I’ve spotted several prank postings. My favourite is from Richard Ball, offering a spoof interview about Google use of domain parks. A few others:
- Project Virgle - The most surprising thing was the test result that described me as normal. My wife is convinced that I’m from another planet, and it is much further away than Mars…
- Frank, The Hand Turkey - Maybe I’ve been out of the US for too long.
- The Aussies.
The most confusing incident was that I suddenly started noticing adverts in my Gmail account for “Run Your Car On Water“, on the morning of April 1st. I decided that this must have been a spoofed advert. Only I *still* see it. I think it must have been an unfortunate accident of timing. Looking at it, it just feels like a spoof - appeals to authority, little talking people on the page bottom, and, of course, you’d save money and the environment - except that the physics seems completely bogus. Someone tell me that this is really a joke, please?
Richard Ball wrote,
Thanks for including my post. I wonder if people get the Tang reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_(drink)
Also the AdSense for Conversations prank was quite funny from the Inside AdSense blog, since everyone’s talking about “conversational marketing” these days.
Link | April 3rd, 2008 at 3:05 pm