has anyone noticed what the big companies/corporations are up to? BBC, Google, etc?
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has anyone noticed what the big companies/corporations are up to? BBC, Google, etc?
The guardian wins hands down.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...brown-hard-man
I lol'ed my socks off
and for the select few (in fact it may only be tigs and one or two others ) who are friends of mine on FB I seem to have had a phantom pregnancy!
Kodak: Announcing AROMATOGRAPHY - An unbelievable sensory experience.
http://homepage.1000words.kodak.com/
Google Search:
Results 1 - 10 of about 432,000 for hexus. (0.52e+43 Planck times)
:)
The dead pixel one I did last year was, if I do say so myself, genius.
Alas, I didn't have time to put anything together this year :(
PC EZ-Bake oven. And no, it's not a Fermi based joke for once.
A circular camera sensor
http://www.dpreview.com/news/1004/10...ktonsensor.asp
Im not convinced that is an AF. There is video of it being demoed at NAPP this year: http://cs5.org/?p=578Quote:
Originally Posted by TheAnimus
However, what isn't clear is which version of CS it will initially appear in.
Not a big company, but at work, we got the keys to the bosses new merc and then moved his car, much fun when he thought someone had nicked it!
There was an interesting one on Absolute radio this morning, the DJ had got an ad placed saying they were looking for Matadors for the resurgance of UK Bullfighting, and then queued up a load of irate people to yell at the guy who was supposedly running it :)
Aparently they're changing it throughout the day....:Quote:
Originally Posted by dave87
Results 1 - 10 of about 431,000 for hexus. (65.50 jiffies)!
EDIT: my bad, they're actually generating them randomly... "shakes of a lamb's tail" might be my favourite so far... ;)
That it was sir, that it was. Beautifully subtle.... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Steve
I think my favourite today is http://xkcd.com - at least, I'm assuing it's an AF... ;)
[QUOTE=scaryjim;1901219]
EDIT: my bad, they're actually generating them randomly... "shakes of a lamb's tail" might be my favourite so far... ;)
I have seen 'shakes' before - in warhead design.
LHC Story - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04...ion_incursion/
guest@xkcd:/$ catQuote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim
You're a kitty!
guest@xkcd:/$
Quote:
Originally Posted by mycarsavw
Try:
etc.Code:guest@xkcd:/$ make me a sandwich
guest@xkcd:/$ sudo make me a sandwich
guest@xkcd:/$ go west
guest@xkcd:/$ vi
guest@xkcd:/$ nano
I'd personally tryQuote:
Originally Posted by Fraz
first - or if you're even more sensibleCode:guest@xkcd:/$ look
;)Code:guest@xkcd:/$ light lamp
:pCode:apt-get
find kitten
the flatland one? or the new rather groovy layout? i don't get it if its one of them :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim
This. It's not exactly the most accessible or navigable website anymore. It's perhaps not quite an April Fool's "joke", but I suspect it may be a one day special - he's done a few in the past. I have to admit that I cheated and looked at the source code to find most of the one-liners - although I did try the "sudo make me a sandwich" off my own bat, just because it was a very obvious one to implement if you were going to do an xkcd CLI front-end...Quote:
Originally Posted by MadduckUK
The comments made this one great!Quote:
Originally Posted by megah0
http://www.nursingtimes.net/nursing-...012966.article
I was sure this was an April the first joke, but then I saw the date :( :lol:
Prescription windscreens....
Com on :rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMuvQ...ayer_embedded#
XKCD is actually awesome, even apt-get moo works perfectly :D
*sulk*
xyzzy doesn't do anything on xkcd :(
try again now ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Syllopsium
The One Show did a very good april fools joke
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rtdhp
Skip to 23:42
I lol'ed :)