Comments on: Best Holiday

Best Holiday

Urgo — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:24:23 -0800

Today by far is my favorite holiday. It's the one day that webmasters get to be creative and do things that normally wouldn't fit with their sites general themes. For example, Google attempts a high tech way of quenching peoples thirsts, Wikipedia sells out to Britannica, a RFC is written on Morality, and much much more!

By: fenriq

fenriq — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:28:39 -0800

It was excellent, a great post, until those final two self-links. Since it's not April Fool's here yet, off with your head. Sorry, nothing personal.

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:31:56 -0800

Well...we did link to him last year ... as he points out...

By: Urgo

Urgo — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:32:05 -0800

Sorry. Its my first FPP.. Someone else posted my site on mefi last year. I worked my butt off then to keep the page updated and will do the same this year. Each link is verified to make sure its real by me. Last years page had over 400 links. Oh, and it is April Fools Day in most places by now. =]

By: gsteff

gsteff — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:43:06 -0800

True to form, Google is apparently using today to announce that they're adding another gigabyte of storage to Gmail. Hotmail and Yahoo have barely caught up to the first GB; if I worked for them, I'd be embarassed.

By: sbutler

sbutler — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:46:35 -0800

Best one I remember was that year K5 and MeFi launched a new site (M3t4Filter maybe?). I was only a kurobot then, but rusty got me. Ohh... and I hate April 1st.

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:48:44 -0800

Hotmail and Yahoo have barely caught up to the first GB; if I worked for them, I'd be embarassed. Because its only about size? Then I guess they should all be embarassed when faced by the Biker Search Engine and its 1TB(!) email storage. Right.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:48:47 -0800

ermmm...the "you have new messages" link on the wikipedia one is NSFW!

By: Navek Rednam

Navek Rednam — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:48:54 -0800

The Privacy Policy on the Google Gulped page is hilarious.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:54:20 -0800

Even better than the privacy policy is the answer to Q11 on the google gulp faq: 11. When will you take Google Gulp out of beta?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:56:48 -0800

I'm too lazy to do anything this year, but I realized yesterday that the mefi bought by Google pages still work. I'll let this self-link go, but I took out the duplicate one and labelled the first one properly. This one's an oldie but a goodie: religious leaders against daemons in OS X.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:59:12 -0800

Actually, I'll just lose the self-link. Feel free to post links to them here or go to urgo's site if you must.

By: Jerub

Jerub — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:09:30 -0800

thinkgeek continues the tradition.

By: glider

glider — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:09:34 -0800

My interns got in on the action... (note: some graphic pictures)

By: bobo123

bobo123 — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:18:34 -0800

Just noticed Gmail.com is offering an infinity +1 storage plan.

By: sbutler

sbutler — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:23:06 -0800

Just noticed Gmail.com is offering an infinity +1 storage plan. Actually, the size of my account has been increasing along with the counter for little over an hour now. Gotta love Gmail.

By: keswick

keswick — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:38:52 -0800

That ring finger amputation is just an April Fool's joke, right? RIGHT?

By: loquacious

loquacious — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:59:32 -0800

Ah ha! I see your Google is bigger than mine.

By: LondonYank

LondonYank — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 02:15:27 -0800

Betcha didn't realize that the Bush twins have enlisted and are on their way to Iraq...

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 02:55:08 -0800

boring boring heh.

By: a_day_late

a_day_late — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:44:15 -0800

Hotmail and Yahoo have barely caught up to the first GB; if I worked for them, I'd be embarassed. I just checked and my free Yahoo account (which I never use) and it shows 2 gigs available space. FWIW. Disclosure: my ISP is SBC/Yahoo.

By: sailoreagle

sailoreagle — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 04:05:16 -0800

Opera Announces Platform-Independent Real-Time Speech Technology.

By: Chunder

Chunder — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 04:59:40 -0800

I put my ring finger in Clive’s mouth and he put his ring finger in my mouth with our teeth resting right on the last joint. We looked in each other’s eyes, nodded, and bit down as hard as we could. It was a little disappointing because we couldn’t actually get all the way through, but we did pop the joint open and tear it a little. We cut the rest, just some skin and the tendon, the normal way Ewww - glider, I *really* didn't want to have to read that... so I'll share it with everyone. Nasty. :-) Other than that, it's all pretty funny stuff!

By: shoepal

shoepal — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:05:20 -0800

This is a priceless dig at the autolink controversy: 5. Well, shouldn't Auto-Drink™ be default-off? You mean we should cripple a perfectly useful feature just because of a little bad PR? 6. Yes. Okay. (from the FAQ for Google Gulp).

By: kika

kika — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:05:52 -0800

I like the April 1 [!] after every post. Like it's a sic joke. And it's my birthday on top of that!

By: louie

louie — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:53:25 -0800

Sadly, the internet archive doesn't have any of the old sun.com front pages- they used to have fun today, back when they still had a soul. :)

By: darsh

darsh — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 06:00:55 -0800

White cars banned in capital city (bugmenot registration -hippo/kiboko)

By: Jim Jones

Jim Jones — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 06:09:04 -0800

From Google Gulp: 9. I mean, isn't this whole invite-only thing kind of bogus? Dude, it's like you've never even heard of viral marketing. Heh.

By: sciurus

sciurus — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 06:20:28 -0800

I'm now in love with Gillian Hyde.

By: trharlan

trharlan — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 06:46:36 -0800

Urgo, with all due respect, which is not much, I know less about the net, the web, and non-web protocols than you'll ever know. I don't even know what an RFC is!

By: fenriq

fenriq — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:15:38 -0800

Crikey, now I look like even more of a dinkus. Thanks #1!

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:27:56 -0800

Dinosaur Comics has been replaced by A Softer World 2 which is apparently softer than A Softer World.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:34:50 -0800

a_day_late, if you have SBC/Yahoo as your ISP, you get a free upgrade to the Mail Plus account, which is $20/year for everyone else. The free ones for someone unaffiliated are still only 250 MB, going up to 1 GB "soon".

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:38:26 -0800

Water on Mars

By: skynxnex

skynxnex — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 08:07:39 -0800

Don't forget to read Foxtrot, Pearls Before Swine, and Get Fuzzy...

By: chime

chime — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 08:10:43 -0800

I would not have minded Urgo self link on the front page. I actually got that url from Slashdot. It's not a typical blog entry.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 08:36:31 -0800

Homestarrunner has went to a subscription system.

By: darsh

darsh — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 08:59:57 -0800

(HRH) Charles offered 'real job'

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:17:41 -0800

Secretariat Joseph "Cup of Joe" Stalin is expected to quickly industrialize the new Wikipædia, and purge those that opposed his unanimous election to the position of Secretariat.

By: Ugh

Ugh — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:41:10 -0800

Also, some reality tv jokes including "Blog Writers Star in New MTV Series" (4 items down).

By: graventy

graventy — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:30:51 -0800

I really enjoyed the three comic gag, but it would've been cool with more comics involved. An entire page with the same ouija joke would've been awesome.

By: barjo

barjo — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 14:15:19 -0800

Kirstie Alley has her own poetry blog. And other celebrity in-jokes from teevee.org.

By: Saucy Intruder

Saucy Intruder — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 14:19:12 -0800

Making Fiends - now in Russian!

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:18:29 -0800

Here's a big scoop on an Animation Blog: "Passion High". (I previously added this to the wrong thread)

By: fenriq

fenriq — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:36:33 -0800

CNET Reviews the new iTreoPod Apple and PalmOne team up on the ultimate hybrid phone but skimp a bit on the form factor.