April Fool's Jokes On The Net

If any of you missed out on this (I did, unfortunately - was playing Judo), yesterday was April Fools' and the internet was rife with pranks.

Google pulled off a threesome - first was Gmail Paper, a service intended to turn your emails into real paper and deliver it for free to your doorstep, and it tricked me for a good 15 minutes. I had to click the press release and face a 'This Is An April Fool's Joke' page before I realized my stupidity.

With some trepidation I tried looking for other Google pranks.

I immediately found one, with help from the 9Rules community. It was called Google TISP, and it proposes a cheap WiFi Google plan ... in your toilet. The smart alecs. Read their installation instructions and laugh your ass off - literally:

Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.

Installing a typical home TiSP system is a quick, easy and largely sanitary process -- provided you follow these step-by-step instructions very, very carefully.

#3 Grasp both ends of the spindle firmly while a friend or loved one flushes, thus activating the patented GFlush™ system, which sends the weighted cable surfing through the plumbing system to one of the thousands of TiSP Access Nodes.

#4 When the GFlush is complete, the spindle will (or at least should) have largely unraveled, exposing a connector at the remaining end. Detach the cable from the spindle, taking care not to allow the cable to slip into the toilet.

#7 Within sixty minutes -- assuming proper data flow -- the other end of your fiber-optic cable should have reached the nearest TiSP Access Node, where our Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) will remove the sinker and plug the line into our global data networking system.

#8 Congratulations, you're online! (Please wash your hands before surfing.)

And last, but not least - Google created another day in Google calendar. Click to enlarge:


There were others. Facebook, the Friendster for professionals, added funny alerts to their RSS feeds throughout the day:

• Harry and Voldemort have set their relationship status to "Mortal Enemies." 2:40am
• You are on Facebook, reading your News Feed. 10:23pm
• Two of your oxen drowned when you tried to ford the river. 2:40pm

They've even broke barriers of creativity with their LivePoke service! What does it do? Well, you select a friend, and Facebook dispatches a real live person to poke him or her.


What people will do for fun.

[Update]: The Undergroundsquare Blog announces the release of a new blogging network called MAS! Stands for either Malaysian Aqua Society, or Macho And Sexy. Your choice. First quarter business strategy: counquer the media in Malaysia.

Second quarter business strategy? Conquer the world.