Forwards from Phil: Apr. 1, 2008
April 1st, 2008 by PhilIt’s April Fools’ Day! That said, try not to believe everything you read on the internet. Of course, Rampant Exclamations will continue to be a source of news and information that you can believe, right up until I say something unbelievable. Maybe.
- First off, I feel it is my duty to inform anyone running a WordPress site that WordPress 2.5 is a Goddamned mess. Do not install it if you do not have to. Like a fool, I expected it to be of the same quality that 2.4 and prior releases were. I was tricked. More on this later. (Also, who designs their admin site primarily in aqua? Who?!)
- Dear websites: Anil Dash would like you to know that your April Fools’ Day joke continues to suck. It’s true, quite a few of the ones I’ve seen (looking at you, Destructoid and WoW Insider) are pretty lame.
- WoW Insider HKO Insider has coverage of Blizzard’s April Fools’ Days of the past 4 years. They really like to get into it, and this year is no exception:
- * WoW makes its way to consoles with the decidedly old-school Molten Core.
- * New Hero Class: Bard! World of Guitar Herocraft, anyone?
- * Tauren Marines in Starcraft II
- * The best marchandise ever: the Diablo Loot Pinata!
- The Rock Band DLC for this week is “Still Alive,” and it’s free. Not a joke. There. At least for 360 owners: PS3 owners get it 16 days from now (because the PlayStation Store is undergoing remodeling).
- Woot is doing a Woot-Off today: it’s Two-for-Tuesday on apparently every friggin’ battery Black & Decker makes the same battery listed over and over, written in different ways.
- Turn MP3s into ringtones (even for the iPhone) with free Windows application ToneShop.
- Google Docs can now work offline; for a limited crowd right now, for the general public soon. The magic behind this is the same thing that allows Google Reader to work offline, Google Gears.
- Here’s Finnish new wavers The Leningrad Cowboys, complete with special guests The Red Army Chorus, belting out “Sweet Home Alabama.”
- A former nuclear safety officer and a botanist, among others, are suing CERN to stop them from ending the world; specifically, by citing all the possible doomsday scenarios that could occur if the Large Hadron Collider is turned on. Not that anyone really knows if any of these are even plausible, heavens no. — Wait, did I say Large Hadron Collider? I meant Large Hardon Collider.
- T-Mobile has a lockdown on the color pink, apparently: T-Mobile is suing Engadget Mobile for daring to use the color magenta in their logo. Please note, Engadget Mobile has had magenta in their logo for as long as they’ve existed. Also, T-Mobile, you do not have a fucking lock on the color magenta. (Of course, common sense didn’t stop them from suing a book-printing-on-demand company that had magenta in their logo.)
- And, in the “things that aren’t stupid” category, Final Fantasy IV’s DS remake is coming to the United States. No actual release date yet but I’d say Q3/Q4 2008 at the latest, especially since the English translation - or at least huge chunks of it - already exist on the Japanese version.