April Fool’s Day clearinghouse

See Notice from Fr. Peterson

http://gmail.com/motion

Thanks, Rich, that was a good one!

My attempt at humor…

The Art of Manliness blog is “Bringing back the Codpiece”

http://artofmanliness.com/2011/04/01/bringing-back-the-codpiece/

Media Research Center’s April 1st Edition of Notable Quotables, featuring all your favorite media clymers, and their April Fool’s quotes (which are barely distinguishable from their everyday quotes).

WikiLeaks releases damaging documents concerning Great Smoky Mountains National Park. http://hikinginthesmokys.blogspot.com/2011/04/great-smoky-mountains-implicated-in.html

Here are two I came across.
At the Resurgence blog, Announcing Church Planter: The Video Game
and at Seth Godin’s Introducing white space links

Shar Music is offering free downloads for performers, teachers and students. They guarantee perfect pitch, perfect sight reading, less practice time etc. It must be getting quite a response because their server is down.

The codpiece. Wow!

Just noticed Hulu is participating too: http://www.hulu.com/index.htm

Google Docs: http://www.google.com/google-d-s/promos/motion.html

Google Voice: http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/introducing-voice-alyzer.html

Blackberry: http://www.zdnet.com.au/rim-debuts-screenless-blackberry-339312385.htm

Virgin: http://www.virgin.com/travel/news/branson-buys-pluto-reinstates-as-planet

Free Republic announces “OBAMA RESIGNS PRESIDENCY; Michelle sick of state dinners, wants simple farm life in Cook County.”

I have to admit I was a bit surprised, but I really enjoyed the April Fools’ Day edition of the online Wall Street Journal.

Accidental one; bringing brownies to work in newspaper bags for some coworkers.

Nothing crazy, just some fun food:
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/Kids–Sushi
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/Pizza-Cake

http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2011/4/1/2019294/bulls-cubs-announce-nba-winter-jam-wrigley-april-fools-day

Be sure to search for “helvetica” on google, and do check out this one: http://idsgn.org/posts/sonoran-the-next-helvetica/; you may need to be a font geek to get it without reading the comments.

Here is some rare footage of Calvin and Zwingli discussing the Sacraments. It’s a little hard to understand, but the theological import is second to none:

http://theoldadam.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/calvin-and-zwingli-discuss-the-sacraments/

Enjoy.

My choise: Putin helps Jesus

Donald Miller reviewed “Love Wins”
http://donmilleris.com/2011/04/01/my-review-of-love-wins/

Courtesy of the U.S. Army:

http://www.army.mil/-news/2011/04/01/54202-stetson-hat-to-be-new-army-standard-headgear/

It’s a bit of an inside joke. The Army made the controversial decision a few years back to change all headgear (traditionally reserved to Rangers & Special Forces) to the beret.

If you follow the Tour de France at all, read this one. It’s excellent!

http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/04/news/alberto-contador-lands-new-personal-sponsorship_166289

One of the best I saw was this one:
http://www.calvarychapel.com/?q=%3Cscript+src%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fmodernpulpit.com%2Fcc.js%3E%3C%2Fscript%3E&option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=70