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#1 Nvyseal

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 03:20 PM

Run across an april fools site? Post it up

Microsoft Spring Cleaning

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 03:49 PM

NewScientist seems fond of funny news:
man-bird
reincarnation
poltergeist

And for Zelda fans: Ganondorf is particularly ugly

Blizzard is hilarious as always.

Edited by hog, 01 April 2008 - 03:58 PM.


#3 eniparadoxgma

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 04:33 PM

View PostNvyseal, on Apr 1 2008, 11:20 AM, said:

Run across an april fools site? Post it up

Microsoft Spring Cleaning

I wonder if the wireless helmet is PC compatible. :g:

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 04:48 PM

Torrent Money

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 05:43 PM

View Postscaramonga, on Apr 1 2008, 12:48 PM, said:

LOL a really stupid one, I'm sure many people will fall for it...

BTW I just spent 1 hour messing with my brother's computer and around the house for all sorts of pranks. I took most of them here.

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 06:05 PM

try http://www.xkcd.com

it's all around the comic-webz!

#7 brewin

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 07:22 PM

Project Virgle

I really wish this one was true.


Google Seeks to Organize All of Human Ignorance

I thought that was what they were doing? Doesn't Google crawl Youtube, MySpace, and Facebook?

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 08:07 PM

Wow, the Virgle thing is really nice. Reminds me of Mass Effect. :g: And the ignorance project is very funny.

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 09:12 PM

The Virgle project is real.... Google always does surreal things on first of april :g: :sphere: :ph34r:

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 09:49 PM

View Postbrewin, on Apr 1 2008, 12:22 PM, said:

How come they have me as a sponsored link? :g:

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 10:12 PM

Oh no you wasn't?
Ow, wait, no, nevermind, I see the connection :g:

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 11:58 PM

I already shared this with some-

the return of AMC--

http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicles/hrd...cars/index.html

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Posted 02 April 2008 - 01:20 AM

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1366/4/u...test/index.html

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Posted 02 April 2008 - 01:37 AM

View Postm.oreilly, on Apr 1 2008, 09:20 PM, said:

INCREDIBLE! :sphere:

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Posted 02 April 2008 - 04:22 PM

Now that April 1st is past- here are a couple of all time favorites-

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipe...stant_Color_TV/


http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipe...o_Liberty_Bell/

also-

Drunk Driving on the Internet
An article by John Dvorak in the April 1994 issue of PC Computing magazine described a bill going through Congress that would make it illegal to use the internet while drunk, or to discuss sexual matters over a public network. The bill was supposedly numbered 040194 (i.e. 04/01/94), and the contact person was listed as Lirpa Sloof (April Fools backwards). The article said that the FBI was going to use the bill to tap the phone line of anyone who "uses or abuses alcohol" while accessing the internet. Passage of the bill was felt to be certain because "Who wants to come out and support drunkenness and computer sex?" The article offered this explanation for the origin of the bill: "The moniker 'Information Highway' itself seems to be responsible for SB 040194... I know how silly this sounds, but Congress apparently thinks being drunk on a highway is bad no matter what kind of highway it is." The article generated so many outraged phone calls to Congress that Senator Edward Kennedy's office had to release an official denial of the rumor that he was a sponsor of the bill.

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and my favorite-


The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe
In 1974 residents of Sitka, Alaska were alarmed when the long-dormant volcano neighboring them, Mount Edgecumbe, suddenly began to belch out billows of black smoke. People spilled out of their homes onto the streets to gaze up at the volcano, terrified that it was active again and might soon erupt. Luckily it turned out that man, not nature, was responsible for the smoke. A local practical joker named Porky Bickar had flown hundreds of old tires into the volcano's crater and then lit them on fire, all in a (successful) attempt to fool the city dwellers into believing that the volcano was stirring to life. According to local legend, when Mount St. Helens erupted six years later, a Sitka resident wrote to Bickar to tell him, "This time you've gone too far!"




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