The country appears to have gone April Fool’s Joke mad today.  I can understand companies trying to cheer us up in these recession ridden times but whilst some of them do just this, others are just not that funny.

I am enjoying Google’s new launch CADIE which is a new ‘Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity’ who appears to currently be a panda obsessed with other pandas. They have carried on the joke on a large scale with CADIE the panda appearing on their streetview (instead of the normal person) with a ‘panda mapplet for humans’ and hosting a You Tube page – currently populated solely with panda videos.

You Tube itself appears to have thought less about being clever as they have simply flipped a number of their videos upside down – how is this an April Fool’s joke?

The Guardian’s annual hoax is slightly more funny but altogether too immediately unbelievable with the headline being that they are moving from print to Twitter as ‘every story can be told in 160 characters.’ Amusing but the sign of a truly great AFD joke is one that you need to check out is actually a joke.

The most bizarre one I have seen so far though came into my inbox courtesy of laptops direct who are offering ‘free funerals.’ This links through to a page where they are offering to save on the average £5k cost of a funeral by sponsoring it. Not really funny or clever just slightly odd…..

Are there any other good/bad ones out there you’ve seen?

 

Google
http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/index.html

You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/

Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology

Laptops Direct
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/

 

 

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