Episode 25, and Carl still sucks for not podcasting on April Fools Day. So, instead we take a look at our favorite April Fools hoaxes from this year. From Google Romance, to Dragons, this year was full of internet-based practical jokes. Enjoy.
Episode 25 (22.1 MB , 48:18)
Show Notes:
- Duke Nukem Never (Ars Technica)
- Hic Sunt Draconis (The Economist)
- Google Romance
- My Little +5 Pony… of Doom
- Bad Jared! Bad!
- NE Podcasters Switch ‘Casts for a Day
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Man, thanks for mentioning me guys.
Let’s just say that theres a wee bit of contraversy surrounding the prank at the moment. Ha! Overall the response was positive…except for RPG.net, which banned my ass. Nice.
There are programs out there for simulating genetic evolution, but I’m not sure if there is one that will show changes in morphology based on genetic changes. However, a program like that is definately beyond the realm of possibility.
I suggest our next gaming campaign be “My Little Pony”. I want to play a 12th level barbarian pony.
Carla?
Did they change the drinking age from 21 to 18 when I wasn’t looking? And you better send me some beer, or at least tell me which beer it is and I’ll go find it.
The AJAX joke is funny because AJAX applications are written in JavaScript.
Duke Nuklem … written in JavaScript.
ZING!
_The Economist_ is a newspaper. No, really. I know that the format is something you would call a magazine, but calling _The Economist_ a magazine is like calling a super-market tabloid a newspaper — just because it’s printed on news sheet…
I’m not a computation biologist, but what _The Economist_ article describes strikes me as being well outside the limits of current bioinformatics practice.
So no computer-simluated dragon genomes for you.
Carl, knowing how Folding@home works should be a good indicator of just how hard the particular problem is — all those computers in the Folding@home network are spending millions of computer hours just trying to fold proteins. Forget about simulating an entire organism solely from its genotype data.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/privacy/story/0,10801,109335,00.html
Yeah, Microsoft are the good guys here, sure.
I would so play the My Little Pony RPG. Totally. My pony would be a fucking necromancer. I would have undead ponies as my servants … the servants of darkness.
Also, COLIN WATCHED MY LITTLE PONY OMG WTF LOL
I had the He-Man toys too. And a ton of Transformers. I used to stage big fights between the Autobots and the Decepticons, and the Deceptions always won.
Also, Carl is just messed up. NO ONE ELSE THINKS THESE THINGS! GROSS!
Dude Cobra Commander with the cloth mask kicked the ass of the commander with the steel mask. Also the G.I. Joe movie rocked.
Yeah, the metal-faced commander was lame. Especially since they already had metal-faced Destro.
I used to watch Care Bears all the time…they were fairly gender neutral. Jem, Strawberry Shortcake, and My Little Pony, but I was a sucker for TV, and if it was my sister’s turn to watch what she wanted, I didn’t have much of a choice.
Jem kicked ass, though.
Heathens, one and all.
I feel inspired to leave a comment?