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Sega Pokes Fun at DS

I missed this April Fools' Joke, but that's probably because I don't live in Japan. Sega's prank was the fake release of what that they called "Game Gear Goju." It's a pretty straightforward attack on the Nintendo DS. Sega's new GGG handheld has 50 screens instead of a measly 2 screens.

Check out TechJapan's post if you can't read Japanese, and check out the GGG directly from Sega if you can.

More April Fools' Day

Perhaps I'm being a harsh critic of the search engines... here are a few more April Fools' jokes to keep you in the "mood."

CollegeHumor.com sold to Philip Morris
HomestarRunner.com a pay site now?

Also, make sure you check out Wikipedia's list of 2002 and 2004 April Fools' Day pranks.

April Fools': Ask Jeeves

Are all the search engines this lame? Ask Jeeves' April Fools' Day joke is about as good as Google's. Introducing the Jeeves 9000.

Am I missing something? I thought the idea of an April Fools' prank was to trick someone into believing that what you are saying is TRUE...

April Fools': Google Gulp

"At Google our mission is to organize the world's information and make it useful and accessible to our users. But any piece of information's usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from the cognitive ability of the user who's using it. That's why we're pleased to announce Google Gulp (BETA)™ with Auto-Drink™ (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of "smart drinks" designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty."

www.google.com/googlegulp

This is the kind of LAME April Fools' day joke we'd expect from a publicly traded company. Can't say anything outrageous or semi-believable because the stock price might tank.