Tis the First

So its April first, which means lots of really stupid people trying to do really stupid things and trying to get away with it.

I know I'm not clever enough to come up with anything good, I don't own a huge company that I can rename after a city in Kansas, I don't have a boss who's office I can wrap in aluminum foil (well done Jn and Cb), and I don't have enough blog followers to have a band of dogs call tech support in India and hound them.

So I thought today I'd just share my favorite April Fool's plug, from 2 years ago, at the BBC. Enjoy, and happy April Fool's Day - may you, your coworkers, and friends be smart in their pranks!

Penguins!

Some kind of sad, and kind of funny, news was on the BBC today.

Apparently, 9 little penguin bodies have been found outside Sydney, Australia mutilated by some sort of canid. That's the sad part.

Little penguins (also known as fairy penguins outside Australia) are pretty darn small, and certainly can't put up a fight against foxes or dogs, SO (here comes the funny part), traps and snipers have been deployed to protect these little guys. Yeah, that's right, SNIPERS!

And people wonder why I like Aussies so much.

I do wonder what the snipers are instructed to do if a predator comes around - are we going to start having Aussies stand up and protect foxes from snipers now? Hmmm....