Ah, the RickRoll. One of the greatest ways to strike back on the Intarwebs. (If you don’t know what a RickRoll is click here, ya n00b.)

YouTube has decided to RickRoll its visitors by directing all clicks of featured videos from the home page to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.” What a way to celebrate April Fool’s Day.

I have to admit a certain affinity for the Rick Roll. Just a good gag. But what truly warms the cockles of my heart is the fact that Astley, as he explains in an interview with Wired, loves the Rick Roll:

It’s a bit strange anyway, to be honest, to have videos of when you were a young guy out on the internet, do you know what I mean? I’m 42 years old now, so it’s a little bit weird anyway. But it’s funny. It makes me laugh — I’m sure it really annoys a lot of other people — but it’s made me laugh occasionally.

Got to love the fact the he has a good sense of humor about the whole thing. Then again, if it helps get food on the table and help him trim back his hours at Tesco, I would be happy too.

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