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I’ll be staying up late tonight to watch the beginning of April 1st 2011 and have some fun looking at all the great April Fools Days pranks on the web.
Be on the lookout for updates but I think you can expect something from a few repeat offenders:
Woot.com, Thinkgeek.com, and even Google.com
It’s been a few years since I’ve covered April Fools Day web pranks but you can check out a few older posts and you can also rank this year’s pranks at aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com
Updates – Here we GO!
> Google Romance: “… you’ll live happily, and contextually, ever after.”
> ThinkGeek’s products are up! – Get an “I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords” shirt with $15 purchase. My favorite of the bunch – Angry Birds Pork Rinds:
> All YouTube videos can now be played in 1911 silent mode – about time, the talkies ruined everything! Maybe not available on all of them though.
> Looking for some good pranks? Looks like you can change someone’s Google’s language preference to Elmer Fudd or their Facebook to Pirate-English! Details@ USAToday.com
> Update 12:47am EST – Time to head over to see what Woot! has coming up at 1am EST! Usually there is a bag of crap around – read carefully! Get your credit cards ready!
> Ok So Woot is making you complete game levels as their smart post snail delivering Bags of Crap to earn your April Fools Day bag of crap- I think I grabbed one but the site is acting funky for me so we’ll see. Avoid the obstacles and shoot the packages with your spacebar, but only shoot into the houses wondering where their BOC has gotten off to!
- Looks like they are trying to fix the funky, as an FYI you the BoC are broken into segments, one allotment per game level. Looks like I got off easy and snagged a level 1 Crap, keep playing and level up to get the higher level craps… and let me just say HAHA that snail is sloooooowwww :-p
-And it’s back – you’ll need flash to play if you are having problems make sure you are up to date and flash is not blocked!
- Get your Crap? Brag about it over in the Deals.Woot Community Section ( I’m Tygerdave – say hello!)
> Kodak is touting their new app, Relationshiffft! - “Status change? Don’t delete…Relationshiffft! Photo and video person purge helps you move on.”
> Nerd Comic xkcd goes 3D – The joke will be on you when you puke after the 45 seconds… (also seems to have broken image linking on newer comics so you’ll have to go yourself)
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- The Best Tech-Related April Fools’ Day Pranks (cultofmac.com)
The name speaks for itself so the website doesn’t have to, freeing me up to have a little extra fun. I hope you will enjoy it and I hope you will try to do something unexpectedly nice on Friday well!
http://www.dosomethingunexpectedlyniceforsomeonejustbecauseday.info
March forth on March fourth and do good things!
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Here be ye Piratey online booty fer International Talk Like a Pirate Day:
- Ye Official Site
- Get yer Pirate name
- Arrr Lern ye some Pirate phrases an Pirate jokes an th’like
- English to Pirate TranslatoRRRrrrrrrr
- Set yer spyglass on some fellow buccaneers on flickARRRRRRRR
- See where the scurvey dogs at Google add Pirate translation t’avoid walkin’ the plank!
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! I’ll be updatin’ if I find ye some more treasures, now back to yer stations ye dirty sea dogs!
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Not only is he pregnant but he’s having 70 babies! That’s not humanly possible you say? Well you’re right, the father in question here is a Weedy Sea Dragon at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. If you’re in Atlanta you should swing by and take a look at this amazing father and all the other wonderful exhibits, if you aren’t in Atlanta then you can still swing by the aquarium website to learn more and see a video.
Happy RSS Awareness Day! If you don’t know about RSS and “feeds”, then today is the day to educate yourself! Head over to RSSDay.info to learn more about the day and to find a few links to get you started. Otherwise if you are a sometimes RSS Reader or a heavy “feeder” then you really should check out the Toluu sharing and suggestion service to take your RSS game to the next level. Toluu is still in beta but I have invites, just leave a comment on my interview with the founder of Toluu, Caleb Elston, letting me know you’re interested.
We’re just a few weeks away from RSS Awareness Day (May 1st). Given the proximity to my own birthday and my love of made up tech holidays (Programmer Day) I couldn’t pass up the chance to mention it. To celebrate I suggest that you get some RSS Suggestions from Toluu.com and expand your RSS reading. To get an invite to Toluu all you have to do is read our recent interview with Toluu Founder, Caleb Elston and leave a comment expressing your interest!
As a side note I feel the need to confess that my domain name addiction has resurfaced. GoDaddy’s $0.99 .info domains have lured me in and I’ve purchased RSSDay.Info, at the time of this posting only the blog is up but check back next week and hopefully I’ll have made some progress.
And you want to know what it means, you want it decrypted and according to my post title you think I’ve got the answer…
I Don’t :-p
*UPDATE: Thanks to Knetwork Reader Frank for posting the needed cypher (ROT13). The text BUJUNGNSBBYVNZ decrypts to OHWHATAFOOLIAM or Oh What A Fool I Am. And as an extra bonus I’m not going to kill you now that I told you!
Happy April Fool’s Day! I’ll tell you what I would suggest, order yourself $20 worth of goods, get the shirt free, and maybe they will give you the decryption key. Of course it’s entirely possible that the shirt doesn’t decrypt to anything or that if someome tells you what it means, they’d kill you. If you’re going to order something I suggest that you pick up a USB Rocket Launcher. You know you want to…
