This is [[April Fool's Day]], [[2002]]
April fools hoaxes for this year:
* [[The Register]]: [http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/24652.html reported] [[AOL]] buying up [[weblog]]s
* The [[Open Directory]] [http://[email protected]/April-01-2002_GOD_PR.html re-branded] itself as the 'Microsoft Directory Project'
* [[Kuro5hin]] [http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/1/05035/09001 acquired] met4filter.org
* [[Slashdot]] [http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/01/1452256.shtml?tid=124 announced] that is will start posting advertiser-sponsored news stories, and disable anonymous posting.
* [[Google]] [http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html described] its PigeonRank system.
* [[The Guardian]] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4385266,00.html profiled] Harmony Cousins
* [[CPAN]] [http://www.cpan.org/ renamed] itself the 'Comprehensive Java Archive Network'
* The annual spoof [[Linus Torvalds]] post on the [[Linux kernel mailing list]] [http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-13/0063.html announced] his resignation from the Linux effort
* [[IETF]] published [[April 1st RFC]]s RFC3251 (Distribution of electricity over IP) and RFC3252 (Encapsulating IP in XML).
* [[MIT]] [http://www.mit.edu changed] its home page to a spoof of the [[Google]] home page.
* a spoof Yahoo News story was [http://news.yahoo.com:PK%20Interactive%20Receives%20Funding%20from%[email protected]/Yahoo!%20News%20-%20PK%20Interactive%20receives%20funding%20from%20idealab.htm circulated] stating that PK Interactive had received funding from [[idealab]] (note: check the URL below closely)
* The TidBITS newsletter [http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-623.html offered] a spoof issue
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