April Fool’s Day Round Up

April 1st, 2007

I thought about doing my own April Fool’s post (something about guest bloggers destroying this site, landing a full time job blogging for John Edwards, or quitting blogging to stay in Japan at a Zen monestary) but decided against it since jet lag is the mother of all procrastination aides and has a way of making written sarcasm sound cruel.

Instead, I settled on offering up a collection of my favorite April Fool articles of the day. I’ll continue updating it throughout the day. Have fun:

• Robert Scoble spies an Apple executive using an iReader, a hardware reader for eBooks.
• TechCrunch buys F***ed Company because the end of the boom is near.
• ShoeMoney closed down his own site.
• Gmail now supports paper.
• Jajah buys Vonage.
• John Chow gives up blogging to travel around the world.
• Casey Serin buys a million shares. The comments are the real hilarity (as usual).
• Google announces TiSP: Free WiFi.
• Paris Lemon has a cool April Fool’s roundup.
• Valleywag Hates April Fool’s Day. Makes sense when you consider they pretty much do satire every day.
• This better be April Fools: No Cat Day At Google. Ever.
• Slashdot added a new feature: Slashdotit!: allowing readers to rank stories, Digg style.
• Some seriously nerdy fantasy products at Think Geek.
• Twitter related startup.

If you can’t get enough, check out Wikpedia’s list o’ Foolish Pranks (hat tip Rex Hammock) or this awesomely comprehensive list of all things Fool at urgo.org.