What's the best April Fool's gag you've seen on the 'net?

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Let’s keep this thread going throughout the day… If you find a good April Fool’s gag on a page you visit today, be sure to tell about it here.

I’m curious as to how many sites still do this. I can remember some of the best gags from the past. Anyone remember Coming Attractions by Corona? They had fake movie listings on April 1 that always cracked me up.

Last year, homestarrunner.com was taken over by the King of Town, and I think slashdot did some random craziness (there’s a surprise), but I can’t remember much else.

So, if you see something funny, please post a link, or just reminisce about the jokes of previous years…

Happy day to all April Fools!

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Well, so far, I’ve encountered a webpage that doesn’t load properly and says “Coming Soon! The biggest name is Web Advertising!!” on homestarrunner.com and some stranger-than-usual stories on slashdot.org…

Come on, there must be something better out there…

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Try here.

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www.fark.com gave me a bit of a giggle this morning.

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If you like WoW, I thought this was pretty funny:

Especially the picture of the jumping, you gotta click the link and see the larger image.

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Here’s one.

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The Eddie Izzard fansite, Cake or Death, this morning featured an announcement that the site was being taken down and replaced with a Marvin Hamlisch tribute site. Clicking on a link brings you to a photo of Eddie Izzard and the caption, “just kidding, love.”

I dunno how to make links, but it’s easy to find.

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Dunno if it’s new today, but Google is hiring for jobs on the moon.

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Out of morbid curiosity, I checked out www.startrek.com to see what their big announcement was today. Somre pretty good stuff on the front page. I’m sure I’d laughed more if I actually watched Enterprise.

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Can’t find the link now, but Google announced Gmail to compete with Yahoo and MSN mail. It said it would offer 1 GB of server space to each subscriber, free of charge.

Blizzard, along with announcing the two-headed ogre, announced a new Goblin hero for Warcraft 3.

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Think Geek has some good products available today.

Hmmm…I know of a message board that could use the PC Habitrail…:slight_smile:

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The best ThinkGeek joke ever was the “The Screen Savers Megan Morrone Download of the Day doll” with wireless Ethernet.

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I thought the gag on the SD main page was pretty clever.

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FARK has been changing their “fake” pages all day. There’s four or five that I’ve seen.

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Of the various Slashdot gags, I really enjoyed the “Open Source Weapons Development” one.

Oh, and Macintouch is now a dating service – check out the selections in the drop-down menus…

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My former college has been doing April Fools websites since the mid 90’s. This year’s was REALLY lame and looked like it was spurned out within an hour (I guess the webmasters didn’t mark their calendars), but take a look at the archives for some pretty funny stuff

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Give the homestarrunner one another chance. You have to wait a short while for it to load but it’s very cute…

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Newgrounds is now sponsered by McDonalds.

i’m lovin it :stuck_out_tongue:

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http://www.homestarrunner.com/

Classic.

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Found this one on Slashdot today. “Leaked” Star Wars Trilogy DVD commentary by George Lucas. Some of the commentary is actually quite funny, like the Death Star trench run as Oedipal symbolism. Hits just the right notes to piss off the fanboys.