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Mar 31, 2012#1

blotsfan

I know its still March, but google already put its april fools joke up. I think its really funny.

http://maps.google.com/?t=8

And I'm trying to find all the landmarks they made a special symbol for. For now I have:

Buckingham Palace/Big Ben
Pyramids/Sphynx
Berlin TV Tower
Empire State/Chrysler Buildings
Google headquarters
Shanghai Pearl Building
Gateway Arch
Easter Island Head
Chichen Itza
Biosphere/Habitat 67, Montreal
Nazca Lines
Space Needle
Eames House
The Kremlin/St Basils Cathedral
The Parthenon
Ocean Park, Hong Kong
Taj Mahal
Skytree, Tokyo
Mt Fuji
Mt Everest
Hollywood Sign
CN tower
The Collesium
Ayers Rock
Ireland Parliament
Sydney Opera House
Eifel Tower/Louvre/Arc de Triumph
Table Mountain, South Africa
White House/Washington Monument/Martin Luther King Memorial

Mar 31, 2012#2

Shegokigo

Wow Google. You are too awesome.

Mar 31, 2012#3

Hailey Knight

Tomorrow's gonna be hijinkerrific! :awesome:

Mar 31, 2012#4

fade

Ah, April Fool's. The day when a bunch of spoil sports get their panties in a bunch when websites they're reading for free make minor jokes.

Mar 31, 2012#5

Cheesy1

Oh man, it even goes to street view! My town all pixelated is awesome!

Mar 31, 2012#6

ElJuski

Kind of impressed the Lithuanian Embassy and "Madam's Organ" pop up as high up as they do. This is actually pretty neat!

Mar 31, 2012#7

Silver Jelly

Sagrada Familia at Barcelona!

Mar 31, 2012#8

Bowielee

Can we keep this? I kinda like it.

Mar 31, 2012#9

checkeredhat

I saw the 8bit google maps earlier, but didn't even realize it had special icons for certain landmarks. That makes it so much cooler

Mar 31, 2012#10

BErt

Area 51

is fantastic!

Late spoiler edit because I'm an idiot and should have done it earlier. Oops.

Mar 31, 2012#11

checkeredhat

Also,

Mount Rushmore
Alcatraz
The Embaracadero
Statue of Liberty
Area 51 (zoom in to 2000 ft/500 m)
Loch Ness (you have to look around a bit, but it's there)

Mar 31, 2012#12

checkeredhat

damn, BErt beat me to it.

BUT!

There is one at Roswell, New Mexico too.

Mar 31, 2012#13

checkeredhat

Okay, I looked up Lapland, too see if they had a Santa's Workshop in Lapland, Finland. It took me to Lapland, Indiana instead. And I found something not too far from there that I don't know what it is. Look up Morristown, Indiana and it'll bring you closer.

Mar 31, 2012#14

BErt

I can't upload pics right now to clarify, but has anyone else found

the two kids(?) in propeller beanies? [/spoilers]

Any idea what that's about?

Mar 31, 2012#15

checkeredhat

BErt said:
I can't upload pics right now to clarify, but has anyone else found

the two kids(?) in propeller beanies? [/spoilers]

Any idea what that's about?

They're EVERYWHERE! My friend says they mark Google Locations?

Mar 31, 2012#16

BErt

Ah....could be. That makes more sense if you look at them closer.

Mar 31, 2012#17

checkeredhat

BErt said:
Late spoiler edit because I'm an idiot and should have done it earlier. Oops.

The only reason I'm spoilering any of this is cause blotsfan did.

Mar 31, 2012#18

fade

Found the

Statue of Liberty
Empire State Building
Chrysler Building

And did you try street view?

Mar 31, 2012#19

checkeredhat

What the heck is this?

Mar 31, 2012#20

BErt

Yeah it didn't even occur to me at first, but I can see someone getting upset if they wanted to search on their own. I'll hide anything else I find.

Everything about this map is fantastic. Even the little things, like how Square Enix has the shared Copywrite.

