Yesterday, Google announced "Google Gulp (BETA)™ with Auto-Drink™ (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of "smart drinks" designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty." Google's blurb also says:
From time to time, in order to improve Google Gulp's usefulness for our users, Google Gulp will send packets of data related to your usage of this product from a wireless transmitter embedded in the base of your Google Gulp bottle to the GulpPlex™, a heavily guarded, massively parallel server farm whose location is known only to Eric Schmidt, who carries its GPS coordinates on a 64-bit-encrypted smart card locked in a stainless-steel briefcase handcuffed to his right wrist. No personally identifiable information of any kind related to your consumption of Google Gulp or any other current or future Google Foods product will ever be given, sold, bartered, auctioned off, tossed into a late-night poker pot, or otherwise transferred in any way to any untrustworthy third party, ever, we swear.
Oh yes, here's a good place to search for more info: Yagoohoogle.com.
The Mac Observer had a nice almost-believeable story, Apple Adopts Windows Media for iTunes, iPod. By contrast, The Register's Apple founder Jobs joins IKEA sounded pretty unconvincing but the execution makes it well worth the trip.
My favourite read of the day (excerpted here in The Guardian) was the Scientific American editorial, Okay, We Give Up. This admitted being swayed by mountains of scientific evidence into endorsing Darwinism instead of giving equal time to "scientific creationism" and similar rubbish.
There are dozen's more April Fool links collected at Urgo.org.
