2008-04-01

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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:
  • Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes
  • Google Talk goes green
  • Custom Time
  • gDay

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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