April Fools

[apomb]

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?

[SNIPERDUDE]

I've been rickrolling the crap out of facebook.
Have fun!

[apomb]

I love how the title of this thread is broken because of an april f00ls joke.

[SNIPERDUDE]

I found that quite amusing too.

[DemonWasp]

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.

[SNIPERDUDE]

Hmmm, try adding "*" to AddArt.

[Insectoid]

Apparently, this website called 'compsi.ca' got kitty littered all over their pages.

[Zeroth]

I like the kitties. I pretended I was petting one. Made me feel less pathetic.

[Zeroth]

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.

[Tony]

I have the yellow bar disabled. You will still know if some JavaScript is blocked, from the NoScript icon.

[Amailer]

Whats wrong with google analytics?

[Zeroth]

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.

[Tony]

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.

[Clayton]

Did anyone get a screenshot? I missed all the April Fool's action on CompSci this year

[Tony]

The screen shots are available from http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=20630 thread.