Comments on: nice trick

nice trick

b1tr0t — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:11:04 -0800

nice trick [spoilers redacted]

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:15:16 -0800

at least it matches the t shirt - or have you been putting drugs in my tea again ?

By: garlic

garlic — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:15:29 -0800

or, perhaps just as irritating as everything else on 4/1.

By: divka

divka — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:16:09 -0800

At least I've confirmed I'm not going insane this morning. Yet.

By: medium format

medium format — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:16:56 -0800

i thought i was going mad for a second.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:17:07 -0800

I think I'm going blind.

By: 0xFCAF

0xFCAF — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:17:18 -0800

*starts fiddling with knobs on his monitor*

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:17:39 -0800

what?

By: echo target

echo target — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:18:10 -0800

Nicely subtle for an April Fool's joke.

By: demiurge

demiurge — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:18:26 -0800

I chuckled after I figured out my monitor wasn't fried. Good job.

By: SpacemanStix

SpacemanStix — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:18:28 -0800

I seriously thought there was something wrong with my monitor.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:18:29 -0800

Did you guys update your graphics card drivers recently? I'm not seeing what you're seeing.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:18:37 -0800

Ah christ. I just got this monitor.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:20:00 -0800

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH MY SCREEN AND/OR EYES?

*goes into seizure*

By: Reverend John

Reverend John — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:20:13 -0800

evil.

By: brevator

brevator — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:20:37 -0800

Did you guys update your graphics card drivers recently? I'm not seeing what you're seeing.

You think you're sneaky dontcha?

By: chugg

chugg — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:22:24 -0800

Bravo.

By: desuetude

desuetude — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:22:24 -0800

I like it. It's soothing.

By: chugg

chugg — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:22:45 -0800

Now how do I make it stop?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:23:22 -0800

If you're using a DVI connection, every few months you should unplug it from your computer, put the plug up to your mouth (put your t-shirt over it first) and blow out the dust. It's kinda like the old NES cartridges, but when you get a bunch of dust in a DVI cable, you can get color shifts.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:23:32 -0800

/is lost

By: desjardins

desjardins — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:24:20 -0800

oh ok, you got me... I just got a new monitor at work, too, and I was dreading the call to our not-so-helpful helpdesk.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:24:46 -0800

I absolutely did try to adjust my monitor. Bravo.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:25:14 -0800

Did you just install any Greasemonkey scripts? Have you tried deleting your cookies?

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:25:59 -0800

I am totally stealing your javascript.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:27:39 -0800

The real pisser is that this has made very obvious that I have 2 dead pixels. THEY ARE ALL I SEE NOW.

By: grouse

grouse — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:28:23 -0800

It's not your graphics card, it's Hotmail. Hotmail did it.

By: horsewithnoname

horsewithnoname — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:29:59 -0800

Alright. Who's the wiseguy?

By: kittens for breakfast

kittens for breakfast — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:30:12 -0800

Oh...ha ha! LMAOROFLOL!!!

(um...what the fuck?)

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:31:26 -0800

I think this is nvidia specific; there was some mumbling on Slashdot about it, I think, a firmware hack if your browser is out of date. Matt's on a Mac with a different chipset, IIRC, so whatever this exploit is may not affect him. So Safari is good for something, I guess.

FF 2.0.0.12, XP, fwiw.

By: nzero

nzero — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:33:03 -0800

Ow, my eyes.

By: anomie

anomie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:33:54 -0800

Thanks scott andrew!

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:35:05 -0800

Am I missing something because I'm using the 'plain' theme?

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:35:07 -0800

I didn't notice it until my second cup of coffee.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:35:35 -0800

note: Everyone needs a bug.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:36:15 -0800

I like how it only seems to happen after I click away to another tab and then come back. And start bleeding a little around the cornea.

By: Malor

Malor — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:37:20 -0800

Very clever, guys + gal. :)

By: redfisch

redfisch — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:37:28 -0800

Very soothing..color matching the (NYC) weather!

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:38:33 -0800

Haha. I'm with StickyCarpet on this one.

By: hangashore

hangashore — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:38:40 -0800

HAI GUYZ IM POSTING ON TH PINK

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:38:45 -0800

And start bleeding a little around the cornea.

IANAD, but you probably want to go to the hospital there.

By: sneakin

sneakin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:39:12 -0800

This is nifty but last year's was bonafide hilarious.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:40:26 -0800

/files eye strain class action

By: wtdoor

wtdoor — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:40:45 -0800

I didn't notice at first, but now... OH THE PAIN.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:41:13 -0800

Plain theme ftw.

By: quin

quin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:42:11 -0800

Man, I thought it was all the drugs I took this morning before work. Or I was having a stroke. Or both.

Actually, I'm still not convinced that isn't the case.

By: wtdoor

wtdoor — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:42:46 -0800

And ... it's gone?

