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 | youtube.com | Introducing YouDigg. The new collaborative project between video megasite YouTube, and Digg.com, the social news site that is revolutionizing the industry. Digg to be used to promote videos to the front page of youtube | |||||||
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 | google.com.au | New Google search tool 'can see into future' | |||||||
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 | trustbanners.com | We are delighted to announce the arrival of TrustBanners - a scientific breakthrough in advertising. The results come about from 18 months of research with Professor Olaf. Prilo an expert in the study of brain function. | |||||||
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 | uk.youtube.com | All featured videos redirect to Rick Roll | |||||||
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 | njection.com | Real Time Tracking of Police Officers online and on your phone | |||||||
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 | espn4.com | Election Deathmatch Coverage | |||||||
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 | google.com | Vir-gle is a fake project between Google and Virgin Media to go to Mars | |||||||
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 | mail.google.com | Gmail Custom time | |||||||
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 | onlinedating.typepad.com | eHarmony Founder Finds Love on Match.com | |||||||
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 | youtube.com | BBC documentary trailer on a breed of flying penguins who migrate to the rain forest | |||||||
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 | thinkgeek.com | Full Lineup of Thinkgeek April Fools Products | |||||||
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 | wunderground.com | Psychic research proves hurricanes/global warming connection | |||||||
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 | infoworld.com | Microsoft, Yahoo agree on buyout price | |||||||
| Top 20 Highest Rated Jokes (2008) | |||||||||||
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 | digg.com | Digg a story, and get... a random character! (only mathematical symbols, it seems.) | |||||||
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 | vgcats.com | Makes fun of a rival webcomic, CAD. | |||||||
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 | sigg3.net | Sigg3's vulgar blog sold to online car dealer, in order to retire back to nature | |||||||
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 | pwned.com | Main Page turned into a silly mix of pirates and Rick Rolling. | |||||||
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 | tbs.com | TBS is now The Boring Station | |||||||
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 | twitchfilm.net | Scoop! Short Round Returns In INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL! | |||||||
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 | appleinsider.com | New 20' iMac Screens Show 98% Fewer Colors | |||||||
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 | youtube.com | produce a video claiming that they are being sued by the Pokemon company for $20,000,000 | |||||||
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 | ffxi.allakhazam.com | Final Fantasy XI Online Stylesheet Changed to Hello Kitty Online Adventures | |||||||
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 | infoworld.com | Full list of InfoWorld April Fools' Jokes | |||||||
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 | nohomers.net | Forum page leads to a page that assumes user has tried to hack into the site. User is told he or she is temporarily banned from the site and their account has been flagged for deletion. | |||||||
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 | thefingerbar.com | Butterfinger changes name to The Finger | |||||||
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 | openhockey.blogspot.com | Flyers hockey team suspended by NHL and barred from postseason play | |||||||
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 | ipodlinux.org | Lemmings are taking over the website! Wait a few seconds and lemmings start showing up on the page. | |||||||
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 | negative99.com | Site hacked by Islamic terrorists | |||||||
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 | gizmodo.com | Mr. T has taken over the site | |||||||
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 | phillyburbs.com | Newspaper website homepage redesigned to look exactly like the Google homepage | |||||||
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 | leakynews.com | Sybill Trelawney, the famous Harry Potter seer, had become a news editor. Silly predicitons all day. | |||||||
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 | xbox.com | Great new Xbox products! (NOT) | |||||||
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 | ely.org | Canada to buy the city of Ely, MN | |||||||
| 2008 Jokes | |||||||||||
