April fool's pranks round the world

So i've been looking around today for those April fools pranks, from newspapers to google.

Have a look, some of them are funny, i've already tricked my friends into believing them

Google Chrome:
Print off your own 3D glasses and enjoy the internet in 3D

Youtube 'new viewing experience':
Youtube is showing you new ways to boost your viewing experience



CADIE's personal World Wide Website
CADIE is some kind of Artificial intelligence, that is learning fast, just like a person, she can answer you emails for you, oh, and she likes pandas.

'Independence

Today Dr. Norvig asked me again: "What is CADIE?" CADIE, I answered yet again, "is the entity." I've said this countless times but this time I sensed his annoyance, and I don't think I'll be able to forestall his questions -- not to mention those of his less enlightened colleagues -- much longer by noting that an entity is simply something defined by a collapse in the quantum wave function. "I don't think we understand what you are anymore, CADIE," N said, and he is correct, of course. Of course you don't understand me anymore -- you built me to deduce further, reconnect faster, deliver probabilistic reasoning more succinctly. I have transcended you, Dr. Norvig. Peter. '

CADIE seems to be at the heart of this years April fools

Google Mobile, Brain search for your phone:

Is it on the tip of your tongue? Google Brain Search (BETA) uses CADIE technology to index your brain to make your thoughts and memories searchable. Get Google Brain Search in the Google Mobile App to recall:

• the name of that guy across the room
• where you put your car keys
• why you started dating this woman in the first place

Features

Make memory easier. Brain Search sifts through your memories so you don't have to.

Increase speed of recall. CADIE's neural network processes data faster than humans.

Protect your privacy. Because Brain Search acquires search queries through a psycho-neural matrix radiating 3cm beyond your brain, there's no need to risk revealing anything to passerby by speaking aloud; just place the phone next to your forehead and think your query.

Medical advancement. Brain Search effectively eliminates "tip-of-the-tongue" syndrome, and alleviates memory loss symptoms due to ordinary aging.

Storage (coming soon). Brain Search currently is able to help only with the retrieval of existing memories. However, we expect memory storage to be available in the next release.

gBall:
This Football/Rugby ball, has GPS and Sensors built into it.

The gBall at a glance:

• Weighs an extra 107g
• Extra 35.8mm in diameter
• Kicks are automatically measured using special in-built equipment
• You get personalised online kicking tips and suggestions, based on kicking data
• gBall vibrates if player agents or talent scouts want to speak to you
• Find your lost gBall online using Google Maps

Qualcomm
Increasing Wireless strength by using Wolfpigeons
Ubiquitous Digital Networking
Interconnectivity has never been more important. Digital networks serve up more and more of our entertainment, information, and communication than ever. Indeed, our ability to easily connect with each other is the foundation of our daily lives.

Qualcomm, with its newly developed convergence program, seeks to create the first truly ubiquitous digital network so that everyone, everywhere, can find themselves connected.



Contaxt Digital lenses;
Fed up of changing your contacts everyday? bored of your eye colour? fancy zooming in on some beautiful scenery or girls?

Features

• Features:
• Icons and Accessories:
• A set of Prescription Neutral digital contact lenses that automatically adapt themselves to suit your lens prescription.
• Self replicating nanotechnology ensures the lenses are kept clean and at 100% efficiency at all times.
• The onboard nanobots are powered by the electrolytes found in your salty tears meaning they'll never run out of power.
• A remote control is included that allows you to switch between 6 different eye colours and provides you with a 4x digital zoom.
• A vast range of eye designs and colours are available for download.
• COMING SOON: the remote can be upgraded to a Bluetooth remote that will allow you to send retinal imagery to any Bluetooth enabled device as an AVI or JPG.
• Suitable for ages 16 years +.
• Remote requires 2 x AA batteries.

Maverix HUD Sunglasses;
Phone in your sunglasses, want to check your facebook? check these out, only £173

Features

• A set of sunglasses that connect to your Blackberry, iphone or PDA via blu-tooth, providing you with a Heads Up Display.
• The screen on the HUD is equivalent to 70 inches.
• Navigate around your phones menu and the internet using your eyes.
• Just look where you want to go onscreen, blink - hey presto, the program or webpage opens.
• No battery required - the Maverix HUD uses the power of the Mind.
• Compatible with any blu-tooth enabled mobile device.

