Happy April Fool’s Day!

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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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDe4v318f64&feature=featured&textp=fool 2. Google is well-known for their April Fool's Day pranks, and they've got  good … [Read more...]