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Sib
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What have sites that you frequent done for April fools day? the only one i know is that all youtube featured videos are a rick roll (youtube wins hehe)

Darth Mobius
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The best Page in the universe... Did nothing. He announced three months ago that he was working on some super huge secret project... And hasn't updated in 6 months. He posted a new News bulletin that says simply: What?

Sib
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oh yeah, i stopped expecting him to post anything ever again a couple months ago

PurpleRain
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Some of the admin staff at Escapist have dressed up like trolls and are haunting us... I hope.

edinflames
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A rather delightful April Fool from Terry Jones and the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/epeng001.shtml?src=ip_potpw

Hard evidence that BBC>[all other TV networks]

I think it only works in IE not Firefox, but its well worth a look.

devilondemand
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I just saw that Penguins thing, but I think Youtube having every video as Rick Astley is my favourite so far

Sib
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edinflames:
A rather delightful April Fool from Terry Jones and the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/epeng001.shtml?src=ip_potpw

Hard evidence that BBC>[all other TV networks]

I think it only works in IE not Firefox, but its well worth a look.

works fine in firefox but wow, that looked so real lol, now i need to go buy a penguin cage in case mine flies off

Anton P. Nym
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Apparently Virgin Blue in Australia offered standee tickets on their discount flights, at 50% off the fare for those who get seats. (And free calf massages.) Alas, the site now just reads "April Fools" and has a link to a real discount.

Google is running a joint venture with Virgin (UK) to create the ultimate off-site backup system: http://www.google.com/virgle. Google Mail is also offering a service that allows you to backdate email... and have it arrive in time.

Someone got to this year's BBC prank, which approaches the dizzying heights of their 50's "spaghetti harvest" prank.

Turbine's offering the "Battle of Amon-hen" expansion to LOTRO with a new PC race; chickens.

Bungie's tampered with their "Bungie Online" real-time player map to display Mister Chief. I expect this is only the first installment.

More when I find it.

-- Steve loves the creativity shown on this most holy of days.

Joe
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Let it be known: If there's a Rick Roll in this thread (or any other) it's a permaban.

Omnidum
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The Kingdom of Loathing has been changed to the "Kingdom of Salad," full of veggie goodness.

MegamattZero
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At school this morning, we did a april fools joke on the security guards. We said that there was a fight in the classroom through the PA system. We had the help of our teacher of course.

Anton P. Nym
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Joe:
Let it be known: If there's a Rick Roll in this thread (or any other) it's a permaban.

Be advised that YouTube's poisson d'Avril is redirecting all "Recommended Videos" links on their main page to a Rick Astley single. (I'm serious. They're not... though rolling the channers does have a delicious albeit iron-y flavour.) I recommend caution when linking to any YouTube video today. edited to add: d'oh! totally forgot that this was in the original post. time for more coffee...

In more amusing news, discount airline Ryan Air is offering "Ryan Bare" adult-themed flights. Also in aviation news, WestJet is offering a low-cost sleeper service by modifying its overhead luggage bins.

-- Steve

aegis7
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Kongregate put up a new card challenge and the game it links to is the Rick Astley video. Amusingly, it loaded a player in their in site system instead of pushing you off-site to youtube or something. I woke up at 3:30 am (not on purpose) and fumbled my way through the internet to figure out what Rick Rolling was.

monodiabloloco
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http://www.ign.com/
The new movie trailer for Legend of Zelda. Sadly I would rent the movie.. *sob*

renako
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World of Warcraft announced its console Molten Core game and the WotLK Bard hero class.

DeviantArt replaced everyone's avatars with Mudkips.

GG Kongregate though, I think it's my fav so far.

cleverlymadeup
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http://www.fark.com has a good one, that will randomly pop itself up when visiting the page

http://www.kotaku.com has gone on a cake binge

tho i have to say the best one is this http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/features/bard/bardclass.xml

sadly slashdot hasn't topped their "OMG TEH PONIEZ!!!!1111" page from a couple years ago, they just have their normal joke stories

the sad part about this day is everyone is still fooled by jokes

Joeshie
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I found NASA's April's Fools Joke rather funny.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

renako
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Oh wait...

http://starcraft2.com/features/terran/taurenmarine.xml
Thank you Blizzard for another roflmao.

"The most physically imposing of these warrior races were the so-called 'tauren,' an anthropomorphic bovine genotype with super-human stamina, overpowered racial combat abilities, and bizarrely well-developed horticultural skills."

ZomBuster
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http://www.gizmodo.com pities the april fool!

