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By: Stuart Turton

Stuart Turton — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:07:33 +0000

@C6ten

Nice. That’s some serious commitment to April Fools day you’re showing there

By: c6ten

c6ten — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:45:34 +0000

Late one in, Flutter, a new nanoblogging service. 26 characters or less, because a “flutter is faster than a tweet”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeLZCy-_m3s

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:10:02 +0000

Here’s one – apparently the US Government are going to acquire Google, because of all the sensitive info it holds on all of us http://www.searchnewz.com/topstory/news/sn-2-20090401GoogleSells.html

By: Alex Mucha

Alex Mucha — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:29:36 +0000

I liked this one – a good use for all those old TV sets:

http://www.eco-asia.info/content/en/sp-crt-rocket

By: Peter Tennant

Peter Tennant — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:57:02 +0000

The funniest bit from the Guardian piece are the selection of tweets ‘from the archives’:

Highlights from the Guardian’s Twitterised news archive

1927
OMG first successful transatlantic air flight wow, pretty cool! Boring day
otherwise *sigh*

1940
W Churchill giving speech NOW – “we shall fight on the beaches … we shall never surrender” check YouTube later for the rest

1961
Listening 2 new band “The Beatles”

1989
Berlin Wall falls! Majority view of Twitterers = it’s a historic moment! What do you think??? Have your say

1997
RT@mohammedalfayed: FYI Neil Hamilton, Harrods boss offering £££ 4 questions in House of Commons! Check it out’

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By: Stuart Turton

Stuart Turton — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:32:13 +0000

Excellent stuff guys, cheers

Stu

By: Ryan Thomas

Ryan Thomas — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:13:38 +0000

I spotted this one too – free funeral with every laptop:

http://www.buyitdirect.co.uk/free_funerals_from_laptops_direct/page.asp