example).

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

slashdot (slashdot.org) also has a list of articles, some,although not all,about Mac.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Well, Jick was not exactlr raking in the dough with donations.

Plus the computer I'm using won't let me into the site, and when I check the source code, I only seem to get a couple of lines of code, so something is whack.

[yendi]

They're fake ads -- he's not selling real space, and he's probably violated a few copyrights.

That said, I just got in fine.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

yes, i heard they were fake, after I sent my comment to you

the problem lies on this computer, probably the fire wall settings, and I'm not going to monkey with them

[fornorald.livejournal.com]

*grin* I love my birthday.

[yendi]

:-) Figured you would -- the world turns upside down for it.