{"id":1065,"date":"2003-04-01T17:52:43","date_gmt":"2003-04-02T09:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/02\/april-fools\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:42:58","slug":"april-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/01\/april-fools\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14989,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.museumofhoaxes.com\\\/top100.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/hoaxes.org\\\/top100.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14990,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=03\\\/04\\\/01\\\/2154213&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=03\\\/04\\\/01\\\/2154213&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14991,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.museumofhoaxes.com\\\/newsletter\\\/nov2002.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/hoaxes.org\\\/newsletter\\\/nov2002.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14992,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/comments.pl?sid=59259&amp;cid=5642155&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14993,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/hacks.mit.edu&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260114150507\\\/http:\\\/\\\/hacks.mit.edu\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 09:26:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 05:17:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 05:17:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14994,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/comments.pl?sid=59259&amp;cid=5642084&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Well, yeah, okay, so it&#8217;s the 2^nd^ now. In lieu of actually posting any sort of joke, a few fun April Fool&#8217;s links:<\/p>\n<p>First off, two self-links (because my ego is just <em>that<\/em> out of control). Neither of these were April Fools posts, but they fit in with the spirit of the day &#8212; just me having fun.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/hippies_on_mars.html\" title=\"Hippies on Mars!\">Hippies on Mars!<\/a> Inspired by a photograph of Mars that, because of false-color imaging that made it look like a tie-dye pattern, I mangled a NASA press release. Groovy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/05\/mars_needs_a_fa.html\" title=\"Mars needs a facelift!\">Mars needs a facelift!<\/a> After seeing some high-resolution pictures of the Cydonian &#8220;face&#8221; on Mars that effectively proved that it didn&#8217;t really look like a face after all, I decided that that wasn&#8217;t nearly entertaining enough. The end result is still one of my favorite pieces of inspired sillyness. I did my best to write the entire piece from the mindset of your typical conspiracy\/UFO kook, and apparently pulled it off &#8212; one reader told me that until my giveaway lines at the end, he was convinced I was entirely off my rocker. High praise indeed, under the circumstances!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Other fun links:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofhoaxes.com\/top100.html\" title=\"Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time\">The top 100 April Fool&#8217;s Day hoaxes of all time<\/a>, from the Museum of Hoaxes. Some of these I&#8217;d heard of before, some I hadn&#8217;t. Quite a few are worth a giggle. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/04\/01\/2154213\" title=\"\/.: Top 100 Hoaxes of all time\">\/.<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Also from the Museum of Hoaxes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofhoaxes.com\/newsletter\/nov2002.html\" title=\"Top Ten College Pranks of All Time\">the top ten college pranks of all time<\/a>. The number one spot is well deserved, and the number ten spot has amused me for a few years, though I never knew it was originally an MIT prank. Learn something new every day! (via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=59259&amp;cid=5642155\" title=\"\/.: Re: MIT Hacks\">tbmaddux<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/hacks.mit.edu\/\" title=\"Interesting hacks to fascinate people\">MIT Gallery of Hacks<\/a> tracks the best of the infamous MIT hacks (&#8220;a clever, benign, and \\&#8221; ethical \\&#8221; prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT community &#91;and sometimes even the rest of the world!&#93;&#8221;). People with too much intelligence and a sense of humor. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=59259&amp;cid=5642084\" title=\"\/.: MIT Hacks\">i22y<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, yeah, okay, so it&#8217;s the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> now. In lieu of actually posting any sort of joke, a few fun April Fool&#8217;s links&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}