Okay so I am tentatively going to say that I aim to be posting a bit more. No promises as I am still very busy, but on with it!
So yesterday was April 1st and as usual we saw numerous gags take the blogosphere, some funny, some were so quick you would have missed them. I posted about one on The Global Geek Blog that I found quite humorous. That said I did not go out and hunt them all down. Fortunately a few kind souls have done that for us.
First up The Bloggers Blog has done a nice round up of most of the online pranks that were staged. There were some great ones, I particularly liked the WiiHelm from Think Geek. They always come up with a ripper. I saw one joke from them (I have no idea if it was an April Fool) that detailed a product that was a “wireless extension cord”, very funny. The Geeks there even went to the effort to rig up a demo version and a video for the WiiHelm which had the right amount of stupidity about it.
Wikipedia have compiled a more definitive list of jokes and pranks. This list also includes print, television and audio media. Might also be worth checking the legit stories that were not April Fools gags but were mistaken as such. Always good to know. I just about gave up reading the RSS feeds yesterday as I was begining to think that everything was a joke. Must have been a bad day for news.
Other April Fools 2007 Lists and Resources:
Urgo’s 2007 List of April Fool’s Day Jokes on Websites: Add one if you can not find it
2007 April Fools Jokes by goodstuff: Do the April Fools Jokes Web2.0 style with this tour on Trailfire. It would have been nice if this was a bit more exhaustive, but that would be a huge job to put together. Nice way to see them though, including descriptions.
Have fun and get thinking for next year, maybe your prank will top the lot, might make you famous even.
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