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| Started by | RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> |
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| First post | 2014-04-01 11:24 +0000 |
| Last post | 2014-04-02 21:10 +0200 |
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April 1st RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-01 11:24 +0000
Re: April 1st wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-04-01 11:56 +0000
Re: April 1st Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-04-01 13:53 +0000
Re: April 1st RedAcer <rredacer@gmail.com> - 2014-04-01 14:13 +0100
Re: April 1st Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-01 20:24 +0200
Re: April 1st RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-01 21:23 +0000
Re: April 1st Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-02 21:10 +0200
| From | RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> |
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| Date | 2014-04-01 11:24 +0000 |
| Subject | April 1st |
| Message-ID | <lhe7lk$73i$1@solani.org> |
Check out www.pipedot.org today, where Brian has carried on a noble tradition by redoing the site's graphics in awful colors and fonts, and called it "Pipedot Beta." Too funny. Neither Soylent nor Slashdot did that this year, which is kind of too bad. It would have been fun to see who can outdo OMG Ponies, probably the best April Fools joke ever. Brian is having the last laugh of course: he took the time to do Pipedot in proper CSS so changes like this are dead simple to make. I like slashcode, but I've got to say that OMG Ponies joke must have been damned hard to pull off given all the hardcoded stuff in the code. I'll carry on the tradition here on Usenet by posting this article in Comic Sans font. Can you see it?
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| From | wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2014-04-01 11:56 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrnljlab8.vei.ibillwilson@hat.stanno.us> |
| In reply to | #2187 |
On 2014-04-01, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote: > Check out www.pipedot.org today, where Brian has carried on a noble > tradition by redoing the site's graphics in awful colors and fonts, and > called it "Pipedot Beta." Too funny. > ... I'm just glad he didn't use too many of the other options from the "Pet peevs of web design" poll. Can you imagine if he had included <blink> tags? :)
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| From | Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> |
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| Date | 2014-04-01 13:53 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <010420141353367316%timstreater@greenbee.net> |
| In reply to | #2187 |
In article <lhe7lk$73i$1@solani.org>, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote: > I'll carry on the tradition here on Usenet by posting this article in > Comic Sans font. Can you see it? Fortunately not. -- "The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place." - Douglas Adams
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| From | RedAcer <rredacer@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2014-04-01 14:13 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <lhee2c$2fv$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #2187 |
On 01/04/14 12:24, RS Wood wrote: > Check out www.pipedot.org today, where Brian has carried on a noble > tradition by redoing the site's graphics in awful colors and fonts, and > called it "Pipedot Beta." Too funny. > > Neither Soylent nor Slashdot did that this year, which is kind of too > bad. It would have been fun to see who can outdo OMG Ponies, probably > the best April Fools joke ever. > > Brian is having the last laugh of course: he took the time to do Pipedot > in proper CSS so changes like this are dead simple to make. I like > slashcode, but I've got to say that OMG Ponies joke must have been > damned hard to pull off given all the hardcoded stuff in the code. Hmmm. That site looks ok to me? I must have bad taste :( > > I'll carry on the tradition here on Usenet by posting this article in > Comic Sans font. Can you see it? No? >
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| From | Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> |
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| Date | 2014-04-01 20:24 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <dscr0b-ga2.ln1@news.chingola.ch> |
| In reply to | #2187 |
On 2014-04-01, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote: > Check out www.pipedot.org today, where Brian has carried on a noble > tradition by redoing the site's graphics in awful colors and fonts, and > called it "Pipedot Beta." Too funny. > > I'll carry on the tradition here on Usenet by posting this article in > Comic Sans font. Can you see it? ˙ǝɯ oʇ ǝuıɟ sʞool ʇı with apologies to anyone using a newreaders without UTF-8 capability -- Paul Sture "In that case," said Napoleon, "let us wait twenty minutes; when the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him."
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| From | RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> |
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| Date | 2014-04-01 21:23 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <bq0p2bF2ql1U1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #2192 |
On 2014-04-01, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote: > On 2014-04-01, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote: >> Check out www.pipedot.org today, where Brian has carried on a noble >> tradition by redoing the site's graphics in awful colors and fonts, and >> called it "Pipedot Beta." Too funny. >> >> I'll carry on the tradition here on Usenet by posting this article in >> Comic Sans font. Can you see it? > > ˙ǝɯ oʇ ǝuıɟ sʞool ʇı > > with apologies to anyone using a newreaders without UTF-8 capability > Well done. There's a guy by the name of Jeff Relf over on news.software.readers (and elsewhere) that posts endless versions of messages like that. His stuff actually makes a good test for your newsreader to see how well it does with offbeat UTF-8 stuff, but after one or two messages it gets tiring. Happy 1st of April!
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| From | Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> |
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| Date | 2014-04-02 21:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <gt3u0b-rs92.ln1@news.chingola.ch> |
| In reply to | #2195 |
On 2014-04-01, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote: > On 2014-04-01, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote: >> On 2014-04-01, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote: >>> Check out www.pipedot.org today, where Brian has carried on a noble >>> tradition by redoing the site's graphics in awful colors and fonts, and >>> called it "Pipedot Beta." Too funny. >>> >>> I'll carry on the tradition here on Usenet by posting this article in >>> Comic Sans font. Can you see it? >> >> ˙ǝɯ oʇ ǝuıɟ sʞool ʇı >> >> with apologies to anyone using a newreaders without UTF-8 capability >> > > Well done. There's a guy by the name of Jeff Relf over on > news.software.readers (and elsewhere) that posts endless versions of > messages like that. His stuff actually makes a good test for your > newsreader to see how well it does with offbeat UTF-8 stuff, but after > one or two messages it gets tiring. I found his posts tiresome enough that he found his way into my killfile at some point. Usually it's reserved for spammers and trolls. > Happy 1st of April! Cheers. -- Paul Sture "In that case," said Napoleon, "let us wait twenty minutes; when the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him."
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