Anton P. Nym
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As I suspected Bungie had more up their sleeves, this time it looks like they're putting the fear of casual into hardcore players: entries on their jobs page looking for a choreographer, a 3D UI artist, and a software emulation engineer experienced in porting from Hitachi 128-bit chipsets and Yamaha legacy soundchips.

-- Steve

HalfShadow
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I'm an admin on http://www.projectrockstar.com/ which is a 'band manager' game. In this game, there are random events that occur to you or your bands some of them good, some of them bad.

A couple of Aprils back, I created a fake 'newbie account' and basically managed to fool half the site into thinking an 'event' that causes all of your bands to quit and take a chunk of your money with them was real. I think there are still a couple of people who think even now that it's a real event.

User was banned for: Mom Calls For Ban On Underworld. (Permanent)
njsykora
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Wikipedia has a few funny things in their 'On This Day' bit.

XKCD has changed to Questionable Content, Questionable Content is now Dinosaur Comics and Dinosaur Comics is XKCD.

Someone post up what Ctrl+Alt+Del has done, might be the funniest thing that appears on that site all year (oh snap).

EDIT
I just went to VGCats. Genius is really the only word for it.

The Franco
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Gamespot has pretty decent april fools day joke up right now. Such goodies include "Preview: Half Life: Episode Three. Alex dies. Ooops. Pretend you didn't read that."

Anarchemitis
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Today, I am choosing to never again post on this Forum.
I, Anarchemitis, resign on the grounds of this is an April Fools joke.

Anarchemitis
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Ha! Fooled you! I lied!

Anarchemitis
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And this is make my posts an even 400.

Indigo_Dingo
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njsykora:
Wikipedia has a few funny things in their 'On This Day' bit.

XKCD has changed to Questionable Content, Questionable Content is now Dinosaur Comics and Dinosaur Comics is XKCD.

Someone post up what Ctrl+Alt+Del has done, might be the funniest thing that appears on that site all year (oh snap).

EDIT
I just went to VGCats. Genius is really the only word for it.

CTRL Alt Del didNothing.

The funnies was Blizzards new Bard class for Lich King, amde so much sweeter by the Tauren holding a Cownbell.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/features/bard/bardclass.xml

Anton P. Nym
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BMW announced a new canine repellant system to increase rust protection on their cars: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/04/bmws-dog-zapper.html

-- Steve

Darth Mobius
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njsykora:
Wikipedia has a few funny things in their 'On This Day' bit.

XKCD has changed to Questionable Content, Questionable Content is now Dinosaur Comics and Dinosaur Comics is XKCD.

Someone post up what Ctrl+Alt+Del has done, might be the funniest thing that appears on that site all year (oh snap).

EDIT
I just went to VGCats. Genius is really the only word for it.

Bastard! You got me! Good one. I actually thought they had done something... VGCats hasn't even updated in two weeks...

edinflames:
A rather delightful April Fool from Terry Jones and the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/epeng001.shtml?src=ip_potpw

Hard evidence that BBC>[all other TV networks]

I think it only works in IE not Firefox, but its well worth a look.

Doesn't work in America, though

Lee Christie
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I didn't notice the YouTube one since I only watch my subscriptions, I never look at the featured stuff. The BBC one is great.

BTW. If you're in America and can't watch it, just search on YouTube I think someone's uploaded it.

PurpleRain
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Anarchemitis:
Today, I am choosing to never again post on this Forum.
I, Anarchemitis, resign on the grounds of this is an April Fools joke.

Yay! And the people rejoice...

Anarchemitis:
Ha! Fooled you! I lied!

... and then the happy went away.

Darth Mobius
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Joined: 26 Feb 2008

PurpleRain:

Anarchemitis:
Today, I am choosing to never again post on this Forum.
I, Anarchemitis, resign on the grounds of this is an April Fools joke.

Yay! And the people rejoice...

Anarchemitis:
Ha! Fooled you! I lied!

... and then the happy went away.

PurpleRain, I award you the funniest joke of the year medal for that one...

wilsonscrazybed
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I've been rickrolled 3 times today by people I (used to) respect. For the love of god, stop!

Darth Mobius
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I just Rick Rolled my BROTHER! Great stuff, thanks for letting me know that youtube was doing that!

Anarchemitis
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Darth Mobius:

PurpleRain:

Anarchemitis:
Today, I am choosing to never again post on this Forum.
I, Anarchemitis, resign on the grounds of this is an April Fools joke.

Yay! And the people rejoice...

Anarchemitis:
Ha! Fooled you! I lied!

... and then the happy went away.

Why do you detest me so?

Why do you hate me? Sad face...

PurpleRain, I award you the funniest joke of the year medal for that one...

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