April Fools Day pranks

[Suzanne O]

Anyone been pranked by anyone else?
What was the prank?

 

[Mendalla]

Actually, it was a pretty quiet April 1 here. My boss sent out his annual April Fool's memo, but that's an annual event and I've been working for the guy for 24 years now so it is hardly going to "prank me". It's just entertainment now. This year he was proposing that we would be improving employee and patient (I work in home healthcare) engagement by partnering with a sport betting platform.

 

[zappaDPJ]

˙ɯǝɥʎɐɯ ǝʇnlosqɐ pǝsnɐɔ ɥɔᴉɥʍ ʇxǝʇ ǝɥʇ llɐ dᴉlɟ pᴉp I ɹɐǝʎ ǝuo ʇnq sɹǝqɯǝɯ ʎɯ ʞuɐɹd oʇ puǝʇ ʇ,uop I

 

[FTL]

I've not been pranked, but I wrote a couple of AF articles and also posted an AF roundup. Enjoy.

Sky to Introduce Content Skip

Sky is known to innovate for their premium TV service with advanced new features such as UHD, HDR and their Sky Q Mini boxes for multiroom TV viewing among many others. They're also known for showing an awful lot of advertising on their premium channels and some of those adverts can actually...

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Honda Developing Fully Autonomous Motorbike

With the explosion in advanced AI technology recently with self driving cars and now the likes of Microsoft's ChatGPT and Google's Bard which can write human-looking prose full of mostly accurate facts and figures, it's not surprising that Honda is developing an AI driven fully autonomous...

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April Fools roundup 2023

Here's a roundup of April Fools articles today from around the web, by The Guardian. Enjoy. :) https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2023/apr/01/megxit-to-mcnugget-boots-some-of-the-best-april-fools-day-2023-gags

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[Wildcat Media]

One year, in XF 1.5, I made all the avatars start rotating very slowly. So if you looked at the page, you didn't notice anything until you glanced over at your avatar and it had started drooping on one side.

I used to have a small application for DOS where, as you looked at the screen, letters would slowly start dropping randomly to the bottom of the screen. I wish I had a browser equivalent...