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Richard Kettlewell ([personal profile] ewx) wrote2008-04-01 11:42 am
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2008-04-01

So what April Fools have people seen?

Also various webcomics are fooling around; these may not make sense except to regular readers:

(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!)

[identity profile] addedentry.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 10:43 am (UTC)(link)
LJ 2009 (http://news.livejournal.com/107460.html)
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/)
Edited 2008-04-01 10:57 (UTC)

[identity profile] beckyc.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
US to scrap dollar and join Euro (http://www.virginmedia.com/money/features/us-to-scrap-dollar-and-join-euro.php?vmsrc=vmhpld)

[identity profile] lethargic-man.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
Penguins (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qDl1aH9l4).

[identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
http://xkcd.com/
http://questionablecontent.net/
http://www.qwantz.com/

[identity profile] covertmusic.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
Youtube - any of the featured videos.

[identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/bodyadvertising/

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)

[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
I kind of expected http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/bottle_liquid_s.html to be, but the art of security spoofs is definitely dead by now, real life is far ahead of all humour, even the onion.

[identity profile] addedentry.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
The trackbacks on the Google Talk post will send you in the direction of Rick Astley many more Google fools, including ones translated from Japanese and Korean...

[identity profile] uisgebeatha.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
World of Warcraft introduces new Bard class (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/features/bard/bardclass.xml). |-)

[identity profile] uisgebeatha.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, and go to Youtube and click on any of the featured videos... :D
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[personal profile] lnr 2008-04-01 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
You missed [livejournal.com profile] imc's threat to leave LJ for Facebook and Myspace and then emigrate to San Seriffe.
gerald_duck: (quack)

[personal profile] gerald_duck 2008-04-01 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
I suspect Wondermark's claim that he's stopping doing Vicorian-engraving comics is a hoax.

[identity profile] hotbadgerdeluxe.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
Opera scores 106 on Acid 3 (http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/04/01/acid-3-opera-first-to-106).

[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 11:50 am (UTC)(link)
ROFL. It sounded perfectly sensible until I saw the guitar, and then a really marvellous image :)

[identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archives.html?m=April&y=2008&d=1 - GURPS MMO
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[identity profile] pne.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
SimPE shut down due to cease-and-desist letter from Microsoft (http://sims.ambertation.de/en/)
c't article Windows: Klickprofile für weniger Fehlermeldungen

[identity profile] uisgebeatha.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Good isn't it?

I also found a site charting all the April Fools (http://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/2008.html), which is eating vastly into my work time...

[identity profile] beingjdc.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
The Daily Mail are yet to fess up about their article where Alistair Darling had his chauffeur park up the ministerial car so he could buy a scratchcard, but I have a sneaking suspicion it's not quite genuine, somehow. Lots of outraged comments from readers.

[identity profile] lethargic-man.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
That idea about daylight saving time is actually something I've thought about seriously before—not as a serious proposal for our culture, but as a potential different way of measuring time other cultures might adopt. In the Jewish calendar, days start at sunset, and then the daylight hours are divided into twelve equal intervals between sunrise and sunset. Starting the day at sunrise, but then using standard seconds struck me as a compromise between that system and our own, to enable to use of standard-length time units across the year.
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Another AF

[personal profile] emperor 2008-04-01 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Darths and Droids goes live-action

[identity profile] j4.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Apologies if you've already got these in comments (are you updating the original list?) but:

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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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm updating the list from time to time.

[identity profile] gareth-rees.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Fafblog is back. (http://fafblog.blogspot.com/)

[identity profile] joane.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you seen today's Thinkgeek catalogue? http://www.thinkgeek.com/ - all today's featured products are jokes.

[identity profile] armb.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Google roundup:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-04-01-n71.html

[identity profile] crazyscot.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
US airlines are to charge economy passengers extra if they want to sit down during cruise, for airsickness bags, and for using of the toilet in-flight. (http://www.elliott.org/blog/airlines-announce-new-fees-for-seats-restroom-use/)

[identity profile] aardvark179.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Kotaku posted no less than 22 cake related items instead of their normal gaming coverage, including pre-release shots of cake mix (with a complaint that the next gen hasn't delivered on its promise of moving past all that tired old mixing bowl and spoons stuff).

They clearly have too much time on their hands.

http://kotaku.com/tag/april-fool.s-day/
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RFCs

[identity profile] pne.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
RFCs 5241 Naming Rights in IETF Protocols (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5241) and 5242 A Generalized Unified Character Code: Western European and CJK Sections (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5242)

[identity profile] mhoulden.livejournal.com 2008-04-01 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
No URL for mine because it was on the intranet, but BT are going to abolish rubbish bins and issue staff with bags for life so they can take their rubbish home.

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.

[identity profile] pseudomonas.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
The Daily WTF changes its name again, this time to The Daily What The Heck (http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Announcement-WebsiteRenameTo(The-Daily-WTH).aspx)

[identity profile] bellinghwoman.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Just found another one:
Peter Jackson to make The Hobbit as a musical (http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2008/nz12465.php)
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[personal profile] emperor 2008-04-02 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)

[identity profile] uisgebeatha.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Blizzard announce Molten Core console game (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/moltencore/). One for the retro console enthusiasts...

[identity profile] rochvelleth.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
My attempt (http://rochvelleth.livejournal.com/526299.html?view=2025435#t2025435) was quite feeble really.