h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

All the featured videos on Youtube's front page are Rick-Rolls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI

Virgin and Google have launched a joint venture named Virgle in order to put a manned colony on Mars.
http://www.google.com/virgle

Game are selling a double bass controller that's compatible with the XBox version of Guitar Hero.
http://www.game.co.uk/CoolStuff/Miscellaneous/~r334349/GAMEware-Double-Bass-Controller/

Apart from the BBC Penguins (available via I-player or youtube) I did spot this one, which would only be interesting to an F1 geek...

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/080401093646.shtml

There was greyhound racing on ice in the BBC Breakfast sports bit. I saw the penguins and it didn't click that it might be a fool

I nearly got taken in by a Metro article declaring that BMW had declared war on rover.

Turned out the article was on a device built into BMW wheels that would zap little doggies having a wee with 200V.

Whilst getting annoyed with this I spotted that the device was called a Canine Repellant Alloy Protection system (C.R.A.P).
It was at this point that I remembered what day it was.

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=130296&in_page_id=34

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/dynamo-green-keyboard/index.html?utm_campaign=minimail1apr08&utm_source=minimail1apr08&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Dynamo

Deviantart have changed everybodies avatars into Mudkips for some unexplorable reason.

NASA are reporting that the new International Space Station robot is making space walks a thing of the past: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0804/dextre_sts123.jpg

On the Metro story, there was also a quote from campaign group Put Animals First, from their spokeswoman Lola Forpi. Bit of a giveaway.

Guinness have a full-page advert in Metro which looks eerily similar to this one that they ran in Australia last year...

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/images/features/1614/E.%20WINDRAM-APRIL%20FOOL%20GUIN.jpg

RF

I haven't noticed any And I somhow resisted the temptation just now, when doing the forum summary for the boards connected with work work, to include a take message in the summary from the comision saying that they'd decided to close the entire project down I'm just not sure if my manager would have seen the funny side *runs off to have a look at the online newsfeeds

Das Ingwer Brot at Woods Cottage, Forest Hill
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property/20394782

Google have discovered a way to reverse time and are using it to improve their email services:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html

That would actually be really useful!

Oh, the local papers had:

World's longest bridge to be built between Isle of Man and Liverpool

Norn Irn to be the first place in the UK to introduce driving on the right

Recent seismic (that's earthquake, right?) activity causing Ireland and GB to move closer together, impact expected about 3050.

Well apart from a reference via the BBC's player about Terry Jones discovering a colony of flying penguins,the US dropping the dollar for the Euro and the Borg apparently invading and taking over Cable Forum,most have passed me by.

The trend is for newspapers to save their weird-but-true stories for April 1st, to try to fool people that way. The BBC list some here, but spoil it a bit by including those penguins: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7324127.stm

Wow, I just got back here to post that very link.
Talk about pipped at the post

Reading through them though, are they really all true? I think not.

Yes. Tattoos on the teeth?

Oh - it's true! http://www.dentistry.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=1091

I was thinking more of the menopause story. That's a FACT huh? Mmmm

I want a teeth tattoo...

No, really, I do!

So what design do you fancy? Elvis?