April Fools Day
In honor of April Fools Day today, I present to you the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time.
#7: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi
The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the ‘Biblical value’ of 3.0. Before long the article had made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly made its way around the world, forwarded by people in their email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, which was intended as a parody of legislative attempts to circumscribe the teaching of evolution, was written by a physicist named Mark Boslough.
Enjoy!
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Comment by Garry Conn on April 1st, 2007:
April Fools Day is always so much fun on the Internet. There have been quite a few good classics in the past.
Comment by Kyle Eslick on April 1st, 2007:
Yep! I thought this list was great. I didn’t know people really took it this far sometimes.
Comment by Garry Conn on April 1st, 2007:
This was my favorite:
http://www.pandia.com/sw-2002/11-god.html
Comment by Inspirational Quote Maniac on April 1st, 2007:
Cool!
have you guys seen the Google’s April fool this year? Google TISP
http://www.google.com/tisp/
Comment by Garry Conn on April 1st, 2007:
Yes, first thing this morning… quite funny.
Comment by Inspirational Quote Maniac on April 2nd, 2007:
I wonder how many innocent net newbies ordered that thing from Google
Comment by Andy on April 2nd, 2007:
LOL, ya … April fools is great on the Internet.
Comment by Kyle Eslick on April 3rd, 2007:
It doesn’t surprise me how far Google will take it (plus they are fairly goofy anyway), but it amazes me how far bloggers will take it.
Matt Cutts getting hacked was hilarious, and they all try to “one up” each other, or better their previous years pranks.