GrumbleDook Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Good morning one and all. Due to some prizes being unclaimed from BETT we have a quickie competition. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with the best example of an April 1st either in a school or done by a technology company. Should people post the same article then the first poster counts it as their entry. A limit of 3 entries per person and don't just stick the first couple you find from Google ... they are quite naff! Bonus kudos given to you if you are actually involved with it. The 2 winners will be decided by Mr DB and myself this evening with the results posted tomorrow. Go and have fun.
markwatkins Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 A contender?? BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Necklace is 'oldest in Americas'
alexknight Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 One from the manufacturer BMW. BMW Education: Company Facts Alex
markwatkins Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Very very funny Ryan... who said all ISP's were sh*t??
GrumbleDook Posted April 1, 2008 Author Posted April 1, 2008 The question is.. is this EduGeek's April Fool I truly am not that sad that this would be an April Fool.
enjay Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 How about the one on a number of news sites saying that Heathrow's new multi-million pound all-singing-all-dancing Terminal 5 is rubbish. Oh no, wait a moment....
enjay Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 There's Leader: In praise of ... paper airplanes | Comment is free | The Guardian which must surely be an April Fool that was posted a day early?!
CESIL Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 I have put a fake cctv feed on our intranet that shows a "live" scrolling image from a non-existent camera!
NewOrder Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Many years ago my Sytems Manager asked staff to help clean the network. He asked them to unplug their network cable and blow down it. He then asked everyone who had done it to email him as they would be entitled to something free. 42 email replies. Mind you when we introduced windows and a mouse, we did get somebody complain that the mouse was too small and they were scared that it was not strong enough when using it with their feet. Strange but true
Zoom7000 Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 This seems to be a pretty interesting article. Considering they were actually going to follow standards in IE8, now they have said no! Bloody Microsoft!
tech_guy Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Have you seen the BBCs 'flying' penguins one? very funny!
mrcrazy04 Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Apparently The Pirate Bay has moved to Egypt - The Pirate Bay - The world's largest BitTorrent tracker http://static.thepiratebay.org/doodles/sinai08.jpg I thought it was real for a minute - and judging by the comments - so do quite a few others! For those who may be filtered: Due to the new copyright legislation that are going to take effect from today we had to move all of the system outside of Europe. We decided to move to the desert of Sinai in Egypt since we feel that we'll be safe there. Tiamo has already got himself a permanent place to live and will reside in Sinai from now. Those of you who need to get in contact with him can use the contact page. In Sinai we've set up the systems with three redundant fibre links. Besides local connectivity in Egypt we also have connectivity to Saudi-Arabia and Israel. Jordan is quite close and we hope to install a link there as well as soon as our budget will reach that level. This way we're actually hosted in Asia as well as Africa. More updates on this will come later today, hopefully. Everything will be the same as before, we will have slightly higher latency for European and American visitors. A special note to Ifpi: Moses walked in the desert of Sinai for 40 years. Our servers will be active for at least another 40 as well.
Michael Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 RMGeek Anyone Edugeek is ruined forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kmount Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 It was only a matter of time Don't like it Shocking that the logo actually looks quite good ....
Popular Post TechMonkey Posted April 1, 2008 Popular Post Posted April 1, 2008 We've used a perl script to write messages to the printer LCD screens. We are just trying to think of a message for the office printer to really freak them out. 8
mrcrazy04 Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Have you seen the BBCs 'flying' penguins one? very funny! BBC iPlayer - Penguins
Michael Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 We are just trying to think of a message for the office printer to really freak them out. You could write tea + 2 sugars please and make it quick! I'm thirsty
mrcrazy04 Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 You could write tea + 2 sugars please and make it quick! I'm thirsty Somebody would try to pour it into the printer!
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