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It's April Fools' Day

Figures that the first have time to actually sit down and look for news is April Fools' Day, where most of the information I find is simply, well, untrue. Funny, but untrue.

One site publisher I know actually said that rant (although I say that did a nice way) about it, complaining that April fool's stories should not be posted in the form that normally contains real news, even if they are clearly labeled as such. He is right that these things tend to perpetuate for a long time, and they are read long after April 1, when people aren't thinking to check the date when they read something like China buys Google, or U.S. bill to adopt Shire Reckoning calendar. he also pointed out that April Fools' Day is not celebrated everywhere in the world, which could cause problems for some international readers. But still, I'd be getting a good laugh out of a lot of the stories I've been reading today. Here are some examples:

The Truth with Jokes (which I have to admit I particularly enjoy due to the contacts I've had with the Apache Software Foundation recently)
FORGET DRAGONS! TIME FOR PONIES!!!1! (about a new My Pretty Pony role-playing game)
SQL on Rails Launched
Microsoft Buys OpenOffice.org
New Plans From Lucasfilm ("Now that the cycle of films is done, we can finally broaden the Star Wars franchise into marketing niches we'd heretofore avoided, and adult entertainment is at the top of our list." and "George Lucas has announced that Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox will offer free 'replacement DVDs' to anyone who mails in pre-Special Edition VHS and Laserdisc copies of Star Wars episodes IV, V, and VI by April 30th.")
Here There Be Dragons
Email Harvester Launches, Turns Down $750 Million Offer
Emo Programming: Beyond agile and pragmatic

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