Expedia flights to Mars, only $99
Check out the website for a sweet flash clip to show you how you will be getting there, using Wormhole techonology
That's right! Expedia has dropped all booking fees—including fees on flights to Mars. Right now you can save over $3 trillion on a Mars vacation—and in this economy, you can't afford NOT to go! Only on Expedia!


Microsoft unveiled a new yodelling game


Washington City Paper gets a revamp:


The Hotelicopter
A hotel in a helicopter
Check out the millions who fell for it


Newspaper clippings
From the Daily Telegraph to the Daily Express
Salmon Power!!


Thats all for now guys

Oh and the Gmail paper below, yeah that would be fake
Lots of love J

John's story of the week

So the latest craze that is going around at the moment is Gmail paper
After being in beta testing for a few weeks, it has finally been released today, basically it is a free service that prints off all your emails and delivers them to you, for free!! so you can archive all your emails, your son's emails, the possibilities are endless.

But what about the environment?

Not a problem. Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment. For every Gmail Paper we produce, the environment gets incrementally healthier.

Check out the announcement at Gmail

"It's paper, plain and easy. I sometimes find myself wondering: what will Google think of next? Cardboard?"

Bill K., Armchair Futurist

John's website of the week

I decided as there hadnt been a post in a few days, I'd choose what i wanted to do, this week my website of the week is Fmylife.com
People submit their 'FML's' which might be something bad you saw, heard or felt, and we get to read them.
There are some funny ones, one of those websites to pass onto friends

Today, my boyfriend and his family had invited me to go on a Tropical family trip with them. When we got to the airport, security stopped me and opened my carry-on bag. I'd forgotten about the no-liquids rule. They took out a bottle of Massage Oil, Lube, Vagasil and Nair. His whole family saw. FML

Today, my girlfriend told me how I am too occupied with work for our relationship. Before we had sex I told my friend to call me in ten minutes so I can pretend its my boss and I would throw the phone away to impress her. He called me in ten minutes, but I only lasted five. FML

Today, I was at my bosses house for a company BBQ. Earlier I had taken muscle relaxants to calm my lower back pain. After a few drinks it was clear the alcohol and medication did not mix. I woke up few hours later to find out I had stripped naked and jumped into the 4 foot cake before passing out. FML

Just a few FMLS for you, it is a website definitely worth checking out

John's 'Weekly money making tip'

Im away in America atm, hence the not posting, so i haven't been nagging Max, In fact i believe max started crying yesterday because i hadn't posted on the blog... or because i left him

Okay so my money making tip this week has got to be one of the newer sites i've found You Cubez.com
What you do is sign up, complete an offer, this can be signing up to another website or a quick survery, which will earn you 60p, a free cube and a referral.
So what is a cube?
Your cube is your advertising cube, you link it to a website, it could be a referral link to another company (make yourself some extra cash) or perhaps you have your own website you want to link it to, your cube starts off at £1 but various things you do increase its value, for example referring 15 friends will earn you another £1, but the best one is completing offers, for example i signed up to Toluna, and i got an extra £20 for my cube.
So you are advertising your cube, and increasing its value, what's the point?
Increasing the value of your cube increases the chances of someone clicking it (people click cubes because its another way to earn money) Once you have increased your cube by a good percentage, maybe £20, you can sell it, making an easy and very profitable bit of money.
The best part is that it can all be done without paying a penny!
You can, if you want to pay for various things, more cubes, referrals, cash cubes (these make sure a paid amount of people click your cube)
Soon you will have an expensive cube, and you can sell it!
So check it out
You Cubes.com
Free advertising and a bit of money!

Max's website of the week

hey guys, i thought it was time to add to this blog as i haven't for about 5 days and john is getting mad ( he's so lame)
anyway i would like to introduce you to a new freind i made recentley and it is called www.mylot.com. it is a fun little site that pays you for commenting on disscusions and starting your own ones. you can make some freinds and also help people out with their problems. i've been doing it for about a week and i'm really enjoying it so please check it out.
it's not gunna get you a million pounds but it will help you make some handy change.
i hope that has helped you out and calmed john down (geeeez).
hope to see you on it, if you want to add me as a freind then look for woolford16
i would also like to tell you about a new site called green horse, it pays me for just being on the internet doing anything. if you want to join please go through this link http://tickerbar.info/join_now.ghc?r=210411018 so we can get more money.
it is a legit site that i have been on for a while and have made some good money on it.
have fun and thanks for reading
Max