Mar 31, 2012#21

fade

Surprised the transamerica pyramid got no love

Mar 31, 2012#22

checkeredhat

I found a few more:

Tokyo Tower
Grand Hyaft, Tokyo (I don't even know what this is, but its near the Tokyo Tower so I found it)
Hamamatsucho, Tokyo(See above)

fade said:
Surprised the transamerica pyramid got no love

There's a few I thought would get one that didn't

Stone Henge, Machu Pichu, the Golden Gate Bridge, the West Edmonton Mall, Canadian Parliament Buildings, Easter Island...

Mar 31, 2012#23

BErt

looks like major zoos get a panda sprite. San Diego has one, and DC also...I'm sure there are more.

EDIT: another one that makes no sense like Morristown is Otisville, MI ( you may have to zoom out)

I think they threw those in there just for the hell of it.

Mar 31, 2012#24

checkeredhat

I was looking along the west coast states and provinces to see if there was a bigfoot. I didn't find one, but I found these:

???

Mar 31, 2012#25

BErt

I showed those to my friend who knows more about old RPGs than I do and he said they're old Dragon Quest sprites. Which makes sense since Square Enix has a Copywrite on the map.

As for why they're there I still can't figure it out...maybe they're just random encounters?

Mar 31, 2012#26

figmentPez

Mar 31, 2012#27

Terrik

Damn, I forgot that was today.

Mar 31, 2012#28

blotsfan

Haha sorry for the spoiler confusion. I was afraid the list would get too long and be obnoxious.

Mar 31, 2012#29

General Specific

Sequential Art's page: http://www.collectedcurios.com/

Mar 31, 2012#30

Allen who is Quiet

GiantITP forums are now Ponyland

Mar 31, 2012#31

figmentPez

ThinkGeek's new products are up:
Inflatable Star Trek Captain's Chair (real!)
Minecraft Marshmallow Creeps
Star Wars Admiral Ackbar Singing Bass
Technomancer Digital Wizard Hoodie
Electronic Hungy Hungry Hippos for iPad
Game of Thrones Fire and Blood Perfume
Barbie Digital Fashion Styling Head for iPad
Skyrim Electronic Dragon Shout Hoodie

Mar 31, 2012#32

General Specific

Holy shit, I want the singing Admiral Ackbar bass

Apr 1, 2012#33

Frank

Apparently Skrillex just died. Yeah, ok.

Apr 1, 2012#34

blotsfan

xkcd's is great.

Apr 1, 2012#35

redthirtyone

Foxtrot is awesome today

http://www.foxtrot.com/

Apr 1, 2012#36

Bowielee

So, wouldn't it suck to die on April fools day? No one would actually believe that you're dead.

Apr 1, 2012#37

Bowielee

Well, Blizzard has their stuff up... I'm a little underwhelmed.

Though, props for the Pee-wee reference here: http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/supplydepot/

Apr 1, 2012#38

Just Me

General Specific said:
Holy shit, I want the singing Admiral Ackbar bass

Heck, why not? Isn't that how the Tauntaun sleeping bag came to be, first a joke and then demand made it real?

Apr 1, 2012#39

evilmike

redthirtyone said:
Foxtrot is awesome today

http://www.foxtrot.com/

That would explain this...

Bowielee said:
So, wouldn't it suck to die on April fools day? No one would actually believe that you're dead.

And, you know... the whole "being dead" thing.

Also, The latest Gmail upgrade:

Apr 1, 2012#40

Sparhawk

Adblock add-on is showing pictures of cats instead of just blank space today. Just noticed that the usual little stop sign at the top of my browser has a cat paw in it now.

Apr 1, 2012#41

Hailey Knight

redthirtyone said:
Foxtrot is awesome today

http://www.foxtrot.com/

I had that thought--wouldn't it be terrible if HBO's premiering it today was only a joke and they were really waiting for next week. Like that one time with South Park...

Apr 1, 2012#42

SeraRelm

¡ʇı pıp suosdɯıs

Apr 1, 2012#43

fade

http://imgur.com/a/7HOEu#0

A woman adds a bunch of text replacements to husband's iPhone.

Apr 1, 2012#44

fade

Takei's FB joke was funny.

