What April Fool's jokes have you stumbled across online today?
Fluther’s nod to April Fool’s Day is glaringly obvious, but the internet is full of spoofs today. Thanks to another question here, I got a good laugh out of the Starbucks announcement and a facebook friend posted a link to an article about McDonalds food being unable to decompose in compost.
Have you found other April Fool’s gems you’d like to share? Did any of them “fool” you?
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www.Google.com <~ Changed it’s name to Topeka, while Topeka, Kansas changed it’s name to Google.
Google also has these:
Results 1 – 10 of about 8,080,000 for april fool’s. (0.06 nanocenturies)
Results 1 – 10 of about 7,110,000 for april fool’s day [definition]. (at warp 8.59)
Results 1 – 10 of about 89,000,000 for strange [definition]. (1.00e+43 Planck times)
Film School Rejects has a great April Fool’s joke. They’ve went back in time to the 80’s and are making up fake news articles about movies. Check it out!
Google Maps Street View has a new 3-D option. Find an area that has Street View and you’ll see an option to turn on 3-D mode on the left side of the map. (You’ll need the glasses, though).
Totally Free Crap. WhooOoOaaa. Upside down, flipped left, right, mirrored… backwards.
My avatar changed for the better on Fluther.
@timerichw1504drewen Find an area that has Street View and you’ll see an option to turn on 3-D mode on the left side of the map. (You’ll need the glasses, though).
Awright! Who has the glasses? Does it work?
Views to the side of the street actually have stereo pairs, so it could be done.
@anjaytkayimen I heard it works okay.
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http://xkcd.com/ seems to have a unix terminal to navigate its page today. Its quite fun
I didn’t realize access to Fluther questions was a fundamental and constitutional right.
Hitler!
To many chicks saying they are pregnant.
Woot Your Own Adventure.
Gmail has a vowel outage.
oh, and I got an e-mail from WakeMate that they might actually start shipping sometime this year
Hey wtf happened to my avatar lol, those sneaky bastards…...
WowI I’m flattered, advocating free speech on a free speech site and I am right up there with President Obama. Okay, I get it, mods and pals, what I think is funny, you don’t. but that doesn;t mean I’m finished having fun
I get to look like Andrew, which is better than looking like Gail. xox Milo
All the webcomics are doing wild thing today like announcing disgusting art styles, name changing, announcing the saga is over while posting a horrid picture for the “last page”, or worse, linking to horrid, mind’s-eye-bleach sites. I tend to just stay in and find a good book on today.
according to a cnn article on the web jokes,
” Electronics maker Toshiba got into the act with the TubeTop, an inflatable laptop with an internal inner tube.
• On news-sharing site Reddit, everyone is an administrator. The result was regular users banning each other and using their unlimited voting power to move stories to the top of the site. No. 1 as of this writing? “Reddit, here’s a picture I just drew… ” followed by “Quick! Use your new admin powers to upvote the crap out of this puppy dog.”
• Instead of latitude and longitude coordinates, smartphone users who type “Where am I?” into Google’s search field get answers such as “Neptune,” “Mordor” and “Entrance to Hogwarts.”
• Google Maps is offering users who pan down to Street View a new option: 3-D. Of course, if you don’t have a set of 3-D glasses handy, tough luck.
• Wikipedia’s main page offered an interesting array of articles, from a featured piece on the cherished custom of wife-selling to a headline about how Sony had accidentally used a time machine to zap some of its customers back to 1999.
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On YouTube they have added a new “Textp” which YouTube says will save them $1/second of watching a video. What this does is it converts the video into characters with varying colours.
You can view videos with this by selecting Textp where you can change the video settings (like from 360p to 1080p) or add &textp=fool at the end of a youtube video.
Pretty cool imo.
@kevbo I didn’t even notice gmail! And I don’t know if you meant to do it as an April fool’s joke, but your woot link is this thread. :)
Weeellll, I thought I’d been hacked by a bearded guy.
<enjoys the attractive avatars floating ‘round>
~wink~
Whole Foods, of all places, has been pretty hilarious today.
Eco Suave action figure FTW.
Opera shows how they’re ahead of the curve.
The Automobile Association in the UK giving jetpacks to patrols so they can reach stranded motorists in heavy traffic
Here’s a list of many online pranks going around today.
I haven’t seen it yet, but Southwest introduced the #T7.
Some of these are really funny!!
xkcd is my favorite one so far. Sorry, Fluther.
@anchristopherwalkenshidingplaceenim I just cried from laughing. ThinkGeek made this That I actually wish was real.
@Jeff’s..etc I know. I want it. Maybe it will be like last year and enough people will complain that it actually gets made.
OK, this is just hilarious. I’d buy a box of this cereal! :-)
Someone’s still trying to make me believe that Shenglong is a secret character in Street Fighter II.
@laureth I love the Editor’s note at the bottom, where it says everything is false “including seeking the advice of the Navy!”
Read this in a book:
“Soccer is like chess, only without the dice.”—Lukas Podolski
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