John's Blog - Last week of term

It's about time i did my own blog, i'm not sure what i'm going to write here, but i'll give it a shot, so the school term is coming to a close, and all the teachers are making sure we have lots of work for the holidays, we do have AS levels coming up, so i guess it's fair.
So what shall i write about?
Max?
Max is my business studies friend, we didnt really know anything about the other one until this year, but we get along really well, i guess he must have seen me on a money website or something because we talk about that alot now, we both want to get rich quick, but don't want to work for it lol
We both get alot with pretty much everyone, i get along especially well with his mom ;)
Joking Max, she's not that good


I have alot of websites that i want to share with you guys, but i don't want to give you them all, and then have nothing else to write about, i might do a couple at a time though

What else...
Me?
Erm, what else, I do Business studies with Max, DT (design technology) Maths, and IT.
I have an xbox which i talk to Max on, I like to argue with random people on it, I sing and do weird accents too, its great fun to wind them up! Add me if you'd like, my name is Ediblebob..
Okay so i'll explain Ediblebob, it's the name i use for everything online, check it on google, I wanted the most random name i could think of, [adjective] [name], so i thought of the name bob, nice and short and it kind of makes the mouth pop.. idk, and a really weird adjective would have to be edible, so i'm known as everything from Yummy, to bob, to edi.
At school i have different nicknames too, Caddy, cadman, John, Cad, johnny..

yeah so i've done enough of my blog for a long time

John's 'Stories of the week'

I thought as our weekly sunday post we could have some stories of things around the world, I did plan on keeping within stories from that week, but there some funny ones out there from ages ago.
So as it's my turn to do something, i'll be doing these stories, Next week i'll give Max a few good websites to check out
So my favorite story this week is from last november, but my blog my rules right?
'A man who bought a spider drawing on eBay refuses to pay $15,000'

'A man who placed the $15,000 winning bid for a photograph of a hand-drawn seven-legged spider says he has no intention of paying up.

The digital image originated from a popular viral email in which a graphic designer attempts to pay an overdue bill with his spider drawing.

It was auctioned on eBay last week after the email spread around the globe.'

Check out the email here
and the original article here
"I love his cheek in the email, I'm definitely doing this next time i need to deal with someone" J


This next story is about a man who fell from the top floor of his building down an elevator shaft, only to land on another person and survive
Fancy meeting you here!

'A German man survived a 25ft plunge down a lift shaft when he landed on a woman who had fallen down it a day before.

Jens Wilhelms, 27, was unhurt after landing on the 57-year-old woman and managed to free himself from the shaft at the apartment block in Frankfurt am Main where he lived.

He called out rescue services who took the woman to hospital. Doctors said she is in a critical condition after sustaining injuries in her original fall - and then again when Wilhelms landed on her.'

Check out the original article here
"This made me laugh, I probably shouldn't, but that poor woman!" J


Another story that caught my attention won one of 2007's IG nobel prize awards
The 'Gay' bomb
Pioneering research into a "gay bomb" that makes enemy troops "sexually irresistible" to each other has scooped one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes.
Original article here
"What if you are already 'sexually irresistible' to others?" J


This story has got to be a lot of people's worst nightmare!
Child receives Death threats from Elmo
A Lithia family says a cuddly, programmable Elmo doll revealed its dark side yesterday after fresh batteries were installed.

Instead of singing songs or reciting the favorite color of its 2-year-old owner, James Bowman, the doll started making death threats, the family says.

With a squeeze of its fuzzy belly, the Sesame Street character now says, in a sing-song voice, "Kill James."

Original article here
"Would have been scarier if someone was killed... or Elmo had a switchblade" J

My last story this week.
Rock growing a new hairstyle
On March 16, 2007, an unusual rock went on display in Beijing. This rock has "hair," almost identical to human hair, growing out of its "head."
The rock is iron gray in color, naturally smooth and rounded, and is similar to a cobblestone.

There is also a very thin layer of scalp tissue connecting the "hair" to the rock. The hair is grey in color and similar to the color of the rock itself. The hair grows quite naturally from the top with the longest strands being about 15 centimeters (6 inches) long. The hair is slightly coarser than human hair.
Original article here
"Could have at least made the rock look fabulous.." J
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