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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 (contracted; show full)
*[[Google]] announced to start interviewing candidates for their new [http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html lunar hosting and research center].
*The [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] announced that it was merging with the [[United States Department of Justice]], with [[Attorney General]] [[John Ashcroft]] taking a new job in the office supplies department. They also announced that the recently retired [[MPAA]] head [[Jack Valenti]] would be joining their board of directors.
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*[[John Kerry]]'s website announces [[United States]] President [[George W. Bush]]'s plan to [[outsourcing|outsource]] the federal [[deficit]].


Things widely thought to be April Fools that actually weren't:

*The [[Associated Press]] reported that [[Google]] would launch an [http://gmail.google.com e-mail service] with 1 GB of storage for each user.
*The [[National Archives (UK)]] revealed that during the [[Cold War]], there were British plans to use [[chicken]]s to regulate the temperature in a [[nuclear bomb]]. 
*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
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*http://www.johnkerry.com/