April Fools' 2010 Roundup

[Viruzzo]

Watch the Cow video from Google's Animal Translate for an extra easter egg.
Also http://www.wowwiki.com has a simple one (takes a bit to notice).

 

[Abedeus]

xkcd's April's Fool is awesome, while some comics can't be fully viewed like this, you can view single stripes, few at a time.

Matchmaking and Cain GPS are also awesome ;d

Oh God, I just watched the Elcor sex scene... Dear God, it was so bad, it was awesome.

 

[deus-ex-machina]

I don't know if anyone has noticed it yet, but at least in the UK, Youtube's top left corner image has been made out of text and certain videos are able to be made out of 'TEXTp' which they claim saves them $1 a minute.

This is the only one I've been able to find so far (sorry it's NDubz) but just select the resolution option.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0QFLZCH3FI&playnext_from=TL&videos=6351Pb0kkVU&feature=grec

 

[coldfrog]

Oh my god, WEBRINGS!

really, there's nothing more to say here.

 

[twaddle]

the sarlac class is fucking hilarious!

 

[Volucer]

Thinkgeek has a lot other jokes, my favourite being Canned Unicorn Meat... Magic in every taste!

I saw them too, wish the Dharma Alarm Clock one was real though...damn you april fools and your fake products!

 

[Irridium]

Bungie just released a fake VIDOC for Halo: Reach.

Link: Fake VIDOC [http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=25354]

Direct Video..:

hehe, that was good.

I love bungie...

 

[andrat]

The Sarlacc, hilarious.

 

[Double A]

Guys, check Wikipedia. It's freaking great.

 

[hmaugans]

Rate Rush, a financial website, is offering lunar lander insurance now. Hah!
http://www.raterush.com

 

[Dr. Paine]

Deviant Art has replaced the avatars and signatures of all members with one of four things:

Team Gaga (Lady Gaga stuff)

Team Seeker (Legend of the Seeker?)

And of course, Teams Edward and Jacob.

Pretty entertaining, I'm on Team Seeker (thank god.)

 

[silversun101]

I want that Monolith toy to be real. Also, I think Bollywood just improved Halo.

 

[Kaltazraza]

Awesome lets fill us up with green unknown substance Yay.

 

[buggy65]

(Have we missed one? Of course we have - post a link in the comments thread!)

You missed off the huge numbers of people getting banned.
Well at least we're hoping that's April Foolery.

*runs and hides*

Edit: The XKCD [http://xkcd.com/] webcomic has a good one, though you'd only really find all of it funny if you're a fan.

I've noticed that xkcd's site responds to 'cat','help', 'man', and 'ping'. What others can you guys find?

 

[Anacortian]

homestarrunner.com has an... update.

maddox.xmission.com says it will have an update. It won't.

 

[evilomega13]

Bioware annnounced a new class in The Old Rebublic, Saarlac Enforcer (He has a laser ray): http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20100401_001
Oh, and deviantART changed everyones avatars and signitures into twilight related stuff. Needless to say that pissed me off more than a bit...

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

(Have we missed one? Of course we have - post a link in the comments thread!)

You missed off the huge numbers of people getting banned.
Well at least we're hoping that's April Foolery.

*runs and hides*

Edit: The XKCD [http://xkcd.com/] webcomic has a good one, though you'd only really find all of it funny if you're a fan.

I've noticed that xkcd's site responds to 'cat','help', 'man', and 'ping'. What others can you guys find?

you can do "Go west" for ages, along with "Make me a sandwich" and "Sudo make me a sandwich"

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Can someone please tell me the origins of April Fools day? Also some of these april fools jokes are pretty kick ass, like the DIablo III body pillow

 

[lomylithruldor]

There's a new kind of really fast database described on the daily WTF: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Announcing-APDB-The-Worlds-Fastest-Database.aspx [http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Announcing-APDB-The-Worlds-Fastest-Database.aspx]

a database using javascript as an interface that has direct access to the hard drive of the DB by using the address on the disk. I don't think there's a less secure way to access a DB.