Browser: April Fool’s day edition. Not.

I’ve come across one wonderfully painful April Fool’s joke so far today. And then there’s the amusing discovery that if you add &flip=1 to the end of any YouTube video URL, something rather interesting happens.

But most of the things that I thought were jokes, though… they turned out to be real. 

1) You can hear the new Eels song online today, and it’s about werewolves.

2) Sam Phillips has a brand new song, and you can download it for free. And it’s awesome.

3) Yesterday there was a new Bob Dylan song available for free at his site. Gone now. But it’s pretty great too. 

4) As I reported at Filmwell.org, Twitch is talking about a book of essays by Hayao Miyazaki coming to bookstores this July.

5) And yes, it’s snowing in Seattle. On April 1. No joke.

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3 Responses to “Browser: April Fool’s day edition. Not.”

  1. David Kern Says:
    April 1st, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    Did you see this April Fools story?:

    http://www.narniafans.com/archives/6583

    Kirk Cameron and Mel Gibson as CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien…..

  2. Glenn Says:
    April 1st, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    The Sojourner’s story on Rush Limbaugh inviting Jim Wallis to be co-host was pretty awesome and Onion-ish…

  3. nate Says:
    April 2nd, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    i think you’ll appreciate this one. it’s far more effort for an april fool’s joke than i’ve ever seen. maybe that’s why i fell for it.
    http://wisdomandfollyblog.com/2009/04/01/over-my-dead-body-a-film-for-the-ages/

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