As you might expect, given the date, odd stories are turning up all over the Internet today. Here are some of my favorites:
- The Guardian switches to Twitter
- Google creates artificial intelligence (I wonder if they saw this last year)
- Writer Beware becomes part of the FBI
- Jeff VanderMeer writes a guide for dead writers
- Obama to bail out book industry
- Woman claims no sexual attraction to Neil Gaiman
- Prime Books launches a “men only” imprint to replace Juno
I will doubtless be adding to this through the day.
If you spot any good ones, feel free to add them in comments.
By the way, they don’t only happen on web sites. Kudos to Graham Sleight who tweeted that Twitter would be restricting posts to 70 characters from now on in an effort to cut costs.
Andrew Wheeler and Grant Kruger both have good lists of posts.
One of the ironies of the Guardian’s Twitter joke is that one of the more interesting articles on the Guardian web site today is part the coverage of the G20 demonstrations in the City, which are being reported by 4 of their regular bloggers via Twitter. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/31/g20-protest-twitter
Not quite as much fun as the Guardian ball-by-ball cricket commentary, but has real immediacy.
New Dollar Sign Proposed by Congress to Reflect Economic Conditions:
http://typophile.com/node/56447
Cheney to publish AH:
http://www.sfsite.com/news/2009/04/01/cheney-to-pen-ah/
The Economist launches its new theme park, Econoland
John Scalzi had an entry on the Whatever linking to a post about something called Squeez Bacon:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/squeez-bacon.html
His entry said, in essence, Yes, I’ve seen it already.
PurpleRanger:
What, you mean I can’t buy any… Waaaaa! 😉
(Actually what I want to know is why someone thought the Swedes would invent something like that.)
Here’s the Econoland page.
And I see that Expedia is offering a fare sale on trips to Mars.
http://www.sfsite.com/news/2009/04/01/cheney-to-pen-ah/