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      <title>April "Funny" Day?</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Okay, so I expected to encounter maybe 1 or two April fools jokes today, instead, I'm already counting on 3 hands. My favorite so far, consist of little pranks on the internet.&lt;br /&gt;
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For one, Facebook definitely has a sense of humor. All day today, everyone on Facebook
has been noticing tidbits of hilarity in their "My News Feeds":&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bSl86KFxodY/RhBNbSRJxdI/AAAAAAAAAAU/AnCzAVsxRlI/s1600-h/facebook.png"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048620313437914578" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bSl86KFxodY/RhBNbSRJxdI/AAAAAAAAAAU/AnCzAVsxRlI/s400/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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(Oh no! Not two of my oxen!)&lt;br /&gt;
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Another good one, is the World of Warcraft announcement of the availability of the &lt;a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/items/tinfoilhat.xml"&gt;tinfoil
hat&lt;/a&gt;. Specifically:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bSl86KFxodY/RhBOliRJxeI/AAAAAAAAAAc/ObAknJNpUZ0/s1600-h/tinfoil+hat.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bSl86KFxodY/RhBOliRJxeI/AAAAAAAAAAc/ObAknJNpUZ0/s1600-h/tinfoil+hat.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bSl86KFxodY/RhBOliRJxeI/AAAAAAAAAAc/ObAknJNpUZ0/s1600-h/tinfoil+hat.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bSl86KFxodY/RhBOliRJxeI/AAAAAAAAAAc/ObAknJNpUZ0/s1600-h/tinfoil+hat.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bSl86KFxodY/RhBOwyRJxfI/AAAAAAAAAAk/gUD_6Sg1KSA/s1600-h/tinfoil+hat.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048621782316729842" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bSl86KFxodY/RhBOwyRJxfI/AAAAAAAAAAk/gUD_6Sg1KSA/s400/tinfoil+hat.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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This is supposed to keep your character stats out of The Armory, (which people have
complained about.) Blizzard is actually making fun of its own customers with this
one.&lt;br /&gt;
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And my favorite, at the top of the list? None other than the new, &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html"&gt;Google
TiSP&lt;/a&gt;. Its free, (mostly) wireless broadband, ala toilette:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bSl86KFxodY/RhBPtyRJxgI/AAAAAAAAAAs/2PD-4qKVURc/s1600-h/tisp_diagram.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048622830288750082" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bSl86KFxodY/RhBPtyRJxgI/AAAAAAAAAAs/2PD-4qKVURc/s400/tisp_diagram.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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To quote the website:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
We're actively developing a higher-performance version of TiSP specifically&lt;br /&gt;
tailored to small and medium-sized businesses, including 24-hour, on-site&lt;br /&gt;
technical support in the event of backup problems, brownouts and data&lt;br /&gt;
wipes.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;Not to mention that the Google Groups discussion on TiSP is hilarious,
with people making cracks about torrents, VOIP being bubbly, packet sniffing, and
a Google-advertised additional behaviour - parcel delivery, through the very same
medium as this new internet service.&lt;br /&gt;
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If it were real, this would give us 2 or 3 new reasons to use the toilet, in addition
to the 2 or 3 that we all have already.&lt;br /&gt;
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For other funny internet pranks for this April Fool's Day, check out &lt;a href="http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&amp;id=39173"&gt;this
article&lt;/a&gt;, on Neowin.net. Or you can check out the &lt;a href="http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/categories/category/April%20Fools%20Day/"&gt;Museum
of Hoaxes&lt;/a&gt;, which portrays itself as an actual place (in addition to the web content),
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See the <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/27/john-mccains-myspace-page-hacked/">original
article</a> on TechCrunch. Lets just say, its damn funny, and McCain deserves it.<img width="0" height="0" src="http://i.llumin.us/illuminating-oneself/aggbug.ashx?id=c7b5e3d6-a9fe-41e7-accc-45ce3273f868" /></body>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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See the &lt;a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/27/john-mccains-myspace-page-hacked/"&gt;original
article&lt;/a&gt; on TechCrunch. Lets just say, its damn funny, and McCain deserves it.&lt;img width="0" height="0" src="http://i.llumin.us/illuminating-oneself/aggbug.ashx?id=c7b5e3d6-a9fe-41e7-accc-45ce3273f868" /&gt;</description>
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