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 | ajaxweb20.net Submited: 2008-04-04 16:17 | [In Italian] A fake bug in Firefox | |||||||
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 | computertaal.info Submited: 2008-04-04 08:30 | [Not In English] Site sold by the chief editor | |||||||
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 | homeonlinegames.com Submited: 2008-04-04 03:20 | Ranked numero uno....NO 1 up fro 9000,000,000,893,032 in one day | |||||||
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 | leighlo.com Submited: 2008-04-03 20:31 | An interview with the crowbar from Half-Life, Portal's Weighted Companion Cube, and a new piece of digital film | |||||||
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 | ocremix.org Submited: 2008-04-03 18:29 | A Final Fantasy III ReMix album was announced, titled Echoes of Eternity. It is based on the NES version, not the recent DS remake. | |||||||
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 | cnnentertainment.co.nr Submited: 2008-04-03 18:22 | Rapper Snoop Dogg converts to Mormonism | |||||||
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 | ev-eon.com Submited: 2008-04-03 17:19 | Bottled carbon drink launched | |||||||
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 | bazaarblog.com Submited: 2008-04-03 17:14 | Chuck Norris to speak at conference on Anti-Social Commerce | |||||||
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 | oc.co.za Submited: 2008-04-03 10:07 | redirected to our main rivals carnagesa.net | |||||||
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 | iseyz.com Submited: 2008-04-03 06:55 | ARGNet hacked | |||||||
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 | eslblogs.englishclub.com Submited: 2008-04-03 04:37 | UN To Ban ?Unnecessary? Languages | |||||||
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 | 206_bones.livejournal.com Submited: 2008-04-03 02:31 | Hostile Takeover of 206_Bones | |||||||
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 | globalvillageidiots.com Submited: 2008-04-03 01:44 | TSA Nixes Holding Hands in Airports! | |||||||
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 | megatonik.com Submited: 2008-04-03 00:48 | Lego Batman: The Video Game had been changed to Best-Lock Batman to save money on licensing. | |||||||
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 | megatonik.com Submited: 2008-04-03 00:44 | Electronic Arts has finalized its purchase of Take-Two, and Take-Two's games will be undergoing a numer of significant changes. | |||||||
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 | megatonik.com Submited: 2008-04-03 00:41 | A rumor that Guitar Hero: Fall Out Boy is going to be released. The full set list is included. | |||||||
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 | politinks.com Submited: 2008-04-03 00:36 | THIS PAGE IS NOT AVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY - President Bush extends the Patriot Act and takes down websites to 'fight terrorism'. | |||||||
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 | stanford.scout.com Submited: 2008-04-03 00:33 | Bogus Stanford Basketball Recruiting Story | |||||||
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 | burningman.com Submited: 2008-04-03 00:02 | New security measures at Burning Man | |||||||
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 | mcphee.com Submited: 2008-04-02 23:47 | 5 Fake Products Including Squirrel Underpants | |||||||
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 | mrfeedback.net Submited: 2008-04-02 23:24 | Google bought my site which has only been up for 30 days. | |||||||
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 | 110mb.com Submited: 2008-04-02 23:20 | IE6 passed Acid3 | |||||||
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 | aquateencentral.com Submited: 2008-04-02 22:17 | Aqua Teen Central becomes Robot Chicken Central. Similar to last year's only tweaked... this year's includes a squished image of Gene Simmons, a YouTube video of 'Ow, My Balls.' from the film Idiocracy, and a looping mp3 of Good King Wenceslas. | |||||||
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 | hewnandhammered.com Submited: 2008-04-02 22:06 | Ikea in hostile takeover of Stickley | |||||||
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 | rashbre2.blogspot.com Submited: 2008-04-02 22:01 | Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Alternative Ending | |||||||
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 | boards.gamefaqs.com Submited: 2008-04-02 21:44 | Random YouTube videos popped up, including 'It's Over 9000', 'Peanut Butter Jelly Time', and the intro to 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'. | |||||||
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 | novaljapag.com Submited: 2008-04-02 17:40 | President Bush visiting Novalja | |||||||
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 | thecubreporter.com Submited: 2008-04-02 17:18 | Announced sponsorship deal with Motorola and individual sponsorships for each of its writers, including one writer changing his name to Wrigley Field. | |||||||
