All April Fools from Around the World

Think Geek has the SkyTag™ – Green Laser Aircraft Tracker which connects to the USB port of your PC. It costs US$149.99 and comes with software to track a moving aircraft. It allows you to point a green laser at an aircraft to you can identify it. And it is about the only way that you could actually cause a problem to an aircraft since holding a handheld laser pointer at an aircraft and causing a problem to the pilot is not realistic.

Wikipedia has a story about how Encyclopedia Britannica has taken over the free Wikipedia project by force.

MacDailyNews has a story on how Tiger Woods has signed a long term deal with Apple to become the spokesman for Mac OS-X ‘Tiger’.

SSWUG has a story that Microsoft is releasing ‘SQL Server for Linux, Unix-based Systems, Xbox’. Similarly, an official Internet Standard has been released on the topic of Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts which requires that any new Internet Standards are required to include ‘Morality Sections’.
Likelihood of misuse by depraved or sick individuals. This subsection must fully address the possibility that the proposed protocols or protocol extensions might be used for the distribution of blue, smutty, or plain disgusting images.
Likelihood of misuse by large, multi-national corporations. Such a thought is, of course, unthinkable.
It is no longer appropriate to refer to “jumbo packets”. Please use the term “capacitorially challenged”.
Packet Switching: Sounds like fraud to me.

SpaceDaily has a story about how George W Bush has immediately cancelled the entire Space Shuttle Program. Google have released a drink, called ‘Google Gulp’, and this is to ‘Quench your thirst for knowledge.’

ThinkGeek also has another product which is lifesize magnetic balls and rods.

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