f13.net

You know the drill. Don't believe anyone. Post all the lying websites you find here.

My favorite so far: The fark new experience (http://www.fark.com/NFE/).

Woot is selling a bag of crap. Literally.
Youtube has all it's videos upside down

Thinkgeek has these:

Unicorn Chaser
Hey, remember how awful you felt that time you were clicking on the internets and you saw a picture of your grandmother parasailing naked off the coast of Bermuda? Remember how your eyes, brain, and lunch all threatened to leave your body at once? Wouldn't it be nice if there was a magical elixir that would rid your body and mind of those icky feelings? Well, now there is: the Unicorn Chaser. Theorized by Cory Doctorow, and now realized by ThinkGeek in partnership with BoingBoing - the Unicorn Chaser, with it's special blend of herbs and minerals go to work instantly to restore your equilibrium and sanity!     $2.99 [ more... ]

Interactive Portal T-Shirts
ThinkGeek has teamed up with the GLaDOS computer and Aperture Science Labs to bring you an amazing re-creation of the Portal Gun in a convenient T-Shirt based format. Sadly, actual teleportation is impossible, but due to the computing power of GLaDOS we were able to create a simulation of active teleportation portals. The Interactive Portal Shirts use two wireless 5.8 GHz video cameras mounted in the front of each shirt along with two high-res LCD TFT screens. The camera in the orange shirt transmits the image to the screen of the blue shirt, and vise versa. A fully functional, no-lie portal is yours!     $99.99 [ more... ]

Squeez Bacon®
Every once in a while a product comes around that puts life into perspective. When we got our first bottles of Squeez Bacon (from Sweden) to taste test, we each had a moment of pure revelation. For years, we had thought that the BBBLBT (Bacon-Bacon-Bacon-Lettuce-Bacon-Tomato) sandwich was the pinnacle of gastronomic enjoyment. And suddenly, after a single taste of Squeez Bacon, our world was rocked. Squeez Bacon is imported straight from its Swedish source and delivers taste right out of the bottle - no cooking or refrigeration needed. Enjoy all the flavor and health benefits of bacon, without having to slave over a frying pan.     $7.99 [ more... ]

Ultimate Assassins Weapon Ice Mold
The perfect assassination (as video games have taught us) is the one that cannot be traced back to the assassin. Of course, the easiest way to avoid being traced is to bring the weapon with you, but that's still very risky. The best way to ensure your safety is to make the weapon disappear - literally. The Ultimate Assassin's Weapon is just what you need: just add water and pop the silicone mold into your freezer - instantly does it's duty than melts. Of course we really don't want you to kill anyone; think of this as the ultimate gaming party ice. But just in case, the Ultimate Assassin's Weapon will make sure you'll be ready for anything.     $12.99 [ more... ]

Tauntaun Sleeping Bag
In the sub-zero wasteland of the planet Hoth, only the strong survive... and of course those lucky Jedi protected by the thick skin of a Tauntaun. Now ThinkGeek Labs has recreated the warm fur of a Tauntaun in a more convenient format. This high-quality sleeping bag looks just like a Tauntaun, complete with saddle, internal intestines and LED Luke Skywalker Lightsaber zipper pull. Use the lightsaber zipper pull on the Tauntaun sleeping bag to illustrate to your wee-ones how Han Solo saved Luke Skywalker from certain death in the freezing climate of Hoth by slitting open the Tauntaun belly!     $39.99 [ more... ]

The ThinkGeek Secret QR Code Shirt
Get this shirt FREE now!!1! While supplies last, we're giving away a free QR Code shirt! What's a QR Code? It's a quick-scanning 2D barcode that's readable by many newer phones and is hyuuuuge in Japan. Note: The QR Code on the shirt in this image is *not* the QR Code on the free shirt. Cause that'd just be lame. What IS on the shirt? Just trust us. It probably says something like 'What the frak happened to Starbuck?' or 'Allow Me Tell You About Ceiling Cat'. Bottom line is it's FREE with any $20 purchase. But hurry! Available only while supplies last. No joke. This is not a prank. Oh, and did we mention FREE SHIRT? LIMITED EDITION! WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!     $15.99 [ more... ]

