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I really like April Fool’s Day on the Internet.

March 31st, 2008 | Tags:

The net always seems to have a damn good sense of how to do “cheeky and fun” on the 1st of April. Today’s highlights:

Youtube (and uk.youtube.com) - all the featured video links take you somewhere you’ve probably already been
Slashdot always posts the most shocking news stories today. For a second there I thought that story about Rambus winning their patent litigation was fake, but unfortunately it was real. Hopefully it’ll get funny later.
Wowhead looks curiously like something else.
Thinkgeek is “selling” caffeinated cereal and Youtube-enabled tasers. I’m thinking about ordering the Betamax-to-HDDVD transfer machine. Sounds useful.
Woot is wooting off, but something seems curious.
Gmail introduces new feature allowing you to custom-date email. Create your own alibi. That’s useful.
April Fool’s Day on the Web (warning: lots of dupes, they don’t seem to be tracking well) and This SA Forums thread appear to be tracking some of the highlights.