Ah, April 1st, easily one of the most fun days online, as literally hundreds of websites post gags-a-plenty. Here’s a quick listing of what I’ve liked so far…

  • Google Australia announces g’Day with MATE, which allows you to Google ahead one day in the future.
  • Google USA announces Custom Time, which allows you to set the time an e-mail was sent, so your e-mails never appear late again.
  • ThinkGeek offers a handful of fake products, including a caffeinated cereal, WiiSports for the iPhone, and a BetaMax-to-HD-DVD converter.
  • YouTube’s front page has every single featured video going straight to RickRolls.
  • Popular Webcomics XKCD, Questionable Content, and Dinosaur Comics have swapped URLs for the day.
  • YTMND has announced they’re shutting down, but oddly enough, the HTML has a hidden message saying this is not an April Fool’s gag. We’ll see, I suppose.
  • [adult swim] got into the act by broadcasting what is apparently a rough cut of the first episode of The Venture Brothers Season 3. They typically do a more over the top gag on April 1st proper, so we’ll see what airs tonight.
  • Google gets us again with Virgle, an attempt to populate the moon.
  • The long-winded ARG for The Dark Knight continues today with Clown Travel Agency. Could this lead to a new trailer?
  • Blizzard Entertainment perhaps wins the award for the most ambitious series of April Fool’s Gags, as they announce the long awaited console port of World of Warcraft, The Molten Core; a new class in StarCraft II; the official Diablo Loot Pinata; and a rather rockin’ new class for WoW.
  • Docs.Google.Com allows you to create paper airplanes!
  • Microsoft has a slue of great new XBox products available.
  • City of Heroes announces VISUAL SOUND!
  • IGN whoops EVERYONE’s ass with this unusally well done Legend of Zelda movie trailer.

There’s a far more in depth listing of sites here, but I’ll keep updating with my favs as the day goes on.

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