All April Fools' Day Jokes on the Web Are Here (so they don't clutter HN)

[snprbob86]

Every year some people complain about all the april fools jokes "cluttering" HN.

Sheesh people, it's one day a year. It's fun. If you don't like fun, don't visit HN for a day or two. Hell, it's the weekend. Go outside. Come back on Monday. You won't miss anything. And no one will miss you. Promise.

[demallien]

Plus, this year it's _Sunday_! I mean seriously, do we need to be super-productive every single day of the year? And for those that want to make a slippery slope argument, I'd just like to say that April's Fools holds a very special place in geek life - it's pretty much the only day of the year that being original and whacky actually gets us applause anther than condemnation. It's practically the Geek Nation national holiday, so let us have some fun!

[three14]

This site actually works better than HN for this list, though.

[marknutter]

But it's not fun. It's played out.

[zerostar07]

I agree with the sentiment, but this list helps so that you don't miss any good ones that may not make it to the frontpage

[est]

Yeah let's celebrate Fourth of July on HN too, because it's also once per year.

[rms]

http://www.reddit.com is setting a new standard.

[ch0wn]

They are basically crowdsourcing their April's fools day joke. Genius.

[tokenadult]

My all time favorite is still the BBC story about the spaghetti harvest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/new...

[michaelbuckbee]

Joke is (mildly) on the BBC, growing up we would always have spaghetti squash growing in the garden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_squash

[InclinedPlane]

If this page didn't look like something out of geocities in 1998 I might consider using it. :P

[michaelbuckbee]

I thought this too, but (seriously) wondered if that was part of the joke.

[reitzensteinm]

Also great: Adobe to charge developers per line of Actionscript code

http://www.8bitrocket.com/2012/03/31/adobe-to-charge-develop...

[fruchtose]

I like the Toshiba joke myself. I didn't imagine that Toshiba would join in on April Fool's Day, but I like the idea of an oblong tablet.

[zarify]

The trouble with the Toshiba video is a) you'd really have to check the date; and b) it'd probably sell more than most of the other tablets out there.

(That said, I looked at the Rhombus and thought to myself "hey, that corner makes it look really easy to hold comfortably", and I cried to myself a little inside.)

[mehulkar]

Isn't Toshiba a joke every day of the year?

[guylhem]

I for one welcome the new gopher overlords of tuxfamily.org as announced on linuxfr.org (french slashdot like site)! Even better - I opened my own gopher server on guylhem.org as part of a "retro" project a few weeks ago ;-)

Quite fun to do, but good documentation to create a good looking gopher server is still lacking in 2012.

[bennesvig]

I love this: The littlest iPod Nano case http://www.padandquill.com/cases-for-iphone-ipod-touch/the-l...

[gdubs]

This one is off-topic, but the first one that had me for a second: http://www.criterion.com/films/28373-kindergarten-cop

[Ryanmf]

"Related Films" on that page might have been the first April Fools "joke" I actually laughed at today.

[malkia]

http://google-au.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/google-street-roo-e...

[PaperclipTaken]

Every April first I am afraid to go on the internet, because some people are so effective at making their April Fool's Day jokes subtle that I'm quite afraid I'll read some great or horrible story that's a joke and not understand it's a joke, or even worse that I'll read some great or horrible story and think it's a joke when it's actually reality.

It's good to have a laugh, but it's too mainstream/common for me to really be comfortable taking anything seriously.

[jeffool]

Google Tap actually had me laughing. Especially "Todd Smith"'s wisdom. "You can tap in the morning. You can tap it at night."

[meow]

This is just an example of how not to do an April fools day joke. These guys are posting the feedback they collected back to their server which I think is immoral.

http://www.embeddedmarket.com/Gift-For-Feedback.asp

[parkov]

Here's a fun one: Replace LESS and SASS with MORE.

http://morecss.org/

[c16]

AdBlock Plus is showing me pictures of cats rather than ads. Not sure how you'd add that to the list.

[69_years_and]

It got me - I thought Squid had dropped the ball (because cat pics were turning up in the most unusual places and context) and restarted it :)

[Sami_Lehtinen]

Don't forget new Google Cloud API which allows you to manage Clouds of course. http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/04/google-cloud-api...

[thinkbohemian]

I appreciate the link, love the concept, can you do me a favor and turn off table borders, and go to http://www.colourlovers.com/ & use it. Thanks again for the idea.

[Mahh]

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/multitask.html Really liked this one since we all try to multitask all the time(and fail context switching)

[cm127]

I really like the Google Maps gag. I hope it will still be an option after today.

[mehulkar]

Looks like geeks will make it rain before rappers do...

[Teapot]

Today is a good day to promote any low-quality site, since everyone Clicks on everything expecting to get a quick laugh.

And then they find out there was no joke. But they still got FOOLED.