Computer Science Canada April Fools |
| Author: | apomb [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:48 am ] |
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Today, i woke up to a glass of water being dumped on my floor as soon as i opened my door, green milk, and while in the shower, i was powdered with a handful of flour. [url]reddit.com[/url] looks like digg, and youtube is flipped... Anyone else have fun april fools pranks done to them/done to others? |
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| Author: | SNIPERDUDE [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:04 am ] |
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I've been rickrolling the crap out of facebook. Have fun! |
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| Author: | apomb [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:10 am ] |
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I love how the title of this thread is broken because of an april f00ls joke. |
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| Author: | SNIPERDUDE [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:35 am ] |
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I found that quite amusing too. |
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| Author: | DemonWasp [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:40 pm ] |
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A few from the office this morning, all done to coworkers: - Turned off the brightness and the individual channels on an LCD. - Swapped the monitor input cable from one video-out to the other, causing it to display "no signal" despite being plugged in. - Used a website to order prank calls on their cellphones. - Turned up a coworker's phone to the loudest setting, then called them as they were deep in concentration. - Swapped out the name tags of the group of tech writers nearby so that they all had minor spelling errors. - Added a filter for * to AdBlock (go ahead, try it, it's fun). - On Windows XP, switched to hover-select, single-click open mode (as opposed to click-select, double-click open); go to Tools -> Folder Options for that one. - On Windows XP, changed the theme so that menu bar entries were the same colour as the background, making them effectively invisible. Note: I wasn't the one doing the majority of this, nor have I been the target of a prank yet. It's all in good fun - we're friends here. |
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| Author: | SNIPERDUDE [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:02 pm ] |
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Hmmm, try adding "*" to AddArt. |
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| Author: | Insectoid [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:48 pm ] |
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Apparently, this website called 'compsi.ca' got kitty littered all over their pages. |
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| Author: | Zeroth [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:20 pm ] |
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I like the kitties. I pretended I was petting one. Made me feel less pathetic. |
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| Author: | Zeroth [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:22 pm ] |
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Oh, and any chance we could stop using google analytics? I have it permanently blocked, but noscript keeps coming up with a yellow bar. Very annoying. Google has enough info on me already. |
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| Author: | Tony [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:31 pm ] |
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I have the yellow bar disabled. You will still know if some JavaScript is blocked, from the NoScript icon. |
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| Author: | Amailer [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:57 pm ] |
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Whats wrong with google analytics? |
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| Author: | Zeroth [ Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:04 am ] |
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Google already has my email, has mirrors of all the mailing groups I'm in, Google checkout, Google documents, Blogger, and so on. They already have a massive amount of my information, which I've willingly given because I got something for free or awesome out of it. Google Analytics gives me nothing. Thus, I disallow it. Its all about being rational and weighing the costs and benefits. Google Analytics is yet another piece of javascript wanting to run in /my/ browser, wasting my bandwidth, all to track me. And I get no benefit out of it. The webmaster does, but I don't. And on compsci.ca, I figure that they don't need to be using Google Analytics. Its a forum! You don't need to track your users. |
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| Author: | Tony [ Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:08 pm ] |
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Zeroth @ Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:04 am wrote: Its a forum! You don't need to track your users.
Analytics doesn't track individual users (at least it doesn't tell me that information, nor would I want to). It's just averages and trends. Recently we've used Analytics to look up average length-of-visit time, and tune the rate at which kittens appeared, from that datapoint.  |
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| Author: | Clayton [ Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:07 pm ] |
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Did anyone get a screenshot? I missed all the April Fool's action on CompSci this year  |
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| Author: | Tony [ Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:09 pm ] |
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The screen shots are available from http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=20630 thread. |
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| Author: | Clayton [ Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:11 pm ] |
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Just saw them now. Interesting. Did they just pop up, or was there an entrance animation?  |
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| Author: | Dan [ Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:19 pm ] |
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Clayton @ 2nd April 2009, 3:11 pm wrote: Just saw them now. Interesting. Did they just pop up, or was there an entrance animation?
There was a timmer (every 0.25 to 0.3) witch would call a function that had about a 1/1250 chance to do somthing. Noramly it would put up an animated gif but it could also change the css to make things pink or in very rare cases replace words randomly. Also the word cesor was set to send some keywords to an upside down youtube page of an hello kitty amv. |
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| Author: | apomb [ Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:01 pm ] |
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yeah, the phrase "april fools" was linked to that upside down youtube video, which gave me an idea for a facebok status rickroll. |
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| Author: | SNIPERDUDE [ Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:29 am ] |
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Here's to rickrolling. |
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| Author: | apomb [ Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:51 am ] |
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I realize that rickrolling is so 2008, but i couldnt resist. There needs to be a new meme that goes mainstream this year... off to 4chan I go! |
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