So, if you visited here yesterday, April 1st, 2009 you would have seen this:
It’s Netsua, but it was backwards. Well, actually, it was a screenshot of Netsua.com flipped backwards. If you missed it (which makes sense seeing as I haven’t really posed in 3 weeks :-/), you can still see what it looked like at this link.
And here were some of the April Fools day related links I also posted on that page:
Click me (April Fools Day on Wikipedia) and me! (Five April Fool’s Day office prank videos) me three! (Funny April Fool’s joke on a typography blog) and me? (The virus that was supposed to infect millions of people on April Fools Day)
April Fools Day is an awesome day, and it’s always great to see what the web does. YouTube was upside down, which was incredibly awesome. (You can still do it by adding “&flip=1″ to the end of any YouTube video URL)
Also, be sure to check out my April Fool’s jokes from last year, and the year before.
After numerous rounds of ‘We don’t even know if Osama bin Laden is still alive’, Osama himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own hand writing to let him know he was still in the game. Bush opened the letter and it contained a single line of coded message:
370H-SSV-0773H
Bush was baffled, so he e-mailed it to Condoleezza Rice. Condi and her aides had not a clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it at the FBI so it went to the CIA, and then to MI6. Eventually they asked the Mossad (Israeli intelligence) for help. Within a minute the Mossad emailed the White House with this reply:
‘Tell the President he’s holding the note upside down.
I think this short documentary taken backstage from SNL’s last episode shows a more “real” John McCain than the one we’ve been seeing during this election:
Of course, then there’s also the opening sketch with John McCain and Tina Fey as Sarah Palin plus McCain on Weekend Update.
Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog actually isn’t a blog, but a 3 part online mini-series-show-thing. I’ll do my best to explain it. It’s about a guy who’s an evil genius and wants to take over the world, and the vlog that he has where he posts updates on his newest evil inventions, including the Freeze Ray which can freeze people and other things. But he’s also a normal guy who has a crush on the girl at the dry cleaner’s. And it’s also a musical.
I know, totally random. It’s by Joss Whedon (who made Firefly, Serenity, and an episode of The Office) and this apparently came out of the writer’s boredom that Whedon faced during the writer’s strike. It’s a completely independently-funded project and… it’s very interesting. Even though it has a weird and crazy plotline, it works. Here’s the trailer:
[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=mXI3obHfwgU]
You can watch each of the 15-minute episodes for free using Hulu’s excellent player at DrHorrible.com or download each of them on iTunes for $2 each. (A bit much, considering each is only 15-minutes long) But hurry, because the free online episodes will disappear Sunday night and be replaced by a download method that can actually pay for all the people who worked on the show.
Even though the set-up is incredibly weird, for the most part the musical vlog love story works for the most part. I liked the first two acts better than the third, but that isn’t a reason to not watch this fresh and exciting show – both because of it’s content and because of it’s distribution method.
Austen Saltz is a 16-year-old high school student and geek. He lives in New York City with his parents and is interested in filmmaking and technology.
Netsua is his personal blog and website, where he writes about a variety of topics that interest him. The word "Netsua" is in fact Austen's name spelled backwards. It literally translates from gibberish to "Greatness on the level of Austen."
In addition to Netsua, Austen also writes for the mac application blog MacApper.
(The virus that was supposed to infect millions of people on April Fools Day)
