April 1, 2002

• The Register: reported AOL buying up weblogs
• The Open Directory re-branded itself as the 'Microsoft Directory Project'
• Kuro5hin acquired MetaFilter, renaming it to met4filter.org
• Slashdot announced that it would start posting advertiser-sponsored news stories, and disable anonymous posting.
• Google described its PigeonRank system.
• The Guardian profiled Harmony Cousins
• CPAN renamed itself the 'Comprehensive Java Archive Network'
• The annual spoof Linus Torvalds post on the Linux kernel mailing list announced his resignation from the Linux effort
• IETF published April 1st RFCs RFC3251 (Distribution of electricity over IP) and RFC3252 (Encapsulating IP in XML).
• MIT changed its home page to a spoof of the Google home page.
• a spoof Yahoo News story was circulated stating that PK Interactive had received funding from idealab! http://www.idealab.com/ (note: check the URL above closely)
• The TidBITS newsletter offered a spoof issue
• The Tom's Hardware website reported that AMD and nVIDIA were to merge.
• The BBC reported more April Fools' pranks including the announced 'flotation' of Harrods.
• CNN reported that two Montreal disk jockeys managed to phone Bill Gates on the pretext that one of them was Canadian prime minister Jean Chrtien wanting to set up a meeting with Gates. What CNN didn't mention is that these two have a reputation for their audacious prank calls. Previous recipients of their attention have included Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II.
• Blizzard Entertainment, the computer game company that produced Warcraft III, announced they would be adding a fifth playable race to the game: the Pandaren, a race of bamboo-eating, sword-wielding warriors.

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