Judging from the readership numbers today, a lot of you read this morning’s post about the ersatz energy breakthrough. It has an interesting story behind it.
I got an e-mail from Bob McCarty about 10 days ago with his intention to pull the April Fool’s prank and asking if I would help him spread it. I thought it was pretty humorous and agreed, so I set it to come up later this morning because I wanted it to be not as obvious as if I’d placed it at 12:02 a.m. as he suggested. Then I wrote the parts around the blockquote just to give it a little more local flavor and hopefully a bit more believability. I’m not sure how the other bloggers who also helped out did their take on it, but hopefully they had a bit of fun with the spoof too.
Bob’s prank did get mentioned on the news.com website as part of a larger story about April Fool’s pranks, so he was excited about it. And what the heck, it hopefully gave us all a laugh after all the serious news about things like this Baltimore Sun story by Andrea K. Walker about a grocery strike averted.
So tomorrow – or later today, since this will serve as an early midday post – I’ll get back to other more weighty (perhaps a poor choice of words given my photoworthiness) topics. There’s a bit of a backlog of interesting stuff on my plate I need to get to.
That one was pretty good. I must be really dense or something, even the Google jokes got me at first this year. McCarty’s prank was good.
It ranks right up there with the people who are really trying to attach generators to revolving doors in an effort to harness the energy during rotation.