Friends, I'm thrilled to share this news with you today. As announced at Emerald City Comicon, where I'm appearing this weekend, Paramount Pictures has green-lit a new Star Trek Movie entitled "Excelsior" in which I will play the captain. This announcement is part of Paramount Studio's 100th-year anniversary campaign. The studio has acknowledged the fan enthusiasm for this concept ever since I appeared in command of the vessel in "The Undiscovered Country." J.J. Abrams will direct, with Robert Orci again writing the screenplay.

My co-star in Allegiance, Paulo Montalban, has been cast opposite me to play the mercurial "Agha," the grandson of Khan (played by Ricardo Montalban in the Second Star Trek Movie). Also featured are Gilbert Gottfried (playing a wily Ferengi First Officer) and Lisa Lampanelli (as a Bajoran security officer).

More to come on this breaking story soon. Thanks again for the years of support, and I'll see you on the Bridge of "Excelsior."

Apr 1, 2012#45

ThatNickGuy

I'm not gonna lie. I would watch the hell out of that.

Apr 1, 2012#46

SeraRelm

˙ʇɐɥʇ ɥɔʇɐʍ ʎllɐʇoʇ plnoʍ I

Apr 1, 2012#47

General Specific

SWTOR's april fool's day joke is underwhelming

Apr 1, 2012#48

Piotyr

Bowielee said:
Well, Blizzard has their stuff up... I'm a little underwhelmed.

Though, props for the Pee-wee reference here: http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/supplydepot/

Zergling teaches typing is pretty amusing.

Apr 1, 2012#49

Silver Jelly

https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/multitask.html

Apr 1, 2012#50

figmentPez

blotsfan said:
xkcd's is great.

I don't think I would have gotten that one if you hadn't pointed it out to me. Well played xkcd.

Apr 1, 2012#51

figmentPez

Obscurus Lupa Presents: Star Wars A New Hope

Brows Held High: Eraserhead

Apr 1, 2012#52

fade

figmentPez said:
Obscurus Lupa Presents: Star Wars A New Hope

Wow are the non AFD ones this bad? I want 12.5 minutes of my life back.

Apr 1, 2012#53

Piotyr

For when advanced search just isn't quite advanced enough...Google's Really Advanced Search.

Apr 1, 2012#54

David

Homestarrunner updated for april fools!
http://homestarrunner.com/

Apr 1, 2012#55

figmentPez

Cosplayer Yaya Han started a Facebook fan page... for her boobs.

Apr 1, 2012#56

Mathias

David said:
Homestarrunner updated for april fools!
http://homestarrunner.com/

They do the same thing every year. Homestar's lame.

Apr 1, 2012#57

Mathias

HAHA! Blizzard is too funny. They're WoW mainpage has an ad for Diablo 3 to come out this May. HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA! APRIL FOOLS!

Apr 1, 2012#58

Frank

We got nature April fooled. It snowed 4 inches of wet, icy sludge.

Apr 1, 2012#59

Silver Jelly

David said:
Homestarrunner updated for april fools!
http://homestarrunner.com/

Has it? or was that an april fools joke?

Apr 1, 2012#60

Bowielee

evilmike said:
Also, The latest Gmail upgrade:

Was that LL Cool J at the end there?

Apr 1, 2012#61

LittleSin

Frank said:
We got nature April fooled. It snowed 4 inches of wet, icy sludge.

Same here...except we got 30 inches of snow after it being 10 degrees the day before.

Apr 1, 2012#62

blotsfan

David said:
Homestarrunner updated for april fools!
http://homestarrunner.com/

I hate you so so much.

Apr 1, 2012#63

Frank

LittleSin said:
Same here...except we got 30 inches of snow after it being 10 degrees the day before.

Well, uh, that's impossible. 30 cm?

Apr 1, 2012#64

Silver Jelly

ok, it was.

...

Apr 1, 2012#65

LittleSin

Frank said:
Well, uh, that's impossible. 30 cm?

Woop!

Yes...3ocm.

Apr 1, 2012#66

David

Apr 1, 2012#67

figmentPez

Apr 1, 2012#68

Silver Jelly

David said:

Apr 2, 2012#69

Sparhawk

I'm actually sad this morning, all my kitties are gone. I kinda liked the ad-block with kitties.

Apr 2, 2012#70

Dave

Sparhawk said:
I'm actually sad this morning, all my kitties are gone. I kinda liked the ad-block with kitties.

