It's Sunday - a not blogging day, almost lunch time and I'm tired, just because I had been blogging since yesterday. I'm going to have a break to sleep, and maybe enjoy the rest of this sunny day. However, I have more links of silly stuff to keep you busy:

- I Want One Of Those is selling the perfect gift to some of my friends: a RoboGirlfriend. "She" cames in three models: Jolie, with a large assortment of 'babies' (activation optional), Ritchie - a smaller model designed for easy storage, or for the vertically-challenged human boyfriends, and Spears - features a number of pre-recorded dance routines, ideal for lovers of the club scene.

- MAKE: Blog announced they have decided to relocated the offices from California to Easter Island. The post Easter Island here we come! explains the idea and shows the cover of the new magazine edition.

- Technorati shows another meanings to its name, like haterTonic, Tritenacho, heartTonic, Threaticon and others. Just keep reloaing the page to find another meanings.

- Yahoo!'s Yodel Anecdotal announced a new initiative that explores America’s fringe cultures with reporting brought to life with original songs and music: Yahoo! Underground. With videos, photos, slideshows, and blog posts about the world of the weird, the strangely compelling, the land of “who are these people?”

And much more April Fool's Day jokes at Wikipedia's April 1, 2007, Urgo's 2007 list of April Fools' Day Jokes on Websites, my April Fool's Day screen shots set and my bookmarks tagged with "aprilfool" on del.icio.us.

Update: The site is back to normal, since I didn't receive any offer to my joke.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2007 12:41 PM in April Fools, Fun, Fun, Internet ||

The Wikipedia main page displays some curious articles today: George Washington the inventor, the independence day of San Serriffe and it announced that editors will be charged in order to edit (screenshot). Wikitravel (screenshot) also points to unusual places, like Earth and Hell.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2007 11:46 AM in April Fools, Culture, Fun, Fun, Internet ||

Wow, Google announced two new services today. Google TiSP, a free in-home wireless broadband service, and Gmail Paper. At the Official Google Blog there is a brief note about Google TiSP, also called "Project Teaspoon". A Press Release of it is available at the Google Press Center, but the page of the product have all the information you need it, including the explanation of How TiSP Works with images and a FAQ. And in case of any doubt, contact the Google TiSP Groups.

How can Google offer this service for free?
We believe that all users deserve free, fast and sanitary online access. To offset the cost of providing the TiSP service, we use information gathered by discreet DNA sequencing of your personal bodily output to display online ads that are contextually relevant to your culinary preferences, current health status and likelihood of developing particular medical conditions going forward. Google also offers premium levels of service for a monthly fee

The second great news from Google came from Gmail. They developed the free service Gmail Paper, to you receive in paper all your e-mails, including the photo attachments, which will be printed on high-quality, glossy photo paper.There is no limit and no environment problem, because Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment. Now you just need to find some space to archive your Gmail Paper.

PS.: I have one question: Google Writer is a joke too, right? It doesn't sound real, but they didn't classified as April Fools Day.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2007 09:57 AM in April Fools, Fun, Fun, Google, Internet, Tools ||

For many times I said to Chris, from Cynical-C Blog, to change the layout of his blog, because it looks too much a guy's blog. He never gave much attention to my words and kept the guy-not-coloured-layout. Maybe the problem was that he was afraid of the final result of a cute layout with his blog content.

Chris, you don't need to worry any more. With this new cool tool called Mashup Reader I created a Cynical-box blog. I also try a mix of the content of this blog with Cynical-c style, but the result of that Cynical Bibi wasn't so good, as I imagined.

That's a good way to test somebody else's layout or your favourite site's layout with your blog's content before you stole borrow its layout. Mashup Reader is invented as a brand-new RSS feed reader to mashup blogs in a smarter way. Don't wait: go try it now, because the service will close in April 1 24:00 GMT.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2007 08:27 AM in April Fools, Fun, Fun, Internet, Tools ||

The fantastic on-line geek store ThinkGeek has a tradition to release their most incredible products at April 1st. I remember when they showed for the first time the PC EZ-Bake Oven to make tiny cakes while you are using the computer, the Fundue, a desktop USB Fondue Set and Buzzaire - Metered Dose Caffeine Inhaler, that would be perfect now.

This year they highlighted seven new products: The ThinkGeek WiiHelm to fit your Wii control and let you hands free to eat cereal while you play - with a very illustrative video-; The ThinkGeek 8-bit Tie, to all the guys that miss the 8-Bit video games; a set of Piranhaz - R/C Battle Fish, with two battle fish, equipped with their own laser cannon; SurgeStix - Inhalable Caffeine Stix, a kind of cigarette with coffee in the tobacco's place; and the damn useful The Lonely Guy Dream Vacation Digital Photo Frame, all you need to make your friends stop to encouraging you to take a vacation.

