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		ssharp on April 1, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anil Dash: Your April Fool's Joke Sucks. I've never found these web April Fools jokes all that interesting. Usually Google does something that the world geeks out over while I sit bored. April Fools, they ROCK! No, April Fools again, they're dull. Really.

andrewf on April 2, 2008 [–]

I thought the gmail announcement was pretty good - everyone's first reaction was that it was fake.

Of course, actually fooling people is significantly harder than putting something absurd at the top of your blog.

See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152361

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