April Fools

It's that time of year again, when everyone is allowed to think that they're funny (including us) even when they are totally not funny at all. Share the best April Fools' jokes on the net in this thread! Let's get the ball rolling with Comic Sans Pro, a press release from Monotype. Nice!

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Greatmiddlewest

I’m pretty sure I heard the first April Fools of the day (in Chicago anyway). Last night at 12:01am, somebody yelled “you suck … April Fools!” at the band we were seeing ‘The Funs’. I laughed.
wobinidan

Needs more references to DRM.
jackruby1123

Shut up and take my money!
ClickItOrTicket

Google April Fools’ is a lot of hot air, could blow up any second now:
http://failuremag.com/index.php/failure_analysis/article/google_april_fools_joke_2011_blimp_ads/
Mark Crummett

I used to enjoy April Fools Day, but with so much batshit craziness going on in the world, it seems kinda stupid to add to it deliberately. It makes it hard to believe _ anything_ I read or see today. Sigh… I miss the truth.
TokenFrenchDude

Reddit has done something different this year: Reddit Mold / http://blog.reddit.com/2011/03/reddit-mold-is-now-live.html
TokenFrenchDude

Blizzard is returns to consoles : http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/console/
-v-

This is funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK4NesgGboI&feature=player_embedded
Anonymous

Hot Wheels is pretending to sell one of its show cars: http://www.facebook.com/hotwheels
TokenFrenchDude

Rock Paper Shotgun described Ubisoft new DRM : http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/01/introducing-ubiman-copy-protection/
TokenFrenchDude

…aaaand Improv Everywhere got attacked in the subway : http://improveverywhere.com/2011/04/01/jar-jar-subway-car/
MS

“Don’t they know it’s April 1st? What a terrible day to introduce a policy like that”. “Wait…”
I think too much sometimes
Anonymous

I love finding April fool’s jokes on the web. I am pretty much useless in the office on April 1st.

My favourite so far is from the Sierra Club. They are offering an interesting tour.

http://www.sierraclub.org/outings/national/brochure/124001a.aspx
- MrsBug
  
  Lol – this phrase there is good “Coal extraction is also seriously threatened by clean-water standards, public-health concerns, and common sense.”
Anonymous

…..You fuckers!
Epiphany

Fightin’ Frogs at Gamestop

http://www.gamestop.com/
http://www.gamestop.com/gs/landing/fightin-frogs/
Matt Cornell

Chinese scientists discover existence of N-Spot, a new erogenous zone in the nose.

http://www.thepleasurechest.com/blog/2011/04/01/does-the-n-spot-exist-only-the-nose-knows/
Anonymous

GoComics’ paid MyComicsPage e-mails feature an ad at the bottom for “Calvin and Hobbes: The Live-Action Movie.” It links to a preview: http://images.gocomics.com/calvin-and-hobbes-movie/
- Chentzilla
  
  The tiger is actually cool. They should do a Calvin & Hobbs vs Narnia.
gloopax

Second site of the morning. WTF but the date synched with NYT paywall. Read the whole thing and googled Linden dollars. It was then (after reading the Wikipedia def) that I realized I had been had on April 1. Boninged big time!
Anonymous

Sunlight Labs moved to the cloud (with angels):
http://sunlightlabs.com (http://sunlightlabs94.angelfire.com/)
Anonymous

funnyordie.com

Pretty funny, and thorough!
Anonymous

Microsoft Germany is introducing a new tablet PC: the GOLIATH! Check this out: http://bit.ly/feSVmw
- Hunty
  
  they already did that. it was called “Surface”.
classic01

OH man I’m glad I clicked on the “subscription information” link because I had already deleted the boingboing.net bookmark from my toolbar.

Ok back to the toolbar, bookmarked again! :-)
Anonymous

Myopic Books in Chicago seems to have been purchased by Matt Drudge
http://www.myopicbookstore.com
jimmie proof

What’s really funny is I was hoping to sign up and receive faster downloading. It’s not me it’s you.
emilydickinsonridesabmx

This is hilarious April Fools Dig at Color: http://shopsavvy.mobi/

“Grayscale, the photo sharing app for lonely people”
Anonymous

How did you guys miss this one?
http://www.virgin.com/travel/news/branson-buys-pluto-reinstates-as-planet/
lux_aurumque

I’m liking YouTube 1911:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNm8ZCJ7Fx8

Especially the bed intruder:
Skidoo you children!
Skidoo your wife!

Run and declare that, hayseed!
Anonymous

that was a good one, i’m usually the guy that NEVER falls for them, but you got me! i was gonna be pissed if i had to pay for boingboing, thanks for the pranx. jim
cupcakecalamity

AAAAUGH! You had me for about 3 seconds…of horror!
MichaelR

Hey you had me, right up to the Linden Dollars.
I know the currency of choice here is wuffie.
Anonymous

“The Current,” on CBC Toronto aired a hilarious segment this morning with Gordon Pinsent as the spokesperson for a new federal party, the “Sage Party,” whose platform is to look out for the interests of Canada’s elderly. Citing statistics that more than 4 million Canadians are over the age of 65, and 90% of them vote regularly, Pinsent went on to outline the party’s agenda, which included raising money for government by selling off all the computers, reverting to paper filing and real people answering the phone, and making it a federal offense for anyone under the age of 45 to fail to surrender their seat to an elderly person on public transit.

