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Great April fool ideas

I've been really enjoying today's activities. The ones I've enjoyed so far:

Google Gulp

New BMW 341L, this was on page 3 of our national paper (the post)

PodShave

Opera's announcement of ... voice.

Revenue Canada's announcement of "E-file or Else"

W3C bans DIV and SPAN tags

9 and 18 bit unicode

And Sean McGrath riffs on adding xml:mustUnderstand with various values. This one hits really close to home for me as it refers to one of my blog entries, and I had suggested this more seriously in an old xml.com article on ext/vers, where I said "XML could have provided an xml:mustUnderstand attribute and model that each language could use. Tim Berners-Lee articulated the need for this in XML in his design note on mandatory extensions in Feb 2000[18], but neither XML 1.0 nor 1.1 included this model." Gees, awfully close to home!

CNET reviews the ITreoPod. In the spirit of that great canadian comedian Red Green, it's a treo and ipod held together with duct tape.

HomestarRunner moves to being a subscription site, "Subscriptions are the latest craze!"

Yahoo slacker announced to help students access Cole's notes, one-click pizza ordering and misspelling of words in essays.

Fun over at MSFT land with the petition to have classic idl retained as well as announcement of a nominal fee per GUID/UUID

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