The April Fools Day roundup

Robert Hallock 1 Apr, 2008 at 2:05pm ET Article published in Tech

Engadget gets slapped with a lawsuit by T-Mo to stop using the color magenta. Engadget fires back with a T-Mo scheme.
Blizzard, a perennial entrant, delivers with the Bard Hero Class for their ubiquitous MMO.
Google announces a partnership with Virgin to deliver Virgle, the first-ever colony on Mars.
Google continues with product and feature rollouts to announce custom send times for their Gmail service.
All featured videos on Youtube are no strangers to love.
TechCrunch swings for the litigious fences and sues Facebook for $25 mil.
InfoWorld announces that Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed on the terms of Yahoo’s acquisition.
The Giz don’t take no jibba jabba no mo’.
New core competency tests for Linux users are announced.
Neowin is reporting that Dell will move tech support back to the US.
ThinkGeek announces their exclusive importation rights to Super Pii Pii Brothers. Ever wanted to simulate wiiing?
XKCD, Questionablecontent, Qwantz… ‘Round the loop we go. Looking for your favorite comic? It’s a crapshoot at this point.
rstevens from DieselSweeties extols the virtue of not wearing scenester glasses.

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1 Apr 2008 ~ 2:12pm primesuspect
- ThinkGeek announces their exclusive importation rights to Super Pii Pii Brothers, a game that straps a Wiimote onto your junk to simulate urination.
- xkcd, questionablecontent, qwantz... round the loop we go. Looking for your favorite comic? It's a crapshoot at this point.
- rstevens from DieselSweeties actually drew his comic today as a joke
1 Apr 2008 ~ 3:00pm Jokke BBC showed flying penguins
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7320000/newsid_7324100/7324112.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm&news=1&ms3=14&ms_javascript=true&nol_storyid=7324112&bbcws=2

www.Xfire.com is in l33t..

http://thepiratebay.org/ claims to have moved to Egypt...

Lots of new goodies for Xbox players
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/promotions/2008/spring/
1 Apr 2008 ~ 5:25pm Gate28
- ICrontic Fourms members get Rick Rolled in the Byte Box...
- Blizzard announced a "new" Molten Core for consoles
- Blizzard anounces the Tauren Marine as a new unit in Starcraft II
www.blizzARD.com
1 Apr 2008 ~ 10:07pm Thrax IGN's flawless victory.
1 Apr 2008 ~ 10:18pm primesuspect DAMMIT

That's a HORRIBLE joke to play. That looks so bad ass!

DO WANT
2 Apr 2008 ~ 8:35am Kwitko Kwitko pretends.
2 Apr 2008 ~ 8:51am GHoosdum We didn't just get rickrolled in the byte box, it was at the header of every single thread.

Jerks! :bigggrin:
2 Apr 2008 ~ 9:38pm Ryder IC loses a longstanding member
3 Apr 2008 ~ 4:24pm primesuspect CreateDigitalMusic announces "Digital Frontman" - a synthesized lead singer for your low budget band.