Apologies for the lack of April Foolery here this year. It has a lot to do with my being up until 2:00am with Day Jobbery.
Other people have been doing a fine job of compiling hoax round-up posts (notably Andrew Wheeler), so I won’t do one here. I will say, however, that the funniest thing I have seen so far this year was a fearless expose of a hoax. If you want to see absolute proof that NASA faked the moon landings, go here. (Thanks MEG!)
Of course I should also add that we in the UK don’t really need April Fool jokes. Why bother with hoaxes, when we have The House of Lords instead.
I think Marjorie will have alerted you to this beauty, by CERN.
Those Moon landing photos are clearly fakes; the truth is here!
I did SO want to believe in this …
” Specially trained ferrets are being used to deliver broadband to rural areas following groundbreaking techniques used by an internet provider. ”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7541455/Ferrets-key-to-bridging-the-digital-divide-between-cities-and-rural-areas.html
For your geeky readers there is RFC 5841.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5841
1. Introduction
In an attempt to anthropomorphize the bit streams on countless
physical layer networks throughout the world, we propose a TCP option to express packet mood [DSM-IV].
George