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		<title>April Fools&#8217; Day: The Foolingest Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt Holman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homer Simpson once said &#8220;You couldn&#8217;t fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life with an electrified fooling machine.&#8221; PopSmart is taking those words to heart, so instead of hoaxing people, we&#8217;ll be linking to the media hoaxes of others. Some of these I found thanks to Livejournal blogger (and former Atlantan) Yendi. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Homer Simpson once said &#8220;You couldn&#8217;t fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life with an electrified fooling machine.&#8221; PopSmart is taking those words to heart, so instead of hoaxing people, we&#8217;ll be linking to the media hoaxes of others. Some of these I found thanks to Livejournal blogger (and former Atlantan) <a href="http://yendi.livejournal.com/" target="_blank">Yendi</a>. I&#8217;ll pass along more as I find them: if you&#8217;ve come across any, mention them in the comments field.</p>
<p>The first one I found this morning was an &#8220;<a href="http://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com/feature.php?feature=2455">interview</a>&#8221; on the web-site <a href="http://hollywoodbitchslap.com/" target="_blank">Hollywood Bitchslap</a> that the director of 21 would be helming a big-screen movie of <em>The Wonder Twins</em>, starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba as the notorious sidekicks from the &#8220;Super Friends&#8221; cartoon.</p>
<p>On <a href="http://www.salon.com/index.html" target="_blank">Salon</a>, Farhad Manjoo of the site&#8217;s &#8216;Machinist&#8217; blog announces his new start-up, &#8220;<a href="http://machinist.salon.com/feature/2008/04/01/igoogleforyou/" target="_blank">I Google For You</a>,&#8221; which is self-explanatory.</p>
<p>Speaking of which, Google is apparently notorious for April Fools&#8217; Day gags, and today announces &#8220;<a href="http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html" target="_blank">Virgle</a>,&#8221; a collaboration with Virgin for history&#8217;s first colony on the surface of Mars. Here is the <a href="http://www.google.com/virgle/application.html" target="_blank">application</a>.</p>
<p>The front page of <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/" target="_blank">ThinkGeek</a> is devoted to new, fake merchandise such as <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/spazztroids.html" target="_blank">Spazztroids Caffeinated Cereal</a> and a video game <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html" target="_blank">Super Pii Pii Brothers</a> (&#8221;Amazing virtual pee experience from Japan!&#8221;).</p>
<p><span id="more-862"></span>The movie news web site <a href="http://www.cinematical.com/" target="_blank">Cinematical</a> breaks the news that Brandon Routh and Christian Bale will <a href="http://www.cinematical.com/2008/04/01/breaking-christian-bale-and-brandon-routh-sign-for-justice-lea/" target="_blank">reprise their roles </a>as Superman and Batman, respectively, in the upcoming, unpromising-sounding <em>Justice League</em> movie.</p>
<p>/Film reported a deal for a <a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/03/31/superman-vs-spider-man-film-announced/">Superman vs. Spiderman</a> film (which actually sounds less implausible than the above).</p>
<p>Entertainment Weekly&#8217;s PopWatch blog has a<a href="http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/04/teletubbies-rec.html"> lame item</a> about one of the Teletubbies being voted out of the &#8220;pod,&#8221; a la &#8220;Survivor&#8221; (Maybe the real joke is that this would have seemed timely nearly 10 years ago.)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/04/01/april-fools-shenanigans-spread-across-the-web/">Firstshowing.net </a>and the website for music news magazine <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/35567">NME</a> offer April Fools&#8217; Day round-up stories. (Thanks to film critic Alonso Duralde for the tip.)<br />
For unbelievably complete round-ups of April Fools&#8217; Pranks, you can find:</p>
<p><a href="http://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/2008.html">April Fools&#8217; Day on the Web, 2008</a></p>
<p>And Wikipedia&#8217;s page for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1,_2008">April 1, 2008</a>, brought to my attention by Livejournal blogger (and current Atlantan) <a href="http://planettom.livejournal.com/">Planettom</a>.</p>
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