Share Who’s Fooled You On April Fools’ Day
Apr 02 2008 
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So far I’ve only seen three April Fools’ pranks. The first was via Techcrunch about Youtube Rick Rolling it’s users. if you have no clue what Rick Rolling is, don’t be alarmed: I didn’t know what it was either. I didn’t find out until last week when I sent a message to my Twitter followers asking what it was. They sent me to this Wikipedia entry about Rickrolling. It’s safe to click, I’m not going to Rickroll you. Rickrolling is basically a false link that usually links to the video for the popular hit song in the late 80′s, "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley. I’ve never been rickrolled and don’t you try it!
TechCrunch also had their own April Fools’ joke posted to the site. They are suing Facebook for $25 million in statutory damages. I thought it was pretty funny and definitely didn’t expect to see this side of Michael Arrington.
When our team of lawyers offered to settle for a mere $50 million, Kelly told me Facebook would “bury you and bury your crappy blog” if we filed the suit. He then threw his steaming hot triple soy latte espresso at me, which caused extensive second degree burns over the top half of my body. Later on, he also unfriended me.
Of course, no April Fools’ day is complete without Google’s ever popular pranks. Personally, they piss me off because I always fall for them. This year, someone else warned me ahead of time on Twitter. Google has introduced a Custom Time Feature into Gmail that allows you to set a time for sending your email, even a time that has already passed!
Is there a limit to how far back I can send email?
Yes. You’ll only be able to send email back until April 1, 2004, the day we launched Gmail. If we were to let you send an email from Gmail before Gmail existed, well, that would be like hanging out with your parents before you were born — crazy talk.
I’m sure a lot of people will be pissed that this actually isn’t a feature in Gmail.
To my visitors, I humbly request that you bookmark my page and come back to share every prank you’ve fallen prey to or simply ran come across!
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ahhhhh… rickRolled again… i just haven't learned not to click the tinyurls this year. ;)
Soccerlens is running a whole series of posts today, most of which are documenting sales of leading Manchester United players to competing teams.
And the Google Weblogs (beta) announcement was good.
My problem is that I automatically doubt anything that I read on April 1.
I got the fake email saying Jason Calacanis was pleased to have me enrolled in his 'Jason Calacanis is a Golden God' Fan club. AND this http://www.flickr.com/photos/citymama/2379832694/
Dying laughing. Blame @geekmommy and @citymama
ha! Here is another one@@@
Add/Remove is a prank program that makes it appear that all of your software on your computer is being removed using the Windows Add/Remove Program feature. This gag is so real, it will shock the most experienced user. If you are looking for a great gag to play on someone, this prank is a must download. It is so realistic, because it displays all of the software that is installed on the computer it is ran from. When you first run Add/Remove there is no other option but OK, and as soon as you click on that the fun begins. Download Add/remove today! Click here to download Add/Remove v1.00 .
How to close Add/Remove:
Click the Close button after it has completed pretending to remove all of the software on your computer.
Add/Remove will only work successfully on these specific Windows operating systems:
Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows ME Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows 2003 Windows XP Windows Vista
ThinkGeek.com has a great prank every year. I almost fell for one of the gag products this year when I remembered the date.
Guess it was better than I thought. Thanks for the story :) Charlie
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We've since taken it down but for a day, MyBlogLog was Plaid.
Screenshot here:
http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/04...
We've since taken it down but for a day, MyBlogLog was Plaid.
Screenshot here:
http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/04...
We've since taken it down but for a day, MyBlogLog was Plaid.
Screenshot here:
http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/04...