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April Fools 2009 – The Index
Every year the April 1st jokes, pranks and hoaxes get bigger and better. This is simply our effort to catalog some of the better humor for your enjoyment and for posterity. Please share others you find and I’ll list them here.
(Last entry added 2:30 PM ET April 1st)
Technology & Geek Culture
AutoPilot takes the work – all work – out of reading/responding to emails – Google
Slashdot launches User Achievements – Slashdot
Warner Bros. Acquires Pirate Bay – TorrentFreak
Lynx browser sees huge surge in popularity due to rival’s security woes – Netcraft
$99 Flights to Mars (save 3 trillion!) – Expedia
Quake Live launches as MMORPG – Quake Live
Razorfish TweetDoubler – Amazing Twitter tool that allows twice the character count – Razorfish
Face the Future: Face Gestures for Opera Browser – Opera
Is Conficker REALLY a virus? – Techware Labs
Breaking: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Released – Smashing Magazine
Internet Reboot at 11:59 UTC Today – Site Point
After 188 Years of Ink, The Guardian will publish only on Twitter – The Guardian
Windows 7 will launch in only one version – The Raw Feed
Cloud Computing via Airship – Amazon
Carl Icahn is gunning for management shakeup at Apple – InfoWorld
Wolfpigeon Wireless Convergence – Quacomm
Apple Files Patent for methods to Automatically Enforce Secrecy – The Register
US Military uses Left 4 Dead as training simulator – ModShop
Domain Squatter wakes from 5 year coma, wants his money back – Domain Name News
Flying Dog to brew “low alcohol” craft brews to capture Utah market – Flying Dog Blog
Monitor return rates soar amidst dead pixel pandemic – HEXUS
Twitter added to Federal emergency response network – Infoworld
General / Related
Microsoft asks feds for bailout – InfoWorld
Automobile Canine Repellenant Alloy Protection – BMW
Mountain Cleaners Wanted in Switzerland – MySwitzerland.com
$3 Random Crap (plus $1,000,000 Shipping) – Woot
Alan Greenspan: “I screwed up!” – Models & Agents
Colorado Avalanche turn over draft pick to fans – NHL Rumor Mill
Miller, Pacino casted to play in new Bioshock movie – Dark Horizons
Man foils bank robbery after assuming it was an April Fool – Telegraph.co.uk
Bailout Special! 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Short Term Room Rental – istopover
Nine Inch Nails release Justin Timberlake-produced full length “Strobelight” – NiN
French Museum Concorde plane resurrection story hoax – BBC News
Computer Gaming
Get your yodel on with Microsoft’s Alpine Legend for Xbox 360 – VG247
Diablo III New Class: The Archivist – Blizzard
Fallout 3 and Animal Crossing for Classic Nintendo – Minus World
World of Warcraft Dance Off (So you think you can /dance) – Blizzard
Battlefield: Bad Company “2″ new features list – Gamers Digest
2,000+ Japanese customers line up for (phantom) Dragon Quest IX release – Kotaku
World of Warcraft P1mp My Mount – Blizzard
Microsoft to release Windows Vista on Steam in May – Multiplay UK
Products
PetBook, the worlds first laptop for dogs – Toshiba
Webcam software to really watch what your web visitors are doing – Woopra
Squeez Bacon, the world’s most perfect food – ThinkGeek
Tauntaun Sleeping Bag for kids (comes with lightsaber) – ThinkGeek
Kodak eyeCamera 4.1, clips right onto your glasses – Kodak
Whole Foods 365 Organic Air – Whole Foods
Google gBall with w/ GPS, wireless & vibration alert BETA – Google AU
Software detects when Callers Lie to Call Center Agents – PSS Help
Linked Portal T-Shirts “The Cake is a Lie” – ThinkGeek
Unicorn Chaser Drink to restore calm after viewing disturbing internet content – Think Geek
Buzzword – the shocking speech-recognition wristband – ThinkGeek
Ultimate Assasin’s Weapon Ice Mold “Never get caught” – ThinkGeek
Give the Gift of F*CK (flying F*CK toy helicopter) – ThinkGeek
Great Deals
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