April Fools gags | The Coffeehouse

daSmirnov

Post some good April Fools links (it is April the 1st for most of the world now).

EA "buy" Oblivion

http://www.oblivionportal.com/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1112313716&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&

Talked about at:

http://forums.gamespot.com/gamespot/show_messages.php?board=314159267&topic=20153485&page=0

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=334887&page=1&pp=15

http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=78627

What other good ones are out there?

The Channel 9 Team
5 guys from Redmond

Hmm, have you watched the Channel 9 videos lately?

Michael Griffiths
Fatalism.

The Channel 9 Team wrote:

Hmm, have you watched the Channel 9 videos lately?

LOL!

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

Steve Jobs to join IKEA: http://www.theregister.com/2005/04/01/steve_jobs_joins_ikea/

Steve411

hahahaha, nice find!

Stitch 2.0
I can feel my brain cells commiting hara-kiri.

scobleizer wrote:
Steve Jobs to join IKEA: http://www.theregister.com/2005/04/01/steve_jobs_joins_ikea/

LOL, just found it too and wanted to post it.... GRR Wink

Tensor
Im in yr house upgrading yr family

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4400535.stm

Stitch 2.0
I can feel my brain cells commiting hara-kiri.

Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/01/bush_twins_volunteer/

Steve411

Stitch 2.0 wrote:
Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/01/bush_twins_volunteer/

We're dead.

Stitch 2.0
I can feel my brain cells commiting hara-kiri.

Steve411 wrote:

Stitch 2.0 wrote: Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/01/bush_twins_volunteer/

We're dead.

yup!

Steve411

In other news, the two were found smoking weed while their base was being attacked. Hrmf, I mean.
Technology can be used in many ways.

Kevin
Kevin Harder

Here's the ones I've seen so far:

wkempf

I like this one: http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/

Bogusrabin

Planet GNOME
Planet KDE

Kevin
Kevin Harder

Found another good one:
Opera Announces Platform-Independent Real-Time Speech Technology

Kevin
Kevin Harder

Ahh, just found the mother of all April Fools 2005 Hoax links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1%2C_2005
Many good ones this year. And lots of space and star trek related ones too in addition to the usual computer related hoaxes!

Jazzynupe

To me this has to be the best one yet...

Microsoft to Release Visual Studio 2005 for Unix/Linux

http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=33023