YouTube is doing a thing where all (?) videos can be watched in a new "green" resolution mode: Text!

 

Google seems to have changed its name to "Topeka".

 

What else?

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The Astronomy Picture of the Day is a good one:

 

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100401.html

University of Dallas successfully clones beloved icon

 

Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future

 

Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin. "Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."

Some good ones on World of Warcraft. I especially liked this.

 

Also, if you like 4chan's /v/ you might want to check out their background music...

Google Translate for Animals

Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretaps Were Illegal

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Also, a city in Kansas has renamed itself "Google, Kansas", and in response Google has renamed itself Topeka

Science, Nature Team Up on New Journal

 

The first issue:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/assets/2010/04/01/natscicover_20100401.png

Pity I haven't come up with any good ones for SFN today.

Pity I haven't come up with any good ones for SFN today.

 

Yeah... the fact that SFN is closing down is for real.

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very funny

Nice avatar you have there.

XKCD did a pretty sweet one. He should keep it like that.

omgponies, damn you Cap'n!

omgponies, damn you Cap'n!

The funny part is, he rigged it so each staff member only sees his own name and avatar change. Everyone else looks OK.

 

Clever rascal.

omgponies, damn you Cap'n!

 

That's hilarious....and your avatar matches!

omgponies, damn you Cap'n!

 

It could be worse.

 

I could've used teletubbies.

It could be worse.

 

I could've used teletubbies.

 

love it! I think i'll keep the avatar

one april fool that has gone unnoticed for centuries, the ridiculous middle-endian date format.

 

the originators didn't suspect that it would gain widespread use except in a few specialised circumstances

i got a laugh out of this: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

The Vatican's apology was a pretty good april fool.

Wi Fit euthanized my Mii

What's this about the avatar?

That's pretty tame compared to what happened on deviantART... Twilight avatars and signatures everywhere, oh the horror!

 

There was a hilarious one on the local newspaper about changing city area roadsigns to a more multicultural design, from this:

 

to this:

 

Oh you, religion! It's funny because it could be true. Political correctness gone mad and all that.