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Google gets funny, too
Australian and British newspapers aren’t the only ones having fun with April Fool’s Day as I noted in a previous blog entry. CNet.com reports:
As expected, Google’s Gmail rolled out a fake “custom time” feature, which purports to let users send e-mails into the past and consequently never miss important deadlines again. The new feature “utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality,” Google wrote.
There’s also this link to Virgle, a fake colloboration between Google and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic for a Mars expedition. Pretty funny stuff.
Happy April Fool’s Day and don’t get your leg yanked too hard.
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By Matthew O'Ryan
April 1, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this
Ken, I think there is a typo in the headline. It should read: “Google gets unfunny, too”.
April Fools Day has meteorically become the most obnoxious day of the entire calendar year.
It is this day, when otherwise reputable publications, such as Infoworld, flush their goodwill and reader trust for shallow and completely unfunny jokes. I cannot and do not understand why a publisher would allow April Fools to be celebrated with company resources.
This nonsense doesn’t need to be encouraged.