April Fool's

Is anything tougher than being an internet user on April 1st? Every year we hear reports of things wild and wacky - which we quickly pass on - only to remember too late that it is April Fool's Day. I usually do a pretty good job of saving face, but only because I'm slow to post. If I were more ambitious there would definitely be blog evidence of my gullibility.

All I have so far:
BoingBoing Spoof
April Power Hacks!

And a collection of online April Fool's pranks.

THE MEATRIX

This is an advocacy film about the practices involved in modern factory farming. Even more fun, it's a spoof of The Matrix. The video clip is a few minutes long, but nicely scripted and subtly funny.
Check out: THE MEATRIX

G. B. Shaw

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. G.B Shaw"
Link.:

I am a Total Geek

It's official. I even have the proof. My score of 33% placed me squarely within the range of "Total Geek".
Take the test, let me know your score.
INNERGEEK: home of the Geek Test

I'm a Genius (Sometimes)

Every so often I stumble onto brilliance. This is one of those times. Sadly, I lack the motivation and the know-how to pull this off...so feel free to pawn this idea as your own and reap the glorious rewards.
Hold a photo contest in the Subway system of any major city. All of you meet at a specific station at 11:00am, pay your few bucks to ride around for a few hours and meet at a totally separate station somehwere across the city whenever you are done. As a group go for a few drinks and then (depending on your access to technology) have a gallery of what you shot.
I think it would be pretty cool.
(Inspiration from here and here.)

London

Over the hurried feet bridge and into the rushing across the wet city -
taxi cabs and big, red, slippery bus streets.
So many stories.
Bad coffee through a window sipped at St. Paul's slowly gazing.
Busy back-and-forth wet hair of dripping traffic on the street -
a river runs through it.
Fleet Street heads down, dailies hawked splashing in the rain.
Construction briefcases everywhere, in every hand.
Where is the Strand?
(2005)

Jason Bradbury: World's First Phone Glove!

Look what I found.

Makes you wonder where technology will leave spy films.
Jason Bradbury: World's First Phone Glove!
This site will walk you through the construction of your very own glove phone. It has a switch in the knuckle that allows the phone to be answered with a flick of the wrist. Connects to any phone with Bluetooth. A whole new meaning to the term "talk to the hand".

Microwave a Lightbulb

via Digg.
What happens when you microwave a lightbulb?

Free Street Fighter

via Kevin Rose and Digg.
Free Online Flash Street Fighter. Easy to play, quite addictive and you can beat up on your friends.
Here's the link.

That was a good pizza.

Wireless USB

Found on Digg.
According to a report found here, wireless USB should be ready by the end of this year. Bluetooth (the current short-range wireless networking solution) is hard to set-up and has a few compatibility problems. Those difficulties are exactly what USB exists to overcome. There is also a USB dongle that fits into a standard USB 2 port and would make any machine with a USB port capable of using USB Wireless. I just moved a few computers and I can't wait for the wireless revolution to continue.
Does this mean that USB powered devices will be able to be powered wirelessly? No? THAT would be good pizza.