Posts Tagged ‘april fools’
Tech and April fool’s seem to go together, even with GroupOn.com – groupoupon.com
April 1st, 2010
Posted in General Blog
Groupon.com, which is a great website that give short deal on coupons, largely based is larger metro areas like Dallas, Los Angeles, and Hattiesburg, MS… (Okay, so not the somewhat smaller city of Hattiesburg, but I thought it was funny).
For April Fool this year, all people are doing funny April Fool’s joke, like Google “changing it’s name to Topeka,” and youtube.com turning videos in ASCII text (which is pretty ingenious, I think),…
And even GroupOn.com built a small microsite to allow people to buy “elite” items like metal shirt’s with only sleeves and no shirt (pictured to the right) for $6100, faceless watches for $14,500, or Royal crowns for $68,099. this may sound silly, but the site sells it much better than I can explain it.
See the site Groupöupon at http://www.groupoupon.com/.
Even once you click to try and buy some of these ridiculous items, you are prompted to be scanned for coolness to make sure that you are even cool enough to even buy such items. The text reads: “Please align your eye with the retinal scanner below so we can check your identity against our online database of confidential tax records and confirm your worthiness as a potential member of Groupöupon.” — Funny stuff.
For other great listings of April Fool’s jokes from the tech world for 2010, see Mashable’s best of April Fool’s post.
Google now named Topeka, my son now to be named Google
April 1st, 2010
Posted in General Blog
Google’s new name, as of today, April 1st, is now Topeka.
Chosen on this memorial day of *ahem* April Fools, Google has chosen to honor the city of Topeka, Kansas; since this city recently chose to change it’s name to Google, they had to think how to honor that, and they chose to officially change it’s name to Topeka.
Thank you Google for honor the great city of Topeka. Since I honor the company’s commemoration, (and my ego tells me that I want some attention myself), instead of naming my new son Joshua Zavier Armstrong in the next coming months, I wish to honor you by naming him Google Armstrong. My love and adoration go out the company and I wish to further brand the greatness of this company with naming my first born son after this awesome company.
Rock on, Google. Rock on. — And by this I mean the company, not my son. (Sorry, son. I will celebrate you soon enough when you come in May. This is Google’s time to shine for the time being. 
See the referring April 1st blog entry at: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html