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April Fool’s wrap-up

Ok, so you were disconnected from the *real* world yesterday and you have not seen the hundreds of April fools’ jokes around the internet. Here is a wrap-up, no particular order, just a fun list if you missed any.

• BBC’s Flying Penguins (yeap, you read it right)
• Westjet announces it would convert its overhead compartments into sleeper  cabins



• TechCrunch sues Facebook for 25m$, and Reuter’s coverage of the lawsuit
• New startup Lunar Laboratories launches ‘Third Life’ Virtual World, Grabs $15M
• Google was productive: Google Wake Up, Google Airplane, Virgine + Google = Virgle, Google Custom Time, Google Future Search, Google Book Search now supports reproducing the smell of scratch-and-sniff based books, OpenGoogle, Orkut became Yogurt, …
• ThinkGeek launches a Betamax to HD-DVD converter

• PC World describes a new Google effort to organize all of human ignorance
• Polar Bear Conservancy 2008 reports a Seattle-based nonprofit is preparing to relocate polar bears to Antarctica to protect them from climate change.
• The Guardian announced Carla Bruni, France’s First Lady, will head a government initiative to improve style amongst Britons.
• The Sun Newspaper reported that Nicolas Sarkozy was to enter surgery to make him as tall as his wife, Carla Bruni, after being subject to ridicules over his height during his trip to London in March 2008.
• PizzaHut acquired PastaHut and renamed itself. Press Release here

I don’t know if this one has been done on this April 1st but I love #3 on cnn.com top ten list:

All the women in the office individually spoke to the president, confiding that she is pregnant. By noon, he ‘knew’ that all of his female workers were pregnant and he could not tell anyone because each asked for confidentially.

Not enough? check out the complete list for 2008 on wikipedia