April 1 Roundup

Posted on April 1, 2005

Kelson

Collecting some good April Fools jokes:

NPR: New England Suffers Maple Woes
Water on Mars (via the Esoteric Science Research Center)
Star Wars Holiday Special released on DVD (via Slashdot)
My own Googolplex Theaters
Other round-ups at CNET, at Slashdot, at Urgo, and at Wikipedia

Googolplex: a virtual reality movie theater

Posted on March 31, 2005

Kelson

Here’s an interesting idea: Googolplex Theaters creates a virtual reality movie theater so that, effectively, everyone gets their own screen.

Of course, once you simulate a screen in VR, why stop there? You’ve already got 3-D in the display, and between the backlog of 3D movies and a decade or so of computer animation, there are a lot of possibilities.

April Fools Around the Net

Posted on April 1, 2004

Kelson

I’m collecting some of the April Fools jokes I’ve seen on the Net today:

Mezzoblue and Stopdesign have swapped layouts, with Stopdesign claiming originality and Mezzoblue calling foul.
NetBSD has announced their new logo — and it’s Tux!
As reported on Slashdot, the first alpha release of IF Quake, a text adventure in the style of Zork.
DeadJournal has announced selling out to LiveJournal

Updated 11:00pm

I heard a report on All Things Considered about the post office’s plan for portable ZIP codes, complete with quotes from people who want to keep their trendy Manhattan ZIP code when they move to a new city. It was done very nicely, fully in the style of an actual story.
Slashdot was full of April Fools stories today, but none were as good as the poll.
Snopes has posted a similar list of April Fools stories on the web, and they’ve collected a lot more than I have.

And that’s it. I’m going back to bed.

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April 1 Roundup

Googolplex: a virtual reality movie theater

April Fools Around the Net