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2008-04-01
So what April Fools have people seen?
- LJ has a new team member
- A Push to Stop Swiss Cats From Being Turned Into Coats and Hats
fanf's modest proposal for the improvement of Daylight Saving
- US to scrap dollar and join the euro
- Penguins
- Binary transport for XMPP
- Unusual banking trojan
- Body Advertising
- Warrington to be demolished
- Teacher's head explodes due to Wi-Fi, mobe radiation
- IBM unveils nano-projector based VirtuaHuman with 1TB of memory
- EDSAC, TITAN, Phoenix and Janet X.25 all DOWN (Java required; screenshot if you can't see it)
- New Hero Class Revealed: Bard
- Quechua conclusively linked to Phaistos Disc
- Youtube's featured videos
- www.chu.cam.ac.uk
imc is leaving LJ for Facebook and Myspace
- The mechanism of poltergeist activity
- Acid 3: Opera first to 106
- An Inconvenient Truth About Privacy
- GURPS MMO
- SimPE cease-and-desisted
- D&D errata
- Tagging taken to its logical conclusion
- Several fools reported by the Telegraph
- Tauren marines in Starcraft II
- Thinkgeek have a bunch of made-up products.
- Airlines announce new fees for seats, restroom use
- Endless cake items on kotaku.com
- Further commercialization of the Internet
- A joke character encoding specification (that isn't WTF-8)
- A flurry of Google fools:
Also various webcomics are fooling around; these may not make sense except to regular readers:
- McAwesome's Parasailing And Chocolate Bakery
- Diesel Sweeties without pixels
- YAFGC in the style of OOTS
- XKCD/Questionnable Content
- Qwantz/XKCD
- Wondermark changes style
- Darths And Droids
(No more please, or at least don't expect me to add them to the list above if posted after the end of April 1st!)
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Swiss cats (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/world/europe/01cats.html)
Another Google Fool: Gmail Custom Time (http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/)
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http://questionablecontent.net/
http://www.qwantz.com/
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http://www.manchesterconfidential.com/index.asp?Sessionx=IpqiNwTiNwIiIDy6IHqjNwB6IA
(If the query string doesn't work, go to the main site and click on City News)
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Rick Astleymany more Google fools, including ones translated from Japanese and Korean...no subject
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c't article Windows: Klickprofile für weniger Fehlermeldungen
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I also found a site charting all the April Fools (http://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/2008.html), which is eating vastly into my work time...
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Another AF
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Australian Google fool (http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html)
Various news stories linked from the Telegraph's roundup (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/01/napril201.xml)
web standards (http://www.webstandards.org/2008/04/01/new-initiative-in-hyper-localized-social-tagging/)
Local April Fool by me and rejs :-) (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/network/f2f.xml)
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http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-04-01-n71.html
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They clearly have too much time on their hands.
http://kotaku.com/tag/april-fool.s-day/
RFCs
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The Graun had one suggesting Carla Bruni-Sarkozy would advise Gordon Brown on making Britain more stylish (http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/apr/01/7). I bought the Times and the Independent as well but I haven't had a chance to look through them yet.
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Peter Jackson to make The Hobbit as a musical (http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2008/nz12465.php)
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