Colin Harrington

Its been a fun April 1st 2008!  I’ve Rick Rolled (definition) numerous people, and still have a friend believing that my wife and I are pregnant (right after talking about April Fools jokes.)  But my measly measures aren’t fit to stand up to some of the grandiose pranks out there today.

My Favorites have been (So far)

• YouTube’s Mass Rick Roll
  All of the Featured videos on the home page redirect to Rick Astley’s video
• BBC’s Video and story on flying penguins
• Digg’s Random Math symbols,
  I didn’t know it was possible to have an imaginary number of diggs ( I got the "¡" symbol when I dugg the story).  Infinite number of Diggs would probably do a number on any server.
• IGN’s "The Legend of Zelda" movie
  This one took the cake in my book.   Why does this have to be fake?  I want it to be real.  I would go see this movie.  I wrote on Jake Good’s Blog: "Maybe the joke is that it is not an Joke? Haha they got me!! (right?) Either way that is a lot of good work for an April fools gag."

Last year I had my wife up in arms over Goole’s TiSP.  She refused to allow a cable to hang in the toilet.  By the end I was trying to give it away by saying, "its only available today April 1st 2007."  It took a while but she eventually calmed down and laughed about it with me.

Happy April Fools Day!