A note from Anil Dash I agree with

[chipotle]

(No matter how much LiveJournal users may be irritated by him for being a principal at Six Apart:)

"Hey, there! I'm your friend, so I didn't want to be the one to tell you. But someone had to: Your April Fool's Day joke sucks."

Comments

[typographer.livejournal.com]

I've already essayed (http://www.sansfigleaf.com/2005/f050401.html) about the problem of jokes that don't work. But there are ones that do work. *shrug*

[chipotle.livejournal.com]

There are, certainly. But those tend to be the ones with some thought put into them, which are not the ones that I share Mr. Dash's curmudgeonly exasperation with. As he put it, "'Just do something stupid' need not apply."