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 | nintendoring.net Submited: 2008-04-02 16:22 | [Not In English] Date of Super Smash Bros Brawl PAL | |||||||
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 | indoforum.org Submited: 2008-04-02 15:45 | IndoForum, an Indonesian Online Community, in collaboration with NASA has founded a new experiment to move IndoForum Server to the Top of Olympus Mons Mountain (Mars) because according to the research the new location has a natural sattelite reflector to broadcast signals to all around the world. And resulting all members could access IndoForum from any location on the Earth with a minimal speed of 54 MB/s using Wi-Fi. | |||||||
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 | nubiana.co.uk Submited: 2008-04-02 15:22 | Mariah Carey appears in London wearing a bin liner and talks about how looks aren't important. | |||||||
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 | realityblurred.com Submited: 2008-04-02 15:16 | Fake reality TV stories: Big Brother 10 will cast kids ages 8 to 15; Lauren Conrad will work for TMZ during The Hill's fourth season; Donald Trump invites Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to compete on Celebrity Apprentice 2; Reality show camera crews, audio engineers go on strike | |||||||
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 | xbox.frontforen.de Submited: 2008-04-02 14:56 | [Not In English] linkshaender xbox | |||||||
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 | preisbock.de Submited: 2008-04-02 14:55 | [Not In English] pizza instead of multi media ads | |||||||
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 | webhallen.com Submited: 2008-04-02 14:43 | [In Sweedish] A Swedish webshop tries to sell a new game that didn't exist (to bad, wanted to buy!). It's called Sid Meier's Kina (which means China). You'd supposed to get a AK-47 and a baton for your wiimote. Enjoy! (Maybe you can use a website translator to get the context out of this) | |||||||
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 | svencoop.com Submited: 2008-04-02 13:44 | Sven Co-op The Movie announced | |||||||
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 | maine.craigslist.org Submited: 2008-04-02 12:14 | A posting in Casual Encounters from a man who won the lottery | |||||||
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 | irregularwebcomic.net Submited: 2008-04-02 11:39 | Bogus 'Cease and Desist' order from LucasFilm | |||||||
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 | irregularwebcomic.net Submited: 2008-04-02 11:37 | Latin pun & comic swap with Legostar Galactica | |||||||
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 | austechnews.blogspot.com Submited: 2008-04-02 11:15 | Podcast renamed to 8Bit news, and Reviews commodore 64 games and games from the early 1990's | |||||||
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 | 1computercare.co.uk Submited: 2008-04-02 10:16 | Graphics card olfactory circuit on a separate daughter board | |||||||
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 | itskeptic.org Submited: 2008-04-02 10:14 | NASA employ ITIL to provide fully automated lights-out IT operations for all future space missions | |||||||
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 | kelseyinfo.co.uk Submited: 2008-04-02 10:11 | Chickens wearing jock straps that mark eggs | |||||||
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 | houstoncars.org Submited: 2008-04-02 09:58 | Toyota buys GM. | |||||||
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 | hereward.co.uk Submited: 2008-04-02 09:48 | ufo sighting - hereward fm even got fake callers in to say about a ufo | |||||||
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 | deejay.blog.hr Submited: 2008-04-02 08:36 | Google Has Acquired 'DeeJay Blog' (website related to everything important in Electronic Dance Music, Entertainment World and Information Technology). | |||||||
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 | BVEstation.com Submited: 2008-04-02 07:49 | 'Super Route Tuesday' advertises over a dozen add-ons to be released for BVE, a free train simulator. | |||||||
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 | fundromeda.com Submited: 2008-04-02 07:16 | Angelina Jolie has given birth to black twins | |||||||
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 | moddb.com Submited: 2008-04-02 06:25 | Love is in the air - it is time to shake up 2008 and embrace creativity. Mod DB wants to help you developers lead the charge and has launched a new pink love hearts site theme. | |||||||
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 | tribune.com Submited: 2008-04-02 06:17 | Company changed it's name to ZellCoMediaEnterprises Inc., added a slideshow of puppies, a debt-o-meter, tipjar and bogus text to its homepage, making fun of itself and other companies. It also issued a fake press release about selling naming rights to its headquarters and its newspapers going paperless (willy wonka style). | |||||||
