No pranks from me today, I’m not that good at fooling people. Instead, I’m going to keep my eyes out for online pranks and post them here as I find them.

1. On YouTube, clicking on one of the front page videos takes you to an announcement about their new Text-Only” Mode, or “TEXTP”.  The description says

TEXTp is the result of months of intense transcoding efforts by our engineers, who toiled for weeks to ensure that a large chunk of videos on the platform could be reduced to their most basic elements. By replacing the images in the video with a series of letters and numbers, the videos are far less taxing on our system — and have the added benefit of promoting literacy!

HAHAHAHAHA!!! You’ve got to see this video they call “Lego Matrix: Trinity, Help” – there’s nothing pranky about it, it’s just awesome-

2. Google is well-known for their April Fool’s Day pranks, and they’ve got  good ones today. First, Google Search has been renamed, so instead of offering to Google something, you can offer to “Topeka” it:

Their U.K. site announced a new Android App called “Translate for Animals“, which made me bust out laughing, and on the Google Voice page, they announced “Standard Voicemail Mode”  (“Nothing soothes the soul like going through six steps to access my voicemail.”) ha!

3. Funny or Die has renamed themselves “Bieber or Die” today, including today’s “Featured Biebs”.  One announcement says that Justin Bieber has decided to buy Funny or Die and “do with it whatever his tiny little heart desires.” ha!!

4. Trip Advisor announced that Space Travel is now open to the public, including Rants and Raves about trips to the moon. An obvious prank but still funny!

5.  And this one from PostRank announces their new “DoucheRank” service.

The proprietary algorithms analyze myriad data points and normalize publishers’ social networking efforts against their relentless thirst for attention and accolades, resulting in a comprehensive score that definitely answers that age-old quandary: “Am I a douche?”

Number one on their list is JohnMayer.com with 31895908 douche points – *snort*

Click the related links at the end of this post for more pranks, and check the #AprilFools hashtag on Twitter, people are finding lots of good ones. Have you found any you want to share? Leave the link in the comment!

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