April Fool's Day 2009

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.