There’s no audio up yet, but I imagine it will be on the CBC website within a few hours.
Anonymous

Lindens?! Oh man, I gotta start camping and playing zyngo again. :-/
bluheron

Dial-up Internet is enjoying a huge comeback as the slow-net wave (partly inspired by the slow food movement) crashes onto hipster shores nationwide.

OK Go frontman Damian Kulash has written the trend’s anthem. The song is called “Love Me Longtime.”

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/04/01/135041848/ok-gos-damian-kulash-crafts-pro-dial-up-anthem#commentBlock

Be sure to catch the complete “All Things Considered” story when it goes online at 7 pm eastern on npr.org The Slow Internet story is at the very end of the 2 hour recording.
drcatzenstein

/r/trees, the subreddit for marijuana enthusiasts, is now completely about real trees.

http://www.reddit.com/r/trees
TokenFrenchDude

List of all of Google’s pranks :
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-april-fools-day-2011.html
Anonymous

NPR’s morning edition gives us a surgical procedure for glasses free 3D TV… that screws up your real-world vision and requires glasses to correct.
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/01/135033545/3d-surgery
TokenFrenchDude

The new way to wireframe a website : 3D !!
http://www.cxpartners.co.uk/news/3d_wireframes_the_future_of_wireframing_today.htm
Anonymous

http://www.debian.org
alllie

Reddit has the worst. They have a prank that allows people to make it hard or impossible for anyone they disagree with or don’t like to submit links or post comments. I would think driving away the most active members of the community would be a bad idea. But apparently the reddit mods like the idea of attacking their readers.
Anonymous

Shoot the moon for real, thanks to borrowlenses.com !

http://www.borrowlenses.com/product/canon_super_tele/Canon_moon_shooter

-baccaruda
hng23

Locus Online News announced that Shaun Tan has been signed to Dancing With the Stars: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/04/shaun-tan-signed-to-dancing-with-the-stars/
JayByrd

Danger! Danger! BoingBoing Central Control…
Clueless here blew off the date and almost de-bookmarked my favorite site.
Shame on you!
- Anonymous
  
  Bet the number of Boing Boing readers goes down because of this. I know I almost took deleted my bookmark. If so, the joke will be on them.
Anonymous

BoingBoing’s April Fool’s gag- this was the only time that I’ve ever fallen for an April Fool’s joke in my life. SRSLY, I was kind of angry
Anderson Council

Scientific American gives up.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=okay-we-give-up&flushCache=1
- Lupelu
  
  That was great, and then I read the comments. Those should be the actual joke.
Unanimous Cowherd

Woke up this morning to find little plastic googly eyes stuck onto every surface — on door knobs, on the alarm clock, on the wall, on flowerpots. Eyes everywhere. Little eyes.

And our kids got orange juice this morning, but with the bottom half of the glass frozen solid. We froze the milk in their breakfast cereal last year, so they are pretty suspicious now.

My wife’s birthday is today — Happy Birthday, kt — that is not a joke. And her siblings had to have their mom bring new little sister in to school a couple days later to make the other kids and teachers believe them when they announced her birth…
Drew from Zhrodague

Am I the only one here that actually HAS Linden Dollars, or am I the only one here that will admit it?
- Rich Keller
  
  *coughs* L$114.
Anonymous

hulu.com has gone back to 1996! has link to xfiles, talkradio, outer limits, etc.. hosted by geocities, to boot! http://www.hulu.com/index.htm
Unanimous Cowherd

NPR had an awesome one this morning about a revolutionary new eye surgery to replace the need for those pesky 3D glasses for watching 3D tv and movies:
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/01/135033545/3d-surgery
I almost bought it — it is amazingly good.
Maurice Reeves

I would be happy to see more of the Flugelhorn Feline from YouTube 1911 myself.
Anonymous

On a musical note, Mel Bay publications announces the release of a new instructional book devoted to jazz autoharp.
http://jazzmando.com/new/archives/001511.shtml
Unmutual

Why did I show up to work today??
alrdesign

Skull-A-Day just announced a musical based on the story-less book Skulls today… http://skulladay.blogspot.com/2011/04/skull-day-musical.html
NickPheas

Pretty sure this one’s a hoax
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/01/magic-monarchy-royal-moment

And this certainly is
http://express.co.uk/posts/view/238094/Quick-seal-pothole-solution-as-the-government-fails-to-repair-our-roads
wrinkle

Geeks.com has some fun iPhone add ons for sale:
http://www.geeks.com/pix/2011/APRFDPROMO.html?cm_mmc=geekmail-_-daily_html-_-01apr11_APRFDPROMO-_-Viewasweb&utm_medium=daily_html&utm_content=APRFDPROMO_Viewasweb&utm_campaign=APRFDPROMO
phyphor

