My April Fool's Prank on NPR
On NPR yesterday, I revealed that the U.S. Treasury is also running an elaborate Ponzi scheme, selling worthless pieces of paper called "U.S. Treasuries" to unsuspecting investors.
On NPR yesterday, I revealed that the U.S. Treasury is also running an elaborate Ponzi scheme, selling worthless pieces of paper called "U.S. Treasuries" to unsuspecting investors.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media
God knows that in an Ann Coulter article suggesting that "being named 'Gavin Newsom' should be grounds for dismissal," and that UC-Berkeley's academic...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
Eat The Press Operative Karla sends us the awesome cover of the April edition of D Magazine, featuring George W. Bush cold-chillin' in some Photoshopp...
The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
Car and Driver magazine is now apologizing for a prank "gone too far," after they announced earlier Wednesday morning that President Obama had ordered...
Alan Farnham | Posted 05.02.2009 | Media
In a further sign of worsening conditions in the magazine industry, Forbes LLC announced it would be selling one of the company's namesake brothers.
Media Bistro | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
The latest victim of the inevitable collision between the instantaneous internet and the April Fool's joke is ABC's Jake Tapper. [...] So, Tapper jum...
ET | Posted 05.02.2009 | Entertainment
CBS [for the show "I Get That A Lot] celebrates April Fool's Day by putting Heidi Klum in a pizza parlor for the sole purpose of pranking the public. ...
AP | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green
DES MOINES, Iowa — If you get a message to call a "Mr. Don Key" on Wednesday, the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines is one step ahead of you. The zoo...
Grist | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green
Everybody's got advice for greening the office -- print less, drive less -- but nobody closes out their office tips quite like Grist. Grist's Umbra ...
Business Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media
More than any other Web company, Google has put together some of the most memorable and sophisticated April Fools' pranks, ranging from a toilet Inter...
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 04.30.2009 | Comedy
The origins of April Fools' Day are murky, but the likeliest explanation is that it began as a way to mock French people who were slow to switch to th...
Cracked.com | HBN | Posted 04.27.2009 | Comedy
Know what's just around the corner? Only the most funnest holiday ever -- April Fool's Day! I mean, who doesn't love April Fool's Day? No one. That's ...
Fast Company | Dave Burdick | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green
FastCompany cautiously writes about a rumored IKEA eco-car. What I wonder is if the owner's manual would be wordless and illustrated with happy, blobb...
Time.com | M.J. STEPHEY | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business
From Time.com: Now that Google has effectively conquered Earth, the all-powerful Web giant is setting its sites on a new frontier: Mars. Calling it ...
Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.08.2008 | Living
Happy April Fool's Day!! Here is your handy-dandy HuffPost guide to everything you need to know about April Fool's Day. First things first, read up ...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 04.02.2009 | Comedy