By: kittens for breakfast

kittens for breakfast — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:42:51 -0800

Oh, delayed reaction -- I see it now. Well, that kinda sucks. You can stop doing that anytime you like, actually.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:42:58 -0800

Somebody put Pepto Blue in my Metafilter!

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:42:58 -0800

Actually, I'm still not convinced that isn't the case.

There's really no way to be completely certain, is there?

By: ClarissaWAM

ClarissaWAM — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:44:27 -0800

I actually fell for it, I cannot believe it! After I was looking for it earlier and telling my friend what you did last year... and then I come back from work and fall for it!!

Pretty cool tho.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:44:35 -0800

The secret word is "make it stop". Do a find-in-page on your browser and you should find the way out.

By: McLir

McLir — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:44:48 -0800

Elegantly done! Good work.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:44:50 -0800

I see nothing out of the ordinary. But I'm not very observant.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:46:04 -0800

Oh I see. It gets worse. Clever.

See you guys tomorrow. Aqua I can take. But a pink MeTa? There are rules in this world that really shouldn't be broken. Not ever.

By: romakimmy

romakimmy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:47:12 -0800

um, screenshot for plain theme users?

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:48:32 -0800

screenshot here (warning: may cause seizures)

By: horsewithnoname

horsewithnoname — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:48:55 -0800

Oh, Suuuuure, matt. You don't think we're going to fall for that, do you?

By: dersins

dersins — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:49:37 -0800

Color me confused. I don't notice any difference at all. But I use the plain theme. Upon switching to regualar view, I don't notice anything, either, but I haven't looked at the site with a colored background in so long that I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing.

By: LionIndex

LionIndex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:50:43 -0800

I like the look after about five minutes. Can we keep it?

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:51:21 -0800

Apparently I'm not missing something because I'm using the 'plain' theme. Besides the eyestrain.

By: LionIndex

LionIndex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:51:56 -0800

um, screenshot for plain theme users?

I'm using plain theme, and I'm getting it.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:52:05 -0800

oh, it only works if you don't click around or whatever. I'm not that type of person unless I'm brushing my teeth.

By: olya

olya — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:52:23 -0800

i freaked out thinking something is wrong with my screen. and then i saw other windows being different.

By: anomie

anomie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:53:20 -0800

disable bookmarklet:

javascript:void(changeLinkColor=function(){})

/buzzkill

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:53:49 -0800

this is getting ugly - no, i really mean it - UGLY

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:54:05 -0800

nerds.

By: Skorgu

Skorgu — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:57:51 -0800

I approve. I strongly approve.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:59:32 -0800

I just thought it was my net connection and kept refreshing - in my defense, it's actually April 2 here!
screenshots:
one
two
three
(it just keeps slowly changing colour)

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:59:59 -0800

Everyone who has commented that they don't get it has just confessed to not ever reading conversations before posting.

So let's kill them.

By: factory123

factory123 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:01:10 -0800

I like to read the site by opening links in new tabs and then, at a leisurely pace, cycling through them, stopping to do other things. So the "oh no, the color's changing" joke never worked on me - it was always plainly obvious that the color had changed. And half the tabs I've opened are illegible because of poor contrast.

This joke kinda sucks. I like to read what the users of the site have written, and this joke says to me that the users' content is less important than the amusement of the people running the site. It's like a thread hijack, only it's the whole site that's lost.

By: wtdoor

wtdoor — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:01:39 -0800

Oh. It's not gone. Clever. We now return to your regularly scheduled OH THE PAIN.

By: zennie

zennie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:02:19 -0800

You're a filthy lot of wretches. And I love you for it. :)

By: pearlybob

pearlybob — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:02:22 -0800

Ok, thanks for the explanation. I constantly click between the three and haven't noticed anything. I really need to learn some patience grasshopper! Neat trick!

By: LionIndex

LionIndex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:03:17 -0800

I like to read what the users of the site have written, and this joke says to me that the users' content is less important than the amusement of the people running the site. It's like a thread hijack, only it's the whole site that's lost.

Hit the refresh button.

By: hadjiboy

hadjiboy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:04:06 -0800

Oh god you guys are cruel!

By: romakimmy

romakimmy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:04:36 -0800

Everyone who has commented that they don't get it has just confessed to not ever reading conversations before posting.

Or has Javascript turned off since I'm testing graceful degradation in another tab. :D Thanks anomie, & jacalata for screenshots

By: like_neon

like_neon — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:05:02 -0800

For a second there I thought everyone was just pretending to see something that I couldn't see and that was what the joke was.

And then after a few more seconds I started squinting so yeah, neato.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:05:27 -0800

This joke kinda sucks. I like to read what the users of the site have written, and this joke says to me that the users' content is less important than the amusement of the people running the site. It's like a thread hijack, only it's the whole site that's lost.

