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April Fools comes up but twice a year.

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The most haunted item on Ebay is a doll that has a great Ebay page to go with it, complete with spooky toy piano type tinkle sounds. Apparently, the baby doll possesses the spirit of ripoff artists long past, and positively glows with the prospect of ripping you off as well!

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If you kill the sharks, you lose the shellfish too![ArsTech]

Along the North Carolina coast, the shellfish industry has been hit hard by the increase in cownose rays that don't have shark predators anymore.

Since I'm allergic to scallops but not cownose rays, how is this a problem?

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As mentioned in the comments yesterday, McCain endorsed hot lesbian action.[WizBang]

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Some French guy is going to explain the method of building the pyramids that might have some basis in fact. He'll hold a news conference today, but according to this article in the Independent

Some old microgravity studies indicate there's an internal ramp system that's still inside the pyramid. External ramps would have required too much additional support and ramps on the outside of the pyramid would have left some markings somewhere.

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Yes, Vista can be exploited by an old flaw that was never patched.[McAfee]

It has to do with animated cursors (.ANI) files. While I don't know anyone that still uses animated cursors, I imagine that emails with that attachment might be emailed in spam...

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Fun Investment Fact:

Whenever Vanity Fair breaks a record for ad pages, the stock market crashes immediately afterward [Brandweek]

The Vanity Fair in question was delivered in February, merely miliseconds before the Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed, going from 12,647 to 12,114. The link has more examples. [via Gawker]

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The Geico Caveman TV series won't have the Geico cavemen in it. Other cavemen have been cast[Variety]

Yeah, I don't care either. All those cavemen look alike.

Wait... Does that comment make me look racist?

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I'll be off to see the movie MEET THE ROBINSONS a Disney 3-D movie that rumor has is much funnier and much more fun than the trailers you see on TV.

While you can watch this movie in the normal 2-D way, if you haven't seen a movie in this Disney 3-D yet, you really ought to treat yourself. Yeah, you pay an extra couple of bucks for the glasses, but I have mine from an earlier movie, and I don't pay that extra fee, so the cost of the movie is the same. As goofy as it might seem to wear glasses to the theater, even glasses that go over your glasses like I have... it's worth it.

One review on this movie said that you DO have to use your brains during the movie because it involves time travel and causality.

Also, the frogs rock.

We'll see.

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The bit you may have heard about Paypal working to make payments through your mobile phone has Visa working overtime to do something a bit more universal [Register]

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My favorite April Fool's Day Hoax that I actually bought into (for a short while)

can be seen here as #2 of the 100 Greatest April Fool's Day Hoaxes

In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch and he could reportedly throw a baseball with startling, pinpoint accuracy at 168 mph (65 mph faster than anyone else has ever been able to throw a ball). Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the "art of the pitch" in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa." Mets fans everywhere celebrated at their teams's amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. But in reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the writer of the article, George Plimpton.

The key in George Plimpton's article was the sub-heading which read:

"He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd's deciding about yoga —and his future in baseball."

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Have A Happy April Fool's Day, and don't get fooled!

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