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Some April fools back in January

While searching for something else, I just came across this blog entry which was apparently written late january: MySQL: the harpooned dolphin

It is, of course, fairly ill informed and full of errors. I won’t even bother going through it all.
Actually, I can’t for the life of me work out whether that site is satirical or for real. Looking through some of the more recent posts (election stuff), I’m wondering whether it might actually be real and is authored by some fanatical American republican zealot going nuts online. Or it’s some smart person doing a real good impersonation of such a nut. Who knows…

Hmm, the site appears to be running WordPress and PHP on Linux, and there’s phpinfo() output somewhere with a modified PHP logo showing a seal. So, satire after all? Very well done in that case, but scary…

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5 thoughts on “Some April fools back in January

  1. We undertook a late night stunt last night to cover the Sun campus with inflatable dolphins. Photos and video also posted.

    http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2008/04/dolphins_everyw.html

    –Zack

  2. Yep saw it – nice one! Well done Zack, Marten, Steve (honorary Australian!) and the others.
    There does appear to be a lack of photos of the deployed dolphins though…. I saw only a few?

  3. Thanks Sheeri. Like I said, scary anyway…

  4. Its a spoof. Along the same lines is this one, which I have seen raise a few very indignant hackles:

    http://www.landoverbaptist.org/

    The Americans seem to delight in this sort of trolling.

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