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April Fools 2008

Robert — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:23:28 +0000

As usual, my list of April Fools that I saw today:

Google’s Project Virgle the first permanent human colony on Mars.
Google’s Gmail Custom Time lets you choose when to send mail. Never be late again.
Google’s gDay™ with Mate™ lets you search content on the internet before it’s created.
Google Talk to convert conversations to IM speak on Earth Day. Bot available for practice.
Massive YouTube RickRoll via user “YTRickRollsYou“. Should note embeds are disabled on the real video for whatever reason. This one is still available.
Build your own Google Airplane.
CNET says everyone’s favorite public speaker Mark Zuckerberg will be on Saturday Night Live, TechCrunch acquires Tiger Beat, will rename it CrunchKids, Flying Spaghetti Monster statue at Tennessee courthouse.
Lenovo reveals ThinkPad Mr. Coffee Edition.
Gizmodo decided to put Mr. T on every post.
Mozilla about:mozilla newsletter for April 1. Featuring Toronto’s CN Tower office.
ThinkGeek has several products including the usb pregency test, Super Pii Pii Brothers and Defendius Labyrinth Security Lock.
XFire PWN3D their homepage. 1337! OMGZERGRUSH!!!KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE
The BBC made penguins fly [Video].
ESPN Deathmatch coverage.
The Register: Comcast acquires BitTorrent for $53 billion.
macosxhints.com goes OS 9.
TechCrunch sues Facebook.
Amazon’s Dog Computer Interface.
Matt Cutts gets a Firefox tattoo on the back of his neck.

April Fools 2007

Robert — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:48:15 +0000

Some of my favorites for this year:

heise.de – Mozilla sues Microsoft over tabbed browsing.
WebKit – Switching to Trident (IE)
NASA – Americans Defeat Russians in First Space Quidditch Match.
CNet – Dalai Lama exiled to Second Life. Among other great fake story titles.
BBC – Sniff Screen Technology.
Google TiSP – Broadband via Your Toilet.
Gmail Paper – Your mail printed out.
Woot.com – Random crap is $1,000,000.
The Pirate Bay – Hosting secured in North Korea.

Be on the look out

Robert — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:19:52 +0000

As tradition seems to dictate, there may be some rumors about Mozilla circulating around the web today (April 1). Don’t go nuts if you hear that Mozilla Corporation is having an IPO, or that Firefox is going to become an IE shell.

Oh yea, if you find a good one, leave a comment here to let me know!

April Fools

Robert — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:15:20 +0000

As is tradition, April 1 is a day where you don’t believe anything you see on the Internet. Here are some of my favorite pranks so far:

Wikipedia claims Encyclopedia Britannica has initiated a “semi-hostile” takeover
Paris Hilton recruited to give Linux more exposure.
Tiger Woods named spokesman for Apple just prior to the release of Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger”.
First Computer -> Human Virus Discovered. Lets hope “Malwarlaria.B” Vaccines are available soon. Could this be terrorism related?
Google is going up against Coke, Pepsi, Gatorade, with Google Gulp
MSSQL for Linux, Unix and XBox coming soon.
The Commentator. Writes comments in your code for you!
Ltoast from Linspire.
Google acquires the Mozilla Foundation [press release].
Steve Jobs joins the Mozilla Foundation. Mitchell’s Reaction, Asa’s Denial

I’ll update this post if I spot some more good ones.