You probably didn't catch my earlier comment, so I'll make it more explicit. There is a make it stop link in the footer.

By: factory123

factory123 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:06:19 -0800

By: googly

googly — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:06:32 -0800

What is going on here?

By: like_neon

like_neon — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:06:36 -0800

Oh I guess I should say I have the plain theme which is why I didn't quite get it at first but I must say that the plain theme execution is more subtle and neato-er.

By: Verdandi

Verdandi — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:07:23 -0800

THE GOGGLES!! THEY DO NOTHING!

By: factory123

factory123 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:07:34 -0800

Thanks for the fix.

By: pearlybob

pearlybob — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:08:48 -0800

Can we un-make it stop? I hit the link out of curiosity and now want to make it go!

By: Geckwoistmeinauto

Geckwoistmeinauto — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:09:45 -0800

How Clever You All Must Feel! Sorry, it's no Super Pii Pii Brothers.

By: alan

alan — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:09:52 -0800

[this is NOT a Jackass Move]

Thank you for recognizing the difference between a prank, and telling a lie.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:11:09 -0800

Can we un-make it stop?

I believe the stop-making creates a cookie. So look for that, and remove it!

By: jacalata

jacalata — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:11:54 -0800

looks again at her screenshots, feels horribly embarrassed realising it shows she is currently working on 'theses', 'procrastination', and three tabs of metafilter.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:12:07 -0800

but I haven't looked at the site with a colored background in so long

Dude, please. African-American background.

By: pb

pb — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:12:53 -0800

Can we un-make it stop?

There's no Make It Start link, but you can remove the "STOPIT" cookie by hand to start it. So that and blowing on your DVI cable should take care of it.

By: LionIndex

LionIndex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:13:43 -0800

Refresh helps, but not if you're halfway down a long thread. And then the fix is clicking on a comment time stamp and refreshing. It's still a pain in the ass and I think it's basically an f-u to the users.

When I hit refresh, it just refreshes it at the same point on the page that I'm already at.

By: pearlybob

pearlybob — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:14:11 -0800

Great, Thanks guys!

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:14:43 -0800

It's still a pain in the ass and I think it's basically an f-u to the users.

It's a "fuck you" (we can swear here, you know) to users who aren't bright enough to figure out what's happening, or read the damned thread about what's happening. As such, anyone who regards this as a "fuck you" rather deserves it.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:15:20 -0800

googly: do you mean why is TPS' profile pink? It always has been, users used to have the option of modding their profile with custom css. It got taken away after some exploits were discovered or something, but pre-existing css remains until the user edits their profile. TPS (alone?) has held out!

By: sacre_bleu

sacre_bleu — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:15:25 -0800

You bastards!

/Cartman

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:15:55 -0800

Obnoxious. But interesting.
Letting it run its course. Maybe I'll get a pony!

By: Elmore

Elmore — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:16:47 -0800

This is ALL very unsettling.

By: Nattie

Nattie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:19:41 -0800

It forces me to reload the page every minute.

By: odi.et.amo

odi.et.amo — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:20:45 -0800

Jerks.

By: spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints

spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:21:38 -0800

At first I just thought that there was some code drop for really old AskMe pages. I'll admit I went to a different site to check my screen. After that, I just figured Matt was toying around with things, and it wasn't until I saw this post that I realized what today is.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:22:37 -0800

Your April Fool's Day Joke Continues to Suck.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:24:23 -0800

Brandon, he's just bitter that we didn't make it fade through a gradient from white to white.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:24:38 -0800

*agrees with shakespeherian, adds Nattie's name to the list...ponders odi.et.amo*

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:24:43 -0800

Haha, wonderful!

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:25:26 -0800

I see what you did there.

It's still a pain in the ass and I think it's basically an f-u to the users

Ah, of course. That would my first guess as well.
::eyeroll::
Suck it up, champ.

By: billypilgrim

billypilgrim — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:26:54 -0800

Brilliant. I thought I was going insane.

And I, for one, am a bit tired of all you whiny bastards who are so horribly inconvenienced by simple internet jokes. This is like the third site I've been on today where people are complaining about their perfectly-styled internet hair being mussed.

Chill out. It's one day out of the year.

By: googly

googly — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:26:56 -0800

jacalata: Right, but now when I load TPS's page it flashes pink for a second then reverts to MeFi blue. Anyone else see this? Has the April Fool's code somehow messed with her page?

By: booticon

booticon — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:27:10 -0800

OWOWOWOWOW

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:27:47 -0800

What was last year's april fool's thing again? I'm fairly certain I found it rather hysterical.

By: scrump

scrump — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:29:27 -0800

HAY GUISE IS THIS SOEMTIHGN ID HAVE TO HAV AN INTARNET TO oh hey wow ow okay urp gah

By: Demogorgon

Demogorgon — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:31:01 -0800

What is everyone talking abou...oooooh.

