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Some notes on a non-April Fools joke (or, Metaposts are bad)
For the past several years, I've radically changed the style sheets for The
Boston Diaries [1] on this day. It was the easiest thing I could think of to
mess with my reader's minds on this day (and if you are using Firefox [2],
you can view them by, a) coming directly to The Boston Diaries [3] and b)
selecting “View → Page Style” and selecting a year).
This year, I did no such thing. The reason was I couldn't think of a crazy
theme (oh, I could have reversed all the text with a single change, for
instance, but eh … ). Oh, a few months ago I did have an idea, but I
neglected to write anything down, and now for the life of me I can't recall
what it was.
But I suspect that the majority of my readership read me elsewhere, thanks to
my syndication [4] feeds [5] and thus wouldn't see any changes. I suppose I
could do some silly post where I say something outrageous but plausible (you
know, something like “President Obama finally figured out a way to get tax
cheats to pay their taxes—by nominating them for a cabinet post”) but a) I
would have to think of something outrageous but plausible, and I didn't, and
b) I really do think that President Obama finally figured out a way to get
tax cheats to pay their taxes—by nominating them for a cabinet post (again,
another example of real life trumping satire).
[1]
https://boston.conman.org/
[2]
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
[3]
https://boston.conman.org/
[4]
https://boston.conman.org/bostondiaries.rss
[5]
https://boston.conman.org/index.atom
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