It's April 1st again and that means there will be stupid pranks, fake news and lots of links that turn out to be RickRolls. Many people are annoyed because April 1st has become overdone on the Internet. There is a lot of truth to this. It can be difficult to determine what is real and what is not. There are also a lot of jokes that suck - but it is only one day and it will be over soon. Below are a few Internet April Fool's Day highlights - both good and bad. If you want a longer list check out Wikipedia's exhausting list of April 1st jokes.
The BBC's Flying Penguin's - this one is the best April Fools' joke out there this year. You can watch the video here or below. The video is also aviable here. This one has been well-received on Twitter.
CNET has TechCrunch acquiring TigerBeat and renaming it CrunchKids.
Google and Sir Richard Branson launched Project Virgle and plan to colonize Mars. See also the Google Blog announcement.
TechCrunch is suing Facebook for $25 million. Meanwhile, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be hosting SNL.
Catch up on your old email with Gmail Custom Time. You can only send mail back in time as far as 2004. "Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality."
ProBlogger has announced the launch of PayPerTweet. Now you can finally make money from all that time you spend on Twitter.
Scribd will scan all your documents and publish them on the Internet for free. (via Boing Boing)