Nice trick!

By: kbanas

kbanas — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:32:18 -0800

Spoilers REDACTED?!

Awww, c'mon!

By: jacalata

jacalata — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:33:04 -0800

googly: I don't see it, it stays pink for me - but I've already disabled the April Fools flashing, have you?

By: skynxnex

skynxnex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:33:19 -0800

googly: TPS's CSS changes the background to pink, but the JavaScript that cycles the background colors cares not for the CSS and changes to a blue close to MeFi blue. Thus the flash.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:34:01 -0800

The first time we dacted them, it didn't take.

By: krinklyfig

krinklyfig — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:35:15 -0800

I thought my boss had figured out what was getting the most pageviews on my machine and had set up some hack.

By: kbanas

kbanas — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:37:07 -0800

I'm so confused.

I loaded this page, and it just seemed like I was missing out on something that had happened and then been removed.

Then I minimized this page and went to do something else.

Then I came back and suddenly this page was light pink.

Then I refreshed it, and now it's back to being the same kind of slate grey.

What.. I.. eh...erm..

By: Jody Tresidder

Jody Tresidder — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:37:16 -0800

Just effing brilliant, you total bastards...!

But for the nth time - what was last year's!!!!!

Please?

By: cog_nate

cog_nate — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:37:46 -0800

What was last year's april fool's thing again? I'm fairly certain I found it rather hysterical.

Fake AskMe. Questions like "My cat's been swallowed by a python. How long can it survive?"

By: porn in the woods

porn in the woods — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:38:00 -0800

Nice prank - I thought I kept hitting "Select All," greying out the page. You got me good.

By: goo

goo — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:38:16 -0800

Man, my video card driver shat itself yesterday and I thought it was happening again. *shakes fist*

By: nathaole

nathaole — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:39:35 -0800

April fooled.

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:39:42 -0800

Okay, I blew on my DVI cable and it got all big and then it exploded and now it's limp. How do I get it back in the hole?

Oooh, look at the pretty colors! I like this! But suddenly I have a craving for cotton candy.

By: Your Time Machine Sucks

Your Time Machine Sucks — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:39:45 -0800

This is the first April Fool's prank I've seen so far today that really made me laugh, thanks! Making it so slow was a really nice touch.

By: cashman

cashman — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:40:31 -0800

That's pretty neat. I thought I knew what was happening and then I realized I didn't. And then I did.

By: mwhybark

mwhybark — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:43:38 -0800

me three in the accidental select all misperception. well done.

By: goo

goo — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:43:46 -0800

Last year's was brilliant. Anyone got a screenshot? My favourite was WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH PEOPLE? The MeTa thread is here, Jody Tressider. It was basically a fake AskMe page, and the questions were hilarious.

By: cavalier

cavalier — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:43:54 -0800

Bravo! I left the blue alone for a few minutes per usual.... nice!

By: quin

quin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:44:34 -0800

Then I refreshed it, and now it's back to being the same kind of slate grey.

"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling the transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image; make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to the Outer Limits."

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:44:36 -0800

Nicely done. I was so inspired to greater April Fool tomfoolery that I hijacked my museum's HVAC system and am currently pumping the building full of jenkem. Now the party's really about to start.

By: goo

goo — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:45:32 -0800

And I could try clicking the links in the page I link to - here is the unstyled page.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:46:06 -0800

Someone's got a question in Ask about how to disable it.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:46:57 -0800

I thought I was having a stroke, bravo!

By: rtha

rtha — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:47:16 -0800

When I came back from getting cup of coffee #2 earlier this morning, the AskMe page I had loaded was a different color, and I though oh shit. I refreshed and it was back to normal. I, too, figured that I'd not consumed enough caffeine. I'm just relieved it's not my laptop screen.

Nice job. I like.

By: breezeway

breezeway — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:48:09 -0800

For the first time ever, I'm glad I'm on a BlackBerry.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:49:13 -0800

Ponyrequest: The screen should be doing this color-shift, all the time, and not only MetaFilter, but every site on the internet. Number one, Make It So!

By: kalimac

kalimac — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:50:04 -0800

oh, magnificent. So subtle I missed it at first, even looking for it... (Well, not now that my screen is bright pink..)

By: Jody Tresidder

Jody Tresidder — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:50:37 -0800

GOO

Thanks VERY MUCH!

(I have to shout because I feel I'm going blind - even though I'm loving this!)

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:51:22 -0800

I would appreciate a certain shade of red, but that's just me.

By: tastybrains

tastybrains — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:51:26 -0800

I keep getting up from my desk, and the most dramatic thing I have seen was it change from white to a medium/light gray. So far nothing appalling and/or difficult to read.

I'm a little disappointed...last year's April Fool's joke here was priceless. I was hoping for something similar, but I guess it was tough to top.

