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Wikipedia Covers April Fool's Hoaxes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the check-out-what-you-missed dept.

vladd_rom writes "Wikipedia maintains an up to date list with April Fools hoaxes from this year. The list already includes hundreds of entries. Among the most popular, one could find Google Romance, a new Google.com project, Google Browser, as well as Yahoo!'s desire to buy all Web 2.0 companies on the web. However, it seems that this year hoaxes will be more interconnected: the wiki page already includes some websites that announced that they have been bought by Yahoo!, and linked to Yahoo!'s blog post from their pages."

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  1. Get Your Pink Ponies Here by dduardo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pink Pony CSS

    1. Re:Get Your Pink Ponies Here by sahrss · · Score: 4, Informative
      .jar file

      For FF 1.5 with Slashdotter 1.2.2 extension. Adds functionality for:
      <3 OMG!!! PONIES!!! <3
      Copy it to replace the one used by the Slashdotter extension in your FF profile files (for Windows users, that's in your Documents and Settings folder.)
  2. Re:Google Romance by BkBen7 · · Score: 2, Informative

    /me remembers that gmail was an april fools joke too......


    Ya never know...

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  3. Re:At least someone has a sense of humor by petermgreen · · Score: 2, Informative

    personally i wasn't too bothered about the fact it was a joke skin, i was bothered that it made links virtually unreadable (even worse than the it.slashdot.org skin).

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  4. Re:Regarding tagging... by Sigma+7 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Prepend a '!' - this is the equivalent of negating a tag.

  5. Re:Google Romance by Zarel · · Score: 2, Informative
    Well, GMail didn't say this:
    The requested URL was not found on this server. This means that you either:

    A. Fell for our April Fool's joke, in which case ha ha, wasn't that amusing and harmless and mostly in good taste and not all psychologically damaging under various and sundry aspects of contemporary tort law, please don't sue us; or

    B. Are genuinely enjoying, or least momentarily tolerating, our April Fool's joke and wanted to surf your way into its every last nook and cranny, in which case

    1. ...ha ha, wasn't that amusing and harmless and mostly in good taste and not all psychologically damaging under various and sundry aspects of contemporary tort law, please don't sue us; and/or

    2. you might want to take a trip down our April Fool's memory lane, here or here or here or here. Enjoy.
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