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[calimac]

Over the years, April Fool's Day seems to be becoming less of an excuse for kids to play cruel practical jokes on each other, and more of a chance for news sources to publish transparently sarcastic hoax articles. Here's a good one; it cuts a current fad down to size.

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[vgqn.livejournal.com]

Brilliant, especially the juxtaposition of earth-shattering news with the banal!

[scribblerworks.livejournal.com]

Really enjoyed that.

Especially since one of my LJ friends has enabled an app that dumps his day's tweets onto his LJ (in one cumulative daily post). Somehow, I just don't think they have the same snap when so removed from the flow of communication. (ie, not really interesting to read all by their lonesome)

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

One day I looked at my LJ friends page to find that three of my friends were dumping all of their tweets into LJ. I dumped them all right away; one of them figured out how to put his behind a cut, and I added him back again. It is just so annoying.

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

I wonder why I could guess which one it was you meant before I even checked the URL.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

It's nice to have one's allusions punctured.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

yup - they really caught the zeitgeist on that one.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Yes, especially about the downsizing and cost-saving measures in the newspaper industry these days.