I’m knee deep in paper grading right now, but here’s a quick post with some April Foolishness.
Patrick Altoft has a live blog of April Fools pages and pranks here.
Planning to take over the world? Read the Evil Genius Guide to Business. I’m talking to you, Hank Scorpio!
ThinkGeek and Amazon are selling a book on silly Internet RFCs. A Request for Comments is a document that describes proposed Internet standards and technologies, and there is a long tradition of joke RFCs.
Google continues its annual tradition of gags, as reported on Cnet. This year’s crop includes Gmail Custom Time, a feature that lets Gmail users send thir email messages into the past.
There are almost a dozen Google hoaxes this year, including Google Australia’s gDay, a search engine that travels 24 hours ahead in time.
Google also announced Virgle, a joint venture with Virgin to develop an open-source expedition to Mars. Google’s co-founders describe the project in this YouTube video.
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