Since 1986, legendary prankster/satirist Joey Skaggs has led an April Fools' Day parade through New York City. This April 1st is no different. The parade invites the public to participate by creating ridiculous floats and dressing up as caricatures to mock foolish politicians, celebrities, and corporate leaders from the previous year. — Read the rest
The NWS is enjoying themselves but took steps to ensure no one was actually fooled. I can imagine the GQP deciding to defund NOAA and the NWS over woke systems of measurement had that :P not been there.
U.K.'s Bier Company — a beer subscription site — lured people into claiming a prize of "free beer for life," then charged the "winners" for a beer subscription of $30 per month, calling the trick an April Fool's joke. Nobody thought the scam was funny. — Read the rest
nothing.tech is an amusing fake ad for yet another generically minimalist smartphone.
— Read the restJUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE: JUST ANOTHER ( 1 ). You've seen a phone just like this before. Experience edge-to-edge monotony. It's inspiringly uninspired. Utterly unoriginal. And exactly the same as everything else.
Remember that a lot of what you see today on the internet will be humorless lies. And everything else will be April Fools jokes.
"Start remembering your bathroom experiences again with our new handcrafted toilet paper. Inspired by the makers of yesterday and today." Quilted Northern's April Fool's day joke.
For April Fools, Google rearranged Gmail's UI to replace the normal send button with one that attaches a Minions(TM) Mic Drop GIF animation to outgoing email.
— Read the rest"Today, Gmail is making it easier to have the last word on any email with Mic Drop.
The Piro-Piro, a key-less input device for Japanese characters.
John Oliver hates April Fools' Day. I agree with him. I propose we turn April 1 into "April Friendly Day," and delight friends and strangers with wonderful things.
One year ago today
In which Charles Darwin gets trolled: From Darwin's diary written aboard the HMS Beagle, an accounting of an epic April Fool's prank of 1832.
Five years ago today
Unicorn Chaser beverage from ThinkGeek!
Introducing, the Unicorn Chaser – a drink shot specially formulated to cleanse your mind and soul. — Read the rest
Jim Leftwich says: "Two Deejays for "Gator Country 101.9" warned that 'dihydrogen monoxide' was coming out of peoples' water faucets. Georgians panicked. The DJs were 'suspended indefinitely.'" UPDATE: They're back on the air!
"The April Fool is dead," writes Alastair Macdonald. "Or at least the gentle jester of the common folk has metastised into a corporate colossus controlled by global marketing executives, bestriding the Internet to force familiar brands ever deeper into the collective consciousness."
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. — Read the rest
World's greatest prankster Joey Skaggs announced the theme for the spectacular 25th Annual April Fools' Day Parade in New York City. The mayhem begins at noon on Thursday, April 1 (natch) at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, ending with an extravaganza in Washington Square Park. — Read the rest
Paul Di Filippo wrote a great April Fools' article for Locus on my pal and collaborator Charlie Stross becoming posthuman:
— Read the rest"Charlie was teetering on the precipice of transhumanism for the whole last year," said his friend and collaborator Cory Doctorow. "His lifestyle and cerebral/neurological capabilities had been ramped up through intensive ideation and selective smart-drug use to an exquisite pitch just short of the Singularity.
We EFF staffers have spent the past week cracking each other up planning our April Fools' Day edition of the EFFector, EFF's weekly newsletter. It's online now:
— Read the restRIAA Lawsuits Draw to a Close
Washington, DC – The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) this week announced that its litigation campaign against American filesharers will now end.
Some anonymous geniuses whipped up this incredibly thorough parody of Boing Boing. I LOLed until my very eyeballs popped out. The detail is frightening (note the "Studious Girls" ads), as is the volume of witty, nuanced little references to actual crap we've blogged. — Read the rest
Sure, games like Rock Band and Dance Central are fun, but where's the romance? Today—April Fool's Day, remember—Harmonix announced their newest game, "a brief departure from the band game business in favor of the business of love."
Stack Overflow, a community help forum for programmers, announced a 3-button copy-paste keyboard as an April Fools' Day prank The joke is that programmers use a lot of existing code in their own programs, so this keyboard streamlines the process.
But programmers thought the keyboard was more useful than silly, so Stack Overflow is selling real ones for $29. — Read the rest
It turns out people really did want Volkswagen to change its name to Voltswagen, as it announced in a fake press release to get a jump on April Fool's day. The joke backfired, though, and the share price dropped when the truth came out. — Read the rest