My honourable mention goes to two of them. The first is the SnūzNLūz, a Wifi Donation Alarm Clock, is brilliant. It connects via WiFi to your online bank account, and donates YOUR real money to an organization you HATE when you decide to snooze! That's what I call a very efficient alarm clock, that deeply motivates you to wake up. The tagline says everything: Wake up to the smell of...Animosity...

And the second honourable gadget is the Vilcus Plug Dactyloadapter, which allows anyone to quickly and easily test the working condition of any wall socket. Really useful and it's much easy than try the kids technique - search for things that could fit at the wall socket. This ingenious product was developed by the Russian design studio Art Lebedev specially to ThinkGeek customers enjoy the health benefits of finger contact with high-voltage electricity.

Check also the other amazing products announced by Think Geek through the years. BTW, I made a screenshot of their main page in the case of some of you miss it at April Fool's Day.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2007 07:27 AM in April Fools, Fun, Fun, Gadgets, Geek ||

This isn't a survival kit, and the best I can say about today is: don't believe in anything. But wait: before you start doing that, read this post please. I selected some real articles, from real sites about April Fools' Day. You can trust me and follow the links to the articles, or you can choose not trust me and follow them even so. I promise you will have fun whatever your choice is.

- From the Museum of Hoaxes: Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes Of All Time. The number one is The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest, about the episode of the BBC TV programme Panorama which explained how Spaghetti grows. Enjoy and read also The Origin of April Fool's Day and Top 10 Worst April Fool's Day Hoaxes Ever.

- The YouTube addicts can enjoy the selection at Esquire.com with April Fools! videos: The five best pranks ever filmed and posted to YouTube, selected by Daniel Murphy.

- Wired made a nice article with tips to fool your fellows: April Fool's Pranks For Nerds. The classic screen saver of the blue screen of death is one of their suggestions.

And just to be sure that you won't be fooled, read the Slate article The April Fools' Day defense kit by Jack Shafer. It has few, but interesting tips about April Fool's day techniques used by the media.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2007 05:40 AM in April Fools, Culture, Video ||

Hi guys, I hope you are having a loving night - or day. I selected some interesting news about internet and technology to blog in this amusing day. Let's go to the latest news.

- Astronomy Picture of the Day posted an incredible picture of Americans Defeat Russians in First Space Quidditch Match (image above). But it doesn't beat Water on Mars.

- Following the steps of several social sites, Slashdot started to use a rating system similar to Digg, but open to everybody - no registry is required. Choose an article and vote. (image)

- From the French site Techno-Science: Découverte d'un miroir gravitationnel: observer la Terre du passé (discovered a gravitational mirror). The text is in French, but the very illustrative image has the text in English.

- Interesting and scary news from Mobile Gazette: Will Mobile Phones Destroy the Earth? The interview with the Professor Dummkopf explains why we should be afraid. (screenshot)

- If you are a Metafilter user don't forget to visit Ask MetaFilter and help to solve some questions. The doubts could be interesting for non users too.

- PC Magazine has a very nice article about Haptics Turns Phones into Weapons.

- The Swedish torrent site The Pirate Bay announced in its blog: Finaly a permanent solution for the hosting. Today we announce that we're moving some of our servers to the North-Korean Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. (screenshot)

- The Australian on-line community Gush decided to redo Gush as a myspace page because it's a place where there's heaps of young people, so they can get so many more people involved! (screenshot)

- The excellent internet and web 2.0 site TechCrunch Has Acquired FuckedCompany.com. More details, including the press release on the Techcrunch and Fuckedcompany 2.0 sites. (image)

- Reg Hardware, a The Register site, says that Research reveals mislaid microprocessor megahertz. Not only are chip companies regularly releasing ever-faster microprocessors, but new research has revealed that modern CPUs actually lose megahertz over time.

- The Warcraft Universe wiki site, WoWWiki, was redesigned, changed the name to MeoWWiki and it looks much better now! (screenshot)

- This sounds great: New Eco-Friendly Computers, a Sharpened article.

- Whirlpool News says Mandatory ISP filtering will block P2P. The federal government has shocked industry by rushing a bill through parliament that will compel ISPs to block all P2P traffic. (screenshot)

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2007 03:46 AM in April Fools, Astronomy, Internet, News, Science, Science, Technology ||

Change the Job!