By: schmoo

schmoo — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:54:02 -0800

I've just bought a new laptop and thought I was having issues with the screen and would have to take it back!!
Very funny, I only realised it was an April Fool when I came here!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:54:27 -0800

We should have done a hidden flash player, starting out on mute, taking 2 minutes to build up in volume to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, but that seems meaner.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:56:00 -0800

oh it is like the color of bubblegum now

blaine is a pain and that's the truth

By: heyho

heyho — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:57:31 -0800

At least that wasn't annoying. Now get the hell off my goddamn lawn!

By: anotherpanacea

anotherpanacea — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:58:37 -0800

Shit! I hit the make-it-stop link, and now I want it back. What can I do?

By: salvia

salvia — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:59:53 -0800

I actually thought, "oh god, I read so much metafilter, I've worn out the colors! They keep fading out!"

"Hello, Best Buy? Yes. My screen is out of blue. Can I replace the blue screen cartridge or lightbulb or filament or whatever? Thanks, I'll be right over!"

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:04:26 -0800

How about a nice yellow that will make all the names and time stamps disappear?

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:04:39 -0800

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:11:42 -0800

This is good.

By: owtytrof

owtytrof — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:11:55 -0800

I first noticed in AskMe that the green seemed lighter than normal, and I thought "What a lame April Fool's joke." I had to step away for a few moments, and when I came back it was nearly white. "Ahhhh, I get it."

Good one!

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:16:36 -0800

We should have done a hidden flash player, starting out on mute, taking 2 minutes to build up in volume to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, but that seems meaner.

I'm certain beyond a doubt that you made the right choice.

If only because you know that I know where you live, and that you know that I have orbital weapons platforms - and I know you know that I'm saving them for the NKOTB reunion.

Also, while slightly overkill for a rickroll, deorbiting a railcar-sized slug tungsten on mathowie would wipe out most of my immediate family, along with most of the Portland Metro area. If required, I am willing to pay a price.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:21:09 -0800

Projects becomes all sorts of awesome colors.

By: pineapple

pineapple — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:25:51 -0800

factory123 said: "half the tabs I've opened are illegible because of poor contrast... This joke kinda sucks... this joke says to me that the users' content is less important than the amusement of the people running the site. It's like a thread hijack, only it's the whole site that's lost... It's still a pain in the ass and I think it's basically an f-u to the users."

Ha hahahahaa!!!! :) :) I get it!

For April Fool's Day, factory123 is playing the role of User With Absolutely No Sense of Humor, Or Even Ability to Realize That One's Curmudgeonly Minority Opinion Doesn't Always Require a Big Stick.

And if it's not a joke, then seriously -- chill out, and acknowledge that other people can have fun with things that you can't. It'll be over tomorrow. Shut up.

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:26:42 -0800

Ya know, I remember years ago when Matt was the only moderator and he did something for April Fool's on the Metafilter page. I remember it was awesome at the time and I was hoping Mefi would do something awesome to celebrate April Fool's this year and - here we are! Thanks!

Love the aqua....

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:29:56 -0800

My monitor actually does flicker strange purple/green colors very similar to this when the construction site equipment down the street really gets going. It took me a moment to realize that only this window is affected by the jackhammers today. Very good.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:34:45 -0800

Nice trick, I thought monitor was fucked up.

By: mygothlaundry

mygothlaundry — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:35:41 -0800

Well, you totally got me. I thought the monitor was going; we've had a rash of dying monitors here recently anyway and all I could think was, shit, whatever it is, it's catching! And here I was snooping all over the site, looking for the joke, refusing to open this MeTa, sure that I wouldn't fall for whatever this year's joke might be . . . and then, freak out! Oooh no, we're going to have to buy another monitor, there goes the budget, how can this be happening, I wonder if I should use my weekly askme to see if in all seriousness this could be some kind of evil virus plague?

Hee. Well done. Subtle yet infuriating.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:35:55 -0800

I also want to say that I'm so terrified of April Fool's Day that I have, so far, been afraid that every FPP— including the one about before- and after-death photos (which were amazing)— is actually a RickRoll.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:36:08 -0800

Although I did have to turn of scripts for metafilter for the day, it's hard to read the site like that.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:36:23 -0800

I actually preferred the royal blue to the regular blue.

*ducks*

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:37:38 -0800

Ah... the CYAN background colour takes me back to the C64 days...

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:41:47 -0800

Hmmm, well some of us got clobbered with a Trojan recently and are hoping they have got rid of... then stuff like this comes along (in other news... screw Google Black)

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:43:47 -0800

OH BEAUTIFUL! Bright (Cranberry) red! THANKS, mathowie. *takes it personally*

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:45:12 -0800

Ah, now I see the stopit link mentioned above. Nice.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:53:56 -0800

Completely missed it, as I have javascript disabled.

