Re: Idiots in the IT field.. too many in the last few years...
"There's a great tradition of 'silly' little projects like these, everyone knows not to take it seriously."
Alas, some of these practical jokes do still occasionally get out of hand. Take Python, for example -- the language that brought back indentation as part of the syntax, just when old FORTRAN programmers like me thought that we'd seen the last of that kind of nonsense :-)