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April 1, 2004
This is [[April Fool's Day]]. Some April Fool's hoaxes for this year:

*[[Microsoft Corporation]] agrees to purchase the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] for an undisclosed sum. [[Wikipedia]] is to be merged with [[Encarta]]; an access fee of 99 cents per article retrieved will be instituted once the [[software upgrade]] to [[Windows NT]]-based [[server]]s is complete. [[Office Assistant]] is expected to be added in the immediate future, once voice actors for "it looks like you're vandalizing an article" can be found.  
*[[The Guardian]] newspaper reported that [[Peter Mandelson]] was frontrunner to become the [[BBC]]'s new chairman.
*[[CBBC]]'s ''Newsround'' website claims the [[planet]]s of the [[Solar system]] will be renamed after characters from ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' - [[Earth]] will be named [[Gandalf]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/sci_tech/newsid_3587000/3587189.stm]
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*Both [[The Independent]] and the [[The Today Programme]] claimed [[Brian Eno]] had crafted an electronic remix of the theme tune of the radio [[soap opera]] ''[[The Archers]]'' to replace the theme that had been used for over 50 years.
*An advert by [[BMW]] claimed new 'SHEF technology' would allow car drivers to cook their evening meals whilst driving home.
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*The [[Guardian]] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1183266,00.html revealed] that the [[1954]] [[World Cup]] winning [[German]] team may have been given performance-enhancing injections.

''References'':
*http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1183684,00.html
*http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html