Buzzword - The Shocking Speech-Recognition Wristband
We think you and your stakeholders will find this wristband a real value-add going forward. By leveraging bleeding-edge technology to apply a small shock when it detects certain words, the Buzzword wristband incentivizes your workforce to dialogue more effectively. Simply train the Buzzword with the included USB cable and software, put it on and it does the rest. Blue sky, if you proactively put this in place as a best practice, you could soon find all your outward-facing employees taking advantage of the synergies better presentation skills offer. At the end of the day, it's a win/win -- an impactful way to ensure your mission-critical messages always give back 110%.     $39.99 [ more... ]

USB Pet Rock
Let's face it: even if you take the time to learn about it, history repeats itself. Everything that's old becomes new, and the Pet Rock fad of the 70s is no exception. But we've added our own touch to the phenomenon: a USB cable. What does it do? Abso-frickin-lutely nothing. And therein lies the beauty, for this is, without a doubt, the greenest USB gadget ever created (it draws absolutely no electricity). But it sits on your desk and looks up at you (with imaginary eyes) and for some reason, you'll feel happier. As everyone stares at it in confusion, you'll feel even more happy. And best of all, the USB Pet Rock is plug-and-play compatible with all past, present, and future operating systems.     $7.99 [ more... ]


Google switched on skynet:

Introducing CADIE
Research group switches on world's first "artificial intelligence" tasked-array system.

For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.

Since then progress has been rapid, and tonight we're pleased to announce that just moments ago, the world's first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE) was switched on and began performing some initial functions. It's an exciting moment that we're determined to build upon by coming to understand more fully what CADIE's emergence might mean, for Google and for our users. So although CADIE technology will be rolled out with the caution befitting any advance of this magnitude, in the months to come users can expect to notice her influence on various google.com properties. Earlier today, for instance, CADIE deduced from a quick scan of the visual segment of the social web a set of online design principles from which she derived this intriguing homepage.

These are merely the first steps onto what will doubtless prove a long and difficult road. Considerable bugs remain in CADIE'S programming, and considerable development clearly is called for. But we can't imagine a more important journey for Google to have undertaken.

For more information about CADIE see this monograph, and follow CADIE's progress via her YouTube channel and blog.

I spent this morning trying to convince my five-year-old son that April Fool's Day was a fake holiday that Mommy invented to trick him.  "It was on Spongebob!"  "So was Opposite Day.  That's tomorrow!"

hahahaha

that works better for fark than facebook

My favorite jokes are the ones that cost money. Like sending out fake PR as real PR. The box art is awesome:

(http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/39720/games/the%20witcher/mysterious_secrets.jpg)

As per bhodi's CADIE post the page is at: http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/landing/cadie/index.html

"It's" blog reminds of homestead/angelfire/geocities days  http://cadiesingularity.blogspot.com/


Oh yeah youtube's flipped everything upside down, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQGQhD85zxY&flip=1 by default. Just add the &flip=1 to any link. A fun script on how to do it forcefully to people on say an open wap http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html

Ha, they put love and work even into their April Fools jokes. I'll hold my breath between Tuesday and Friday 2010.

oops didn't notice there was already a thread:

I thought reddit's (http://www.reddit.com/) makeovers were pretty funny
and
Squeeze Bacon (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/squeez-bacon.html?cpg=93H) april fools joke or awesome product?

Guild Wars:

(http://iria.chem.uh.edu/f13/gw01.jpg) (http://iria.chem.uh.edu/f13/gw02.jpg)

Wikipedia's entire main page is filled with fake stories and articles.

Glad I logged in to Urban Dead today:

Aw, how sweet.

Wizards previews D&D 4th Ed Player's Handbook 3. (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drfe/20090401)

Oddly, I'm not seeing any jokes up on any of Blizzards pages.