Apparently if the author gets $$ they'll let you have catblock for good.

Apr 1, 2013#71

evilmike

April Fools, 2013 edition

Play-Doh 3D Printer

Adventure Time BMO Interactive Buddy

Alien Chestburster in a Can

Death Star Trech Toss

Bane-inspired Walkie Talkies

Eye of

Sauron Desk Lamp

Creeper Body Pillow

Apr 1, 2013#72

Shakey

I want that desk lamp!

Apr 1, 2013#73

sixpackshaker

I want the trench toss...

Apr 1, 2013#74

blotsfan

I always get the impression that thinkgeek uses April fools to show the products they made but are unsure about, and then release the ones people like.

Apr 1, 2013#75

Covar

Google Maps has gone old timey.

Apr 1, 2013#76

TommiR

My nation, one that I've spent more than several years in carefully husbanding from a minuscule and insignificant piece of dirt into one of the largest countries in the region, is on the brink of destruction as it seems destined to fall to the world-wide zombie apocalypse which began earlier today. Attempts to find a cure for the virus have so far proven inadequate, and the situation remains catastrophic as the number of survivors is a mere 2.60% out of the pre-apocalypse population. The current numbers are disheartening:

Survivors: 210,072,767
Zombies: 5,425,109,948
Dead: 2,442,296,664

And to think that, just a couple of weeks ago, I celebrated my nation breaking the 8 billion people barrier... This shit had better be an April Fools thing.

Apr 1, 2013#77

Dave

Covar said:
Google Maps has gone old timey.

Street view is a hoot!

Apr 1, 2013#78

Gilgamesh

Dave said:
Street view is a hoot!

Reminds you of your childhood?

Apr 1, 2013#79

Ravenpoe

Gilgamesh said:
Reminds you of your childhood?

Childhood wasn't yet invented. Dave was born fully grown.

Apr 1, 2013#80

ThatNickGuy

YouTube is finally ending their 8-year Best Video contest!

Apr 1, 2013#81

Dei

My son wants the creeper body pillow really bad lol.

Apr 1, 2013#82

Gilgamesh

Dei said:
My son wants the creeper body pillow really bad lol.

Yep, my oldest said the same thing.

Apr 1, 2013#83

Covar

ThatNickGuy said:
YouTube is finally ending their 8-year Best Video contest!

They're streaming the nominee announcements :rofl:

Apr 1, 2013#84

Gryfter

evilmike said:
April Fools, 2013 edition

Play-Doh 3D Printer

Adventure Time BMO Interactive Buddy

Alien Chestburster in a Can

Death Star Trech Toss

Bane-inspired Walkie Talkies
Eye of

Sauron Desk Lamp

Creeper Body Pillow

How did you miss....

The Batman family car decal kit

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f483/

Apr 1, 2013#85

fade

The number of people that fell for redbox's FB prank is astounding. The posted that the machines would now also sell sandwiches. The had nice artwork to go with it, but come on.

Apr 1, 2013#86

Dave

People who fall for April fool's jokes on that kind of a scale are just....stupid.

But what's amusing is when the sites stay up and people see them on like April 4 so they believe it.

Apr 1, 2013#87

SpecialKO

Was tempted to post this in the GoT thread for shits and giggles, but adding it here to keep 4/1 stuff in one place.

Warwick Davis to replace Peter Dinklage in GoT next season.

Apr 1, 2013#88

figmentPez

Dave said:
People who fall for April fool's jokes on that kind of a scale are just....stupid.

But Scope's new bacon flavored mouthwash is real, right?

Apr 1, 2013#89

Just Me

My heart just skipped a beat nonetheless...

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/201...e-disney-to-acquire-middle-earth-enterprises/

Apr 1, 2013#90

Covar

SpecialKO said:
Was tempted to post this in the GoT thread for shits and giggles, but adding it here to keep 4/1 stuff in one place.

Warwick Davis to replace Peter Dinklage in GoT next season.

It finally hit me last week while taking an indefinite break from writing The Winds of Winter to catch up on some of my favorite movies

Apr 1, 2013#91

Eriol

From the brits: Guardian Goggles http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2013/apr/01/guardian-goggles-video

Apr 1, 2013#92

sixpackshaker

Dave said:
Street view is a hoot!

