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Tag: april fools

  • Fools Mode

    I'd completely forgotten that my website pranks visitors on April Fools' Day with a randomly-selected one of a selection of "features" until I went to it myself and got "party mode".

    So yeah, this year I managed to April Fools' myself.

    Read more (41 words)

    • Note
    • posted 1 April, 2026
  • I was experimenting with VP8/VP9 WebM video transparency and I made a stupid thing: a URL that, if you go to it, means you'll he followed around my blog by a video of me just hanging out in the corner of the page - https://danq.me/?fool_id=06

    I've added it to my list of "stupid/random things that can happen if you visit my blog on April Fools' Day": https://danq.me/fools/

    Full image of Screenshot of DanQ.me, with a transparent video overlay of Dan in the bottom right corner, waving.
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    Screenshot of DanQ.me, with a transparent video overlay of Dan in the bottom right corner, waving.

    • Note
    • posted 21 February, 2025
  • Dan poses in front of circa 1999 and present-day copies of his blog, both showing posts from January 1999.

    Blogging Like It's 1999

    After looking at a 1999 screenshot of my blog, I was inspired to implement an alternate theme for my blog today, that brings back the feel of the Web of the last millenium. And you can try it!

    Read more - about 4 minutes (748 words)

    • Article
    • 4 comments
    • posted 27 July, 2024
  • DanQ.me in "Party Mode", with ludicrous colour patterns.

    April Features!

    The start of April's a perfect time for a "Spring refresh" of a personal website. This year, I'm enabling a handful of experimental new features; visit DanQ.me and you might randomly be selected to try one out!

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 31 March, 2024
  • (Fake) letter from Boris Johnson stating that the government's new policy is just to write-off 2020 and carry on from 2021, after the coronavirus crisis has passed.

    Dan receives a second letter from the Prime Minister, and fully backs the government's bold new strategy.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (20 words)

    • Note
    • 1 comment
    • posted 1 April, 2020
  • Watch out! There's a cleverly-crafted link going about this morning that, if you click it, automatically kicks you out of the MegaLounge!

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    • Repost
    • posted 1 April, 2015
  • Best April Fools Pranks 2011

    Dan points out some of his favourites among the April Fools' pranks from around the web this year.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 1 April, 2011
  • Image representing post: Dan's April Fools' Jokes This Year

    Dan's April Fools' Jokes This Year

    After JTA and I's monster plan for a great April Fools' joke got rained-off this year (maybe another year), I just had to go ahead with two smaller April Fools' gags this year.



    The Photocopier Prank

    A nice simple joke at the expense of the people in the office building I work in (and far less complex โ€ฆ

    Read more - about 4 minutes (792 words)

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 1 April, 2010
  • My April Fools

    I've always had a thing for big, overcomplicated April Fools' gags. Traditionally, we'd always play pranks on Penbryn Halls at the University, but it's not so easy these days to gain access to halls of residence, now that they've installed door locks that don't open by themselves when you so much as breathe hard on โ€ฆ

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1027 words)

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 2 April, 2008
  • Google's April Fool...

    ...seems to be to not text me me Google Calendar alerts this morning. So I didn't get reminded to put the bins out, which I've kind-of come to rely on. Whoops!

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    • posted 1 April, 2008
  • Chicken-Heated Atomic Weapons, And Quake [TM] For Those Who Miss Text-Based Adventures

    [this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]

    [further fragments were recovered on 13 October 2018]

    Two fantastic bits of funny news for you this April Fool's morning:

    1. A seven-ton atomic landmine, designed to prevent Soviet advance through โ€ฆ

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    • posted 1 April, 2004

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