Livedrive reveal their “final tier” back-up strategy:

http://blog.livedrive.com/2011/04/livedrive-announces-industry-leading-game-changing-technology-for-online-backup-and-data-storage/
Anonymous

at mugenguild, a forum dedicated to opensource game building( using the mugen engine) , they rolled back into their 2000 policies claiming that the whole opensource fad wasnt being sucessful and changed all rules and etc back to the way they were in 2002, the rules look ridiculous by today standarts and the contrast is hilarious.
emdot

ColourLovers.com went to all shades of gray.
http://www.colourlovers.com/
Anonymous

At last, the truth from The New Yorker: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3064
ncarp

Just got this from the Union of Concerned Scientists:
http://action.ucsusa.org/site/Ecard?ecard_id=1761&autologin=true

“Climate Change Pushes Groundhog Day to January”
Hunty

http://www.linkedin.com/pymk-results?full=
Anonymous

Adblock for Chrome update

“Just released:
AdBlock Freedom! (beta)
Get the new AdBlock Freedom augmented reality eyewear, and block billboards and magazine ads in realtime!”
SMurph

I thought Gamespy’s Portal 2 Single-player demo AF joke was particularly cruel – certainly got me: http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/portal-2/1158842p1.html
mr.skeleton

Hi everyone. I want to let you know about my very special app that I’m launching on this auspicious day: http://autocomplain.cocopunk.com
websorcerer

Environmental Frontier Foundation sent an email to members linking to this page:

https://w2.eff.org/effector/42947991.html
j9c

Canadian low-cost airline now will fill its passenger jets’ air supply with helium to make their planes lighter, saving fuel!

http://www.westjet.com/guest/en/media-investors/helium.shtml?sm_cid=sm-af-ge-20110401

Watch it all the way to the end. Very silly.
Anonymous

yeah a great one on your front page today http://boingboing.net/
digital subscription? maybe for the original content? nice one.
Epiphany

Ubisoft has one! (err..I think?)

http://rocksmith.ubi.com/rocksmith/en-US/
avoision

Not sure if this counts, since it’s an April Fools’ prank that went awry. Zookeeper in Huntsville tried to “scare” a kid by draping a python around his neck. Snake started to choke the kid, and it took two people to pull the thing off:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/studentnews/04/01/zoo.python.attack/index.html
avoision

Ah, curse your link scrubbing!

*sigh*

Well, this was where it was supposed to go: http://bit.ly/gg8qv0
Chrispy145

Redmond Magazine has a good one about Steve Ballmer leaving Microsoft:

http://redmondmag.com/articles/2011/04/01/ballmer-out.aspx
Anonymous

http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/index-aprilfools.phtml?t=faxtoid
gfocus

there is some special boingboing bonus fun in the xk3d code sample: http://xkcd.com/xk3d/
Anonymous

Got me! I’m such a sap!
Anonymous

Blizzard Entertainment has several, but I think their Horadric Cube iPhone app is the best. Lets you combine your apps to make ‘new and better’ apps…Facebook + Twitter = Portal to hell!
Hunty

nope, Rocksmith is actually a game, Epiphany. :)
Anonymous

April 1st isn’t over yet, why can’t I see the boingboing april fools page?
Anonymous

For those who remember Joel on Software: Joel on Coal — mining management.
Anonymous

I quite enjoyed this article about the discovery of a very rare hornless unicorn.

http://greatestworldsnewspapernerds.blogspot.com/2011/04/scientists-discover-incredibly-rare.html
wrinkle

The origami golf ball (seems like this one is a recycled joke)
http://www.divot.com/?utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+Go+Now!&utm_content=Happy+April+Fools%27+Day+from+DIVOT.com&utm_campaign=04%2F01%2F11+April+Fools+Day+-+First+DIVOT+email
Anonymous

Moog Music is at it again:

http://www.moogmusic.com/theremin/?section=product&product_id=21416
Anonymous

despite the immediate WTF it wasn’t til I got to the Linden dollars that light dawned
Anonymous

A browser extension that turns all those terribly designed sites into a hipster’s dream. “The Helvetica Button”

A new way to look at the web ;)

http://kaleidoscopecollective.com/helveticaButton/

April Fool’s from kaleidoscope
Anonymous

Urlesque.com launched HURRDURR.IT — http://hurrdurr.it — a toy that turns any site into gibberish. Here it is on BoingBoing: http://hurrdurr.it/#url=http://boingboing.net/indexa.html
Anonymous

SniqueAway is offering a magical vacation package:

http://www.sniqueaway.com/con-nuri/?nlid=1882&tracking_code=RGPLFHUGSY
TokenFrenchDude

Hearing reports of bugs in voting on stackoverflow.com
Anonymous

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/index0401.php

Whole Foods has some very good ones today.
Spidley

NASA had a good one..

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/sciencePhotos/image.php?page=1&gallery_id=2&image_id=448
ClintonD

The “revealing” of the commando profession for guild Wars 2 is ridiculously elaborate. It must’ve taken some time to put together.