- Jeremy Zawodny left Yahoo to go to work for Google.

- Robert Scoble left Microsoft and announced that he's going to Google.

- Since there is an opening Matt Cutts is joining Yahoo!

Let's buy!

- Press Release: Meetro Acquires Friendster: Meetro, the world leader in Instant Messaging software announced today it has entered into an agreement to acquire Friendster, one of many social software sites for keeping in touch with friends and hooking up with new people.

- The Register has bad news: China buys Google.

- More bad news: Yahoo! Search blog announced : All Your Web 2.0 Are Belong To Us. Oh no!

New Features.

- Ask.com announced today the introduction of RhymeRank, an innovative search technology capable of producing related search results that rhyme with a searcher's original query. The new product is located on the right-hand side of the Ask search results page, under the heading, "Rhyme Your Search."

- Opera Software launches Opera Models. It is a groundbreaking new online photo library that aims to offer realistic images of normal people and how they really use technology in their everyday lives.

New Partnerships

- News Forge news: Torvalds and OSDL launch new image initiative. Faced with former Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn's harsh appraisal of the real reason behind the "inertia" of Linux in the business world, Linus Torvalds and OSDL have come up with an action plan for rebranding the Linux image and the image of its core developers.

- SlashMinds: I am pleased to announce that Slashdot, leading community for nerds everywhere, has acquired Electric Minds to create SlashMinds, a new branded community focusing on the interaction needs of the geeks among us.

- Steve Rubel decided to join forces with Jeremy Pepper and put the PR in PR: PepperRubel.

- WordPress Development Blog announced WordPress and Textpattern are joining forces to create the greatest CMSMS ever, WordPattern.

More: at Wikipedia's article April 1, 2006, Urgo's 2006 list of April Fool's Jokes on Websites, my photoset April Fool's Day, del.icio.us/bibi/aprilfool and April Fools Archives (if the webmaster fix that, and it's not a joke).

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2006 11:51 PM in April Fools, Blogs, Internet, Technology ||

Philipp Lenssen posted exclusive images of a new service of our favourite search tool, Google Rooms, sent by an anonymous reader.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2006 08:10 PM in April Fools, Google ||

Probably I won't buy the MAKE volume 06, but I'm going to accept their suggestion and check out the new cool service WEBringr. An exciting new service - community created "rings" of sites you can join and visit today!

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2006 06:25 PM in April Fools, Blogs, Internet ||

Man... I hate Wikipedia! I was searching for some information about April Fool's Day, and the feature article of the day - what is very important today - and found this: April 1, 2006. Hey, you killed all the fun! Now I just need to go there and check the updates! And I was having so much fun here...

I'm going to read all the articles in some moment, since they still updating, and make a list of nice links to visit. Most of the links are funny, but you don't have all day to check them, have you? I'm going to scoop out it and post later. If that isn't enough, you always can go to Urgo's 2006 list of April Fool's Jokes.

BTW, the today's featured article is Spoo; it is a valuable and highly desired food product. Made from the alien worm-like creatures of the same name, spoo is considered to be the most delicious food in the galaxy, regardless of which species is asked.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2006 04:59 PM in April Fools, Culture, Internet ||

Lifehacker has a helpful how-to article: Use Google Maps To Track Zombies In Your Area. Plot the best areas for zombie huntings, plan escape routes in case things get too hot, even get on the fly directions from your house, army bunker or commandeered shopping mall.

Update: if you are a zombie, or are planning to become a zombie, or have a fetish for zombies, read also at Lifehacker: Geek to Die: How to date the dead, Deathhacker: End of the World? Yeah, Right, Ask MetaFilter Roundup, Picking the right tool for the job and Zombism obviating social networking services.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2006 03:13 PM in April Fools, Google, Internet ||

TeeVeePedia the TV encyclopedia that somebody should edit. There are 310 articles in poor English. But a wiki with Magnum P.I. can only be good. (via kottke)

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2006 01:58 PM in April Fools, Culture, Internet ||

The moon is made of green cheese, right? But it's better don't eat it. The APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) has a picture taken by Hubble Space Telescope with the expiration date for green cheese moon.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2006 01:20 PM in April Fools, Astronomy ||

Google Circles is a free service which lets you explore the interests of groups of people around the world, in your hometown, at your workplace, and at your alma mater. Is that a joke or not? The FAQ says no, but the list of results to microsoft.com, google.com and whitehouse.gov are very suspicious. And don't leave the site before read the Terms of Service. (via Joho the Blog)