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 | homestarrunner.com Submited: 2008-04-02 06:14 | This cartoon was released on March 31, but the next day, an easter egg was added leading to a secret YouTube video. At the end, click the disk box to receive a code - this is the YouTube URL code for a secret bonus video, viewable at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uSyK2RdlUY | |||||||
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 | syafriadi.wordpress.com Submited: 2008-04-02 06:03 | UU ITE | |||||||
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 | projectafter.com Submited: 2008-04-02 05:46 | Front page news item announced a fake partnership between the site and J-List (jlist.com). | |||||||
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 | Pnosis.com Submited: 2008-04-02 05:34 | (at The Eye, there.) Two hypnotists take over the world's pixel factory and hold the world's pixel supply for a billion trillion dollars ransom. | |||||||
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 | coh.com Submited: 2008-04-02 05:19 | Game upgrade will remove all sounds off your hard drive to save you space and replace them with visual sounds in the game | |||||||
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 | neowin.net Submited: 2008-04-02 04:46 | No longer blue-ray support on PS3s | |||||||
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 | sanjuanems.org Submited: 2008-04-02 04:39 | Old School EMS | |||||||
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 | guravehaato.info Submited: 2008-04-02 04:38 | [In Portuguese] A lot of Brazilian blogger posted about 'Feed-se', a magazine about blogs, that should be sould in a 'traditional' way | |||||||
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 | ipcga.org Submited: 2008-04-02 04:18 | Blackbird gaming PC banned from competition for being 'too bloody powerful' | |||||||
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 | ff7citadel.com Submited: 2008-04-02 04:15 | Site themed in honor of a very minor Final Fantasy VII character, the Shinra Manager | |||||||
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 | gametrailers.com Submited: 2008-04-02 04:14 | Assassins Gear Solid 4 video | |||||||
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 | forum.weed.co.za Submited: 2008-04-02 04:03 | [Need to log in] Marijuana legalised in south africa | |||||||
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 | hogwarts-experience.heavenforum.com Submited: 2008-04-02 03:59 | One of the moderators took over the site with help of the Admin's husband. He took away her power on the site along with some other people's. He changed the sites name from the Hogwarts-Experience to the Raistlin Experience. Also he created a thread for his take over. | |||||||
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 | goal.com Submited: 2008-04-02 03:57 | England Replace Expelled Spain At Euro 2008 | |||||||
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 | urbandead.com Submited: 2008-04-02 03:47 | When you sign on there is a list of alerts as though it were Facebook | |||||||
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 | ksot.com Submited: 2008-04-02 03:34 | The 'GameFAQs Boards Secondary FAQ' was changed to the 'Animal Crossing Secondary FAQ'. | |||||||
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 | bobmccarty.com Submited: 2008-04-02 03:23 | No such technology exists...yet. | |||||||
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 | z10.invisionfree.com Submited: 2008-04-02 03:20 | The Administrators pretended to ban everyone on the site and pretended that they closed it down | |||||||
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 | metatalk.metafilter.com Submited: 2008-04-02 03:09 | Background colors of each Metafilter sub site gradually change and cycle through a spectrum causing users much confusion. | |||||||
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 | bullyscomics.blogspot.com Submited: 2008-04-02 03:04 | Blog was taken over by Evil Bully, Bully's evil twin from another universe | |||||||
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 | bitstrips.com Submited: 2008-04-02 03:00 | 3 week old DIY comics site bought by Microsoft. User made comic strips replaced with Vista advertorials. | |||||||
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 | blogs.columbiatribune.com Submited: 2008-04-02 02:58 | Ralph Wiggum declares for Missouri governor | |||||||
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 | encyclopediaofarkansas.net Submited: 2008-04-02 02:52 | Encyclopedia of Arkansas clowns around | |||||||
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 | hulu.com Submited: 2008-04-02 02:38 | The TV show 'Vanish' vanished from the website | |||||||
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 | ravelry.com Submited: 2008-04-02 02:28 | All user avatars in the forums were given different types of hats. | |||||||
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 | vgmaps.com Submited: 2008-04-02 02:19 | The Legend Of Zelda: Oracle Of Hours is mapped (supposedly the companion game to Oracle Of Ages and Oracle Of Seasons), but it's not a real game, and is based on a cancelled game. | |||||||
