Iconic cats and other April 1st goodies

April 1, 2022 8:07 AM

"We’re celebrating April Fools’ Day by getting back to what the internet was originally built for: all cat content, all the time." The Noun Project (previously), a site where you can download freely licensed icons and photos to reuse in your projects, today offers collections such as Cat Commerce, cat body language, and a work-from-home cat. Please feel free to also use this thread to share fun April 1st projects and treats!
posted by brainwane (17 comments total)

Django Wordle Auth: a web framework plugin that "uses today's Wordle word of the day as your password." ("🚀 To celebrate National Jackass Day, I introduce to you, django-wordle-auth. 🤦🏼 Please do not use this in production unless it's a demo website.")
posted by brainwane at 8:35 AM on April 1, 2022 [5 favorites]

CircuitousPython 0.1.0 ahplA 0 released

import board 
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import time 

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    led.value = not led.value 
                               )1(peels.emit

taking careful use of whitespace to improve developer experience to the next level
posted by the antecedent of that pronoun at 8:41 AM on April 1, 2022

CircuitousPython 0.1.0 ahplA 0 released

Boustrophedonomenal!
posted by zamboni at 9:05 AM on April 1, 2022 [1 favorite]

The World War Two channel: The End of Hydra? - World War Two - April 1, 1943

Impressive research, as always.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:09 AM on April 1, 2022 [2 favorites]

Fun stuff. I generally love the idea of April fools' day.

My mom got my as a kid by telling me her work office was making us move to rural Mississippi. (There are good people in rural Mississippi. The idea was horrifying to me a 12 year old.) I got a neighbor by replacing the soap in her bathroom with plastic while pet-sitting. I got my mentor with a plastic cabbage. I've still got a little disc that you can insert in the socket of an incandescent light-bulb to make it intermittently blink that I've been saving. I don't know anyone with incandescent light-bulbs anymore. But, someday, I'll use it.

I got my former high-school guidance councilor the year after I left by phoning him in an adult voice up and claiming to be a college admissions office person to ask about discrepancies between the student-submitted records and transcripts for me and my friends. The guy was shuffling through filing cabinets and making excuses in a panic. (I also filled his filing cabinet with peanuts and put salt in his coffee as a student.) I hope he recognized that I did it out of fondness. He was the adult high-school person I most related to and admired. I should probably write to him and mention that.

This year, I'm really not feeling it. The April fools joke here is that COVID-19 is no longer worth fighting. And that having Democrats in a position of power in the US makes any difference. I'm too tired to laugh. The post-parody world is exhausting.
posted by eotvos at 9:40 AM on April 1, 2022 [2 favorites]

The Scottish Deer Centre announces that it was able to capture a live haggis, previously thought extinct, and as The Guardian reports "is definitely not some sort of guinea pig wearing a wig."
posted by dannyboybell at 9:52 AM on April 1, 2022 [4 favorites]

Seems like WestJet is now offering space flight! You can book a one-way ticket if you can't afford the full $1M price tag.
posted by one of these days at 10:50 AM on April 1, 2022

Introducing the self-driving bicycle in the Netherlands

TAP Air Portugal offers a Jet Pack service
posted by chavenet at 11:11 AM on April 1, 2022 [1 favorite]

give me all of these cat icons.
posted by Going To Maine at 11:39 AM on April 1, 2022 [2 favorites]

For the astrophysics folk, here's a curated list of arxiv papers. Most seem dumb, but perhaps I'm just in a bad mood. "On the Possibility of Discovering Exoplanets within our Solar System" did make me giggle.
posted by eotvos at 12:12 PM on April 1, 2022 [1 favorite]

To avoid confusion between Fahrenheit and Celsius, the U.S. National Weather Service is now reporting temperatures in Kelvin.
posted by spamloaf at 12:25 PM on April 1, 2022 [2 favorites]

My kindergartener asked for a plate when she got home, then asked me if I wanted a brownie. I said "sure!" and she gave me a construction paper brown E. Best prank ever. Then we played it on her mom.
posted by Catblack at 2:56 PM on April 1, 2022 [6 favorites]

For my fellow geeks:

Further Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels

Software Defects Considered Harmful
posted by humbug at 4:26 PM on April 1, 2022 [2 favorites]

I have several Wordle variants I do most days, and some were fine today, but Flaggle had a Shrek flag and Squardl had 6 words with no A's,E's,I's,O's or U's.

I'm not big on April Fools, but I always loved the story of Sidd Finch.
My boss was so excited about it (well I was too, for a bit) until I said, 'did you see the part about an announcement "on or about April 1"?'
posted by MtDewd at 4:31 PM on April 1, 2022 [1 favorite]

Disco Ball to be installed at Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
posted by kinnakeet at 4:49 PM on April 1, 2022 [1 favorite]

Duolingo wins April Fool's Day.
posted by rednikki at 7:45 PM on April 1, 2022 [1 favorite]

I saw the Duolingo video and howled with laughter.
posted by kathrynm at 3:47 PM on April 2, 2022