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I won a million dollars!

Yeah yeah, ok, I know, lame April Fool’s joke, but I can dream can’t I? I don’t typically care about April Fool’s day at all, but I was so annoyed that my favorite nerd news outlet Slashdot was filled with nothing BUT lame April Fool’s stories that I had to rant just a little. Normally Slashdot will have a normal day of legitimate stories and sprinkle in a few legit-sounding joke stories amongst them so they seem remotely plausible. Today however they were all really dumb and obvious, with hardly a real story in the mix. I was disappointed. 🙂

I then, out of curiosity, looked up the history of April Fool’s Day. It seems to have originated with the conversion from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. The Julian calendar had the new year starting on or near April 1st, and the new Gregorian calendar (well, new in 1582) moved it to January 1st. Those who refused or resisted the calendar change were dubbed as foolish, and tricks were played upon them. This is apparently only conjecture however, as no historical evidence exists to support it. There are other potential sources for April Fool’s Day (or All Fool’s Day). Regardless, it’s all very silly.

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Entertainment Humor

Alternately horrible and hilarious

While browsing my new favorite internet time waster (Google Video) I browsed ‘popular’ just to see what them young hip kids are watching, and came across THIS. Beware: the following video may increase your desire to buy tickets to the local monster truck rally, drink Coors Light, buy a rusty pickup truck, and wear a stained white tank top. And lose some teeth. And grow a mullet. And move to the sticks.

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25 Things for REAL Portlanders

While reading through a blog that Kelly sent me to (good Portland blog, Metroblogging Portland) there was mention of the March issue of the magazine Portland Monthly had a list of 50 Things Every Portlander Must Do and that another Portlander blogged a response with a more realistic list which was hilarious (and sadly true). Take a look! My favorite entry: "5. Ignore the Rose Festival." 🙂

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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

noodledoodlewall.jpgCame across a funny site via a Wired News article that is a stab at those folks who push for teaching intelligent design in public school science classes. It’s about a new ‘scientific theory’ known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and the author of this ‘theory’ sent an open letter to the same public schools that implemented intelligent design into their classes, demanding that the FSM theory was just as valid and should be included in their curriculum. The whole thing is great satire, and people all over are getting into it (check out the photos of people ‘spreading the word’)

The funny part here, is that the kinds of logic the Church of the FSM use is the same that the pro-intelligent design folks use. Odd, un-connected pseudo-scientific claims that they use as proof of their theory.

One of the amusing ‘facts’ on the Church of the FSM website is the graph labeled ‘Global Average Temperature Vs. Number of Pirates’. It shows an inverse relationship between the number of pirates and global temperature, specifically, that while the number of pirates has decreased, the global temperature has increased. So, in order to stop global warming, we need more pirates! Yarrrr!

In the Wired News interview with Bobby Henderson, the creator of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Mr. Henderson writes "Our theory is as much science — in fact much more so — than what the ID (intelligent design) guys are proposing. And, if you are going to redefine science to include supernatural explanations, you have to allow them all. To include intelligent design in a science classroom you have to first expand the definition of science to include supernatural explanations, rather than only natural ones, as it is now."

Amen brother! Praise be His Noodly Appendage!

Mr. Henderson is in the process of writing a FSM ‘bible’, and all proceeds from the sales of this and of the t-shirts, mugs, and other items on his website will go to building a PIRATE SHIP! With it, he will travel and ‘evangelize’ about the Flying Spaghetti Monster. 🙂 Funny stuff.

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Addicted to the Net?

It seems that in Finland people who are placed in the compulsory military service can get sent home for a few years if diagnosed to have ‘internet addiction’. The diagnosis seems to fall on those young men who before being conscripted (drafted) didn’t have much real world social lives, but were quiet types who would stay up all night playing online games and chatting with ‘virtual friends’, and then were suddenly yanked away from that life and forced into a real world they weren’t prepared for (hmm, sounds like me, hehe).

They get a few years to go home and ‘grow up’ but have to come back and finish their service.

Man, if only I could use that excuse to get me out of things, like, oh I dunno, being an adult and having a job. “I’m sorry, I just can’t take all this, I’m addicted to the internet… can I go home now?” 🙂

Read it for yourself here.

-r-