{"id":1038,"date":"2009-04-03T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/04\/april-fools-roundup.html"},"modified":"2009-04-03T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T11:30:00","slug":"april-fools-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/04\/april-fools-roundup.html","title":{"rendered":"April Fools Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great aspects of April Fools Day are all the creative bogus announcements and news stories that hit the web.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/04\/01\/april-fools-youtube-flails-amazon-cloud-computing-in-a-blimp-3d-chrome-browsing-google-master-ai\/\">Techcrunch has provided a pretty long list<\/a> of some of the best efforts.  I even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/04\/hoax-revealed.html\">made an attempt myself<\/a> this year, although it pales to some of the more creative efforts out there.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the more noteworthy pranks include:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Expedia is offering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expedia.com\/daily\/mars\/flights-to-mars\/?mcicid=Mars_home_us\">flights to Mars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Qualcomm&#8217;s developments around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qualcomm.com\/innovation\/convergence.html\">wireless convergence<\/a> (be sure to watch the video)<\/p>\n<p>The announcement that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/09\/04\/01\/13NF-Twitter-April-Fools_1.html\"> Twitter is now part of FEMA&#8217;s emergency response network<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And in what I believe is a 1st time play for a staid old company, <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.1000words.kodak.com\/default.asp?item=2355464&amp;mode=\">Kodak announces their eyeCamera 4.1<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great aspects of April Fools Day are all the creative bogus announcements and news stories that hit<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/04\/april-fools-roundup.html\" title=\"Read April Fools Roundup\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}