Comments on: April Foolin’

By: supercat

supercat — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:08:00 +0000

//Woot! The Molten Core! I want to relive that experience on my Atari 2600!!!//

I doubt there will ever be a licensed World of Warcraft on the 2600, but there have been dozens of games written for that machine in the last few years, some of which are comparable to the better games of years past. New cartridges generally cost about $25–a bargain compared with games for other systems.

It’s amazing: games have expanded in size and RAM utilization over a millionfold, and CPU speeds have increased over a thousandfold over the last 30 years (Combat was 2K RAM; the 2600 has 128 bytes of RAM and runs at 1.19MHz) but I don’t think the games on newer systems are anywhere near a thousand times as much fun as some of the old classics.

By: ClubMedSux

ClubMedSux — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:24:39 +0000

It’s a little late, but for you beer geeks out there here’s the newest offering from Stone Brewing, Oxide energy drink.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:00:01 +0000

Apparently, World of Warcraft did something funny. I have no idea what it means.

Consider yourself lucky. I found myself laughing quite hard at this and the new ‘bard’ class which mixes Warcraft playability with Guitar Hero.

Then I stopped and realized that I was a nerd.

By: Russell

Russell — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:07:09 +0000

Google’s got a Mars Colony gag going as well: http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

By: Rightshu

Rightshu — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:25:59 +0000

The best part of this one is the other tabs that are open in the background in the story photograph: Edit wars come to spy agencies’ Intellipedia

By: Nando

Nando — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:40:01 +0000

BMW came out with a funny one:

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=130296&in_page_id=34

By: Bronwyn

Bronwyn — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:12:05 +0000

Nice work from Thinkgeek - The betamax to HD-DVD converter is fantastic and you can believe I’ll be buying that USB pregnancy test!

By: Xaq Fixx

Xaq Fixx — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:59:37 +0000

Live Journal: “LiveJournal announced on the same day that they would be adding a new member to their Advisory Board, linking members to the journal “rickastley”, which contains a Rickroll.”

IsoHunt (Bit Torrent Search Engine): Isohunt has the Rick Astley video instead of their normal frontpage.

LyricWiki.org: LyricWiki has the Rick Astley video instead of their normal frontpage.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:43:54 +0000

Even wiki’s front page is playing. Very well actually. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

By: Mike Leatherwood

Mike Leatherwood — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:35:41 +0000

The NASA one was funny. Thinkgeek is playing too:
http://www.thinkgeek.com

By: Scared Stiff

Scared Stiff — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:18:40 +0000

Here’s another hilarious one for you… Astronomy Picture of the Day:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080401.html

By: Highway

Highway — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:00:58 +0000

Woot! The Molten Core! I want to relive that experience on my Atari 2600!!!