Larissa Meek

Apr

2009

April Fool’s Day 2009

at 12:48pm posted by: larissa

Its seems there has been a surge in April Fool’s day jokes on the web this year. As stumble upon them today I will update this page. In case you were wondering about the origins of April Fool’s day you can read about it here.

Here are a few so far:

YouTube made their site upside-down. Click any YouTube video to see the neck-breaking effect.
Wanner Brother’s buys Pirate Bay – Warner Brothers once sent Pirate Bay letters to take down movies.
Joopal – Joopal is a new CMS featuring the power of objects offered to you by Joomla! with the immense hook system delivered to you by Drupal.
Fly to Mars for only $99 - This one is from Expedia. I’m impressed they took part in the fun!
Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity – from Google.
Gmail Autopiliot – from Google. An email system that answers for you. Hilarious.
Opera Face Gestures - Hahahaha! Imagine if we were all doing this on a daily basis. It seems like it would be a face workout.
Whole Foods is selling Organic Air - I’ll take 2 please.
The Guardian stops printing and will only Twitter – Consolidating its position at the cutting edge of new media technology, the Guardian today announces that it will become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter.
Google Chrome with 3D - you can print 3D glasses at home and enjoy 3D browsing!
Sqeezable Bacon - just because I LOVE bacon.
reddit.com – redesign to look like Digg… Redigg!!!
Breaking: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Leaked – Smasing Magazine joins the fun.
Woot Sells “Random Crap” – shipping is only + $1,000,000.00.
Smellr – it’s like Flickr but for your nose.

Possibly not a Joke:

The Conficker Worm - Conficker is or is not an April Fool’s joke, depending on who you believe. Whatever the case, you had better protect yourself anyway. Here is a Last Minute Conficker Survival Guide.

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6 Comments

1. Adam Petrie… | April 1st, 2009 at 1:28 pm

Great list! You missed Lulu Lemon

http://www.lululemon.com/shop/

Unless its not a joke?
2. aronil… | April 1st, 2009 at 1:39 pm

My fav out of the bunch has got to be the youtube and pirate bay being bought out lol. I totally forgot today was April Fools Day :S
3. larissa… | April 1st, 2009 at 1:47 pm

I love WholeFoods the most! Talk about commitment! They used a huge chunk of their homepage real estate to fool people. :)
4. David… | April 1st, 2009 at 2:24 pm

Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails has a great one up on his site:
http://www.nin.com/strobelight/
5. Aronil - April Fools Day… | April 2nd, 2009 at 5:25 am

[...] Instead I was reminded that it was April Fools Day by checking out my twitter. Larissa Meek had shared a bunch of hilarious April Fools Jokes that were found online and not to mention created by popular names known on the web. You can see her original post here. [...]
6. Frothy Afterbirth… | April 9th, 2009 at 7:41 pm

I like J&D’s Bacon Salt failed April Fool’s attempt to hoodwink people with their new baconlube product. Only that the emails they received afterward all came from people who are serious about wanting to be beta testers. So much so that the company might rethink a new strategy and actually make baconlube a reality. There seems to be a strong market for more bedroom antics with the smell and taste for bacon. Who knew this could be an actual fetish.
http://www.baconsaltblog.com/

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