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 | boards.theforce.net Submited: 2008-04-02 02:13 | On a primarily Star Wars forum, there has been a creation of a new forum dedicated to Pancakes and Waffles. | |||||||
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 | blog.patyuen.com Submited: 2008-04-02 02:12 | False advice for new models | |||||||
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 | food.gofrolic.org Submited: 2008-04-02 02:10 | Bees Found! Colony Collapse Disorder Actually a Protest of Conditions, Colonialism, and Monarchy | |||||||
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 | youtube.com Submited: 2008-04-02 02:06 | Played on Live TV a Fake News report on New zealands TV3 about Jenkum (getting high from shit!) | |||||||
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 | mrcopilot.blogspot.com Submited: 2008-04-02 01:45 | Microsoft thinks its high time some quality open source games are released noting a significant hole in the Linux Gaming market. 'We see it as a great opportunity to introduce Linux users to Microsoft products.' | |||||||
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 | rotaryone.org Submited: 2008-04-02 01:42 | News release stating that the Rotary Club was to be bought by Kiwania International for $2 per share. | |||||||
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 | madmattsarmory.com Submited: 2008-04-02 01:34 | Medieval Armorer now has Grande Assiette | |||||||
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 | shoptravelgossip.com Submited: 2008-04-02 01:18 | Adnan Released Britney Spears Sex Tape | |||||||
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 | instantz.net Submited: 2008-04-02 01:10 | Website being hacked and replaced some content of the page (removed anime list, removed J-drama list, changed donation goal to 1 million, etc) | |||||||
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 | waffles.fm Submited: 2008-04-02 01:08 | Private hard to get in Bittorent site allows sign ups but then redirects them to YouTube Rick Rolled | |||||||
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 | npr.org Submited: 2008-04-02 01:04 | NPR ran an enthusiastically positive review of the fictional composer 'Simon Fluegel' and his one note compisition, 'B-flat'. | |||||||
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 | dethklan.com Submited: 2008-04-02 01:02 | Dethklan was today sold to China for an unenclosed amount. China now has submitted to the news a video to announce the sale. Video: (rickroll) | |||||||
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 | 1337games.ipbfree.com Submited: 2008-04-02 01:01 | This board has been hacked by Anonomous, | |||||||
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 | freewebs.com Submited: 2008-04-02 01:00 | turned into a fake Google with all the links forwarding to the real website, which all the the links started with the letter X. | |||||||
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 | rootthisbox.org Submited: 2008-04-02 00:59 | Did a joke with hackthissite.org - ebsites changed their sites to make users thing that they had been hacked, by adding a false PHP system() execution. | |||||||
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 | lenovoblogs.com Submited: 2008-04-02 00:59 | ThinkPad Mr. Coffee Edition | |||||||
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 | streetprices.com Submited: 2008-04-02 00:58 | Paper version of our price comparison services, delivered to your door every half hour. | |||||||
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 | mail.gnome.org Submited: 2008-04-02 00:56 | The announcement of the GNOME Epiphany (browser) dropping support for the Gecko (layout engine) backend and supporting only WebKit | |||||||
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 | sonic.libsyn.com Submited: 2008-04-02 00:55 | The Sonic Society played a fake show called Pony Talez before launching into their real episode. The end credits were then interrupted by a Rickroll. | |||||||
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 | spearhat.com Submited: 2008-04-02 00:54 | Bogus product reviewed on the Twit.tv podcast | |||||||
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 | ketnet.be Submited: 2008-04-02 00:53 | [Not in English] The Flemish childrens' television station Ketnet announced that two of their presenters, Kristien Maes and Kobe Van Herwegen, were to marry. | |||||||
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 | everquest.com Submited: 2008-04-02 00:52 | [In Game Only] All the in-game characters are a different race (and sometimes gender). | |||||||
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 | redwall.wikia.com Submited: 2008-04-02 00:49 | he Redwall Wiki became the 'Loamhedge Wiki' | |||||||
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 | oneclickwifi.net Submited: 2008-04-02 00:47 | changed their service from finding people to play wi-fi with to finding life partners. The general theme of the site was changed to match the new service | |||||||
