New Coursera course: Underwater Basketweaving (coursera.org)

one of the more creative april fools jokes

Ugh, I'm gonna try and quit the internet for today. I appreciate good pranks, but the firehose of garbage stories that is the internet on April 1st just doesn't do it for me.

Hopefully this will help balance the gender disparity in the weaving industry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc0NxKgoUfU

I like how they are really trying to recreate the on-campus college experience.

Oh lol. I do not expect this to go over well with the politically correct crowd.