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posted by NCommander on Wednesday April 02 2014, @04:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-enough-bacon dept.
A ton of stories came in about various April 1st jokes across the internet, so I've merged them all together into this one summary. The post is a bit too long on the index, so read more to see what silliness people got into this year.

CERN Switches to Comic Sans

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has announced that they are switching to Comic Sans for all official communication. Quoting their press release,

"From today, all of CERN's official communication channels are switching to exclusive use of the font Comic Sans. The move comes after weeks of deliberation by CERN management and top web designers about how best to update the image of the laboratory for this, its 60th anniversary year." This announcment follows a year of intensive study which came to the conclusion that CERN's success is largely due to their choice of font, not their fundamental research and historic discoveries: "80% of the success of the presentation came not from the discovery of a fundamental particle that explains the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism for how particles get mass, but from the choice of font."

Netflix Aires two new original programs!

The bacon overlords are at it again! Netflix has released two new "Netflix Original" shows in the style of "Benjamin Button." "Sizzling Bacon" stars our current masters and "Rotisserie Chicken" debuts a very hot chick in the lead role. Steamy and mind bending!

http://time.com/45154/netflix-april-fools-chicken- bacon-movies/

Bunch of fools - jokes from tech companies.

In honor of the day: A few good april fools pranks in the tech industry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26833860

The Daily WTF Radio is on the air!

Break out your decoder rings, mix up a glass of Ovaltine, and don't touch that dial! It's time for another episode of Radio WTF Presents! Aiming to do something "cool" on this day of April, the team put together a 1/2 hour radio drama.

Google Maps Pokemon Challenge

Looks like an April Fools style thing, not sure how this site Is planning on doing April 1st...
Google Maps: Pokemon Challenge: http://youtu.be/4YMD6xELI_k



You can use Google maps on your smartphone to" catch" Pokemon. After pressing "start" you focus on a cartoon building on the map and there are little Pokemon sprites to touch to catch them. Apparently there are 150 to find with this little easter egg, although it looks like there is a mix of the games as it's not limited to the first 150.

 
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