By: aihal

aihal — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:54:36 -0800

This page intentionally left OH GOD MY EYES

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:56:18 -0800

If you are finding the xdperience too intense, a simple remedy is large doses of sugar and vitamin C. Also, keep telling yourself "It is just a drug. It will go away in time, the world is still absolutely normal, it is just my perception of it that has changed."

You can also often convert a bad trip into a good one by forcing yourself to laugh. Just saying "ha. ha. ha," even though nothing at all is funny, can often induce a giggle fit that will get you back onto the happy path.

Good luck, happy tripping.

By: gingerbeer

gingerbeer — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:05:01 -0800

So now I'm filling up my browser with tabs of all the Metafilter sites and going back and forth from one to the other to see the pretty colors. This is going to enhance my productivity even more than metafilter usually does. Thanks.

By: LeeJay

LeeJay — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:05:07 -0800

This was a pretty damn good joke if you ask me. It's also a good way to tell who the geezers are. When everyone else was busy fretting about their monitors, we geezers were having panic attacks over our failing eyesight. Good work, admins! It was fun!

By: ormondsacker

ormondsacker — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:11:11 -0800

We should have done a hidden flash player, starting out on mute, taking 2 minutes to build up in volume to Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, but that seems meaner.
posted by mathowie

Eh, like a third of the sites on the internet are rickrolling people today, and half the rest are going on about mudkips. I applaud Matt for resisting The Day Of The Living Chans.

By: frykitty

frykitty — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:13:37 -0800

I usually just read the feed, but I wandered over today specifically to see what mischief the overlords had got up to. Very nice.

By: googly

googly — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:14:38 -0800

Thanks, skynxnex.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:22:48 -0800

The violet that MeMusic has turned into right now is so damn pretty that I want someone to come up with a new subsite just to use the color.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:26:26 -0800

The violet that MeMusic has turned into right now is so damn pretty that I want someone to come up with a new subsite just to use the color.
posted by CunningLinguist

Maybe they can use it for Travel! I hear it's almost done!

By: patr1ck

patr1ck — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:33:05 -0800

I liked it.

By: FunkyHelix

FunkyHelix — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:33:50 -0800

i WAS GOING TO ASK WHAT EVERYONE WAS SEEING, BUT THEN i OPENED ANOTHER TAB AND CAME BACK AND ....

Sorry about that. Excuse me. I need to go kick my husband's ass now.

By: sdodd

sdodd — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:43:08 -0800

Damn, shakespeherian actually Rickrolled me on April Fools day. I suck.

By: Lord_Pall

Lord_Pall — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:43:09 -0800

I thought my eyes were fucked up.

Then I thought my monitor was broken.

Then i figured it out.

Stupid April Fools.

By: blendor

blendor — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:52:54 -0800

nice one

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:53:01 -0800

I'm on plain-theme here at work, and I noticed, at some point, that AskMeFi was looking a little greyer than usual. I was like, "Has it always been that grey?" Then it changed back to white a little later, and I was like, "Oh, I guess it was just a temporary ajax in their css or something. They must have uploaded a software to fix the codes."

By: vers

vers — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:08:36 -0800

I know it's not cool to say this, like, outloud and all, but I can't help myself. I love you guys, I really do.

By: CKmtl

CKmtl — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:11:23 -0800

Metafilter would be more professional if it had a ~~white, off-white, eggshell, ivory, cream, wheat, beige, tan, silver, slate, taupe,~~ charcoal background.

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:13:21 -0800

Can we call this "MetaFilter Lite"?

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:17:38 -0800

Aw, heck. We love you too.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:23:09 -0800

Everybody needs ~~a hug~~ a fat dose of MAUVE.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:25:38 -0800

Metatalk 04.01.08: THE MAUVENING

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:30:41 -0800

Wasn't there an argument at one point as to whether the MetaTalk background was grey or brown?

For a minute there, I thought I understood what the argument for brown was all about.

By: sfenders

sfenders — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:42:35 -0800

Oooh no, we're going to have to buy another monitor, there goes the budget

My reaction was just the opposite, as I thought I'd finally have an excuse to buy a new monitor that uses less power and weighs less than a metric tonne. This monitor I'm looking at, it is not quite new anymore, and it occasionally shorts out a bit making alarming zapping noises, but I'm reluctant to replace it until it actually stops working. it'll probably last another decade, good old DEC.

*pushes degauss button repeatedly*

By: the other side

the other side — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:46:16 -0800

Wow, another long, indecipherable meta thread; way too long to read right now. Gotta haul my huge-ass monitor to the shop. I'll read this monster when I get back.

By: phatkitten

phatkitten — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:46:38 -0800

Eh, like a third of the sites on the internet are rickrolling people today

Yeah, but this is the only one that's funny.

