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Funny Google

The Best Of April Fools Day 2012

Unlike many of my peers I’m not really a curmudgeon when it comes to Internet pranks on April Fools. Some are cool, others aren’t very well done. Get on with it. There wasn’t that much this year, presumably because April 1 falls on a weekend this year. Two however were pretty awesome:

Google Maps 8 Bit “Quest”

April Fools Google Quest

This is just outright awesome. It’s a fully “usable” 8-bit version of their map. This wasn’t just a quickie hack, it’s actually well implemented and complete. It’s very NES.

XKCD’s Targeted Comics

Everyone’s favorite comic XKCD went over the top by creating a bunch of targeted comics based on several aspects including browser, ISP, and location. The folks at reddit have been working to break it down. It’s quite complicated and clearly took some time. A lot of comics were drawn to make this work.

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Around The Web Funny

I Love xkcd

I love xkcd

If you read this blog, you very likely follow xkcd religiously. The above video I’m pretty sure was based on this comic, which was based on the popular Discovery Channel commercial Boom De Ya Da.

Of course if you read this blog, no description was really needed 😉 .

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Funny Tech (General)

xkcd: Tech Support Cheat Sheet

Todays xkcd comic was even funnier than normal:

xkcd  tech support

[From xkcd]