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2006 12:35 PM in April Fools, Google, Internet ||

It's almost impossible to resist to the Think Geek stuff. I have a wish list there, and today I add new products to it. I would love to win the iZilla Media Monster - it's almost a dream with two terrabytes and it plays and rips vinyl - but that could it be a little expensive to most of people, so I had more suggestions. Wireless Extension Cords seems very useful, maybe the USB Desktop Tanning Center - because I never go to the beach, or the cute Grow Your Own 1up Mushroom Kit, and even the The Screened Sphorb and the RFID Blocking Kit T-shirt look great options for a gift. I'm just not so sure if I need the Buzzaire - Metered Dose Caffeine Inhaler, because, as my friends know, I make a so stronger coffee that it could kill a rat, if the rat try to drink it.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2006 11:37 AM in April Fools, Geek, Technology ||

Official Google Blog announces a new product: Google Romance - Pin All Your Romantic Hopes on Google. It is a beta product currently incubating in Google Labs, uses cutting-edge personal search algorithms to help you find your soulmate, then sponsors your first Contextual Date with said soulmate-to-be in exchange for showing you highly relevant advertising that just might help Cupid's arrow find its mark. Take a tour, read the FAQ and don't forget to post your profile.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2006 10:50 AM in April Fools, Google ||

Explore it's a great place to start a visit on Flickr. There are always a breathtaking picture in the middle, awesome images to check and cats. Yes, cats, as the interestingness page, the calendar, the interesting photos from the last 7 days and the interesting photos from 1st of April 2005 shows.

Update: there crowd of cats left the Flickr Explore, but you can read the FlickrBlog post about it and the threadat FlickrCentral group. Cats lovers that lost the joke have a second chance: Кevin was super kind and saved all the months of Flickr Explore calendar as PDF. The 20 PDF files are available to download here.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2006 02:33 AM in April Fools, Cats, Flickr ||

Slashdot says:

Our marketing department has done extensive research over the last 3 quarters and discovered that our audience is strangely disproportionately skewed towards males. Like, 98.3% males to be precise. To correct this oversight, we have decided to subtly tweak Slashdot's design and content to widen our appeal to these less active demographics. Don't worry! We'll still continue to serve our core audience, but we hope you'll work with us as we try to find a balance that will work for all.

Check out the result and don't miss the thread.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2006 02:09 AM in April Fools, Geek ||

No more April Fool's Day, this is the last. If you want to know more links here are the links: del.icio.us/tag/aprilfool and del.icio.us/tag/aprilfools. Between the many links there, I chose some very cools links that I liked (and didn't post yet):
- Never Nude
- YaGoohoo!gle
- MSN Search Spoof
- April Power Hacks!
- How to put on pants
- Cisco to merge with Nabisco
- W3C Bans DIV and SPAN Tags
- RFC On New Internet Routing Protocol
- Scientific American: Okay, We Give Up
- 10 stories that could be pranks - but aren't
- Opera Announces Platform-Independent Real-Time Speech Technology
- Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion - Images reveal worrying cracks in the face of the Moon.

Of course you can read these and some more links on the amazing Slashdot, with geek and cool comments. But, be careful, there are some angry slashdoters about all the jokes there. Here are some April Fool's Day entries posted there:
- KDE Moves to BitKeeper
- First PC Virus Spreads to Humans
- Apple and PalmOne Release iPodTreo
- Privacy Violation in Italian Media Giant
- Say 'Cheese' to Google Satellite at 10AM
- Star Wars Holiday Special Released on DVD
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone Save Enterprise
- Apple Releasing Home Media Center: iHome
- New Spam-Scanning Technology Finds Spam
- U.N. Decides to Shut Down Internet Permanently
- Tiger Woods Signs Deal To Be Apple Spokeperson

And just in case you lost something try Urgo's list of April Fool's Jokes on Websites. I don't know if all the links are there, but the list is very useful.

And my favourite among all those links: Say Hello to Bloggy!.

Inspired by Clocky, the automated clock robot, ibiblio ProductLabs invented Bloggy, a mobile, autonomous blogging robot. Are you too tired to blog? Do you not have enough to say? Bloggy solves all your problems by blogging for you! From the moment you wake up to the moment you fall asleep, Bloggy will follow you around and record all of your events to share with the world! With Bloggy, you'll never again worry about having a boring blog.

Now, back to the normal posts about art, photography, cinema, Internet and curious things.

Posted by Bibi on April 1, 2005 09:01 PM in April Fools ||