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/professions/commando/
zizzybaloobah

Here’s another Google-themed prank for the typeface aficionados out there: http://www.google.com/search?q=Helvetica
Anonymous

What? Super Mario Bros live action movie?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/2981-Super-Mario-Bros-Rough-Cut
eatingbeets

called mom from NYC at 10am (she’s in Tucson) and told her I just wanted to tell her I love her and this might be the last phone call I can make… that I was trapped on a subway and could hear explosions. In hindsight, this might have been taking it too far.
gman

Grooveshark. Now in 3D!

http://www.grooveshark.com/
dcwaterboy

Soundtrack of Disneyland’s Space Mountain has been replaced with Rebecca Black’s “Friday”:

http://www.disneylies.com/blog/2011/04/01-disneyland%E2%80%99s-2011-april-fools-prank/
theredrocket

How about WoofWoof, the social networking site for dogs, from TalkTalk?

Check it out here and watch the video, including Dr Mowbray calibrating the diagnostic tools on Katie, the border collie http://www.talktalk.co.uk/woofwoof

BOL (bark out loud)
RyanOD

Big Fish Games entering the tablet market.

http://bigfi.sh/aFd2011
Chong

OH NOES NOT A SUBSCRIPTION!

/I was like “what?!” and then I understood and lol’d
- MrsBug
  
  Exactly! I was all “This sucks” and then I was all, LOL.
guillaume_remy

During some seconds I had a Botulinus Intoxication
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7019866.ece
curly_brace

Google’s doing their new GMail motion… http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html
- arielariel
  
  It BLOWS MY MIND that, with a Kinect, this is actually COMPLETELY PLAUSIBLE.
xzor

chromercise.com
Don’t forget to sign up for your free finger sweat-bands.
- Chong
  
  I signed up to receive some sweat-bands before realising it’s US only. :(
  
  My favourite April Fools is still one my brother played on me ~14 years ago; he got up real early and moved everything in the kitchen cupboards around. Went to get a bowl, cereal etc, couldn’t find anything, was all in different places. Simple, but effective.
Anonymous

You had me going there for a minute :) Good one! Although.. I must say I would pay for this if I had to. Yall do a great job!
Anonymous

Haven’t seen many good ones. Lots of clumsy efforts entirely lacking in subtlety, but a real shortage of good ones…
Flying_Monkey

Got to say, I wasn’t thinking about the date when I first saw that. I’ve got so used to people who were previously advocates of open access going pay-to-access or some variation, I was just about to get depressed… D’oh!
TokenFrenchDude

Wolfram Alpha has a new logo :(
http://www.wolframalpha.com/bieberbeta.html
Suds

Pay wall!!!1! YOU had me there for a bit! FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU was my first reaction. My next one was, How can I pay them w/o a trace back to Me?! good job at LOLZ ing me boingboing, good jobz!
OriGuy

A few days ago, Language Log asked why New Yorker magazine never used sentences where the verb preceded the subject, even when the result was convoluted. Today provides the answer.
adamnvillani

Last night (it was past midnight) I went to brush my teeth before bed, and I discovered that my wife had shoved a raisin into the top of the toothpaste tube.

That was really weird.

Even weirder, she says she got the idea from her friend who got the idea from Martha Stewart.
Borgs_of_Canada

Hehe, good one BoingBoing !

This morning on CBC they had en interview with the leader of the SAGE party, a new Canadian federal party, who represented elderly people. They would be unstoppable because the elderly votes. I was half asleep so I don’t remember the details but it was quite funny.
Anonymous

Blame this guy….
pageTracker._setCustomVar(1,”MTAuthor”,”Cory Doctorow”,3);

:-)

My favorite April Fools joke was hanging a sign on the back of a car that said “Honk your horn! It’s my Birthday!!”
Michael

HAHAHA! Good one!
Epiphany

Guild Wars:

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/professions/commando/
planettom

I like ThinkGeek’s PLAYMOBIL APPLE STORE PLAYSET
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8bb/
- optuser
  
  WANT WANT WANT. Get Playmobil on the (i)phone.
  
  NOW. MAKE IT NOW.
- jitter12
  
  Love it! Woz on a Segway in the optional “line pack.”
TokenFrenchDude

Toshiba Develops 3-D Monocle
http://us.toshiba.com/spectacle
Rob Beschizza

Arsenic sea monkeys!
eatingbeets

http://livingsocial.com/spalami
Miche

Try googling “helvetica”
- zebbart
  
  It does that if you search “comic sans” too.
- Brother Phil
  
  Also works for Comic Sans
- Lester
  
  Heh. That’s a good one. I wonder if that was seeded or just left to germinate on its own.
  
  Woot has this awful game thing for its “bag of crap.”
- Anonymous
  
  Try googling “comic sans” if you’re really brave!
Anonymous

German geek store sells a tool that protects you from being admonished because of abbreviations like STFU and LOL that are trademarks by replacing them with a black bar: http://www.getdigital.de/products/EX-Stick_Anti-Abmahn_Tool
Anonymous

I have made it look like the Laura Ingraham Show is joining our local, not-for-profit community radio station.

http://wdbx.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/the-laura-ingraham-show-start-a-healthy-radio-addiction-this-saturday/

Previously, I convinced quite a few people that the station was being bought out by JackFM, and even got them to start a petition:

http://startlingmoniker.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/about-yesterdays-broadcast/
Mark Andrich

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/04/01/arianna-huffington-buys-avatar-press-comics-alliance-and-bleeding-cool-to-merge/

These guys had me for a whole minute. Bastards.
kpallist

NPR has a “glasses free 3D via new surgical procedure” piece that I admit had me going a minute when I heard it on my commute:

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/01/135033545/3d-surgery
hukes

Damn you, Boing Boing! I fell for it (yes, yours) so bad.

