Best April Fools Pranks

I was gutted when I found out Newton’s Virus wouldn’t work on any of the laptops in our office (hopefully they’ll bring out an update soon), because this art virus would have made a great prank:

Instead I went into one of my workmates computers and added some things to their autocorrect. They haven’t discovered it yet, but next time they write an email with “what the fuck” it will be automatically corrected to “what the fudge”. It’s quite polite really.

With 12oclock just passed that’s it for my pranks. I’m looking forward to seeing what the big American companies do later today. In the meantime here are some of the better ones to come out so far:

Artline Tweeter 140 – a pen that tweets as you write

Kirspy Kreme put out a career ad looking for a new donut hole puncher

Pirate Bay saw an eBay auction for the site itself and are now The Pirat eBay

Turns out Australia is going to host the 2022 World Cup after all

Someone is getting their eight year old kid tattooed in order to win tickets to Chris Brown

$10 for a 2 hour dolphin harness ride around Auckland

Google realises it’s own service Places is a content farm and has omitted it from search results.

Apple store to open in NZ <- for international readers this is DEFINITELY a joke (hat tip @LukeChandler)

Sunglasses that will block out all ads

Seen anything else good?