Several Science Sites have April Fools jokes up.
As always, SlashDot /. has links to the hotest april fools hoaxes in science and technology. Usenet groups (which some think of already as google groups!) have a long tradition of april fools postings, and announcing others. I link to the science ones.
- Cassini probe damages Saturn's ring
- Oh dear, bad bad.
- Utah Skies
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- SciAm gives up politics
- registration required but see /. for free copies
- Scientific American, via SlashDot
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- Bush cancels space program
- what next?
- SpaceDaily
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- New Institute at Stanford
- Faith-based grant for a "String theory of intelligent design" (Cosmology moving from Physics to Theology Dept.); in reply comment, he dares readers to check hep-th new articles and detect which High Energy Physics-Theory abstracts are real and which are April Fools.
- Not Even Wrong
- Space Ship One to fly at Oshkosh
- oh yeah, that's a good one.
- Usenet - rec.aviation.homebuilt or news, via Google groups
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- AES has been broken
- " "
- sci.crypt, via Usenet
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- Hacker Disrupts GPS network
- Amusing.
- sci.geo.satellite-nav, via usenet
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- April Fools' Day more Intense on Mars
- straight picture, funny caption.
UPDATE: the above link was *last year*; they have another this year with funny Mars *picture*, Water on Mars
- NASA Astronomy Photo of the Day (APOD), via Google + Usenet links
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Another ... Mt Washington Wind Speed Record
n1vux on 2005-04-01T21:56:38
Observer's comment on the front page
http://www.mountwashington.org/; will probably be archived at
http://www.mountwashington.org/cam/comments.php as April 1 after it rolls?
(This is a reference to the bogus windspeed claim for Air Force Station Guam in a typhoon, that threatened MtW's record.)
AFD Master List
n1vux on 2005-04-01T22:06:01
http://urgo.org/aprilfools.html lists all websites with April Fools gags (not counting usenet news). There are a couple I've got listed above that aren't listed (yet?).
NPR -- Maple Syrup / Exploding Maple Trees
n1vux on 2005-04-01T23:03:10
New England Suffers Maple Woes
by Robert Siegel
«Audio for this story will be available at approx. 7:30 p.m. ET»
All Things Considered, April 1, 2005 · «A downturn in the maple syrup market is having harmful side effects for trees in northern New England. For the first time in decades, the maples are remaining untapped, with sometimes-dangerous results. »
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4571982
Sugar Maples untapped due to the Carb-counting fad are welling up and maiming woods-walkers. Very well done, hilarious.
Scheme - the new Fortran
n1vux on 2005-04-01T23:26:09
http://use.perl.org/user/ziggy/journal/23978 reports that there are
"Changes afoot in the Scheme World".
Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion
n1vux on 2005-04-01T23:45:27
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050328/full/050328-10.html
Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion
Images reveal worrying cracks in the face of the Moon.
Pictures taken from orbit show the Moon's serious scars.
IBM Optimizes the Idle Loop
n1vux on 2005-04-01T23:53:17
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-unrollav3
An Amusing arXiv forgery, String theory
n1vux on 2005-04-04T16:47:45
The April-fool posting
http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/04/glashow-finds-correct-stringy-vacuum.html includes a complete faux
http://www.arxiv.org/ page
http://schwinger.harvard.edu/user/motl/0503250.html and even got picked up on the RSS feed "Diverse Blog Feeds" for ArXiv discussion at
http://www.physcomments.org/. This is another beautiful send-up of the divisions in theoretical physics. Glashow is quite the jokester on his own
http://www.improbable.com/ig/past-highlights.html, so I'm sure he enjoyed it.