I was like “Mmm… well, I think I would pay, sometimes their stuff is good”.

Then I was “Oh, in Linden Dollars only. I guess I must have enough accumulated in my long forgotten -but paid- Second Life account. As soon as I get home tonight, I will suscribe. This fellas at Boing Boing need my support”.

But then “WAIT A MINUTE!!! Linden Dollars *ONLY*??!!!

Checked the calendar. April 1st.

I was willing to give you my money Boing Boing, think about that for a minute.

:)
JessicaDoyle

The maple trees in the province of New Brunswick, Canada are exploding because they weren’t tapped quickly enough from the early onset of Spring that we are experiencing right now!

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1817168542300

Video courtesy of The Weather Network in Canada.
Anonymous

Bryn Mawr College’s homepage is amazing today. Love the Star Wars reference. http://www.brynmawr.edu
curly_brace

Still don’t believe this is a list of NON-april fools…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12932108
- Anonymous
  
  I know that #10 is true… not because of MY name or anything… lol
RadioSilence

aaaarhg! you got me!

but only because being early evening now in the UK i got every other site in my RSS feed’s pranks over with this morning and then put AF’s Day out of my mind.

i had thought it was the ‘truck driver builds functioning atom bomb’ post when i first saw it.
NoahRodenbeek

wow! Good one, BoingBoing. I almost choked to death on my cereal.
RadioSilence

the only other one that got me this morning was when the small and very funny blog Good Show Si, which deals with awesomely bad SF paperback cover art, announced it had been bought by the cheezburger network. i felt heartbroken! :D

http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/04/breaking-news/
Anonymous

Apple’s Ping to acquire MySpace http://pimpmyi.com/2011/04/01/exclusive-apples-ping-to-acquire-myspace/
eagleapex

Local hackerspace goes D&D only: http://www.hive76.org/rolling
penguinchris

I’m kind of sad that I apparently missed the BoingBoing joke. You’ve got a link that says “including us” in the summary, but it doesn’t link to an archived version of the story or anything… I think I may have fallen for it; when I realized what it was after being confused by a few comments I was disappointed it was removed.

I guess it was recognized that people might not get the joke and never come back… perhaps some subtle editing to make it more clear might have been in order rather than removing it entirely!
Anonymous

The Art Guys – â€œThe Meronomic Antinomy of the Trans-Finite Realm (Sheâ€™s a Brick House)â€ at The Wrong Again Gallery (opening tonight!). Read hilarious description of show at http://on.fb.me/eR6vWz
archmagetrexasaurus

Arch Linux has merging with Debian, grml, gentoo, and openSuse to form “The Canterbury Distribution”

http://archlinux.org
Enoch_Root

I had a dorm room that was a symmetrical rectangle and I had friends break in and move EVERYTHING to the mirror image side of the room. The bed, posters, armoir, everything. They even went as far as moving all my desktop icons. It was pretty good.
archmagetrexasaurus

http://archlinux.org
Anonymous

OH GOD I ALMOST…

Good one, you made me vomit in terror!!
clenchner

I was like, hmmm, that’s a bold move for BoingBoing…..
Anonymous

my favorite so far is MyFonts monthly newsletter … set entirely in webfonts:

http://new.myfonts.com/newsletters/sp/201104.html
Rob

Cthulhu converts to Christianity: http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/?p=11318
Anonymous

Har! I knew it was April Fool’s joke when I read the payment terms. “Linden Dollars”? Everyone should know the currency in this magic kingdom is Wuffie.
coolvoodoo

I do data management from my home office. Just woke up and I hadn’t made my coffee yet when I stumbled into my office, turned on my computer, and took a look at BoingBoing. I was sooooooo upset until I got to the Linden dollars remark. Then the light came on. This took a while, because I kept reading the first paragraphs over and over because I couldn’t believe what I was reading. You got me good!
splatocaster

The Moog Polyphonic Theremin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stobfk1Mfjk
Jeffrey S

http://www.xkcd.com has gone 3D. I don’t know how he did it but it’s pretty cool…

XK3D
Gary61

My first response?
“My god, it’s full of (ny times paywall idiocy) – and paid in LINDEN DOLLARS???!!! WTF DUDE!!!???!! Who the hell still uses 2nd Life and has freakin’ linden dollars …..”

then I was like … “D’Oh!”

