Outing An April Fool 'Joke'

[6Foot2]

The Pineberry: Only on sale at selected Waitrose stores.

 

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/Mar/Week4/15589188.jpg

 

Link to Sky "News" article: Pineberries At Waitrose: Spring Fruit Looks Like Strawberry But Tastes Like Pineapple | Business | Sky News

 

Wikipedia article revealing the hoax: [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineberry]Pineberry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

[AngryTechnician]

The Wikipedia article has a lot of editing going on today...

[Domino]

Nobody tried this then...?

 

[nomedia=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I24bSteJpw&feature=player_embedded]YouTube- Introducing Google Translate for Animals[/nomedia]

 

I know dos_box has an android handset :-p

[kevbaz]

See the incredible new innovation set to take football by storm | The Sun |Sport|Football

 

[jlucas]

Best one I've seen so far:

 

Ben & Jerry's in the UK

 

Would love to see some people licking their screens.

[tmcd35]

I'm liking the speed of google searches today. My last search was completed in "2.00 shakes of a lambs tail"

[danrhodes]

I'm liking the speed of google searches today. My last search was completed in "2.00 shakes of a lambs tail"

 

0.02 femtogalactic years

0.66 times the velocity of an unladen swallow

at warp 9.17

0.85e-15 epochs

11.90 parsecs

0.15 centibeats

0.32e+43 Planck times

 

Excellent!

[kevbaz]

Best one I've seen so far:

 

Ben & Jerry's in the UK

 

Would love to see some people licking their screens.

 

haha just sent that to our staffmail

[danrhodes]

haha just sent that to our staffmail

 

Ha I've done the same!

[powdarrmonkey]

I'm liking the speed of google searches today. My last search was completed in "2.00 shakes of a lambs tail"

 

I had "at warp 9.05" and "in 1.02 micro-fortnights".

[the_one_that_cant]

I got permission from the IT coordinator at my school to display the end of the internet as the homepage. Shame I have too busy hobbling around on the sprained ankle to implement it.

End of the internet

[glensc]

The fine people at Alpkit have got a new advanced fall protection system

Cheap large bouldering mat - Sflash

[JJonas]

Best one I've seen so far:

 

Ben & Jerry's in the UK

 

Would love to see some people licking their screens.

 

Borrowed their graphics made a banner for it and posted a link on our intranet. Now watching to see what will happen.

[Hightower]

Nobody tried this then...?

 

YouTube- Introducing Google Translate for Animals

 

I know dos_box has an android handset :-p

 

See my related thread:

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/53650-googles-new-service.html

[kevbaz]

slight problem with the ice cream one is at the bottom there is an actual free ice cream offer! some staff here didnt even read the main text in the page just clicked straight onto the free cone link...

[somabc]

guest@xkcd

 

UNIX XKCD is awesome!

 

try find problem, find ninja, find keys, make me a sandwich, sudo make me a sandwich and find kitten

[Rawns]

I'm liking the speed of google searches today. My last search was completed in "2.00 shakes of a lambs tail"

 

"Results 1 - 10 of about 284,000,000 for winter [definition]. (1.21 gigawatts)"

 

Doc Brown would be proud!