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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

#51

Do a Google search for anything and look at the stats for the search. Results 1 - 10 of about 397,000,000 for anything [definition]. (0.30 microfortnights)

Only works for the english version, though. I had to go to google.co.uk, since google.com redirects me to google.cl

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

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post #47

Youtube's textp. If you haven't seen it yet somehow, many of the videos where you normally pick the resolution of the video now has a textp option, kinda hoping they keep it past april 1st.

Wow, I'd love a linux command-line tool that does something like that!

mplayer!

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

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post #47

Youtube's textp. If you haven't seen it yet somehow, many of the videos where you normally pick the resolution of the video now has a textp option, kinda hoping they keep it past april 1st.

Wow, I'd love a linux command-line tool that does something like that!

I am pretty sure you are joking but here is how to do it with mplayer. See http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html#aal... and below (on that page).

libcaca: mplayer -vo caca yourvideofile

aalib: mplayer -vo aa yourvideofile

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

#54

Reddit has a "turn admin on" link next to your username. When admin is on, you can change headlines, vote multiple times, see user's IP addresses and likelihood of being a bot or a spammer, and ban users in three different ways. And the background on comments pages is from the Sistene Chapel.

The Sistine Chapel Background is only in the Science SubReddit, which also has a lower-case t for the reddit icon. It got a chuckle out of me. :)

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

#56

I like Atlassian fourwalls. Bringing foursquare to the enterprise with developer checkins. The site is funny. "Devlopers: use our API to write your own APIs". http://atlassian.com/fourwalls

Hitler learns the truth about fourwalls: http://atlss.in/bMoCmm

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?

#57

My favorite so far is XKCDs Command Prompt. There are so many easter eggs to find, it is definitely a time killer!

I agree with everyone saying XKCD is their favorite. The easter eggs are simply brilliant. Second on my list is Reddit, for making everyone a king for a day.

SSP (Shameless Self Promotion): My top 10 april fool's day pranks of 2010 - http://www.pallab.net/2010/04/01/top-april-fools-day-jokes-o...

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