By: ooga_booga

ooga_booga — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:53:19 -0800

I have no idea what you people are on about.

By: anildash

anildash — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:58:09 -0800

Brandon, I was gonna make an exception because this gag is both subtle and clever, but I know better than to weigh in on background colors on MeFi. :)

By: oaf

oaf — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:59:14 -0800

changing tabs is hurting my eyes and my brain

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:09:55 -0800

This is beautiful. I was here this morning trying to figure out what MeFi was doing for the day and I just couldn't get it. Now, after reading through this thread (slowly) it's all too obvious. <3>
My first is Kongregate's, just because I didn't expect it and there actually is a card for sticking all the way through.

By: From Bklyn

From Bklyn — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:26:39 -0800

This is the finest pony ever.

repeat

By: ALongDecember

ALongDecember — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:47:08 -0800

Can we keep the Make It Stop link? Anytime anyone has a problem on MetaTalk we can tell them to click the "Make It Stop" link and all will be right.

By: EndsOfInvention

EndsOfInvention — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:56:28 -0800

Ha, it took me ages to figure out what the "joke" was, since I'm using my laptop screen at a funny angle so I assumed any weird colours were because of that.

Haha oh Jesus OK I just realised that it changes. Nice.

By: deborah

deborah — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:58:51 -0800

Yummm, deep chocolate brown.

I have a sinus headache so the lighter colours are rather painful, but this is giving me the giggles. It all evens out. Nice job!

By: rmless

rmless — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:01:47 -0800

I thought that the IT guys at work had discovered where I spend my day and were giving me a subtle hint to move on after a certain amount of time (plain theme).
I feel so much safer now!

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:44:10 -0800

I like the music off/on control on this page.

Man, that was the perfect opportunity for a rickroll and you blew it.

/zones out to the slowly shifting colors

By: alicesshoe

alicesshoe — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:44:42 -0800

I thought it was great. Loved the subtlety and some of the colours.
I vote for it staying permanently./

Good one.

By: moift

moift — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:45:46 -0800

Eric Costello ruined this joke by using setTimeout instead of the more appropriate setInterval.

By: Elsa

Elsa — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:49:33 -0800

* golf clap, awed nodding *

By: moift

moift — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:50:03 -0800

Paste into the address bar to make the color change speed up until your browser spazzes out and all your bits catch fire:
javascript:void(setInterval(changeLinkColor, 1000));

By: heyho

heyho — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:10:39 -0800

Will that make my hands turn blue so that everyone will know I tried it? Dude. I'm not falling for that trick again.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:16:10 -0800

Man, that was the perfect opportunity for a rickroll and you blew it.
posted by languagehat

It's a bad time for my meanie-bone to be in the shop.

But I do like this Beta to HD-DVD converter. Make sure to check out the demo video! Don't miss it! No siree.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:19:00 -0800

Trippy. I thought that "acid flashback" stuff was finally proving true lo these many years gone by. That was fun. Now I have an urge to tie dye things.

By: _dario

_dario — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:58:03 -0800

This is what happens when you wash your interwebs with hot water.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:02:29 -0800

Man that took me way too long to notice. I blame my partial colour impairment.

By: speicus

speicus — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:41:40 -0800

How was anyone fooled by this? The sidebar and title bar don't change colors.

By: timeistight

timeistight — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:43:13 -0800

Man, that was the perfect opportunity for a rickroll and you blew it.

Seen youtube today?

By: hangashore

hangashore — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:45:44 -0800

moift: Paste into the address bar to make the color change speed up until your browser spazzes out and all your bits catch fire:
javascript:void(setInterval(changeLinkColor, 1000));

My compliments to the chef. Now... how to change the values of the red/green/blue increments (var ri, gi, and bi) to different numbers with mixed signs (e.g. 8, -7, 3) for enhanced wackiness?

By: MiltonRandKalman

MiltonRandKalman — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:56:23 -0800

Yeah I was wondering why I was looking at a horrible site, but then I realized I typed in "boingboing" by mistake.

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:58:37 -0800

CORTEX! How many times have we had to tell you? MetaFilter is NOT A PLAY THING.

By: zardoz

zardoz — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:04:23 -0800

I thought for the dozenth time: "Goddamn, Firefox sucks on OS X!"

By: lovecrafty

lovecrafty — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:07:53 -0800

Oh man, I thought I was going nuts! I kept moving my laptop further and further away from the window, trying to shade it from the sun.

By: phyrewerx

phyrewerx — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:45:56 -0800

Wait, how do i turn it back on? I like the color change!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:47:38 -0800

How was anyone fooled by this? The sidebar and title bar don't change colors.

Trust me, I got emails.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:11:29 -0800

I only seemed to get a few colors. After the day (24-hour period, beginning when mathowie woke up on the west coast?) is over, can there be a recap and a "Make It Start!" option to see the ones we missed?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:38:41 -0800

yhbc, I think we'll find a way to do that.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:47:34 -0800

How was anyone fooled by this? The sidebar and title bar don't change colors.

