Instead of saturating the frontpage with April Fool's pranks, why don't we keep all the jokes under this thread?<p>It works just like a subpage for just April Fool's pranks.<p>* Submit your link with comment.
From Google,<p>* Google Nose: <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/nose/help.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/nose/help.html</a><p>* Gmail Blue: <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/promos/blue/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/promos/blue/index....</a><p>Edit: Gmail Tap removed.
April Fools on the Python bugtracker<p>#17587 Have all core library modules imported by default<p><a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue17587" rel="nofollow">http://bugs.python.org/issue17587</a>
INTERCAL on Interstates <a href="http://www.intercaloninterstates.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.intercaloninterstates.org/</a><p>Stackoverflow rolls out "Chat with an expert" <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5470570" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5470570</a>
Youtube on the selection of a winner: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H542nLTTbu0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H542nLTTbu0</a>
If you can get access to someone's iPhone for 30 seconds you can install a web app that looks just like the iPhone interface but with various surprises when anything is pressed.<p><a href="http://www.iphoneception.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.iphoneception.com</a>
Google Analytics - Visits from The International Space Stations: <a href="http://carlsednaoui.com/post/46805160838/google-analytics-happy-april-fool" rel="nofollow">http://carlsednaoui.com/post/46805160838/google-analytics-ha...</a>
Some awesome CSS for messing up your colleagues' browsing experience for April Fool's day: <a href="https://github.com/wesbos/aprilFools.css" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/wesbos/aprilFools.css</a>
Lambda the Ultimate is moving to Facebook: <a href="http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4709" rel="nofollow">http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4709</a>
stereotypical job ad for a startup<p>probably by 500 startups<p><a href="http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/sof/3715368374.html" rel="nofollow">http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/sof/3715368374.html</a><p>saw it posted on YC jobs
I put this one together. I tried to be pretty blatantly obvious but some people still bought it.<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com.2013.04.01.supreme.court.settles.marriage.debate.ausaliwvpqqervzubufoolahahaiamwaxon.viewthesource.org/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnn.com.2013.04.01.supreme.court.settles.marriage...</a>
I've been keeping a list of every website that puts up an april fools' day joke since 2004. Here's the 2013 list (submit to here if you like too) <a href="http://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/2013.html" rel="nofollow">http://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/2013.html</a>
Charlie Stross goes into movie production<p><a href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/04/press-release-stross-uncloaks-.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/04/press-re...</a>
Google Japan has one on character input methods:
<a href="http://googlejapan.blogspot.jp/2013/04/google-patapata.html" rel="nofollow">http://googlejapan.blogspot.jp/2013/04/google-patapata.html</a><p>And Kotaku is not late to the party either:
<a href="http://kotaku.com/tiny-nintendo-consoles-made-out-of-lego-464803244" rel="nofollow">http://kotaku.com/tiny-nintendo-consoles-made-out-of-lego-46...</a>
We did Goal Tracking by Mail and we're actually honoring these.<p><a href="http://blog.lift.do/post/46554731666/v0-1-goal-tracking-by-mail" rel="nofollow">http://blog.lift.do/post/46554731666/v0-1-goal-tracking-by-m...</a><p>People seem to want an Android version of Lift, but we thought a nice, high-res paper version would do more to increase our reach.
Last year I uploaded an empty package to Ubuntu titled "Free Launchpad Karma" -- the idea was that whenever an Ubuntu developer wanted more Launchpad karma points, they could easily file a bug against it, close a bug against it, upload a new version, provide a translation, and so on.
Google Analytics - We were visited from International Space Station - <a href="http://www.merocampus.com/blog/2013/04/01/merocampus-visited-from-international-space-station-google-april-fool-joke" rel="nofollow">http://www.merocampus.com/blog/2013/04/01/merocampus-visited...</a>
Supposedly "Wearing Unerdwear can solve EVERY SINGLE problem you can imagine"<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.293334650798987.1073741827.212072642258522&type=3" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.293334650798987.10...</a>
Google Analytics: Visitors from the International Space Station - Control Room<p><a href="http://nirvanatikku.tumblr.com/post/46833558732/google-analytics-april-fools-day-visitors" rel="nofollow">http://nirvanatikku.tumblr.com/post/46833558732/google-analy...</a>
Just found this thanks to a late night diff eq. problem set:<p><a href="http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/04/01/introducing-the-wolframalpha-handwritten-knowledge-engine/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/04/01/introducing-the-wolf...</a>
Android Dev Portal "Add New Awesome Application"<p><a href="http://nirvanatikku.tumblr.com/post/46785199420/add-new-awesome-application" rel="nofollow">http://nirvanatikku.tumblr.com/post/46785199420/add-new-awes...</a>
The Guardian has announced 'Guardian Goggles'.<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2013/apr/01/guardian-goggles-video" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2013/apr/01/guard...</a>
Google Play - <a href="http://www.fortechiesonly.com/2013/04/google-android-developer-april-fools.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.fortechiesonly.com/2013/04/google-android-develop...</a>
deviantART launches deviantHEART, a dating site for artists: <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviantheart/" rel="nofollow">http://www.deviantart.com/deviantheart/</a>
Everest launches a startup within a startup, code named: Project Pink Elephant
<a href="http://everest.com/about" rel="nofollow">http://everest.com/about</a>
Someone does this every year and the jokes still dominate the front page.<p>Some people get upset about this and some people let those people know that it's not a big deal because it's only one day out of the year.<p>This discussion is repeated on every joke submission.