2010 April Fool's mini-megathread

Tonamel on 1/4/2010 at 05:06

YouTube has kicked things off with TEXTp video quality as an option for most of their videos. Enjoy the (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57saocQSQDo&textp=fool) Scott Pilgrim vs. The World trailer in the bandwidth-saving technology of ASCII!

We can all be expecting more from the usual sources. If you find any good ones, put them here!

Firefreak on 1/4/2010 at 08:05

Moodle (e-learning platform) doing the youtube trick of last year (on their news page): (http://moodle.org/news/)

Is this text mode on youtube location specific? Your link (nor any other video) show the textp option... :(

David on 1/4/2010 at 08:15

It takes a couple of seconds for it to kick in, but it does seem to be every video.

Firefreak on 1/4/2010 at 08:32

...still not working - even when I manually add the &textp option to the URL.
Only occassionally IE (haven't got another browser ready at work) says page not displayable, though I suspect the generally new layout of youtube rather than the display format.

oh well.

edit: ahh, got it - from their blog:

Quote:

To give it a whirl, make sure you have the latest Flash player (10.0)...

(although I do have flash player 10.... downloading now the really latest one.)

Nicker on 1/4/2010 at 10:42

Are (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/newsid_2819000/2819261.stm) HISTORICAL entries allowed?

Kolya on 1/4/2010 at 11:29

Works for me, so probably not location specific.

oudeis on 1/4/2010 at 16:23

(http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html) Google can't hold their vowels

Firefreak on 1/4/2010 at 16:27

Google changes name to Topeka: (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html)

Regarding youtube, I give up - I now tried it with SeaMonkey under Win, Linux and Mac at home - all with FlashPlayer 10 - and the TEXTp option nowhere shows up nor does it work when adding it to the address bar. Well, there's no need to have seen everything.

Matthew on 1/4/2010 at 16:33

Blizzard (http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/games/mobile/) gives us the mobile games Blackthorne 2: Thorne Harder and Queen's Quest 1.

Edit: and the (http://eu.battle.net/matchmaking/index.html) new Battle.net.

Edit edit: plus the (http://eu.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=221003857) Battle.net neural interface, the (http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/community/merchandise/gps/index.xml) Deckard Cain Satnav pack, the Diablo III body pillows and the (http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/community/merchandise/gamerblanket/index.xml) Deckard Cain X-treme Gamer Blanket.

Volitions Advocate on 1/4/2010 at 16:37

Google Canada seems to be unaffected.... that's no fun.