Thursday 1 April 2010

April Fools..

Ha, very funny. My sister Holly logged onto deviantART this evening, and told me someone had changed her profile picture. On further inspection, it appeared that everyone's pictures had been changed, along with their signatures. "Do you think it's a glitch?" she asked. I asked her if she recalled what today's date was. Yes, it so happens that today is the one day of the year during which everyone attempts to trick, fool or joke with the vast majority. I generally don't, but do enjoy witnessing the large-scale pranks pulled on the wider community by Internet giants such as Google, who a few years back, claimed to have developed a technology entitled 'Google MentalPlex, which will supposedly read one's thoughts, and conduct a google search accordingly, and YouTube, who one year turned all hosted video clips upside down for the day, and this year gave users the option to view clips in 'text mode'. deviantART, on the other hand, has decided to change all users profile pictures and signature text to something either Twilight or Lady Gaga related. My profile pic is now a GIF image from New Moon, depicting Jakob transforming into a werewolf, with overlaying text that reads 'Team Jakob', and my signature reads 'Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf?'. Well played, deviantART, well played.

Until next time,

E.Jxx

PS, Google MentalPlex can be acessed here: http://www.google.com/mentalplex/

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