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April 1, 2002
'''[[April 1]], [[2002]]''' was an [[April Fool's Day]] falling on a Monday. Hoaxes for this year included:

* [[The Register]]: [http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/24652.html reported] [[AOL]] buying up [[weblog]]s (AOL actually later bought [[Weblogs, Inc.]])
* The [[Open Directory Project]] [http://[email protected]/April-01-2002_GOD_PR.html re-branded] itself as the 'Microsoft Directory Project'
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*[[Blizzard Entertainment]], the [[computer game]] company that produced [[Warcraft III]], [http://www.battle.net/war3/pandaren/ announced] they would be adding a fifth playable [[race]] to the game: the [[Pandaren#Pandaren|Pandaren]], a race of [[bamboo]]-eating, sword-wielding warriors (later, one Pandaren character was actually added).
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*[[Alex McLeish]], manager of [[Scotland|Scotish]] [[Football (soccer)|football]] club [[Rangers F.C.|Rangers]] announced the signing of seventeen year old [[Turkey|Turkish]] player Yardis Alpolfo in a £5 million deal. The name is in fact an [[anagram]] of "April Fool's Day" but many news sources, including [[Reuters]], reported the story. [http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5014266.html]

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