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.

[emperor]

littlekuribohhas been semi-famously satirically abridging Yu-Gi-Oh for ages. The april fool is that he's switching to doing the same to Naruto...

[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

[j4.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, d'oh. :-} Nice anag!

In my defence, I was distracted by KITTEH with big hypnotic eyes.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

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

[j4.livejournal.com]

:-/

[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

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

What AI brain would be without them?

[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...