Duh. It took a while to kick in so most of us who got fooled (*shakes fist at mathowie, sets reminder to avoid MeFi on April 1, 2009*) were deep in a thread as it started to happen - i.e., no sidebar and title bar down here.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:53:51 -0800

This was honestly one of the most well-conceived and -executed online AFD pranks I've seen. Most of them are just har-har Yahoo PantsChangr-type stuff, but this one actually got me. I was mid-way through getting a screenshot ready to post to Flickr when I realized I really needed to check MeTa first. Such is the depth of my st00pit.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:56:46 -0800

And I would like to stress again that I prefer the dark blue. Mods plz change kthx.

By: pjern

pjern — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:05:40 -0800

Seconding middleclasstool. You guys are evil, true, but you're just so good at it.

By: deborah

deborah — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:19:06 -0800

MetaFilter: You guys are evil, true, but you're just so good at it.

Sorry.

By: dg

dg — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:20:15 -0800

I was thinking on the train this morning "wonder what will be happening on MeFi today - I must remember not to get taken in", pleased with myself that I remembered that it is April Fool's Day in the centre of the MeFiVerse today, despite the civilised world having got over all that yesterday. Damned if I didn't get taken in, though.

*tips cap to perpetrators*

By: solipsophistocracy

solipsophistocracy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:34:32 -0800

I totally bought it. I sent jessamyn an email. I did not think to check MetaTalk. This was a great April Fool.

By: pineapple

pineapple — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:36:00 -0800

middleclasstool said: "I was mid-way through getting a screenshot ready to post to Flickr when I realized I really needed to check MeTa first."

Same here. Well played.

By: nelvana

nelvana — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:15:03 -0800

Nicely done. It made for a satisfying 'aha' moment.

By: AmbroseChapel

AmbroseChapel — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:22:24 -0800

As this is apparently the correct thread to post this: annoying; not funny; went on way too long.

By: tracicle

tracicle — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:29:52 -0800

I got the light blue Mefi page and thought "Ha! Not sucked in for a change!" and then came here and got annoyed because my monitor was evidently broken.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:55:33 -0800

No AmbroseChapel, this was the correct thread to read to find out how to stop it as soon as you wanted to.

By: AmbroseChapel

AmbroseChapel — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:02:41 -0800

Once again, because this point clearly hasn't been made enough, there are two Meta threads. One is clearly about the annoying background colours and one isn't. The conviction of some people around here that I went to the wrong thread and have only myself to blame is quite baffling.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:43:12 -0800

As this is apparently the correct thread to post this: annoying; not funny; went on way too long.

You actually just used a colon and two semi-colons in a single sentence, didn't you? I suppose that's technically correct, but Gods, why!? Do you hate English, or something?

What's wrong with a comma, boy? Hm? Why not start her off with a nice comma? You don't have to go leaping straight for the semi-colon like a bull at a gate. Give her a comma!.

By: desuetude

desuetude — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:33:13 -0800

I miss it. Can we have it back?

By: hangashore

hangashore — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:38:31 -0800

There's a way to Make It Start all over again at the bottom of the page.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:35:52 -0800

Well, we have learned who doesn't see the humor in jokes and/or seriously values the chromatic integrity of their lawn.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:27:10 -0800

If matt were to implement an "I hate pranks" checkbox on the user preferences page, and code the site to suppress any cuteness for users who'd checked it, I wonder how many of the complainers would check it, and leave it checked throughout April Fools day, and never check metatalk to see what they were missing. I'd bet not many.

By: Artw

Artw — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:35:25 -0800

I suggets the checkbox wording be changed to "Enemy of fun."

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:40:36 -0800

The conviction of some people around here that I went to the wrong thread and have only myself to blame is quite baffling.

Anyone, in either thread, who mentioned that they didn't like it got a personal message from me telling them how to turn it off if they weren't replied-to directly in-thread. I'm sincerely sorry I was in "we've mentioned this already" fatigue by the time you hit the second Meta thread, AC.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:33:45 -0800

240 comments in this thread about yesterday's 4-1 joke. Is it time to look for a long boat? 16038v2?

By: Justinian

Justinian — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:35:01 -0800

I think you should modify the javascript to make this happen all the time but only if you are logged in under the username "AmbroseChapel". That would be cool.

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:29:47 -0800

I think it would have gone really really well with Pixies' immortal classic "Where is my mind".

By: seawallrunner

seawallrunner — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:57:30 -0800

I know I've been on Metafilter / Ask / MeTa too long when the background colour makes it illegible to read.

Yet sometimes I just refresh the page, and keep reading.

I think I'll leave this "timer" function on for a few weeks, just because.