Happy April Fools!

As ever, Blizzard really steps up to the plate for this holiday.

Molten Core comes to consoles -- starting with the Atari 2600. (Be sure to watch the trailer video!)

New Bard Class with special Guitar controller.

Happy April Fools!

As ever, Blizzard really steps up to the plate for this holiday.

Molten Core comes to consoles -- starting with the Atari 2600. (Be sure to watch the trailer video!)

New Bard Class with special Guitar controller.

Awesome lego geekery

A LEGO robot that solves Rubik's Cube.

(via umbran)

Awesome lego geekery

A LEGO robot that solves Rubik's Cube.

(via umbran)

More news of today

* EFF Announces Plans to Move Offices to Armored Zeppelin

Maiden Voyage to France and Japan Planned to Liberate ISPs

San Francisco The Electronic Frontier Foundation
announced its purchase of a $16.5 million dollar armored
zeppelin, which will become the new EFF headquarters in
2009.

"We felt that our organization had outgrown its Mission
District office space and that it was time to branch out
into a new direction," says EFF's Executive Director, Shari
Steele.

The new armor-plated, floating offices have been funded by
anticipated revenues from Hepting v. AT&T, the class-action
lawsuit filed by EFF in 2006 on behalf of AT&T customers,
alleging that the telecom giant had violated the law by
collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in
its massive, illegal program to wiretap and data-mine
Americans' communications. Sources on the EFF's board of
directors have been quoted as cackling, "Once our trial
lawyers get our hands on that money, we will be
unstoppable!"

The hydrogen-powered floating office will also help to
increase EFF's international presence. The EFF office's
first missions will be to travel to France and Japan where
ISPs in those two countries have given in to pressure from
the music and record industries to institute a "three
strikes" rule, which would throw customers offline,
possibly permanently, if rightsholders report that they
have been infringing on their copyrights. The zeppelin will
release an army of genetically-engineered winged monkeys,
which will patiently explain why this scheme deprives
Internet users of due process and their privacy before
biting any nearby copyright maximalists and infecting them
with rabies.

"Our new office heralds an exciting new chapter in the
history of this organization," says EFF's Legal Director,
Cindy Cohn. "And I will never have to worry about finding a
parking space in the morning."

For this release:
http://www.eff.org/pages/04/01

More news of today

* EFF Announces Plans to Move Offices to Armored Zeppelin

Maiden Voyage to France and Japan Planned to Liberate ISPs

San Francisco The Electronic Frontier Foundation
announced its purchase of a $16.5 million dollar armored
zeppelin, which will become the new EFF headquarters in
2009.

"We felt that our organization had outgrown its Mission
District office space and that it was time to branch out
into a new direction," says EFF's Executive Director, Shari
Steele.

The new armor-plated, floating offices have been funded by
anticipated revenues from Hepting v. AT&T, the class-action
lawsuit filed by EFF in 2006 on behalf of AT&T customers,
alleging that the telecom giant had violated the law by
collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in
its massive, illegal program to wiretap and data-mine
Americans' communications. Sources on the EFF's board of
directors have been quoted as cackling, "Once our trial
lawyers get our hands on that money, we will be
unstoppable!"

The hydrogen-powered floating office will also help to
increase EFF's international presence. The EFF office's
first missions will be to travel to France and Japan where
ISPs in those two countries have given in to pressure from
the music and record industries to institute a "three
strikes" rule, which would throw customers offline,
possibly permanently, if rightsholders report that they
have been infringing on their copyrights. The zeppelin will
release an army of genetically-engineered winged monkeys,
which will patiently explain why this scheme deprives
Internet users of due process and their privacy before
biting any nearby copyright maximalists and infecting them
with rabies.

"Our new office heralds an exciting new chapter in the
history of this organization," says EFF's Legal Director,
Cindy Cohn. "And I will never have to worry about finding a
parking space in the morning."

For this release:
http://www.eff.org/pages/04/01

And yet more

Cory Doctorow releases Self under Creative Commons License

Ann & Jeff Vandermeer, noted theme anthologists, poke fun at themselves by announcing that their next project is Squidpunk!. However, they are outdone by the Locus article which claims that their next project is an anthology of Kincaidism.

Jeff relates: "When Ann and I read Paul Kincaid's essay, 'A History of Today,' denouncing movements and manifestos in science fiction and fantasy, and implicitly trashing all the hard work we had done putting together our Pirate and Steampunk and New Weird volumes, we realized that he was really on to something. Something we could hitch our own stars to."

"Right," adds Ann. "We decided that maybe we had been a little too enthusiastic and faddish in our previous endorsement of these nebulous, over-hyped schools of literature. Maybe the best fiction was that which owed allegiance to no particular brand name."

And yet more

Cory Doctorow releases Self under Creative Commons License

Ann & Jeff Vandermeer, noted theme anthologists, poke fun at themselves by announcing that their next project is Squidpunk!. However, they are outdone by the Locus article which claims that their next project is an anthology of Kincaidism.

Jeff relates: "When Ann and I read Paul Kincaid's essay, 'A History of Today,' denouncing movements and manifestos in science fiction and fantasy, and implicitly trashing all the hard work we had done putting together our Pirate and Steampunk and New Weird volumes, we realized that he was really on to something. Something we could hitch our own stars to."

"Right," adds Ann. "We decided that maybe we had been a little too enthusiastic and faddish in our previous endorsement of these nebulous, over-hyped schools of literature. Maybe the best fiction was that which owed allegiance to no particular brand name."

Not April Fools related, but still very amusing

Clearly, I am having what is colloquially known as a "slow work day".

The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You

Not April Fools related, but still very amusing

Clearly, I am having what is colloquially known as a "slow work day".

The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You

And yet more more

Weasels and Medieval Theology

(link courtesy of nancylebov)

And yet more more

Weasels and Medieval Theology

(link courtesy of nancylebov)