April "Funny" Day?
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.
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":
(Oh no! Not two of my oxen!)
Another good one, is the World of Warcraft announcement of the availability of the
tinfoil hat. Specifically:
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.
And my favorite, at the top of the list? None other than the new,
Google TiSP. Its free, (mostly) wireless broadband, ala toilette:
To quote the website:
We're actively developing a higher-performance version of TiSP specifically
tailored to small and medium-sized businesses, including 24-hour, on-site
technical support in the event of backup problems, brownouts and data
wipes.
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.
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.
For other funny internet pranks for this April Fool's Day, check out
this article, on Neowin.net. Or you can check out the
Museum of Hoaxes, which portrays itself as an actual place (in addition to the web content), but it doesn't acutally exist.
Sunday, April 01, 2007 8:22:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) 
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