Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Gotcha! Running list of April Fool's Day Internet Pranks

The best April Fool's Day prank so far in my lifetime was my senior year of high school when the Boston area got hit with three feet of snow.

The internet geeks are coming close this year, so I thought I'd start a running list of all the gems I've encountered so far today, I've been up for 3 hours now and have already had several laughs.
Google's CADIE: the world's first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity; enables Autopilot to scan every one of your incoming messages and automatically send the perfect reply.

Guardian (UK): After 88 years, the Guardian will only be available via Twitter; experts say any story can be told in 140 characters.

YouTube: Self-explanatory, but they've flipped.




Reddit + Digg = Reddigg



Slideshare is falsely increasing their stats. And some people are buying it (ha!).

Well, I've got to get to work. If you've got any better ones, post them here. Or follow the running Tweets.


UPDATE 1 (9:05 a.m. ET): Sounds like the Conficker virus is a fake!

UPDATE 2 (9:15 a.m. ET): Rent out the Lincoln Bedroom in The White House for just $49 (bailout special).

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