Got me … tell my wife and kids I love ‘em ….
I have been Boinged.
and I loved it.
Amira

This was a GREAT one from Couptessa.com … I get these in my inbox and I was like.. “what??” I had to click links for half a minute before I noticed… I think this one will make a lot of ladies in Florida cry :)

http://www.couptessa.com/deals/city/miami/die-for-designer-shoes
Anonymous

This one is simple and subtle. Not great, but not bad.

http://groovevolt.com/?p=5772
Adam C

The Linden dollars bit was a nice touch.
bpratt

By coincidence it’s “take your grownup to lunch” day at my kid’s school. Seizing the opportunity, I repacked his lunchbox with a roll of toilet paper instead of a sandwich, and gave the sandwich to Mom to hand over when they met up in the school cafeteria. Big laffs.
reality hater

Man you got me; I thought you were going by way of the other news sources that expect us to pay for information. Although I would seriously consider paying to read boing boing.You guys bring us some fascinating articles
Aloisius

Duke Nukem Forever went GM!!
Anonymous

oi- you got me !
Doran

I hate April Fools Day.
- wigg1es
  
  I very much agree.
anothershamus

Got me good! I had only started my morning coffee and almost did a spit take, then remembered what day it was! Thanks for the fun!
Tycho

What a bunch of hypocrites!!! …. and the NYT … and WSJ … WTF boingboing?!?! I vowed never to return in roughly 2 seconds.

It’s been over a decade sense I was had on April 1st.
jocoska

Well, knowing BB values, I was first surprised, and was then convinced that it would be a legitimately affordable price I was going to pay, so think it over:) Actually, please don’t…
Felton / Moderator

Re: BB digital subscription:

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Bonsomme

The life of the classic pulp fantasy and horror author Ervin Phillip Ashton:

http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2011/04/01/ervin-phillip-ashton-the-strange-facts-in-the-case-of-the-eerie-life/
paboo

New gadger from Mr. TV-B-Gone

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/04/car-b-gone-mitch-altman%E2%80%99s-newest-universal-remote.html
Anonymous

I think my favorite is when you search “Pasta” on google.
Mantissa128

Oh man. You got me completely. I believed you.

Like Spongebob, I had my money ready to hand over to you – that’s how much I love you, BoingBoing.

[single manly tear]
Milo Minousky

Apple is creating a makeup collection to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the iPod and OS X: http://www.bellasugar.com/15353362

After work, my beau is going to buy some macaroni and cheese or potato salad — something that can be mixed easily — and heavily salt half of it, which he’ll offer to his roommate. When roommate goes crazy, the rest of us will calmly explain that ours tastes just fine, and keep a straight face even if he asks us to try his.
Anonymous

Oh, very funny….I haven’t visited Boing Boing in 2 months, and only returned after reading about the joke in another forum. Well played….sort of…
Anonymous

Hehe, not bad,. I didn’t bite though, it was just TOO contrary to what you guys do. Now if you said you had been taken down by court order due to some vague copyright violation…
Anonymous

Starcraft II for Consoles / Kinect http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiZNtTLAwz8
Anonymous

US ARMY April fools

http://www.army.mil/-news/2011/04/01/54202-stetson-hat-to-be-new-army-standard-headgear/
Robert

When I saw the front page, I thought I recognized it as the same thing BB did last year. So I just said, “Oh, April Fool’s.” and clicked past it. But now I’m wondering if it really was BB that did the same thing last year, considering all the people here who admitted being taken in for a few seconds…? What did BB do for last April 1?
Anonymous

Funnyordie.com

Must See!
Anonymous

Hugs Boson!
http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2011/110401a.html
Anonymous

Even scientists like April fools :
http://liris.cnrs.fr/~azimmerm/RAFT/afd2011.html
scolbath

Google is hiring autocompleters:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view/autocompleter/index.html

(type anything into google and that link will come up in the list of choices, to the right)
Anonymous

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/28/trump-is-now-really-concerned-about-obamas-birthplace/?iref=obnetwork

..wait..my bad..
websorcerer

Check out Slashdot

http://slashdot.org
Anonymous

FYI the April Fools landing page doesn’t work on the mobile version of the site.
Pincinator

This caused serious concern and a few panicky emails among the physicists working on ATLAS in my office:

http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2011/04/atlas-or-cms-one-of-them-must-leave.html
ebarrett3

LibraryThing is releasing an e-reader that has that “old book smell”: http://www.librarything.com/blogs/librarything/2011/04/introducing-the-librarything-e-an-ereader-from-librarything/

And http://www.pinterest.com turned all the pins upsidedown.
Anonymous

Wait a minute, give me back my credit card!
GuidoMescalito

heheh Linden dollars…

i don’t which is better, the cardboard bike or the ‘bacon inhaler’. sign me up for both!
http://www.firebox.com/firebox/newsletter?id=358&itc=&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=April-Fools_358&src_t=nwt&src_id=358
Nadreck

Here in Canada we’ll be requiring people to get a license before they get on the Information Super Highway. All I can say is “It’s about time!”.

http://ahsco.uwaterloo.ca/license/index.html
ROSSINDETROIT

I’m going to sneak into work early and add the words The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves to the company mission statement in the employee lounge. I will get in trouble. It will be worth it.
gogogo

April Fools Google Jobs – Hiring Autocompleter
http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view/autocompleter/index.html
jredmond

RFC6214, “Adaptation of RFC1149 for IPv6″:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6214/?include_text=1

RFC6217, “Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer”:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6217/?include_text=1

And, of course, the English Wikipedia’s main page includes lots of legitimate stuff presented in a fake-sounding way.
Anonymous

