April Fools

I’m not a big fan of April Fools’ Day, but here’s some of the interesting pranks today (in no particular order):

Global consortium of ISPs and technology companies scheduled an Internet reboot, reported by Sitepoint.
Gmail launches Autopilot, best thing about it is when both sender and recipient has Autopilot on, they converse (for up to 3 messages)!
Reddit, changed their website to look exactly the same as Digg, well, almost.
Opera takes web browsing experience one step further, by introducing Face Gestures.
Guardian announced that they will publish their news, exclusively on Twitter, no more paper!
Our favorite torrent tracker, The Pirate Bay, is acquired by.. Warner Bros!
Look for your Web 2.0 scent, introducing Smellr!
SmashingMagazine leaks Internet Explorer 8.1, with features like FireFox extensions support, better Acid3 test, faster JavaScript, server-side decompiler, website skins, etc.
Get your $3 crap from Woot, shipping charge? $1 million dollars.
ThinkGeek is selling Squeez Bacon, best thing since sliced bread?
We have a new Social Networking site in town, add your FarkBuddies now!
Identi.ca acquired Twitter.
I’ve always wanted to visit Mars, now we can fly to Mars for $99!
J. K. Rowling published the Harry Potter ebooks on SmashWords.
Ford and GM announced, the “Android Car”.
MooTools renamed to jTools, there are also jCore (MooTools Core), jMore (MooTools More) and jCide (Clientcide).
Mr Kanye West is retiring from the music industry, in order to do full-time.. blogging?
Windows Live Messenger can automatically detect your current mood, so you don’t have to enter any emoticon anymore.
YouTube also did their part, by introducing a new viewing experience for users, start by viewing this video.
Yahoo! Ideological Search, so your search results won’t contradict with your beliefs and values anymore!
Twitter money-making product, the Wingman!
Dancing tech stars, featuring Steve Balmer, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Arrington, Jerry Yang and Evan Williams.
Amazon announces locality flexible Cloud solution, called Floating Amazon Cloud Environment (FACE).
Google has a few more pranks, like Cognitive Autohheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE), Google Brain Search for mobile, there’s a panda on Street View, gBall by Google Australia, Google Chrome is now in 3D, some funny code samples on Google Code Search, etc.
And the best of all, classic old-school April Fools’ prank.

Update: This just came in, what happens when you want the robustness of Ruby on Rails, but you don’t have the time to learn them? Say hi to Phails. They also posted their source and example!