Yes, we're just joking, and apologies to anyone we may have offended... hopefully we succeeded in giving some of you a fright. ;)
And if not, just take a look at the horribly mangled source code of this unoptimized page... ouch! Hopefully, you can expect more refinement soon.
(Editor: All of the news items posted on this day were actually up on a spoof page on Halloween, October 31st, but were subsequently moved here for posterity. We can't bring ourselves to throw our own junk away.)