A2Central.com editor Eric Shepherd spent three weeks planning and designing the perfect April Fools’ Day prank for the A2Central.com, Juiced.GS, and Syndicomm web sites, as well as the New York subway system and the Eiffel Tower, but canceled the plans moments before deployment after remembering the complaints he got after last year’s article claiming that Syndicomm had bought GS/OS from Apple Computer.
“It’s just not worth the trouble,” Shepherd said. “It’s too bad, too, because I had already bought 24,000 gallons of sky blue paint. I’m not going to be able to recoup that selling it all on eBay.” He paused briefly to tuck a bottle of Chanel No. 5 and a box of white lab rats under the sofa before adding, “Humorless goobers have ruined another American tradition.”