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(Message started by: bodo on Apr 8^th, 2004, 3:25pm)

Title: Did y'all see this one on april fool's day?
Post by bodo on Apr 8^th, 2004, 3:25pm

http://oneofthebetterpagesintheuniverse.com

It's pretty funny...especially if your a maddox fan.

What april fool's shaninigans did y'all endure/instigate?

Title: Re: Did y'all see this one on april fool's day?
Post by rmsgrey on Apr 9^th, 2004, 5:39am

For those of us who follow the events on the official Magic: the Gathering website, the biggest April Fool of the lot was the announcement of Unhinged - the long awaited follow-up to Unglued - in the midst of a number of other hoax articles (all of which, we have since been assured were indeed hoaxes) this was the one bit of real news - the set is due for a November release.

Title: Re: Did y'all see this one on april fool's day?
Post by william wu on Apr 10^th, 2004, 12:00am

I'm embarrassed to say that on 4/1, this one had me surprised all the way until the signature. Then I had a good laugh :)

http://skepdic.com/aprilfools.html

P.S. On that day the encoding of "APRIL FOOLS DAY" in yellow characters wasn't there.

Title: Re: Did y'all see this one on april fool's day?
Post by Benoit_Mandelbrot on Apr 13^th, 2004, 6:03am

For some reason, the firewall at my school blocks the site. Are there any mirrors?

Title: Re: Did y'all see this one on april fool's day?
Post by towr on Apr 13^th, 2004, 6:30am

you could try google..
just drop the site url into the google search bar, and if the page is cached it should say so, and then you can view that..

Title: Re: Did y'all see this one on april fool's day?
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Jun 8^th, 2004, 2:40am

on 04/13/04 at 06:03:47, Benoit_Mandelbrot wrote:

For some reason, the firewall at my school blocks the site. Are there any mirrors?

Yes. I think that most reasonable skeptics will admit, if pressed, that mirrors do indeed exist. :)

The BBC and Time magazine, for example, are both blocked here in China but I am able to access them both using http://anonymouse.ws/anonwww.html

Title: Re: Did y'all see this one on april fool's day?
Post by Sir Col on Jun 8^th, 2004, 5:01am

on 04/13/04 at 06:03:47, Benoit_Mandelbrot wrote:

For some reason, the firewall at my school blocks the site.

We have the same probem at the school where I work, demonstrated with the site at the top of this page. The local (fascist) education authority finds it within their duty to filter web content. I could understand it within a school if it was blocking porn, racist propaganda, and so on, but as with most dictarorial régimes there seems little intelligence behind the choice of what we can view and cannot view. I thought that we were supposed to be able to celebrate the "freedom" we have in the West?

Title: Re: Did y'all see this one on april fool's day?
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Jun 8^th, 2004, 2:08pm

Quote:

The BBC and Time magazine, for example, are both blocked here in China but I am able to access them both using http://anonymouse.ws/anonwww.html

But the trouble with sharing our favourite anonymisers is that sooner-rather-than-later they too may get blocked.
For myself, it is perhaps wiser to post them in a more cryptic form, such as

http://anonymouse.ws/helloyousnoopingcommiebastardanonwww.html

;)