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Did you notice it’s the 1st April – a round up of some of the best hoaxes

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What is April Fools?

Every year on the 1st of April it is traditional to try to April fool somebody before the clock strikes midday. To do this you simply have to convince your gullible friend or colleague about a fictional or misleading non-truth. Basically you feed them the most unbelievable hoax, laugh at them when they fall hook, line and sinker and finally give them a pinch and a punch (for the first of the month) for their troubles. The day itself is a bit of a mystery even Wikipedia doesn’t give a definite answer. The best guesses include the name given to fools who plant their crops too early or people who kept to the old calendar where the year started in April not January. Either way it makes a great excuse for some fun.

Ok so what happened today?

It seems every year the web design community get more and more involved with April Fools day hoaxes. Today was no exception;

Gmail announced an Autopilot feature to auto-respond to those annoying messages. It is ran by CADIE google’s Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity who has it’s/his/hers one blogger homepage and favorite places!