April Fools Stories in the News | The Coffeehouse

pathfinder
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Post any news stories that you read today that seem to good to be true and have to be an April Fools Joke.

I am going to start with the Intel announcement for a new type of memory, Phase Change Memory (PCM). After 38 years? Yeah right.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2008/tc20080331_498434.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top+stories

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9906755-7.html?tag=nefd.pop

jamie

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/31/pregnant-man-new-photos-_n_94250.html

pathfinder
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

http://www.google.com/virgle/

Isshou

pathfinder wrote:
I am going to start with the Intel announcement for a new type of memory, Phase Change Memory (PCM). After 38 years? Yeah right.

Maybe you want to research better and have followed news about PCM before April 1st (March 31st actually the date for those articles)

PCM on Wiki

First research was released in 1970 (patent was officially submitted in the 60s)

GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!

pathfinder wrote:
http://www.google.com/virgle/

Virgle wrote:
Crew members will communicate with these machines via an auditory Holistic Artificial Language interface visually mediated by a glowing red light.

hehe. I'll be giving that ship a miss.

GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!

pathfinder wrote:
Post any news stories that you read today that seem to good to be true and have to be an April Fools Joke.

I am going to start with the Intel announcement for a new type of memory, Phase Change Memory (PCM). After 38 years? Yeah right.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2008/tc20080331_498434.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top+stories

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9906755-7.html?tag=nefd.pop

Not as good as this.

GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7320000/newsid_7324100?redirect=7324112.stm&news=1&bbram=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1&nbwm=1&asb=1

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GoddersUK wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7320000/newsid_7324100?redirect=7324112.stm&news=1&bbram=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1&nbwm=1&asb=1

That's great. Probably the last place I expected to see an April Fool's joke, too.

Isshou

Reuters has a good list of them (some links spread about):
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSSYD22842820080401

from there: Google Australia will present the first 100% accurate web data from the future:
http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html

GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!

Live Writer no more?

GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!

10 stories that could be April Fools... but aren't

evildictaitor
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CannotResolveSymbol wrote:

GoddersUK wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7320000/newsid_7324100?redirect=7324112.stm&news=1&bbram=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1&nbwm=1&asb=1

That's great. Probably the last place I expected to see an April Fool's joke, too.

I love the way the BBC is forced to write "This is an April Fool"

JohnAskew
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I heard on Minneapolis' public radio that a Fool's Day prank reported that a border town in Northern Minnisota had been sold to Canada; credible details abounded, and a website created and referenced for reporting dismay by current residents was actually used before the ruse was up.