April Fools' Round-Up

I enjoy a good spoof, and April 1 is a day when they often appear. This year's crop seemed smaller than usual (maybe because April 1 was a Sunday). I thought I'd share what I found:

• New Subcite Policy for the Harvard Law Review, Et Seq.: The Harvard Law School Library Blog, April 1, 2012. "The editors of the Harvard Law Review have revised their subcite policies by requiring not only the preservation of PDF copies of all sources cited but also the carbon-freezing of all authors cited."


•  April Fools! The Year's Best Library Pranks, Inside Scoop (American Libraries), April 4, 2012. Includes links to a report of Amazon using its legal personhood to run for president, Google Really Advanced Search, and a speech arguing against the public domain in copyright law.


• April Fools 2012: We Ruin Every (Tech-Related) Joke on the Internets, TechCrunch, April 1, 2012. Includes a video of Google Maps 8-bit for NES. I liked Gmail Tap, too: "It's 'a new input method designed for the future,' where every letter of the alphabet is represented by a series of dots and dashes."


• NPR offers a variety of faux headlines ("More Teens 'Going Amish,' Shunning Technology") and other treats here.