Just now, I've decided to create a new category of posts: Something to Think About. Well, I have yet to implement categories into each post, so for now you'll just have to recognize them by their subject line with the same text.

For the first Something to Think About, I posted this rant on a friend's forum after reading SOOOO many fake news posts on Digg.com and Slashdot.org and getting tired of all the BS I had to sort through. For some reason, this April Fool's day really annoyed me...

So here's the post, so aptly titled, "Why I hate April Fools day":

[quote]Yeah, pretty self-explanatory, I was perusing many of the tech news sites that I frequent, and I found that today happened to be the "fake stories" news day. Now, I can take a joke, but for some reason it was really annoying to see headlines stating some untruth and not being able to determine the truth from the fiction.

Why is this day so great? I've never really seen the point to it, I pull jokes on friends all the time, why do I need a day for it? At least the holiday hasn't been commercialized...yet...

Anyway, what do you guys think? I saw some pretty funny non-news related pranks pulled today, including the "Chuck Norris and his Karate Crew" tv show from the 80's, and an attempt by a favorite mod of mine to convince us that they had achieved the impossible, but other than that, the meaning of April Fool's Day has been lost to me...[/quote]
So there ya go, my rant on AFD; what do you all think?