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(via College Humor)

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.

• Google Changes Name To Topeka
• Google Translate For Animals
• Upload and store anything in the cloud with Google Docs
• Coldplay launch their own fragrance – Angst
• Youtube Launches TEXTp to save on bandwidth costs
• TechCrunch: Introducing The Do-It-Yourself CrunchPad Kit
• TechCrunch: Google To Go Nuclear
• ThinkGeek - iCade – iPad Arcade Cabinet
• ThinkGeek: Canned Unicorn Meet
• ProBlogger Acquired by Google
• Introducing ShoeMoney Modeling Agency
• Grooveshark’s New Ad System
• New World of Warcraft Race – The Two-Headed Ogre
• Improv Everywhere – No Underwear Subway Ride
• Starbucks announces new cup sizes: the Plenta and the Micra
• Sexy romances distract hackers from data theft, Sophos research proves
• Hewlett Packard + Microsoft = Hewlosoft
• Google Street View in 3D
• Get “LifeSize” Pictures in Picasa
• Dreamhost replaces all Ethernet cables in their datacenters with 802.11n wireless

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.

I’ve been going on about this for some time, and finally here’s a very organised way of showing the idea.

(from Doghouse Diaries)

The image above is part of the satellite imagery that Google recently released of the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) – commonly known as The Boneyard. It’s a collection of over 4,000 retired aircraft including nearly every plane the US armed forces have flown since World War II.

Get more info at BBC News, or just explore the whole thing in Google Maps.

(via Gizmodo)

Thanks to @grealish.