April Fools

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April Fools

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Wikipedia and Google joined in the fun with a few practical jokes.

Wikipedia:

A Japanese multinational conglomerate (headquarters pictured) investigates how some of its customers were accidentally sent back in time to the year 1999.
The Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay evades authorities in St. Petersburg.
The Russian Federation shrinks the country in time after a much-discussed Presidential decree.
A member of the Rothschild banking family of England heads for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch on a boat made from 12,000 plastic bottles.
If you are reading this, the latest record-breaking experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have not yet caused the end of the world as we know it.
:lol:

Did you know...
From Wikipedia's newest articles:

... that researchers have identified the pictured life form which no longer lives on this planet?
... that The Queen was captured by the Germans in 1916?
... that a rain of blood in Germany foreshadowed the coming of the Black Death?
... that James Brown flew an F-22 Raptor and survived a fuel leak while traveling at almost the speed of sound?
... that despite dying in battle and being beheaded, Máel Brigte of Moray still managed to kill his opponent Sigurd the Mighty, a 10th-century Earl of Orkney, as he rode home afterwards?
... that the Duke of Edinburgh won a recorded 95% of the vote in a Greek head of state election, but was never appointed?
... that Martin Van Buren was over twenty feet wide?
... that residents of Castleford, England, were incensed when their council tried to eliminate Tickle Cock?
... that the citizens of Picoazá, Ecuador, elected foot powder as their mayor?

Google with Animal Translate

Introducing Translate for Animals (beta): Bridging the gap between animals and humans.
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Screen shot for when its removed:
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I24bSteJpw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw1IRzY7pvY[/youtube]

What a lovely day its been :P
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Re: April Fools

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Youtube has a nice one. Go on a video and where you pick the resolution pick TEXTp. Converts the video to ascii art :D
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Re: April Fools

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Actually, Google have two, as they own youtube now.
FLASH - Epic

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actually 3, its called topeka now not google :)
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4, you can use google wave by waving.

5, you can put street view in 3d and I think books too.

6, when sesrching it would say 1 - 100000 in 0.2 seconds then (4 lamb tails) had different ones like hertz and parsecs
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The Street view 3d is real, i tried it. :P . They have a history of releasing stuff on April fools day to attract more attention, just like they did with Gmail, and people thought it was a hoax cause they were offering a Gb of storage, thankfully it wasnt a hoax. :P
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Indeed suppose it doesn't really count at a prank point is it what was released :P

And yeah, hard to remember times when 1gb of email space was like :O and almost unehard of.
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