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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 04/01/2007 : 09:35:17
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There are a great deal of websites which celebrate April Fools' Day. If you know of any, post them here.
TheFaceBook, a website similar to Myspace but geared more towards college students, has a "News Feed" which reports recent actions taken by users. Today, a line from Oregon Trail, "Two of your oxen drowned when you tried to ford the river. 4:30am" appeared on everyones feed.
Googe, for those who are unaware, released Gmail on April 1st, and everyone thought that their 1GB of email was a joke. Turns out it wasn't. This year, they released Gmail Paper. This one certainly sounds like a joke, though I'm not entirely sure it is...
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Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Posted - 04/01/2007 : 09:39:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
This one certainly sounds like a joke, though I'm not entirely sure it is...
Definitely a joke:Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum... A neat trick. |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/01/2007 : 11:15:46 [Permalink]
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There's this Wiki article on George Washington, the inventor of instant coffee. But I finally figured out that it's not a joke. (Maybe I would have understood this sooner if I'd had my first cuppa George.)
But the one on Richard de Southchurch, who, according to Wiki's from page, "... planned to attack London with burning cocks"? Coffee's still kicking in, so I'm not sure.
Of course, there's an entire mini-encyclopedia that consists of nothing but April Fools hoaxes mocking the American Right. This one I'm sure of, and I'm now wide-awake.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
| Edited by - HalfMooner on 04/01/2007 12:33:00 |
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dv82matt
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Dave W.
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 04/01/2007 : 14:08:05 [Permalink]
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PZ Myers and The Panda's Thumb both have stories today revealing that the DI's latest star, creationist neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor, has been in fact hoaxing the evolution community this entire time. According to a Discovery Institute press release, Egnor's ignorant views were an invented fiction:
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Over the past month I have engaged in what my friend Bill Dembski ludicly refers to as "street theatre". My posts here have been an outlandish parody of the bona fide Intelligent Design position, liberally injected with many of the more simplistic errors of the Young Earth Creationists. My purpose was to see how far we could go before the gullible Darwinists realized they were being taken for a ride. The Discovery Institute has graciously aided (and abetted!) by allowing me a voice on this weblog and by giving me valuable feedback on my comedic output. Together, we have succeeded in duping the Darwinists (like the foul-mouthed duncecaps at the Panda's Thumb and Scienceblogs).
However, that hoax seems to be the real hoax. The DI press release, posted at the Panda's Thumb by an annonymous "guest contributer," is actually a link to a fake web page merely designed to look like the DI's site. A skim of the DI's actual website, Evolution News and Views, reveals that no such admission by Egnor exists. A few snoopers have found the fake web page to be registered to Wesley R. Elsberry, a biologist and frequent contributer to the Thumb.
So the real April Fool's Day prank is that Egnor is in fact 100% legitimate. Yes, folks, he really is that stupid. And just to cement his reputation as an ignorant blowhard, Egnor offers the following stupidity in an article posted today:
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Materialism is nonsense, because if matter and energy are all that exist, then truth doesn't exist (it's neither matter nor energy). If truth doesn't exist, then materialism can't be true.
One wishes he were kidding...
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 04/01/2007 : 15:23:52 [Permalink]
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Materialism is nonsense, because if matter and energy are all that exist, then truth doesn't exist (it's neither matter nor energy). If truth doesn't exist, then materialism can't be true.
Well... You can't argue with that because arguments would be pretty useless against such a dumb statement! |
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"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 04/01/2007 : 18:49:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
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Materialism is nonsense, because if matter and energy are all that exist, then truth doesn't exist (it's neither matter nor energy). If truth doesn't exist, then materialism can't be true.
Well... You can't argue with that because arguments would be pretty useless against such a dumb statement!
Damn! He's got us there.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
510 Posts |
Posted - 04/01/2007 : 20:53:24 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Of course, there's an entire mini-encyclopedia that consists of nothing but April Fools hoaxes mocking the American Right. This one I'm sure of, and I'm now wide-awake.
They have the following Mark Twain quote on the front page.
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), Following the Equator, ch. 8 (1897)
I guess they never read "Letters from the Earth" or any of his other work pointing out the hypocrisy and contradictions of the Bible. |
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson |
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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Posted - 04/02/2007 : 05:46:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by H. Humbert
PZ Myers and The Panda's Thumb both have stories today revealing that the DI's latest star, creationist neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor, has been in fact hoaxing the evolution community this entire time. According to a Discovery Institute press release, Egnor's ignorant views were an invented fiction
The eye patch on the Da Vinci image was a nice touch!
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"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 04/02/2007 : 15:03:05 [Permalink]
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That was a nicely executed hoax, done on the only day of the year when even the most skeptical of debunkers are permitted to lie their asses off for the sake of humor and illustration of absurdity.
My salute. Well done!
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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