I have had my April Fools detector on all day. It started with a good one that I grabbed onto 3 seconds in. My first lecture started with the speaker announcing some recent regulatory changes caused by the new councilor being elected and the exam will be held in a special room in the main university building, which is in another city in another part of the country. I was grinning while looking at the wide faces of my fellow students who have been used to the serious business style of the course.

But I didn't expect to fool myself at the end of the day. I've been studying for an exam since morning, which is tomorrow, and at the same time really annoyed that there is another test later that same day. So I check my school's intraweb if there's a subject or two I might have missed, but wtf, I can't find the course on the list of everything I've been attending. Then it hits me. I'm not even registered to it! Went to every lecture, read every book and I'm not even allowed to pass because I didn't apply months ago. Epic April Fool's Day for me.

New Dragon Age trailer. (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/dragonage/video/6207185/?tag=topslot;img;1)

Actually, none of the stories are fake, they're all real stories with "interesting" link descriptions.

Since it's Wikipedia, I can't tell if you are joking or not. ;D

Check their forums now.  For once they're actually a bit entertaining.

Dead Pixel Panic (http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=17839) complete with Dead Pixel Test (http://www.hexus.net/pixeltest.html) is the best I've seen today.

The dead pixel test is brilliant.

Evidently, LOTRO had an April Fool's quest because I just saw this on their launcher:

April Fool's Quest Disabled
Apr 01, 2009 11:50 EST Due to the load on our servers caused by the April Fool's chicken session play, we are disabling the quest. Please note if you receive a mail, you cannot turn it in with the quest disabled.  We hope you had fun while it was open, and we're sorry the quest bawked!

Boy, have they been sucking lately!

It was a knock at WAR. They turned you into a chicken and you had to run across a PVP zone.

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/archivist.xml

New Diablo 3 character! The Archivist!

Google has at least one more joke in them:

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html

Pretty funny.

HAHA, oh god, that is epic.

HA!, that's sweet, i can read those forums now!

More blizzard:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/dance/index.xml

http://www.starcraft2.com/features/terran/terratron.xml

I'm actually pissed there isn't a class whose sole job is identifying, cataloguing and trading items.

Cheap flight! (http://www.expedia.com/daily/mars/flights-to-mars/)

The first featured Hotel: The Colbert Hotel & Casino

Awesome.

It's "the" PVP zone and I'm sorry I missed it.  Apparently it was not well-liked.

Wasn't well-liked in WAR either. Imagine that.

Lorenado,  :awesome_for_real:

Shouldn't the Onion on April Fool's day have all real stories?

"I wasn't prepared." :awesome_for_real:

http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/04/01/

I want that!!!

The bookmark "gesture" is the best. Finally Steve Jobs' claim of a lickable UI comes to fruition!

City of Heroes for DOS:

http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/news_archive/ncnorcal_announces_city_of_her.html

Not nearly as good as their "Visible Sounds" one (so many people believed that one was true) but they definitely captured the frustrations of the genre they are spoofing.

WOW Europe: Pimp Your Mount (http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/mount-p1mpage.html)

It's a little thing touch, however Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/) uses CADIE's little panda for its streetview.

Team Fortress 2: Jarate (http://www.teamfortress.com/)

Brad McQuaid hired to lead MMO project. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0)

Rickrolling in this thread should merit punishment. It's so last year.

I just saw that Expedia had a flight to Mars for $99, advertising a savings of $3 trillion+

They get you on the oxygen.  Shit is expensive when it has zero elasticity.

"Heavy boots of lead fills its victims full of dread" :awesome_for_real:

Apparently someone at the Starcraft II Team likes Black Sabbath (but really, who doesn't?)

ThinkGeek makes fake product that should be real, promises to ask Lucas for a Star Wars license.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/tauntaun.html

I would pay money for that.

Real money.

 :awesome_for_real:

Squeez Bacon?

Someone sent me an email about Squeez Bacon yesterday. Didn't make my sandwich (with actual bacon) go down any easier. I don't like my food pre-chewed, kthx.