April Fool's

[Kanada Kev]

Well, with a couple of weak efforts here :bonghit: there have been a few other attempts made today that are making the rounds. Check some of them out here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/01/april-fools-2010-the-best_n_521301.html

Some are close to the truth though

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-04-01-mcdonalds-scraps-composting-program-food-decompose/

Check out what happened to http://www.urlesque.com/

Some great stuff at College Humor too http://www.collegehumor.com/

New Starbucks coffee sizes http://www.starbucks.com/blog/10113/starbucks-listens-to-customer-request-for-more-sizes.aspx

[larry_llama]

oh those whimsical moustaches:

http://www.chow.com/blog/2010/04/dph-mustache-net-crackdown-in-cobble-hill/

[SaggyBalls]

(NEWSER) – Dozens of Glenn Beck fans who emerged from an event at the University of Central Florida to find their cars gone say they were the victims of a fraternity prank. They followed signs directing them toward free parking, only to later discover that their cars had been towed from a Kappa Sigma parking lot. The 53 Beck fans had to shell out $125 each at the impound lot.

The owner of the tow company says it was his busiest day ever. The Beck fans believe it was definitely a set-up, motivated either by dislike of Beck or greed. "Maybe they have a deal with the tow truck company, or maybe they got kickbacks under the table," one motorist told WFTV. Kappa Sigma members declined to comment.

[bradm]

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Aloha,

Brad

[Kanada Kev]

(NEWSER) – Dozens of Glenn Beck fans who emerged from an event at the University of Central Florida to find their cars gone say they were the victims of a fraternity prank. They followed signs directing them toward free parking, only to later discover that their cars had been towed from a Kappa Sigma parking lot. The 53 Beck fans had to shell out $125 each at the impound lot.

The owner of the tow company says it was his busiest day ever. The Beck fans believe it was definitely a set-up, motivated either by dislike of Beck or greed. "Maybe they have a deal with the tow truck company, or maybe they got kickbacks under the table," one motorist told WFTV. Kappa Sigma members declined to comment.

HAHAHAHAHA!!! Love it. And it is NOT an APRIL FOOL's joke from what I gather:

http://news.google.ca/news/more?q=glenn+beck+towed&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=u0P&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&resnum=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=d-E-sHyZXSuA45MqP319qAx-yoGEM&ei=Yuq0S7C8JYL7lweq84Fd&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&cd=1&resnum=1&ved=0CC8QqgIoADAA

[Kanada Kev]

[Kanada Kev]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Edited April 1, 2010 by Guest

[TheAlphaNerd]

[YearsAlongTheSea]

[bouche]

I went to gmail today and noticed that there weren't any vowels. It took me a while to realize that it was an April Fools gag.

At 6:01 am Pacific Time, during routine maintenance at one of our datacenters, the frontend web servers in that particular datacenter started failing to render the letter 'a' for a subset of users. As error rates escalated, the strain spread to other datacenters. We worked quickly to avoid a cascading failure of the entire alphabet by implementing a stopgap solution that limited the damage to the letters 'a,' 'e,' 'i,' 'o,' and 'u.' As a result, we're experiencing Gmail’s first temporary vowel outage. (We’re still investigating whether the letter 'y' is impacted and will post an update here shortly.)