My jailbroken iPhone announced that Cydia was sold to Microsoft. There was a link to Youtube with Bill Gates.
I got rick-rolled. Got me!
How many of you Dopers use Bug Me Not to bypass registering at news sites to be able to read articles. For those of you aren’t familiar with it, it’s a way to get around restrictions on reading material on free web sites by using shared email addresses and passwords so you don’t have to leave your own email information.
Well, imagine my surprise whan I went to Bug Me Not to get a log in for my local newspaper and I was asked to register! Yep, it’s true. Here’s the page I was taken to: http://www.bugmenot.com/register.php?url=tucsoncitizen.com
For those of you who are understandably reluctant to follow links,
Ha, ha. April Fool. It takes you to a pseudo-registration page with two buttons, one of which says, “Join Now For Free” and the other says, “Existing User Sign In.” Clicking either box produces a pop up which says, “Just fooling.” You are then taken to a list of log ins for your desired publication. It’s just Bug Me Not’s having a little April fool’s fun and may not be there tomorrow.
On the MMO side, we have City of Heroes: Golden Age and World of Warcraft’s new Dance Battle System.
Some news on the next Batman movie.
An article on an all-pork resort, that might be on interest to all you bacon fans out there.
On Facebook this morning, one of my notifications was that Barack Obama confirmed me as a fourth cousin on We’re Related.
I was wondering WTF until I realized the date today.
According to Gametrailers.com, Duke Nukem forever was released today. They already have a walktrough posted.
Great tips:
Here’s a list of all sorts of hijinks online today.
A good April Fools joke must be believable. We all know that Duke Nukem Forever will *never *be released… 
Heh heh. In the video featured on the product page, the spoken Swedish seems to be a Swedish translation of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” a.k.a the Rickroll song.
Microsoft introduced a game called Yodelling Hero. I think there is a video on Youtube.
I thought this simple onewas funny.
I still can’t quite buy the announcement that The Guiding Light is going off the air. I just have a hard time imagining it was even on anymore, let alone that anyone was still watching it.
I get several Google alerts, and one of them is Stephen King. Today there was an alert that Stephanie Meyer had committed suicide over the whole Stephen King Says Stephanie Meyer Can’t Write Worth Shit kerfuffle. When I tried to click on the link it was blocked at work. My daughter is a huge fan and I wanted to be prepared in case she found out. I didn’t find anything popping up when I tried to Google “Stephanie Meyer Suicide” so I can only assume it was someone’s idea of a prank.
Expedia’s offering vacation packages to Mars. You can save up to $3 trillion if you hurry!
Apparently Car and Driver fooled Nascar fans.
The Price is Right today was a masterpiece.
A masterpiece.
I dunno if this qualifies for this thread, but I’ll offer it anyway because no other thread seems approprate.
The greatest April Fool’s joke I ever experienced was perpetrated by my wife. When I was in undergrad earning my BA in journalism, Razorette and I decided the time was right to finish out our family. We had one child, a beautiful son, and decided to try to make a little girl. Long story short, the younger brother was born six months before I graduated, fully covered by my wife’s insurance and the GI Bill. Being a liberal, environmentally-minded guy, I decided that, at the age of 30, it was time to visit an experienced urologist an shut down the baby-making equipment. I was supposed to go back and be tested for potency, but a combination of machismo fear and final exams conspired to keep me from getting the much-needed final verdict. My wife nagged, I demured, life went on.
Fast-forward a year and a half, I’m enjoying an upwardly-mobile career in newspapering, we’re getting ready to buy our first home (a brand-new tract home in suburban northern Colorado) and life is great. One morning my wife casually mentions that it’s time for her regular feminine checkup and, frankly, she hasn’t been feeling all that well lately. I voice the expected words of concern. pat her lovingly on the bottom and tell her, “Call me and let me know what the doctor finds.” Sooooo… at about noon I get a call at my desk (I was regional editor on a mid-sized newspaper) and it’s none other than The Center of My Universe. “I just got out of the doctor’s office,” says she. “Oh, and what did the doctor say?” asks I.
A moment of silence.
“I’m pregnant,” says she. My world froze. The new house evaporated. Huge bills loomed – Razorette is a breast-feeder, and our new child would have the constant comfort of it’s mother’s body and presence for the first six months. Her career, just beginning to flower, would be eradicated yet again as she stayed home to care for our spawn; the boys would have to bunk up while we contrived a nursery in the bedroom one of them happily occupied. And me? I would be working every hour of overtime I could coax out of the city editor just to feed another hungry mouth. “You shoud have gone in for a test,” says she. “But we’ll talk later.”
I hung up the phone and tried to focus on headlines, page layout, all that editing stuff. Five minutes later my phone rang again. I answered. It was my Beloved’s voice. “Honey,” she cooed sweetly, “What is the date today?”
It was, of course, April 1. And I’d been fooled. It remains, to this day, the best April Fool’s joke I have ever personally experenced. The genius of it is that I was the agent of my own discomfort. Her little joke wouldn’t have worked if I had done what I was supposed to do.
Still, it would have been nice to have had a little girl.
…who apparently cannot see the humor in anything more sophisticated than Larry the Cable Guy.
That’s one of my favorites from this year.
This also made me smile this year.