April Fool roundup

[ewx]

• Tabloid editors to sit on Sentencing Guidelines Council
• Guardian to be published exclusively via Twitter
• Eco-friendly business cards
• LJ redesigns its friends page
• SRCF redirect their home page to a Gopher server
• Shortpacked resurrects Roomies
• Opera Face Gestures
• Python PEP 401
• Tartan sheep
• Income tax loophole
• Cars to be allowed on misguided bus route
• Wikipedia has its usual front-page silliness
• Sat-nav shoes
• Twitter feedback to help Government rate universities
• Dream recorder
• Powdered beer (OK, how many fools does one website need?)
• Google's AI (see also Street View for extra pandas)
• PostgreSQL.fr is showing a MySQL error
• Thinkgeek have several fools
• Kitten talent contest
• Miss Universe visits Gitmo apparently real
• iPlayer now available on a toaster
• Sponsored userpics
• Off-the-record mode for IM
• Concorde to fly again
• Oh Jacqui, surely that can't be you?
• BMW’s Magnetic Tow Technology
• Modal Shift for Top Gear
• Bikavan
• Ubuntu to rewrite Linux kernel using Mono
• Google to fund 'video Street View' for Central London
• Lehman Brothers to make Frankenstein return
• Gordon Brown proposes 'web traffic tax'
• Haskell mascot
• The Invisible Library, For Real…
• Obama grants library fine amnesty
• Daily WTF gets VC funding and reinvents itself as Twitter
• RFC5513 IANA Considerations for Three Letter Acronyms
• RFC5512 IPv6 over Social Networks
• Save IE6. (Though I'm curious how well it renders in IE6...)
• iClamp, Digital Lenses, HUD Sunglasses
• iPlaForOL
• Swiss Mountain Cleaners (video)
• Project Goat-See
• MEGADETH to headline Truck Festival!
• Shakespeare’s Robin of Sherwood on DVD
• Galaxy Zoo: an unusual new class of galaxy cluster
• The gravitational force law in the Solar System
• Time variation of a fundamental dimensionless constant
• China to be painted white to fight global warming

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[geekette8.livejournal.com]

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Farmer_breeds_unique_tartan_sheep&in_article_id=605257&in_page_id=34

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology

http://www.moo.com/blog/2009/04/01/announcing-a-new-moo-business-card/

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/protect/income-tax-loophole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

[emperor]

http://www.yugiohtheabridgedseries.com/

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Can you summarize? I don't have video here and have never heard of the thing that that is referring to.

[j4.livejournal.com]

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=406006&c=1

[j4.livejournal.com]

Firebox had another couple as well as the Sat-nav shoes (which I *totally* wanted to buy):

http://www.firebox.com/product/2312/iREMember-Dream-Recorder
http://www.firebox.com/product/2313/Powdered-Beer

[j4.livejournal.com]

And something weird from Google:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/index.html

(k I'll stop now)

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/index.html

and the blog that goes with it http://cadiesingularity.blogspot.com/ (cadiesingularty)

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

pandas pandas pandas.

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

thinkgeek.com seems to have a page of them : http://www.thinkgeek.com/

don't you want a usb pet rock?

[j4.livejournal.com]

I think this is an April Fool:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7970000/newsid_7974400/7974448.stm

[sparrowsion]

It definitely is:

Anna Gram isn't happy about the show, saying it's "a poor silly fad"

=> April Fool's Day

It is also cute.

[j4.livejournal.com]

And I *hope* this is an April Fool: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5087367/Miss-Universe-describes-Guantnamo-Bay-as-relaxing-calm-after-visit-to-detainee-camps.html

[ewx.livejournal.com]

The BBC thinks it's real (#8) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7976288.stm).

[imc.livejournal.com]

Sponsored Userpics (http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/934431.html?style=mine)

lj_releases has an amusing one, but sadly the post (http://community.livejournal.com/lj_releases/44479.html?style=mine) is locked. ("Text and audio captchas have now been replaced by a small Flash tetris game. You must score at least 200 points in 60 seconds in order to proceed.")

[tea-cantata.livejournal.com]

http://resiak.livejournal.com/60614.html

[meirion.livejournal.com]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/04/bbc_iplayer_now_available_on_a.html

[imc.livejournal.com]

Home Secretary photographed emerging from Ann Summers (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1166245/Oh-Jacqui-surely-you.html)?

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Farmer_breeds_unique_tartan_sheep&in_article_id=605257&in_page_id=34

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

Ah, you've already got that one...

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

http://www.newspress.co.uk/DAILY_LINKS/arc_mar_2009/57340bmw.htm

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/the-invisible-library-for-real/

The YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9grJ5fHoZ4) linked to in the comments is almost certainly a spoof, too, but I don't have headphones at work...

more library lulz

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

http://community.oclc.org/hecticpace/archive/2009/04/overdue-stimulation.html

[emperor]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/apr/01/newspapers-dailymail

Is the Grauniad's round-up of fools.

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

The Register has a story about Google and our beloved leaders using the UK CCTV network for 'video street view' (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/01/watch_out_london/).

[nevboo.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you did this. I was looking for a list. LJ almost caught me earlier with their claim of 140 before auto LJ cut and listing what people are doing. I mean it wasn't that unlikely except that it was too much like turning into facebook!

[armb.livejournal.com]

Vibram to launch bike tyres (http://www.bikemagic.com/news/article.asp?UAN=6911&v=1)

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

reddit redesigned their site to look like digg.

[fanf]

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2009-April/021173.html

Haskell mascot is a koala the looks strangely like SPJ.

[fanf]

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Weve-Gone-VC,-Baby!.aspx

[ewx.livejournal.com]

“We're going to be like Twitter” seems to be the cliché for this year...

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

What are the signs, apart from the date, that the 'Concorde to fly again' is an April Fool? I don't see any suspicious names, fish references, or 'fooled you' links ...

[ewx.livejournal.com]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7975877.stm for instance.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

On arxiv:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5377 - three unusual galaxy clusters

http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5308 - Bayesian bounds on the exponent for gravitation in the solar system (perfectly serious methods discussion on a very silly example)

http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5321 - dπ/dt