April Fools - New Stories

[Stewart]

Anyone see any good April Fool news stories yesterday? I saw Google's new product Google Gulp, the storiming of Wikipedia offices by Encyclopaedia Britannica militants, and this book related story from the India Times regarding the new book by Dan Brown.

 

[dele]

I heard of a couple. Aaron North, Nine Inch Nail's guitarist, was reported in rehab... for excessive banana consumption.

I'm not sure if this next one was a joke or just bad reporting. Rather tasteless if it was meant as a joke... I saw was an article about the Pope's death yesterday morning. In the afternoon it was changed to "The Pope's Condition is Grave". The first article is running again today.

 

[mehastings]

I saw was an article about the Pope's death yesterday morning. In the afternoon it was changed to "The Pope's Condition is Grave". The first article is running again today.

I'm pretty sure that was just bad reporting. There had been a lot of conflicting reports. I don't think news agencies would joke about that.

Our local hard rock radio station announced that they had been bought out and would be a country station in 2 weeks. I also saw the Google Gulp, but I didn't click on the link so I don't know what it was all about.

 

[Martin]

Saw the Google Gulp-thingy, too.

Also, the Linux-people claimed they wanted to get rid of the Penguin.

Also, someone at boringboring.com gave a nice alternative for Firefox.

Also, Slashdot had this to say about Google's new 'earthbrowsing software':

Google's recent purchase of Keyhole and its jaw-dropping 3D earth-browsing software has apparently netted them ownership of an imaging satellite as well, now named 'gSat.' This Friday, April 1st, gSat will be capturing a new dataset (neighborhood of 1meter/pixel), passing over each time zone between 10 and 11AM. If you stand outside and wave you will supposedly show up as a blurry fleck.

Also .. nope, that was it.

Cheers

 

[Dogtanian]

BMW had a good one. Took a full page out in the Independant newspaper as well. Cost £70,000 to do

www.uninventthewheel.co.uk

 

[Halo]

I like that BMW one.

 

[Clara]

I seem to remember from being half asleep on Friday morning that BBC Radio 4's Today programme ran a story claiming that an old law had been uncovered that would mean Camilla's son would become King after Charlie. It was supposed to be something about her son taking precedence over William because he was older.

At least, I think it was an April Fool!

 

[phil_t]

Hmmm, King Tom Parker-Bowles, who spends all day sitting on the throne puffing on a joint and making up absurd laws (most of which would probably get passed if Labour wins the next election ). Sounds splendid!!

Phil