# April Fool's website pranks **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2008, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496 "2008-04-01T06:44:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Solfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Solfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solfy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/21 "2008-04-01T19:32:28Z")
Ravelry (a knitting social networking site) has put funny hats on everyone’s avatars. Actually, not all of them are hats. Some people have monkeys or parrots sitting on their heads. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/22 "2008-04-01T20:33:45Z")
Trailer for the Legend of Zelda movie at IGN > **[Movie Reviews, Trailers, Interviews, Wikis & Posters for Movies - IGN](https://www.ign.com/movies)** > > IGN is the leading site for movies with expert reviews, trailers, interviews, news, wikis, cast pictures, release dates and movie posters ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/23 "2008-04-01T20:36:52Z")
It seems that the [Motley Fool](http://www.fool.com) is getting out of stocks. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/24 "2008-04-01T20:41:40Z")
The hilarious blog [Stuff White People Like](http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/) has a story that they’ve been sold to Target, who will use it as a promotional tool. Loved that one. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/25 "2008-04-01T21:27:32Z")
[QUOTE=Electronic Chaos] So, just tried clicking on some of the featured videos on Youtube, only to find out that they’re not linking to the right ones. They’re linking to a certain video of a certain man singing “Never gonna give you up…” That’s right. Youtube just Rickrolled pretty much everybody. [/QUOTE] I sent this e-mail out this morning: > [@](#): > > **From: Larry Mudd > Sent: April-01-08 6:44 AM > To: Ascent - Employees > Subject: webpage update** > > As many people have commented, Ascent’s webpage is somewhat aesthetically and technologically stuck in the mid-nineties. > > In an effort to bring our web presence a little bit more up-to-date, incremental changes will be made over the next few months. The first of these is a streaming video presentation on the subject of Ascent’s dedication to its clients, which can be found at [http://www.ascentpm.com/standards.html](http://www.ascentpm.com/standards.html) > > Larry Mudd > Network Administrator It went over better than I thought it would. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/26 "2008-04-01T21:49:34Z")
I just realized now that [xkcd](http://www.xkcd.com) redirecting to Questionable Content is likely an April Fool’s Day prank, as is the [Homestar Runner Wiki](http://www.hrwiki.org) Featured Article being a bunch of scrambled text. Also, I got a chuckle out of [QUOTE=Google] Crew members will communicate with these machines via an auditory Holistic Artificial Language interface visually mediated by a glowing red light. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/27 "2008-04-01T22:28:31Z")
Ask Metafilter keeps changing background colour on me. That’s all I’ve got, other than the nifty links posted here. ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/28 "2008-04-02T01:42:43Z")
[The new Gehry Residence in Los Angeles](http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/04/01/the-new-gehry-residence/) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/29 "2008-04-02T02:00:06Z")
[QUOTE=Key Lime Guy] [The new Gehry Residence in Los Angeles](http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/04/01/the-new-gehry-residence/) [/QUOTE] _snerk_ ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/30 "2008-04-02T02:16:49Z")
Car and Driver put up a story that GM had let the copyright on the Oldsmobile lapse and Toyota bought it, and is planning to produce cars under the Oldsmobile name. [Story here.](http://autos.aol.com/article/news/_a/oldsmobile-returns/20080331143109990001?AOLCOMMautodynlsec0004) ---
**Author:** ![Fastidiots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@Fastidiots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fastidiots)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/31 "2008-04-02T02:52:59Z")
The Warcraft website, in anticipation of the expansion set to be released in the fall, has added a “new hero class”, the bard. Think World of Warcraft plus Guitar Hero. Went to fire up WoW today, began to read it and nearly shit… but then I clued in. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/32 "2008-04-02T04:37:36Z")
[ESPN](http://www.espn4.com/) now covers politics. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/33 "2008-04-02T06:01:14Z")
[KTAR](http://www.ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=793341), a newstalk station here was running a news story all day about how to help with the projected 1.2-billion shortfall, the legislature rammed thru at midnight last night, a bill to convert the local freeways to toll roads, effective tomorrow (meaning April 2). It was going to be cash-only, exact change until they could get the equipment installed in a few months. The tolls were going to be the highway number, so $1.01 for the 101, $2.02 for the 202 and only 51¢ for the 51 making exact change a bit tougher than it had to be. They mentioned the Governor signing the bill in her PJs and had an interview with some legislator from the Flagstaff area who said it was the perfect compromise, “Conservatives don’t drive on freeways much and the liberals want to get us all on bicycles, anyway. I voted for it because we don’t have any freeways up where I live.” I wasn’t listening during the day, but the afternoon drive guy had folks calling in about it at 3pm, playing it straight. It wasn’t until about 5:30pm until they changed the website to admit it was a joke. I dunno when they admitted it on the air. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/34 "2008-04-02T10:32:29Z")
According to [Gamespot](http://uk.gamespot.com/promos/2008/april-fools/index.html?tag=topslot;title;1&om_act=convert&om_clk=topslot), the Rock Band game is coming out for Sony’s Playstation Portable. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/35 "2008-04-02T13:45:28Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] According to [Gamespot](http://uk.gamespot.com/promos/2008/april-fools/index.html?tag=topslot;title;1&om_act=convert&om_clk=topslot), the Rock Band game is coming out for Sony’s Playstation Portable. [/QUOTE] Lol. Madden AARP 09. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/36 "2008-04-02T14:01:12Z")
Another message board I sometimes visit had a few changes. Some of the better-known posters had their user names changed to things like Austin Powers, Moby, and Bill Clinton. Various forum names have been changed to something more humorous. A few subjects that are against board policy now have their own forums. I figured that things would be back to normal this morning. Not so. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/37 "2008-04-02T14:45:00Z")
IsoHunt rickrolled me. Damnit. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496/38 "2008-04-02T16:01:26Z")
[QUOTE=tvvat] The Warcraft website, in anticipation of the expansion set to be released in the fall, has added a “new hero class”, the bard. Think World of Warcraft plus Guitar Hero. Went to fire up WoW today, began to read it and nearly shit… but then I clued in. [/QUOTE] You may like the StarCraft2 joke as well. I give you the [Tauren Marine](http://www.starcraft2.com/features/terran/taurenmarine.xml) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-website-pranks/443496.md?page=1)