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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: aprilfools</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/aprilfools.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2010-04-01T11:33:04+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>GitHub: Announcing SVN Support</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2010/Apr/1/github/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2010-04-01T11:33:04+00:00</published><updated>2010-04-01T11:33:04+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2010/Apr/1/github/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://github.com/blog/626-announcing-svn-support"&gt;GitHub: Announcing SVN Support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
The best kind of April Fool’s joke: one that works. It’s read-only, but that’s good enough to support referencing GitHub repositories from SVN externals.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aprilfools"&gt;aprilfools&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/git"&gt;git&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/github"&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/subversion"&gt;subversion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="aprilfools"/><category term="git"/><category term="github"/><category term="subversion"/></entry><entry><title>Quoting Mark Pilgrim</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Apr/1/wearehughs/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-04-01T22:58:52+00:00</published><updated>2008-04-01T22:58:52+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Apr/1/wearehughs/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    &lt;blockquote cite="http://del.icio.us/wearehugh"&gt;&lt;p&gt;NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPERS: PLEASE DO NOT MAKE SERIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS ON INTERNET JACKASS DAY.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p class="cite"&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/wearehugh"&gt;Mark Pilgrim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aprilfools"&gt;aprilfools&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mark-pilgrim"&gt;mark-pilgrim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="aprilfools"/><category term="mark-pilgrim"/></entry><entry><title>Classy Query</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Apr/1/john/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-04-01T09:48:21+00:00</published><updated>2008-04-01T09:48:21+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Apr/1/john/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://ejohn.org/blog/classy-query/"&gt;Classy Query&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Beautifully implemented parody of class-based JavaScript and verbose namespacing as a jQuery extension, from John Resig. The source code has some neat tricks in it, in particular the buildClass() function.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aprilfools"&gt;aprilfools&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/funny"&gt;funny&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript"&gt;javascript&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-resig"&gt;john-resig&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jquery"&gt;jquery&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/namespacing"&gt;namespacing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/parody"&gt;parody&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="aprilfools"/><category term="funny"/><category term="javascript"/><category term="john-resig"/><category term="jquery"/><category term="namespacing"/><category term="parody"/></entry><entry><title>The ThinkGeek 8-bit Tie</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/6/thinkgeek/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-10-06T00:27:44+00:00</published><updated>2007-10-06T00:27:44+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/6/thinkgeek/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hats-ties/9352/"&gt;The ThinkGeek 8-bit Tie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
The April Fool’s Joke that attracted unprecedented customer demand is finally available to purchase for real.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/8bittie"&gt;8bittie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aprilfools"&gt;aprilfools&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/clothing"&gt;clothing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/thinkgeek"&gt;thinkgeek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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