What is the bizarre compulsion people have, for creating fake news stories on the internet for April Fools’ day? Most of them aren’t even funny, but they are dumb. Slashdot is always littered with them, destroying my faith in nerds and geeks having any worthwhile sense of humor at all. It’s so bad that people pretty much assume every story posted today is a joke of some sort. Macsurfer has fewer joke stories but they’re even worse! U.S. Department of Homeland Security Standardizes on Macs – “…Apple stock rose $4.01 on the announcement…”
Give me a break. April Fools pranks should be mean and nasty and humiliating – cruel and unusual. Involving mayhem if possible. They may be simple, but are better if they’re elaborate. But please, don’t waste my time if they’re just plain stupid!