{"id":4591,"date":"2012-04-02T17:41:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T21:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4591"},"modified":"2025-06-07T15:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:33:45","slug":"tidbitss-favorite-april-fools-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/tidbitss-favorite-april-fools-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"TidBITS&rsquo;s Favorite April Fools Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12908\">Adam C. Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12908\"><p>We&rsquo;re big fans of April Fools Day, so much so that we&rsquo;ve been writing an April Fools issue since 1991. This year, however, the holiday fell on a Sunday, and the joke is usually lost when people don&rsquo;t experience it on the day itself. So instead of doing an April Fools issue for 2012, we want to share some of our favorite online pranks, mock sites, and otherwise entertaining fare from yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My favorite is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.flickr.net\/2012\/04\/01\/your-photos-re-envisioned\/\">Flickr&rsquo;s Atkinson Dither<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam C. Engst: We&rsquo;re big fans of April Fools Day, so much so that we&rsquo;ve been writing an April Fools issue since 1991. This year, however, the holiday fell on a Sunday, and the joke is usually lost when people don&rsquo;t experience it on the day itself. So instead of doing an April Fools issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-06-07T19:33:47Z","apple_news_api_id":"326eb424-6311-4de8-af2a-675ef79ff8d9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-06-07T19:33:47Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AMm60JGMRTeivKmde95_42Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1543],"class_list":["post-4591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bill-atkinson"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4593,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}