April Fools’ 2010 Unmasked

1 Apr

Funny, Random Stuff

A warning: today is April Fools’. I recommend that you pay special attention to whatever “news” are released to day. This is not only a day when your friends, family members and co-workers pull some practical jokes on you. Some big companies have a tradition of perpetrating quite big hoaxes (see Google’s April Fools’ hoaxes from previous years). While some are very obvious, others are so elaborate that a lot of people get fooled. It’s a bit annoying that you need to over-analyse everything to make sure it’s true. But usually a great hoax comes along that makes it all worth it.

Here’s a list of April Fools’ 2010 pranks I’ve found so far around the web.

Keep your eyes on this post as I’ll be updating it as soon as I spot other good pranks. Feel free to use the comments to share other pranks you find and I’ll add them to the list.

2 Responses to “April Fools’ 2010 Unmasked”

  1. Paulo April 1, 2010 at 12:44 PM #

    Here’s an amazing one:

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/iCade.shtml?icpg=Carousel_iCade_1

  2. Miguel April 2, 2010 at 1:10 AM #

    Farinha,

    http://weblogs.asp.net/leftslipper/archive/2010/04/01/last-guid-used-up-new-scottguid-unique-id-to-replace-it.aspx
    4chan.org added a “Post to facebook” link
    evil bit at Google AJAX APIs http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2010/03/helping-you-help-us-help-you.html
    there was also Google Books in 3D