Comments on: Don’t be a sucker, April Fool’s is upon us

By: Phil Gerbyshak

Phil Gerbyshak — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:20:00 +0000

I like the pretty purple ponies. They are fun. And why not! It’s April 1st. Unleash your inner geek, and play with your (least) favorite toy!

By: TDavid

TDavid — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:49:27 +0000

Nice!

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:15:29 +0000

Incoming! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/31/1644225&from=rss

By: TDavid

TDavid — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:51:33 +0000

LOL I think your name is a little too common so you are getting other garbage mixed in there.

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:49:26 +0000

“boring and dumb” and “overvalued” I can take, but “1 1/2 inches long”? That’s hitting below the belt. And besides, I just got out of the pool.

I think yours is rigged: http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=tdavid&type=1

By: TDavid

TDavid — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:38:27 +0000

Yeah, I saw a few days ago before Scoble posted it being passed around on a Microsoft mailing list I’m on and thought about linking that. There was a 404 error on the spoof link that I left as a comment on Scoble’s blog, not sure if they fixed that yet.

There is a non-spoof site Googlism that grabs your name and bits of text pulled from various SE that’s not a spoof but actually kind of interesting. Check out this:
http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=sterling&type=1

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:07:28 +0000

You’ve probably seen it (Scoble featured it yesterday), but this one is pretty good: http://www.mymsnsearch.com/index.aspx
It works particularly well with non- to semi-geeks. In fact, it could almost function as a geekometer: measure the number of seconds it takes for the victim to recognize it as a spoof. geekness = 1.0 / nseconds