I felt compelled to check with Grammar Girl about how to properly punctuate April Fools' Day. Turns out she has her own April Fools' Day episode, which makes me happy. Which brings me to the reason I'm blogging.... Prior to the world of the internet, I was never a fan of this day. Not really opposed to it, but generally unimpressed. With the internet? I love me some April Fools.
The folks at Google always do a bang-up job. This year's Gmail Motion is great. The idea is that Gmail will use your computer's camera to interpret your motions into words. So that you could send an e-mail without typing at all. If you haven't seen it, check out the video describing it, because the man who demonstrates the motions is hysterical. The motions are hysterical. There is an About.com guide to Google's pranks, and Wikipedia also covers Google hoaxes. The Christian Science Monitor gives a list of their top five April Fools' Day pranks ever, and Google makes the list. Finally, what started me on this quest was seeing the April Fools' Day roundup at Financial Post.
This and that.
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