april fools day

Google's April Fools' Joke Becomes a Reality

Extremetech  Fri, 04/08/2011 - 08:35

This past April Fools' Day, Google created a fake motion-based interface for Gmail they dubbed "Gmail Motion." The real funny part came the next day when a group of USC students were able to recreate the fictional tech using nothing more than an Xbox Kinect.


 

April Fools’ Day By the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]

Mashable!  Fri, 04/01/2011 - 09:24

Social media users, you’re not alone in your April Fools’ Day enthusiasm.

That April Fools’ prank you’re about to pull puts you in good company, with a surprising percentage of your fellow social media mavens creating stunts today that would get them fired or beat up on any other day.


 

Prima Aprilis! - Maggie Nelson

Planet PHP  Thu, 04/01/2010 - 16:50

My favorite joke today was the announcement from Mu Dynamics Research Labs that they’re moving away from NoSQL.

It’s bad for startups!


 

Top 15 Web Hoaxes of All Time

Mashable!  Wed, 07/15/2009 - 16:33

crop circle imageSometimes it’s hard to tell what to believe when you read it on the web.

The recent “Unknown Lifeform” in North Carolina?

Turns out, not a hoax, but also not a monster.


 

April 1st special: The War of the Worlds

Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Tue, 04/01/2008 - 18:34

Conrad Barski has posted a sneak peak from his upcoming Lisp textbook/comic: Land of Lisp.

The first slides may seem unrelated, but boy does the message sting when you reach the ending...

FPers will be quick to note, of course, that this being April Fools' Day the whole thing is a joke and we can all go back to Haskell...