Author: Rick Klau

Chris Casey recounts a sad day in Congressional history. I remember this when it happened — I was in law school, and had to repeatedly assure classmates (and one incensed professor) that it couldn’t possibly be true.

EchoDitto weighs in on 2008.

Definitely my vote for best April Fool’s, BoringBoring, a parody of BoingBoing. A few months ago, Erik had a great idea to do a parody of Boing Boing, which we thought we’d call “BoingBoingBoingBoing” (slogan: twice the boing!), but neither of us had the time to do it right. These guys did. (Side note: favorite…

P2P Revolution: Opera Announces Platform-Independent Real-Time Speech Technology, dubbed “Opera SoundWave”. Hysterical.

Another good one from Google — Google Gulp. Unlike last year’s April Fool’s announcement, this one is pretty clearly a joke…

Press release is here, I’m certain this will cause a stir…

Been way too busy to stoke the creative flames the past couple days, so here’s a list of links to past April Fool’s jokes I’ve done over the past couple years: 2004: IRS announces WYSKster 2003: Google Acquisitions Create ‘Movable Bloggerland’ (still my favorite) 2000: Bill Clinton to Launch E-Commerce IPO (with Erik Heels) 1999:…

Had a great time at the blawger (blawgger?) dinner last night. Special thanks to Tom Mighell, Dennis Kennedy and Matt Homann for putting it together, it was a great meal. Had a lot of fun meeting people who I only knew by name/URL — and even got to explain “tins” to a frequent reader of…

Picking Buzz up at the airport, then heading into town for the blawger dinner at the Catalyst Ranch. Rumor has it that Jake Parrillo and Evan Brown will be in attendance as well (representing DuPage County well!). I’m looking forward to seeing a number of others there tonight, should be fun. Update: Hoping the tornado…

As readers may recall, I’m on the ballot next week for Naperville Township Trustee. This qualifies as my first real taste of local politics. My integrity was questioned, the press got involved, and the Republicans end up looking like they’re playing petty politics… Update: The Republicans think I have good ideas! Or, more precisely: they…