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The April Fool's Spirit (4/1/99)
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Another April Fool's Day has passed us by, and we hope everyone had a good one. Personally, we at AtAT tend to leave the Fool's tree up for another week or so, or at least until all the leftovers are gone. And while we love all the cards and silly costumes, the best thing about this particular holiday has got to be all the online jokes and fake press releases that bring such joy to our day. (Of course, they can also be a royal pain in the butt when you're trying to find some real information, but hey, it's only once a year, and the green beer and little candy hearts more than make up for it.)
This year, our personal favorite press release came from those masters of yuks over at Bare Bones. What versatility! Not only do they make BBEdit, the bestest HTML/text editor available for any platform, but they also manage to find time to scrape together gems like "Bare Bones Software Determines Lime iMacs Run Software Faster." They claim to have determined that the dye used in Lime cases blocks "ultraviolet radiation and low-energy gamma rays," and "polarizes" the remaining radiation, making Lime iMacs run at a 15% higher clock speed. And longtime faithful viewer Avi Rappoport pointed out our favorite hoax in the non-Mac-specific world, the "Drucilla Monitor Virus" at Georgia Tech's home page, which infects your monitor (!) and makes certain web pages appear blurry. A clever hack, to be sure, though if they named the virus after the Buffy character, they get points off for misspelling.
By the way, if you're wondering why AtAT doesn't participate in the online hoax frenzy, well, we just thought it'd be sort of redundant, really. Heck, we're fools all year 'round-- why rub it in? No, we figured we'd stay quiet for now and then celebrate a less-commercial holiday that doesn't get nearly enough exposure: Arbor Day. It's all about trees, people.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/1/99 episode: April 1, 1999: How foolish were you this first day of April? Meanwhile, Apple prepares to jettison the LaserWriter 8500, its last link to the golden days of Apple-branded peripherals, and Judge Jackson's latest strategy elicits a hushed gasp from "Redmond Justice" fans...
Other scenes from that episode: 1438: HP Makes Some Nice Ones (4/1/99) The other shoe finally dropped: Apple is reportedly out of the printer business. Remember back when you could buy Apple printers (inkjet and laser), Apple scanners, and Apple digital cameras? Sure, they cost a bit more than third-party offerings, and often weren't quite as nice, but some people really liked knowing that drivers for their Apple-branded peripherals would definitely be compatible with their Macs-- or, at least, if they weren't, they'd be able to raise a stink with the mothership... 1439: Settle Down Already (4/1/99) Leave it to good ol' Judge Jackson to throw everyone a curve. "Redmond Justice" is on extended hiatus for at least another five weeks or so, but even during this downtime he's managed to shake things up a little...
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