Canâ€™t get enough of April Foolâ€™s Day? Then check out this bloopers I saw on the GreenopolisTV channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee8LgCtq0Os.
Anonymous

One small business in India has a hilarious one: http://www.pptize.com/

Read the “features” etc :-)
Anonymous

I’ve seen a lot of good ones today including this one: http://www.kehblog.com/2011/04/awesome-photo-tips-nobody-ever-told-you.html
Anonymous

Canada’s Capital launches a new vacation package to attract more protesters, called the Demonstration Vacation:

http://vimeo.com/ottawatourism/demonstration-vacation
Rob Beschizza

I think this is the first april fools we’ve done, at least since I’ve been around (3 yrs ish)
Anonymous

Bunch of linux distributions are collaborating on this one:
http://www.archlinux.org/
http://grml.org/
http://www.gentoo.org/
http://www.debian.org/

Even debian has a sense of humor.
jdixon

I’ll pay anything.
Anonymous

Good one for all the fantasy/fiction fans out there:

http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/04/the-shadow-war-of-the-night-dragons-book-one-the-dead-city-excerpt
Anonymous

http://maddox.xmission.com/
emo hex

Emo not laughing,
(ever since I received my sisters head in a box on april fools day)
GuyInMilwaukee

You had me there for a sec. I’d gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
Anonymous

T’aint funny, McGee!
jgrier

Forgive the self-promotion, but my post today on making dangerously strong “homeopathic cocktails” seems like something BB readers might like:
http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/4684.html
Billy Green

This was my April Fool’s blog post two years ago, reporting a musical based on “To Kill a Mockingbird”:

http://goplayboyplay.blogspot.com/2009/04/to-kill-mockingbird-musical.html
Lester

Hulu’s gone 90s. http://www.hulu.com/index.htm
Anonymous

the enlightened will get the joke http://burningman.com/
Anonymous

It’s catching on:

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/04/01/the-free-lunch-is-over-scholarly-kitchen-to-become-subscriber-only-tomorrow/
Jonathan Abolins

This morning somebody tweeted a link to what seems to be IAEA nuclear oversight organisation but with an interest claim regarding Stuxnet:

http://nucleus.iaea.org/sso/NUCLEUS.html?exturl=http://x90.es/Cn

The ASCII art is not on the iaea.org server.
- Anonymous
  
  Well, that’s certain better than this one:
  
  http://nucleus.iaea.org/sso/NUCLEUS.html?exturl=http://goo.gl/Qe2T
Anonymous

you guys scare the hell out me!
werve

It seems odd that I used to dread April Fools day jokes and now they seem like good ideas, such as paying for Boing might lower the troll population or that Fake Book sounds like a service I would use…
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/fakebook.htm

or that it’s 20 degrees above normal here in Vgas today, haha good one….
bluewhimsy

On an iPhone or Android phone, do a search for “kittens” on Google.

Android phones with voice search can do pig latin now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg7Wayo1rLU
- MrsBug
  
  LOL – I got Mr. Whiskers, who sometimes has fish breath.
Anonymous

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/04/01/announcing-some-cool-new-features-coming-soon-to-a-server-near-you.aspx
voiceinthedistance

This is a crass attempt at manipulating the exchange rate for Linden Dollars, and I want no part of it. I’m headed straight for the airport kiosk before things get out of hand.
niko

Flickr changed their logo to Flicker
Anonymous

NPR reports on 3D eye surgery: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/01/135033545/3d-surgery
Karl Elvis

I hate you people so much. B^)
Anonymous

TerraTrike has asteroids!
http://www.terratrike.com

Click anywhere to get started
Pantograph

haven’t been fooled yet today, but I was impressed by xkcd. (The effect is applied to the entire archive.)

Sorry guys, but that paywall thing was about as convincing as Cory getting elected to head the Business Software Alliance.
Psywiped

Edinburgh, UK, April 1, 2011 â€” Cheezburger (www.cheezburger.com), the Internet publisher best known for popularizing LOLcats, FAILS, and other Internet memes, today announced it has acquired Charlie’s Diary, the authoritative and amusing weblog of science fiction author Charles Stross.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/03/news-flash-i-was-wrong.html
Anonymous

You…I mean really…just wow. Well played. My heart sank a bit.
watchout5

It was only a matter of time before leaks concerning the ongoing Libyan military action were revealed to the world. We’re pleased and proud to be the exclusive source of this volatile information and want to thank the U.N. representative who left their laptop in a taxi in midtown Manhattan Wednesday night with a screensaver password of “god”.

http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/12076

“try searching for “Libyan War Memos” on Google”

It had me, I posted it on my facebook XD
Kaptiv8

Today’s EFFector Newsletter was an EFFective source of April Fools lols. https://w2.eff.org/effector/42947991.html

Well played. :)
kali13

Send in the Clowns

Pranksters in Houston, Texas calling themselves the “Tee-Hee Party”, make laughing stocks of laudable father figures:

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2011/04/april_fools_statues_lincoln.php

http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2011/04/72706.php

http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2011/04/72701.php
lummels

my first thought: “this feels BB heretical”
my second thought: “can i get by reading a mere 25 BB posts a month?”
my third thought: “how the fuck do i get linden dollars without signing up for second life?”

