matt shelton

This is very important:

Hat tip to @brainopera.

Heh.

I don’t get into April Fool’s Day. I think my nefarious side went to sleep somewhere around the time just after I saran wrapped my 12th grade area office (VP, class counselor, etc.). Since then, I can’t seem to come up with good, mysterious, (harmless) and intelligent pranks. So I just don’t bother.

I do, however, get a real kick out of what folks on the internets come up with.

For instance, QWANTZ (Dinosaur Comics), XKCD and Questionable Content are all currently redirecting their current comics’ pages to each others’ sites in a revolving “OMG WHAT HAPPEND TO TEH WORLDZ!!” sort of way that makes you seriously wonder “Did I click on the right link?”.

ThinkGeek, who has done does this every year since 2001, has come up with an excellent set of not-actually-real-but-you-want-them-to-be-real goods for your perusal. I’m digging the Defendius Labyrinth Security Lock, myself.

Last year, they featured an 8-bit tie which was so popular, they actually made one.

Slashdot usually posts some funny, totally untrue, stories. I’m not saying they necessarily forgot it was April 1st, but they do seem to be taking their sweet time.

As the digg submitter said, “I’m betting on the camel”.

This image got me thinking about how this is allegory for bringing new ideas to old organizations. In a thankfully distant past job, I found myself in exactly this situation, trying to innovate where it was nearly impossible to do so. It’s hard when you come up against a camel – they’re hard to move when they don’t want to, but when they want to, they do, and good luck stopping them. It doesn’t matter at all how shiny the car is that you happen to be driving.

My advice to those driving cars in this post’s allegorical world is simple – find a different road. You’re not going to get the camel to leave or move on your own. If there happens to be a camel-wrangler around, you may be in luck, but they have to agree with the direction in which you want to go.

Save that sadly rare scenario, if innovation and newness is important to you, go find some newness somewhere else. I wish I had followed that advice sooner!

I will not ask “What does God need with a space ship?” and then order a torpedo strike. I will order the torpedo strike first, and ponder theology on the trip home.

Taken from Viable Paradise. Many, many more funny responses taken right from the biggest, silliest plot holes in just about every Star Trek series. Awesome.

Being a fan of Wil Wheaton, I also chuckled hardily at:

I will not let the Whiz Kid conduct research aboard my ship. If he’s got a theory that he’s itching to test, I will deposit him on an uninhabited planet in friendly space, and make sure that I’m out of the system before he’s done unpacking.

Link is to an advertisement for Oogmerk opticians in the Netherlands, which is just brilliant and potentially viral.

(I don’t look like a butcher sans glasses, though admittedly I do look a few years younger!)

10	PRINT "THIS IS THE SONG THAT DOESN'T END"
20	PRINT "YES, IT GOES ON AND ON MY FRIENDS!"
30	PRINT "SOME PEOPLE STARTED SINGING IT NOT KNOWING WHAT IT WAS"
40	PRINT "AND WE'LL CONTINUE SINGING IT FOREVER JUST BECAUSE."
50	GOTO 10

Stuck. In. My. Head.

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