Gmail Paper And All The Other April Fools Jokes
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Again the web is embracing the lame tradition of STUPID April fools jokes. This year Google has announced GMail paper. Here are the ‘technical specs’:
- Is it free? Yes. The cost of postage is offset with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements, which will appear on the back of your Gmail Paper prints in red, bold, 36 pt Helvetica. No pop-ups, no flashy animations—these are physically impossible in the paper medium.
- How about attachments? All part of the deal. Photo attachments are printed on high-quality, glossy photo paper, and secured to your Gmail Paper with a paper clip. MP3 and WAV files will not be printed. We recommend maintaining copies of your non-paper Gmail in these cases.
- Is there a limit? You can make us print one, one thousand, or one hundred thousand of your emails. It’s whatever seems reasonable to you.
- But what about the environment? Not a problem. Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment. For every Gmail Paper we produce, the environment gets incrementally healthier.
Care to list in the comments any other LAME web April fools web jokes in the comments? Lets try and build this years most definitive list.
Yeah, head over to http://www.collegehumor.com. Today they’ve psyched you out into thinking their domain is up for sale on Go-Daddy. The page automatically redirects you to their main page within about 10 seconds. Clever, I chuckled.
Woot.com was selling the bag of crap for a million, turns out it was a trick and you had to enter in the correct coupon code to get it for $1.
Google also has Google TiSP
http://www.google.com/tisp/
free at home wireless broadband internet uitlizing the vast sewer network
Haha I didnt think it was that lame! The only lame thing about it is if someone really contacted google customer support because they couldnt get connected to the “sewer” network.
I have never thought that the Google April fools jokes were lame. I believe that they are really witty and ingenious.
http://www.olate.co.uk/products/chocolate/
@Andrew
And the fact that they will make fun of themselves by making even their April Fools joke BETA
@Brandon
That made no sense to me……
Were you adding to my comment or….?
Disappointing that Google TiSP is PC only. Or, I guess that makes sense?
The installation and FAQ page for TiSP is pretty funny.
Facebook’s got one:
Introducing LivePoke™!
Facebook will dispatch a real live person today to poke a friend of your choice.*
*offer good for only the first 100 pokers in each network.
HA, got to love the quote on the “more information page”:
“Now that I have Gmail Paper, I understand the difference between labels and folders. I had one message with two labels, but when I tried to stick the paper version into two filing cabinets at the same time, it just wouldn’t go.”
Mayumi M., Associate
Also for the Warcraft/Blizzard fans;
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/
Which introduces the ‘Tin Foil Hat’ item, and says they’re releasing a new Warcraft RTS game (which looks astonishingly like Warcraft 3.
Damn you gmail.
Gmail Paper would’ve been a sweet idea though, and with all that advertising I think this can be turned into a reality. Who knows :)
No dice with the definitive list thing: http://aprilfools.urgo.org/’s been ahead of you for years. However, that’s just for websites.
FL Studio opens with the message “Pirate Edition“. It caught me off guard at first, as it was the first one that happened at me.
I screwed with my chat’s CSS (original image here) to be all Purchased-by-Google-esque.
That’s all I got.
http://thepiratebay.org/blog/61
The Pirate Bay + Kim Jong Il =
April Fool’s torrent: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3652379/IP.OF.ALL.Pirate.Bay.USERS.RIAA.2007