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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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* [[TDZK]]'s ship classes were changed to various types of fish, and several weapons were renamed to those of fishing tools, such as fileting knives, spears, and nets.
* The main website of [http://www.ko-chan.org/ KO-Chan.org] was changed to look like it was undergoing 
jJapanese translation and looked as if it were being bought out by 2ch, followed by a front page that displayed a message from Interpol, stating that the website had been shut down due to the promotion of illegal immigration in Europe.
* New Zealand Humor based forum [http://www.loob.co.nz/ loob.co.nz] translated their entire site into Spanish.  [http://www.shadowfaxpublishing.com/loob/index.php?section_id=99&subsection_id=9&p=7452#7452 screenshot]
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* [http://blog.capitalex.com/paypal-acquires-e-gold-april1 Capitalex.com] announced that PayPal has acquired e-gold!
* [http://www.googlecommunity.com/about11266.html Google Community] announced that they were acquired by Yahoo!
* [http://www.haikunews.org/ HaikuNews] has a story of two developers working on a haiku port to a palm handheld and a cellphone. This artic
ale also claims that haiku is forking to use the linux kernel.
* [[Yahoo]] has an "SM News" breaking story about a new "No Talking" law on [[New York City]] Subways - [http://www.yahoo.com Yahoo.com] (''Note: is a Sierra Mist ad that does '''not''' redirect, but plays a video in page'')
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* [http://www.conservativedebate.com ConservativeDebate] posted a fake article concerning a make-believe trip that Sandra Day O'Connor made to the UN.  The word censor was also changed so every use of the article 'a' was replaced with the message "
aApril fools".
* [[DivX]] [http://labs.divx.com/node/173 Head Up Display (XHUD)], an in-car head up display for projecting DivX video on your front windshield.
* [http://desicritics.org Desicritics.org] announces that [http://desicritics.org/2006/04/01/015927.php Sonia Gandhi is returning to Italy], [http://desicritics.org/2006/04/01/023023.php George Clooney is running for President in 2008], and [http://desicritics.org/2006/04/01/004405.php Saurav Ganguly is retiring from Cricket]
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* [[GameSpot]], reports on [[Blizzard Entertainment]]'s upcoming MMO [http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/worldofstarcraft/news.html?sid=6146918 World of Starcraft] and the [http://www.gamespot.com/features/6146818/index.html Top 10 Final Fantasy Games of all time]. They also had news stories on [http://www.gamespot.com/news/6146944.html Cowbell Hero] and a new [http://www.gamespot.com/news/6146940.html ESRB ASS rating].
* [[Games Workshop]] reports they a
cquired the rights to [http://www.workshop-news.com/ De Bellis Antiquitatis] rule set and previews their new [http://www.workshop-news.com/dbaminiatures.htm roman-line ape models].
* [http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/03/google-browser.html Google Operating System Blog] introduces Google Browser, a fast, versatile and secure text browser for the Internet. Google Browser is free, already out of beta, and the installer has only 1.68 MB. (In fact, the browser is based on [[Lynx (web browser)|Lynx]].)
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*[http://www.nwizard.com/ Nwizard.com], a Nintendo-centric videogame news site, has reported that the recently indefinit
ely delayed Starcraft: Ghost has been announced for the Nintendo Revolution. In addition, various modules around the site have been "April Fooled".
* [[Colgate-Palmolive]] announces it shall be merging with [http://nylug.org/home/index.shtml NYLUG] in an effort to create open source cleaning products.
* [http://www.macrumors.com/page3/ Macrumors.com] created a page of fake Apple rumors, including iTunes changing to WMA, and Apple and Disney acquiring each other in a complicated takeover.
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* [http://www.collegehumor.com CollegeHumor.com] pretends to be outsourced to India.  The original is available from a link in the new page.
* [http://www.cubed3.com Cubed 3] announced that [[Pikmin]] 3 is in development for the [[Nintendo Revolution]].
* [http://daviswiki.org Davis Wiki] announces release of new software, looks just like [[MySpace]].
* [http://
http://www.umpcbuzz.com/blogs/umpc_buzz/archive/2006/04/01/7990.aspx Dell UMPC] information is released.
* [http://www.demoscene.hu/ The Hungarian Demoscene Portal] retrograded back to its [http://www.demoscene.hu/2001worlddomination/ 2001 layout]. (The up-to-date site was [http://www.demoscene.hu/start.php still available].)
* [http://www.distrowatch.com DistroWatch] releases review about new "[[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] Hasta La Vista"
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* [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/01/china_buys_google/ The Register] announces that China is buying Google
* [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/01/gwot_cha/ The Register] also announces that the [[US Department of Justice]] and the office of the [[White House Counsel]] are preparing a draft document laying out [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/[George_  W._  Bush  |the President's]] wartime authority to remain in office past 2008
* [http://www.thewotch.com/ The Wotch], a Webcomic, announced 2 days earlier that they were starting a new subcomic based on the popular character Jason Grey. Fans of the comic got very excited. The day the first comic was posted, April 1, eager Wotchers found [http://cmx.thewotch.com/ this].
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* [http://www.wrankmusic.com WRANKmusic] - instead of the normal music news site, points to a Fraggle Rock fan club web site last edited in 1999.
* [http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000276.html Yahoo!] buys all the Web 2.0 companies in existence.
