OK, so the thrill of April Fools’ day doesn’t really happen anymore, since everyone expects every website and organization in the world to have some sort of prank lined up for today. Still, most of them are pretty funny even if you see them coming a mile away. Here are some of the highlights from April Fools’ Day 2008.
Click on any YouTube featured video. Go ahead. Do it. (Confused? Click here.)
Virgin and Google team up to go to Mars and colonize the planet. Complete with fake application!
GMail Custom Time. I wish this was actually real. Seriously.
While The New York Times continues to be uber-serious and unfun, the Tribune Company showed its funny side by renaming themselves ZellCoMediaEnterprisesInc. Bonus points for doggies.
Tech-blog Gizmodo added a dash of Mr. T to every post. Much manlier than Rick Astley.
The Pirate Bay is moving to Egypt.
YTMNDead. The song kills me.
Popular webcomic xkcd currently links to…Questionable Content, another web comic. See if you can figure out which web comic domain name houses your favorite nerdy stick figure story.
New World of Warcraft character. Only for geeks.
IGN presents The Legend of Zelda movie trailer.
Uhhhhh, not sure if this is a joke or not, but Pizza Hut is now Pasta Hut. I think they may actually be serving pasta now. Anyone know what is going on here?
The town of Ely, Minn. was sold to Canada. Stop the move.
Death Cab for Cutie main man Ben Gibbard has a new side project, Just Jazzin’, which sounds a lot better than the latest DCfC single.
ThinkGeek sells crazy items only slightly more dweebish than what they usually sell.
Science Magazine announces President Bush wants to be friends with science.
Butterfinger has a new name.
So, turns out the Pasta Hut thing is real…..uhhhhh, RICKROLL.
Thank goodness North By Northwestern didn’t decieve its readers today.