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'''[[April 1, 2006]]''' is an [[April Fool's Day]] falling on a [[Saturday]]. This is a definitive list of hoaxes performed for April Fool's Day 2006.  See the [[April 1, 2006]] article for the more notable hoaxes and pranks.

==On the Internet==

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Death to the israeli army===Website name, theme, or design changes===
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*[http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/ Geek/Talk] changed its name and logo to [http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30498 Gtalk] after claiming to have been acquired by [[Google]]. New moderators from 'Google' were introduced to help sell the gag.
*[http://www.samurize.com/ www.samurize.com] incorporated a [[pink]] theme for their site, and changed the name from Samurize to '1337 Powerpuff Girls Meter Tool'.
*[http://www.Airliners.net/ www.Airliners.net] incorporated a [[pink]] theme for their front page.  They had a message on the front page saying "With over 98% male users, Airliners.net needs to take major action to attract more female visitors. As a first step, we're changing the colors of the site to shades of pink. The whole site will soon be totally pink. Enjoy!"
*[http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/ fuckedgoogle.com] the author of this notorious anti-google site claimed to have fallen in love with a google employee. the site was totally redesigned to show his love for google and his re-thinking of the whole "google is evil" thing.
* [http://www.hedgehogworld.com/ Hedgehog World] changed its theme to include ferrets instead of hedgehogs. It changed back around 11:00 PM EST.
* [http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/ Unicyclist Fourms] changed to a pink theme. It changed back around 9:00EST.
* [[Slashdot]] incorporated a [[pink]] "OMG!!! Ponies!!!" theme [http://flickr.com/photos/thecomputermutt/120972005/] at 00:00 UTC. This [[girlish]] theme is in stark [[contrast]] for a techie [[website]] [[Slashdot subculture#Slashdot user stereotypes|believed]] to be mostly frequented by [[male]] [[nerds]]. A "Special Birthday Report" [http://slashdot.org/articles/06/04/01/004231.shtml] about Jeff "Hemos" Bates emerged in the first minutes of the day.  A link to Thinkgeek's wireless extension cords has also been posted.
* [http://linkfilter.net/ Linkfilter] changes its default theme to resemble that of [http://www.metafilter.com/ MetaFilter] [http://users.linkfilter.net/%7Edeathburger/images/metalinkfilter.png].
* [[Textfiles.com|textfiles.com]] <sup>[http://www.textfiles.com]</sup> changes its default theme to resemble that of [[Google]], announcing that they have merged to form "Toogle". <sup>[http://www.textfiles.com/toogleosity.html]</sup>
* [http://www.compsci.ca/v2/ Compsci] Compsci v3 was released, Hello Kitty theme!
* [http://www.jude2.com/ Jude2.com Christian Forums] changed the logo and color theme to bright, multi, obnoxious colors.
* [http://dsmeet.com DSmeet.com] changed its name and design to [http://dsmeet.com/?previewskin=turtle Turtle Land], confusing many of its members. 
* [http://salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/ Broadsheet], a [[Salon.com]] blog which centers on Women's issues, changed today to [http://salon.com/mwt/broodsheet/ Bradsheet], changing the theme from pink to blue, and centering the articles around [[Brad Pitt]].
* [http://webstock.org.nz/ Webstock], serves its pages without images, CSS or javascript as an environmentally conscious guesture.
* [http://www.forgetfoo.com/ http://www.forgetfoo.com] foo put up a new page that simply said "Its been fun", redirecting every page on his site to this one, implying that he had shut his site down for good.
* [[Boylove]] web forum [http://www.boychat.org/ BoyChat] changed its site banner to read "MaoChat: Discussion Board of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China."
* [http://www.ddronline.net/brasil/ DDR Online Brasil], a [[Brazilian]] [[Dance Dance Revolution]] fansite and community, changed every reference to DDR or [[Pump It Up|Pump It Up!]] on the website (including the website's title and logos) to mention ''Samba Festival'', a now-defunct DDR clone which, due to its bad timing, bad song selection and poor interface, was often criticized by the visitors on the site's forum. The April fools version is now available [http://www.ddronline.net/abril/ here] (in [[Brazilian Portuguese]]).
* [http://www.zophar.net Zophar's Domain], an emulation portal, changed to a google-like theme and announced that they had merged with google to form "Goophar's Domain"
* [http://www.jambase.com JamBase], a live music search engine, changed to a Google like theme: [http://www.jambase.com/google.html]
* [http://www.sclassic.org Sonic Classic] changed it's entire website to a page owned by a person under the nickname "ih8bush," which was deliberately done very badly.

===Unexpected website behavior pranks===
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* [http://www.devimg.net/ DevImg] comments are filtered into an AOL-speak format.
(contracted; show full)* [http://aprilfools.urgo.org/2006.html A list of 2006 April Fool's internet pranks]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4867512.stm BBC] list of 2006 April Fools
*[http://sainathkm.blogspot.com/2006/03/top-10-april-fools-day-hoaxes-of-all.html Top 10 April Fools Day Hoaxes of All Time ]

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[[Category:Days in 2006|April 01]]

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