* [http://yaoi.y-gallery.net Y-hosting's Yaoi Gallery] has been claimed by [[deviantART]], and will now feature yuri and heterosexual art.
* [http://zombiehunters.org/forum/ Zombie Squad
  ] turned into "Happy Team" for April fool's day.
* Aspira Media releases the new [[W3C]] [[CSS]] specifications update. [http://www.aspiramedia.com/fadtastic/?p=84]
* FIFA World Cup time delay, hoax site http://www.vvorldcup.com setup by blogger at http://www.iminstant.com
* Metroid and TThomaso, moderators of the [http://www.Vexxiang.com VX Flash Forums], announced the Deletion of the popular General Discussion forums citing [[spam]] as the reason for their closure.
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* Online comic [[Jack of All Blades]] creator Art Frederick was laid off while his partner Zach Lewis created a poorly done photocomic called [http://jackofallblades.com/index.php?p=39 Zach! Of All Blades]
* Online retailer geeks.com advertised a "GeekThing" combination cell-phone/PDA/MP3 player/recorder/GPS/Universal remote/hologram projector.... [http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=geekthing&cm_mmc=geekmail-_-daily_html-_-31mar06_GEEKTHING-_-GEEKTHINGmain here
  ] and [http://www.geeks.com/pix/2006/geekthing.html here]
* Political blog [http://latte.blogs.com/welcome/2006/04/rumsfeld_resign.html Latte] reports that Donald Rumsfeld has accepted responsibility for the failure in Iraq and resigned.
* Tech blog site [http://www.dtgeeks.com/index.php/news/comment/first_on_dt_tevanian_to_join_vista_development_team/ Deep Thought] reports that now-former Apple exec Avie Tevanian will be leading Microsoft's Windows Vista development.
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* [http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2153220/google-brand-moon Vnunet.com] says that Google will spend US$1 billion dollars to "brand its logo into the surface of the moon so that it is visible from Earth."
[http://www.freesports4u.com/forums/showthread.php?p=313157#post313157 Fs4u]Announced that the site is gonna close :)
* [http://www.voiceactingalliance.com/board/ The Voice Acting Alliance] changed their entire message boards, including a new layout, to focus on the anime series [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuyasha [Inuyasha]]. Also, members have posted radio plays, fake fanart, etc. related to Inuyasha. This was done to mock the recent influx of forum members who post incessantly about the show. Those very same members do NOT get the joke.
* [http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ WHT] announces that one of their admins is becoming a female, one of their mods has already become a female and that they are going to start charging for posts.
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* [http://www.thedailywtf.com/forums/66633/ShowPost.aspx The Daily WTF] This post involves a previous poster's fictional adventures with his employer and posting company code.
*[http://www.sleepywood.net/ SleepyWood] The homepage links to a fake "This Account Has Been Suspended" message.
*[[freenode]] tells all their users to flood [[OFTC]]. [http://inc-corporate.org/inclog/%23freenode-social.04-01.log]
*[http://blogs.msdn.com/cumgranosalis/archive/2006/04/01/566438.aspx
 | |Cum Grano Salis blog]Excel Services integration with Xbox 360
*[http://hoaxes.mooglecavern.com/megageable Mega Geable], a sprite comic, changed much of its page text and the dialogue in the last several strips to the name "Honoka" repeated over and over.  The title banner was similarly changed, and most of the characters appearing on it were replaced with [[Pretty Cure|Yukishiro Honoka]] in various poses.  (Honoka is not a major character in Mega Geable, but the comic's author is a fan of the(contracted; show full)
* [[Python Software Foundation]] [http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2006/04/python-25-licensing-change.html announced a licensing change], indicating that royalties will be needed for commercial usage of the [[Python programming language Python programming language]].
*COSForums, Mugglenets official forums, had a prank when it put up a message saying that its servers had a Meltdown and that all info
rmation was lost. [http://www.cosforums.com/wiz/april1st/06/] It was later explained that you could have bypassed the "screen of death" by clicking the "contact us" button. [http://www.cosforums.com/showthread.php?t=87211]
*[http://www.dothackers.net dothackers.net] put a torrent of the eEnglish version of the game .hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Resurrection due out in the fall on their site.
*[http://revo-news.frih.net Revo-News] Put up "insider" news on what the Nintendo Revolution's last secret is, Ultimate Ass Kicking Technology.
*[http://www.pebbleversion.com Pebble Version], a pokémon web comic, posted a strip announcing that that author was changing the comic's style to attract additional readers.
*[[Furcadia]], a popular MMOG, claimed to be magically switching all of it's main maps from 8-bit graphics to 24-bit graphics; Instead, these new graphics turned out to be crudely drawn stickfigures, much to the amusement of players. Also, whenever a player would bump into any solid object, including any other player, the screen would flip upside down until they ran into an object again. Later in the day, Talzhemir, or another mod, emitted across the game that anyone whispering "wings" to Talz would recieive free wings.
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==On television==
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* The [[United Kingdom|UK]] version of [[Deal or No Deal (UK)|Deal or No Deal]] revealed in their ending credits The Banker's name was Richard Oldman, which can be shortened to "Rich Old Man". The board at the start of the show also displayed 'Noel or No Noel' instead of 'Deal or No Deal', referring to the show's host [[Noel Edmonds]].
* [[Veronica (television channel)|Veronica]] announced to all TV guides that it would air [[Mission Impossible III]] on 
sSaturday night. The movie has yet to hit the theaters.

