April Fools website pranks

[Joey_P]

@Alley_Dweller

I can’t get the google maps pacman thing to work.

When I go to maps.google.com I don’t see any pacman symbol. I’ve tried to zoom in on all levels and nothing happens. Is there some trick to get it to work?

I’m using Firefox in Windows.

Yesterday I tried that on my work computer and my phone. After a while I gave up and just figured the joke was on me. The joke being that there wasn’t actually a pac man map and I spent 20 minutes trying to figure it out. I was surprised at how many media outlets were reporting it. I just assumed they didn’t test it out or reported it just to keep the joke going.

When I got home (still using FF), it worked fine.

[Alley_Dweller]

@BigT

Also, I got the Google map thing to work in Firefox by zooming out the page to 90%. You know, with Ctrl-+ and Ctrl - .

That did it for me, too! Thanks, BigT and everyone else who replied.

[snowmaster]

@BigT

Not sure if this one is official, but it’s funny: com.google. (Screenshot)

Asking backwards google to do a barrel roll produces an interesting result.

[GrumpyBunny]

ThinkGeek's foolishly fake products should be real

I liked the Hodor GPS buddy. The only thing that would be better is if the directions were vocalized as, "Hodor Hodor Hodor. Hodor. Hodor Hodor. "

[BigT]

Found this speedrun of Minecraft.