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April Fools? Day

By Evan VanDyk

We can all prepare for the onslaught of April Fools’ day stories spreading across the web today. Most of which are neither clever nor amusing. But the Guardian has managed to get a laugh out of me by poking fun at the recent Twitter obsession in the media (represented in the Globe by stories like Margaret Wente’s “Ego Tweeto, Ergo Sum” and Ian Brown’s musings that twittering is motivated by a fear of death) with their story:

Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink

A mammoth project is also under way to rewrite the whole of the newspaper’s archive, stretching back to 1821, in the form of tweets. Major stories already completed include “1832 Reform Act gives voting rights to one in five adult males yay!!!”; “OMG Hitler invades Poland, allies declare war see tinyurl.com/b5×6e for more”; and “JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?”

In other April Fools’ day news, the Confiker virus (the latest version of Y2K) has apparently failed to strike.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on April 01, 2009 (boomark / email).