April Fool's, by Google

-- a beta release of Gmail Paper with free, unlimited printing capabilities on environmentally-friendly soybean sputum paper

-- a new page-ranking system called PigeonRank

-- free broadband internet at home (installed in your toilet, mind you)

-- posting for a job on the Moon at Google's Copernicus Center.

Yuk yuk.

April Fool's, by LiveJournal

http://news.livejournal.com/97749.html

Verrry funny. A conversion to a MySpace-style layout, an automatic addition of bradfitz to everyone's friends list, and more. The funniest part is the comments from people who didn't realize it was a joke. 1,613 comments on that post so far, and counting.

By the way, what a tribute to bradfitz's memcache programming that a single post can get so deluged with views and comments and not ever crash. Try that with Blogger or WordPress. Forget about it!

LJ rawks. From a technical perspective and otherwise.