Where do I begin?
Thought I might briefly highlight some of the most interesting April Fools on the web - feel free to contribute ones you’ve seen in comments…
There’s the sponsored funerals:
The Guardian publishing on Twitter - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology
The Sun’s one is average - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2353120.ece
The Economist is opening a theme park - http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13395767&source=features_box4
The Irish Times one actually has a lot going for it… http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0401/1224243795000.html
And Gmail autopilot is a brilliant idea!!! http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html
And Boards.ie have been taken over by Facebook… http://www.face.boards.ie/
Strangely, this story appears to be real…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/apr/01/newcastle-united-alan-shearer-manager
Any more really, really good ones?
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http://blog.doneganlandscaping.com/2009/04/01/the-spaghetti-tree/
Cough cough…
Hi Rick,
I’m updating this post as they are found..
http://blog.webdistortion.com/2009/04/01/april-fools-day-roundup/
Peter, one of the genuine all time greats… Wonder would Panorama get in trouble for wasting licencepayers money were they to do the same today?
Paul, they’re mega!!
David, that’s a nasty cough you have there…
I’m just avoiding the Internet today. And spending all my time on Google’s hoaxes Wikipedia page.
Ultra nerdy one!
http://www.dirtymouse.co.uk/typography/helvetica-to-be-legislated-against/
Elf
rick, i wonder if they’d apologise after
I could have swore the Alan Shearer one was an April Fool’s, obviously not.
Jaysis!
Pat Kenny leaves RTE to join SpunOut.ie
http://www.spunout.ie/about/Blog/Pat-Kenny-leaves-RTE-to-join-SpunOut.ie!
Wales v Ireland 6 nations match to be replayed
http://europeansportsnews.com/
clever bit of marketing too
http://www.bbcsportnews.co.uk/harte-shocker.php
Again, clever viral.