April Fools Day

Anna Nicole

Today is the one day of the year when amatuer jokesters come out of the closet and inflict their weird sense of humor on the world. Ron Morris at 2Bangkok actually beat the rush and posted a fake warning on his blog, that his website had been blocked by the Communications Authority of Thailand. One day early here in America, so I didn't get the joke and sent him an emergency message of concern. Very funny, Ron.

Sounds like Malaysiakini website also sent out a joke that didn't go over too well with somebody in the upper echelons on government, and Jeff Ooi at Screenshots is all over the story. There's another tale going around the internet that Lake Toba might be the next major explosion in Asia, but I can't really tell if it's a April Fools joke or the private hallucinations of an Australian scientist.

Here's the best one -- an elaborate website with hilarious advertisements:

Many readers have been writing in about a graphic used yesterday on Google's search page. It shows the word "Google" with strangely hypnotic, multi-colored swirls of paint. Some of my readers think this "Goo-graphic" is meant to be a subversive homage to this new drug called “Mary Jane.”

I did some digging and it turns out they are correct. Somehow this "Mary Jane" is much more noteworthy in the eyes of the pathetic liberal shills at Google than the resurrection of our Blessed Saviour.

Have you heard of "Mary Jane?" Do you have kids? Parents? Friends? Acquaintances? If you stop reading now, you do so at your peril.

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