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April Fool's Day 2006

April 1, 2006 › Sandy McMurray | comment

The pranksters have been hard at work, putting together April Fool's jokes to surprise and amuse.

Here's a roundup of some of the jokes:
 • new iPod ad is visible from space
 • NBC public service announcements from The Office
 • ThinkGeek selling caffeine inhalers and wireless extension cords
 • Blizzard Entertainment's new restaurant chain, BurgerCraft
 • Steve Jobs freed from captivity (That explains Apple & Intel!)
 • Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble announces new job at Google
 • Google Romance appears to be a joke, but Gmail was launched on April 1.
 • Microsoft buys MS Office competitor OpenOffice.org
 • HomeStar is upside down!
 • blogging tools WordPress and TextPattern merged to create WordPattern
 • Xbox 360 now fully compatible with older Xbox games (ha!)
 • GameSpot announces World of Starcraft
 • 3D Realms finally releases video game Duke Nukem Forever!
 • Huh? Corporation. (Not a new joke, but it's still funny.)

This might be a good place to mention the TechStuff Store, where you can find a great selection of the best gadgets known to man.

Wikipedia has a complete list of 2006 April Fool's jokes

You might also have heard that Microsoft plans to delay the release of Windows Vista until 2007. That's not an April Fool's joke. That one is true.

See also:
 • April Fool's Day 2004
 • Well-known April Fool's Day hoaxes

April 1, 2006 › Sandy McMurray | comment on this item

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