hahaha. long time since i’ve been april fooled. well done!
lolbrandon

Funny or Die has Rebecca Black. A LOT of Rebecca Black.

http://www.funnyordie.com
Anonymous

Hulu may have gone back to the 1990s but YouTube takes you back to 1911. Click on the 1911 button on any video for that old timey look/feel.
tw15

Marmite flavoured lip balm (http://www.new-magazine.co.uk/latestnews/view/29350/Marmite-Vaseline-gross-or-lush-/)

The Guardian going royalist http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/01/magic-monarchy-royal-moment

Angry Nerds http://www.atlassian.com/en/angrynerds

The Ikea Hundstol doggie highchair: http://tinyurl.com/3kf9tjt
joelf

I teach web site design using this site today

http://camosunweb.com/
- Anonymous
  
  Bwahaha!! That’s very, very good.
Dangersandwich

You guys are the best.
Suzanne

http://www.dokuwiki.org has gone all sparkly-Geocities. At least, I hope this is an April Fool.

Also, Flattr have announced an interesting new partnership.
Anonymous

http://panelologicalpantheon.blogspot.com/
IronEdithKidd

Everything featured today on Thinkgeek!

I would totally buy the popsicle lightsabers if they were real.
Colm Ryan

IKEA introduce the HUNDSTOL dog high chair.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPIszdcCcc

Also, the discovery by an Irish archaeological group of an “ivory horned equine” skull.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/headlandarchaeology/5579188874/in/photostream/
Anonymous

I suspect everyone’s seen Youtube’s, but a particularly good example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

Ahh, bliss.
Anonymous

CERN’s main universal web page secure login had a typically written and colored warning advising users to think before you click (to securely browse the internet and securely reading emails). In order to avoid clicking at all, disconnect your computer mice and take them to the Computer Animal Shelter. It had a link to this web page: http://computer-animal-shelter.web.cern.ch/computer-animal-shelter/index.shtml
OriGuy

Here’s one from the Houston Press:
The Most Amazing East Texas Crime Ever
Anonymous

Canine Space Camp

http://www.spacecamp.com/canine

WOOF!
John Hudgens

John Scalzi posted the wonderful prologue for his fantasy series over at Tor.com – http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/04/the-shadow-war-of-the-night-dragons-book-one-the-dead-city-excerpt

That first paragraph is epic…
Clay

Surprisingly, Comic Sans Pro is NOT A JOKE. It’s been available for a week, complete with absurd price tag: http://imprint.printmag.com/patric-king/todays-obsession-comic-sans-pro/
Anonymous

You guys are just evil. I was ready to punch babies until I remembered it was April Fools day. Good one BoingBoing.

In other news, here is a great April Fools Day Joke. My parents marriage (married on April 1st 28 years ago today). Divorced for 3 years now, both happily remarried, although not sure about the ‘happily’ part. I laugh at their expense.
Meadslosh

4chan is ALL ABOARD THE TRAIN, CHOO-CHOO RIDE IT!

Also, posting has been disabled.
bklynchris

Gotya! Thanks for the smile and chortle : D
bealapine

http://blog.supersonicsoul.com/2011/04/breaking-news-kenny-g-buys-sacramento.html
“Seattle Songbirds!”
RobertBigelow

What gave that one away is that it’s a current topic with we, your happy mutants. You still get worthy prank points and a raised eyebrow from me at the *very idea* you’d pander down to digital subscription delivery. Happy Friday! ^..^~
Anonymous

…and I told myself I wasn’t going to fall for anything today.
Anonymous

Big Lots’ Hover Mattress 2000!

http://www.biglots.com/browseItem/as-advertised/3520
Anonymous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stobfk1Mfjk&feature=player_embedded

Moog Music has done a fun thing !
rebdav

I woke expecting April fools and saw nothing then around 5pm(Israel) this, it got me riled a bit. You got me!
To prove we are also fools midninght today was also daylight savings day.
Alan

Careful – Groupon bought April Fool’s Day and are enforcing trademark violations:

http://www.groupon.com/pages/april-fools
Art

You got me! Good one.
cinemajay

Wired’s Geek Dad blog has gone to the dogs.
Anonymous

hilarious – this portal’s entire main section is fake! http://www.sympatico.ca
Aliktren

I WTF’ed then lol’ed – in the UK jokes past midday didnt count when I was a kid :p
Antinous / Moderator

Moderator note: I’m happy to report that the idiot filter worked and lots of clueless anonymous commenters wrote in to tell us that they’ll never speak to us again.
Anonymous

I was sad…… and then I was happy.
Gary

google body is not google body!
http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html#m=2
Anonymous

This hasn’t happened for a long time but…you got me.

F*****s
Anonymous

The entire front page of Sympatico.ca is hilarious.

Favourite bits are the pieces on gas price hikes and sharks in space.

http://www.sympatico.ca/
EvilDave

You swine ! I nimbly avoided every single gag attempt today…..and then found myself looking desperately for any Linden dollars that might have fallen down the back of the sofa, just to get my BB fix. LOL, peeps, hook, line and sinker.
- gloopax
  
  How about hook, line and snicker?