So, what are the best pranks people saw during this year's April Fools?

My contribution comes from a government website, amazingly enough: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages ... wlett.aspx]Library and Archives Canada’s major acquisition of the declassified journals and military records of Canadian supersoldier James "Logan" Howlett (If that doesn't work on April 2, see http://web.archive.org/web/201604012339 ... wlett.aspx]the Wayback Machine copy.) Yep, Wolverine's declassified WWI/WWII/Cold War records.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

North Korea has now threatened to nuke China.  Not Taiwan; the People's Republic of China, its only remaining ally.  Make that formerly remaining ally, I guess.  Oh, and being North Korea, it claims it'll be totally victorious.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

Doug can find out where the fire is, with this song...

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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

...A Song of the Day?

VNV Nation's Off Screen from the album Transnational.The lyrics fit the initial phases of Mamorou and Usagi's relationship with its hit-or-miss antics so closely that the feels almost hurt.

Lyrics:

The lighting is set, are we ready out to play out the scene?
Discarding direction, instinctively playing the leads.
Cast in dangerous roles, cameos of us in our lives,
Try to outshine the spotlights, lines we've improvised.

Precious lies, words that we say to ease our minds,
Hide our face behind a mask contrived,
Lose ourselves a thousand times inside.
This is where we draw the line,
There's nothing else to give but what you see,
Only sacrifice, blood, and tears.

To a flickering light, impressions unfold on the screen,
Silhouetted in half-truths, bathe in the glow of a silver dream.
Living life off the stage, tragedy to victory,
Shadows of past lives in the final scenes.

Precious lies, words that we say to ease our minds,
Hide our face behind a mask contrived,
Lose ourselves a thousand times inside.
This is where we draw the line,
There's nothing else to give but what you see,
Only sacrifice, blood, and tears.

Precious lies, words that we say to ease our minds,
Hide our face behind a mask contrived,
Lose ourselves a thousand times inside.
This is where we draw the line,
There's nothing else to give but what you see,
Only sacrifice and tears.

Precious lies, words that we say to ease our minds,
Hide our face behind a mask contrived,
Lose ourselves a thousand times inside.
This is where we draw the line,
There's nothing else to give but what you see,
Only sacrifice, blood, and tears.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/m ... emorabilia]Houdini commissioned H.P. Lovecraft to ghostwrite a book for him.  The never-completed manuscript, thought lost for decades, has just been rediscovered.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I'm throwing this out for someone to take and run with if they want, because I'm still working on the Subversive Literature Act at the moment and I'm afraid I'll forget about this if I don't.
This isn't intended as something big, but maybe it can be a future story seed:  environmentalists on earth complaining about the Venus and Mars terraforming projects destroying the "natural beauty" of both those planets.  While I'm personally very much in favor of environmentalism as a whole, I am aware of the lunatics out on the far edge, and it only seems appropriate that we have a few even more extreme types in Fenspace, who can't be bothered -- or are too scared -- to go into space themselves, but have no problems criticizing things the Fen are doing with inhospitable planets on the ideological grounds that humans have no right to do anything but eat, breathe and shit -- and maybe not even that much.
I figure we can have a little fun lampooning the extremists with even-more-extreme extremists.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Ted Cruz http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/0 ... character/]endorses Applejack as best pony.

--The Twisted One
 
"If you
wish to converse with me, define your
terms."

--Voltaire

I'm looking for something that block ads, not http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/14 ... rnational/]replaces them with other ads.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

First week in October, I'll be landing in Tokyo.

Have 6 days to do things... and would like to get Hiroshima, or Hakone into the mix.

I'll gladly take suggestions. On a tight budget....
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

I dunno if I posted this here or not.  And I didn't want to put it in the Video thread because I was afraid it either take over the thread or get lost in everything else.

This is Kaizo Trap.

Kaizo is a Japanese word that basically translates to 'Modified' or 'Hacked'.  It started seeing usage in gamer culture with the advent of 'Kaizo Mario World' which was a hacked version of Super Mario World for the SNES that was insanely hard - the very first predecessor of of the absurdly hard Mario Maker games people make today.

And in fine Kaizo fashion, this video has five secret endings that you can find.  You will only find one link to the next ending in each video.  The clues are hidden, usually in hexadecimal code... and sometimes even in binary... but it always translates out into ASCII.

I will give you guys one hint to get started...  Your first clue is cleverly hidden in the instruction manual we see near the beginning of the video.

Good luck, gentlemen.