{"id":3235,"date":"2008-04-01T20:11:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T20:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2008-04-01T20:11:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T20:11:37","slug":"the_best_in_apr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3235","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Best in April Foolery Around the Web&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/buzzwatch\/2008\/04\/01\/daily-diversion-the-best-in-april-foolery-from-around-the-web\/?mod=WSJBlog\">Tom Weber<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>OK, so maybe you\u2019re working today instead of surfing around the Web for April Fool\u2019s jokes. Fear not: Buzzwatch is here to help with a roundup of April Foolery online.<br \/>\nAt Google, where April 1 is celebrated annually with jokes throughout the company\u2019s sites, the main offering this year is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/virgle\/index.html\">a chance to join \u201cProject Virgle\u201d and become a Mars colonist<\/a>.<br \/>\nGoogle\u2019s Gmail has its own prank. Users today are informed of a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmail.com\/\">\u201cCustom Time\u201d feature that promises to predate emails<\/a> so they appear to have been sent in the past. \u201cWorry less,\u201d Gmail says. \u201cForget your finance reports. Forget your anniversary. We\u2019ll make it look like you remembered.\u201d<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re looking to stage your own joke on a coworker today, <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/373817\/top-10-harmless-geek-pranks\">Lifehacker has an excellent list of suggestions<\/a>. One example: replace someone\u2019s Windows desktop with an image of the desktop and watch the victim try to click on the unclickable icons. Ah, sometimes it\u2019s the simple things.<br \/>\nEven NASA can\u2019t resist joining the foolery. From the space agency\u2019s popular Astronomy Picture of the Day site comes news that the new space station robot is demanding that humans call it by the name \u201cDextre the Magnificent.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/buzzwatch\/2008\/04\/01\/daily-diversion-the-best-in-april-foolery-from-around-the-web\/?mod=WSJBlog\">Tom Weber<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>OK, so maybe you\u2019re working today instead of surfing around the Web for April Fool\u2019s jokes. Fear not: Buzzwatch is here to help with a roundup of April Foolery online.<br \/>\nAt Google, where April 1 is celebrated annually with jokes throughout the company\u2019s sites, the main offering this year is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/virgle\/index.html\">a chance to join \u201cProject Virgle\u201d and become a Mars colonist<\/a>.<br \/>\nGoogle\u2019s Gmail has its own prank. Users today are informed of a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmail.com\/\">\u201cCustom Time\u201d feature that promises to predate emails<\/a> so they appear to have been sent in the past. \u201cWorry less,\u201d Gmail says. \u201cForget your finance reports. Forget your anniversary. We\u2019ll make it look like you remembered.\u201d<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re looking to stage your own joke on a coworker today, <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/373817\/top-10-harmless-geek-pranks\">Lifehacker has an excellent list of suggestions<\/a>. One example: replace someone\u2019s Windows desktop with an image of the desktop and watch the victim try to click on the unclickable icons. Ah, sometimes it\u2019s the simple things.<br \/>\nEven NASA can\u2019t resist joining the foolery. From the space agency\u2019s popular Astronomy Picture of the Day site comes news that the new space station robot is demanding that humans call it by the name \u201cDextre the Magnificent.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}