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* [[The Adam Carolla Show]] played a prank on their producer, making him think a bunch of F-bombs let loose on the air, when instead they played a pre-recorded message.[http://adam.freefm.com/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=49836]
* On March 31, 2006, 96.7 KDOG radio in Mankato, MN switched to "Kung-Pao FM" and has continuosly played top Chinese hits all day April 1st.
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* On [[All Things Considered]], the evening news program of [[National Public Radio]], Alice Furlaud reports on an initiative by an opera impresario, under the influence of the writings of optimist [[Norman Vincent Peale]], to rewrite the endings of famous operas, making them all "happy instead of sad."  [[Don Giovanni]], instead of being dragged unrepent
eant to [[Hell]] by a marble statue, is [[born again]] and goes with angels to [[Heaven]]; [[Tristan und Isolde]], instead of ending with the ''[[Liebestod]]'' (love-death), ends with the "love-life", as it turns out Tristan had merely a flesh wound in the preceding battle.  [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5317982] 
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* On [[Radio Sport]] in New Zealand, show host Phil Gifford and Doug Golightly claimed that [[rugby league]] star [[Stacey Jones]] was going to play [[rugby union]] for [[Northland]] upon the expiry of his French rugby league contract. They added that he had also rec
ieived a special dispensation from [[Les Catalans]] to join the [[Auckland Blues]] squad for the last six matches of the [[Super 14]] season. This was perpetuated by Jones' close friend [[The Mad Butcher|Peter Leitch]] appearing on the show 'furious' about his personal conversation with the hosts being put on air.
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dges that an alternative to the Chip and PIN card verification system - Kiss and PIN - is being trialled.

*"[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]" ad features the new HP Scratch-n-Sniff Server.

*"[[Mikrobitti]]" Net.  Nyt reporters have come up with Knome, two widely used Open Source Desktop Environments KDE and Gnome have merged into Knome.  KDE ja Gnome lyövät hynttyyt yhteen .[http://www.mbnet.fi/net.nyt/juttu.aspx?id=1071]

*''[[The Sun]]'' reports that a penguin had been spotted in the Thames.

*''[[The Times]]'' tells us about the new Chip and Sing[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2113253,00.html] whilst also running full page ads for a BMW that is pixel-coated and that [[Rugby Union]] referees are to wear glasses from now on. An advert for computer mice that can read credit cards was also in there. The supplement ''Body and Soul'' contained an article connecting facial hair with an intelligence.

*''[[Ekstra Bladet]]'' in Denmark reports, that the former foreign minister [[Uffe Ellemann-Jensen]] converted to [[Islam]] in 2005. [http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/politik/article186549.ece In Danish]

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== See also ==
* [[April 1, 2006]]

==External links==
* [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
  ]

[[Category:April Fool's Day]]
[[Category:Days in 2006|April 01]]

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