It looks really good with my 150 year old downtown district.

Apr 1, 2013#93

Frank

April Fools on the internet is usually insufferably terrible.

Cracked's however, is pretty fucking brilliant.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-guilty-pleasures-that-are-secretly-saving-world/

Apr 1, 2013#94

fade

I hate, like, everything, and even I can't figure out why so many people complain about internet April Fool's pranks. At best they're funny, at worst a minor inconvenience.

Apr 1, 2013#95

figmentPez

Spoony made an awesome April Fools video

Apr 1, 2013#96

evilmike

Mars rover Curiosity has threatened to quit Twitter after receiving abuse from trolls on Earth.

Apr 1, 2013#97

Frank

fade said:
I hate, like, everything, and even I can't figure out why so many people complain about internet April Fool's pranks. At best they're funny, at worst a minor inconvenience.

Usually it's either outright lies that aren't funny or shit that makes using websites more of a pain in the ass. When they're unobtrusive or even a bit funny (Netflix)

or they're rad (whatever Google does), great. If only the internet had a clever filter.

Apr 1, 2013#98

Dei

Did Blizzard not do one this year?

Apr 1, 2013#99

Gilgamesh

Dei said:
Did Blizzard not do one this year?

Blizzard has been slack ass for a few years on their holidays recently.

It's all been rehashes of previous holidays. All ingame holiday events have had no new quests/stories and only updated the same items from previous years with new stats/iLVL. The April Fools this year was just their Crabby forum thing with the same lines it had last year.

Apr 1, 2013#100

checkeredhat

Apparently, Facebook's prank is to disrergard virtually all instruction you give it when uploading photos, and just arbitrarily upload a portion of the selected files to upload, and upload doubles of a few of them, and then put them in the wrong order and not display any descriptions, tags or locations you put in.

Apr 1, 2013#101

Chad Sexington

checkeredhat said:
Apparently, Facebook's prank is to disrergard virtually all instruction you give it when uploading photos, and just arbitrarily upload a portion of the selected files to upload, and upload doubles of a few of them, and then put them in the wrong order and not display any descriptions, tags or locations you put in.

HA! Classic.

Apr 2, 2013#102

bhamv3

checkeredhat said:
Apparently, Facebook's prank is to disrergard virtually all instruction you give it when uploading photos, and just arbitrarily upload a portion of the selected files to upload, and upload doubles of a few of them, and then put them in the wrong order and not display any descriptions, tags or locations you put in.

And to mess with people super effectively, they started doing that before April 1st even came around! Way way before, in fact!

Apr 2, 2013#103

checkeredhat

bhamv3 said:
And to mess with people super effectively, they started doing that before April 1st even came around! Way way before, in fact!

It's been a long time since I posted photos to facebook.
However, I will say, no joke, that I tried for the sixth time to upload these photos at 12:13am April 2nd (13 minutes after the end of April Fools' Day), and they uploaded in some semblance of order (ordered by date taken on the camera, correctly, though for some reason there were still a few doubles made that were put out of order), and saved all my changes, including reordering, I put in on Facebook.

Apr 2, 2013#104

bhamv3

checkeredhat said:
It's been a long time since I posted photos to facebook.
However, I will say, no joke, that I tried for the sixth time to upload these photos at 12:13am April 2nd (13 minutes after the end of April Fools' Day), and they uploaded in some semblance of order (ordered by date taken on the camera, correctly, though for some reason there were still a few doubles made that were put out of order), and saved all my changes, including reordering, I put in on Facebook.

I tried uploading photos a week or two ago, and they bugged out exactly like you described earlier. I ended up having to upload them one by one, just so they wouldn't randomly repeat or skip photos.

Apr 2, 2013#105

phil

Dei said:
Did Blizzard not do one this year?

So for SC2 they said that because they liked the art for a Terran unit called the hell hound (I think) but it was never included in the game. So they said that terran gets it, but to not make it over powered all the other races got it too.

They just changed the harvester skin.

Apr 2, 2013#106

Frank

Is that why the harvester was so messed up.

It happened just as I tried muliplayer for the first time in years and I had thought that I had some setting switched somewhere since the entire multiplayer interface was alien to me.

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