In need of some April Fool’s fun — and a giant timesuck? Check out the Museum of Hoaxes Top 100 April Fool’s Hoaxes of All Time (h/t). Though probably the cruelest of all I’ve come across so far, I’m particularly a fan of #21. #10 also gave me a good laugh.
Have you been had at all today? I’ll admit that even as I was waiting for the first April Fool’s joke to come across my way, I gasped in horror upon reading the headline “Damon Lindelof Quits LOST” on my favorite LOST blog, and choked out “but — he — oh wait, never mind. Thank god it’s April Fool’s.” And though I immediately knew it was a joke, I did find the Guardian’s announcement that they’re switching entirely to Twitter format incredibly amusing.
How about you?
Jezebel’s no commenting.
At least… I’m hoping it’s a joke!
I was somewhat disappointed to realize after a moment that Gmail Autopilot will not actually be implemented.
Haha, I felt the same way when I found out that their joke, I think from last year, regarding the ability to send back-dated emails (so that it didn’t look like you actually took ages to reply) also wasn’t true :)
re: Jezebel, I don’t usually read that blog, but I did just hear. It probably is an April Fool’s joke, as virtually everyone I know who reads it say they do so for the comments. But if so, they’re going with a decidedly “we’re actually trying to convince people” April Fool’s approach, rather than the more light-hearted “no but seriously, though, it’s a joke, we’re giving you tons of hints here” approach a la the Guardian, etc.
I’ve got jokes up on my cancer blog After cancer now what Hopefully nothing too offensive :)
Wikipedia’s English-language main page is entirely fake articles, news, “this day in history”, and “did you know?” They’re pretty funny even if they’re obviously fake.
It took me a minute to get that the Wikipedia articles were fake.
I just found out that YouTube is playing videos upside down :)
“Haha, I felt the same way when I found out that their joke, I think from last year, regarding the ability to send back-dated emails (so that it didn’t look like you actually took ages to reply) also wasn’t true :)”
It’s not that I wanted to use it, but for some reason I find the idea of hundreds of thousands of little programs in people’s email happily conversing with each other while you’re away and signing you up for social outings on a whim to be absolutely delightful.
Opponax: Fair enough, they’re not all “obviously fake”, since some of them do look like the kind of trivia you see on Wikipedia every day.
Numbers 5, 15 and 20 off Cara’s list, definitely. Happy April Fool’s Day, everyone!
Although I’m not a big fan of what the car industry does to the planet, I was pretty impressed by this:
http://www.businesscar.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=4357&c=1
Google Brain Search, this year’s Usual Google Hoax – would be very funny if it wasn’t for
which is sort of infuriating.
I heard last week that GoogleMail was allowing users to retrieve e-mail after it had been sent (e.g. to the wrong person): no more details were given in the radio broadcast. I thought ‘mmm, not April Fool’s Day yet is it?’
http://www.domainnamenews.com/featured/hasta-la-vista-ca/1502
I had almost completed this before I figured out it was fake… and I’m not usually gullible.
Sarah – that is actually true. After hitting “send” you have five seconds to recall the e-mail. But then it’s gone.
Bugmenot had a popup window saying that you had to register for free. When you hit yes or no it said “Just kidding!”