Excursus

After reporting on a not so merry jester, I thought an April Fools Day Roundup would lighten the mood:

• GitHub becomes SvnHub: “Yes, that’s right! Git is too new, too big of a change, and too hard to explain to my parents. We’re moving back to Subversion and all of you are coming with us.”
• Mark Liberman becomes BBC Science correspondent: “I have a high regard for the BBC’s upper-crust pomposity and tabloid-like credulity. And above all, I have a high regard for the ratio of its salary levels to those of Language Log. When plotted on a logarithmic scale, they absolutely go through the roof.”
• Linux Developer Gets Laid: “We’re tired of all those Microsoft developers shoving their Win-Ho’s in our face. Now we can tell them about Todd. Who’s laughing now?”
• Helvetica Serif: “FontFont have announced that they are to release Helvetica Serif, following the discovery of drawing of that typeface by Max Miedinger. The sketches which were discovered by Miedinger’s granddaughter have been redrawn to create the digital version shown above.”

Update Unfortunately, the real April Fools Day Joke is No Joke: OOXML is approved as an ISO standard