What 4/1 Gags Have You Spotted?

[Pangloss]

YouTube is doing a thing where all (?) videos can be watched in a new "green" resolution mode: Text!

 

Google seems to have changed its name to "Topeka".

 

What else?

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The Astronomy Picture of the Day is a good one:

 

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100401.html

[ewmon]

University of Dallas successfully clones beloved icon

 

[swansont]

Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future

 

Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin. "Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."

[Gilded]

Some good ones on World of Warcraft. I especially liked this.

 

Also, if you like 4chan's /v/ you might want to check out their background music...

[iPeppers]

Google Translate for Animals

[Mr Skeptic]

Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretaps Were Illegal

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Also, a city in Kansas has renamed itself "Google, Kansas", and in response Google has renamed itself Topeka

[swansont]

Science, Nature Team Up on New Journal

 

The first issue:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/assets/2010/04/01/natscicover_20100401.png

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Pity I haven't come up with any good ones for SFN today.

[ecoli]

Pity I haven't come up with any good ones for SFN today.

 

Yeah... the fact that SFN is closing down is for real.

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very funny

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Nice avatar you have there.

[ydoaPs]

XKCD did a pretty sweet one. He should keep it like that.

[Klaynos]

omgponies, damn you Cap'n!

[Phi for All]

omgponies, damn you Cap'n!

The funny part is, he rigged it so each staff member only sees his own name and avatar change. Everyone else looks OK.

 

Clever rascal.

[ydoaPs]

omgponies, damn you Cap'n!

 

That's hilarious....and your avatar matches!

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

omgponies, damn you Cap'n!

 

It could be worse.

 

I could've used teletubbies.

[ecoli]

It could be worse.

 

I could've used teletubbies.

 

love it! I think i'll keep the avatar

[insane_alien]

one april fool that has gone unnoticed for centuries, the ridiculous middle-endian date format.

 

the originators didn't suspect that it would gain widespread use except in a few specialised circumstances

[moth]

i got a laugh out of this: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

[Radical Edward]

The Vatican's apology was a pretty good april fool.

[Icefire]

Wi Fit euthanized my Mii

[padren]

What's this about the avatar?

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

[Gilded]

That's pretty tame compared to what happened on deviantART... Twilight avatars and signatures everywhere, oh the horror!

 

There was a hilarious one on the local newspaper about changing city area roadsigns to a more multicultural design, from this:

 

to this:

 

Oh you, religion! It's funny because it could be true. Political correctness gone mad and all that.