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CNET is having some fun snapping rubberbands on the balls of online luminaries with its Special April Fool’s Day edition, inspiring the usually serious TechCrunch to join the mad hatter’s party to the tune of FuckedCompany’s acquisition. You won’t ever know how seriously we wanted that bit about Amanda Congdon posing for Playboy to be true, but maybe Amanda or Hugh Hefner eventually champs on the bit and gives us all raging boners.

Google, of course, wouldn’t want anybody to top them, launching two fake but solid-sounding product launches: the deliciously scatological Google TiSP (”delivering your Internet connection through your toilet”) and the Monty Pythonesque Google Paper (why settle for online-only Gmail, when you can have your inbox printed out and delivered to you the old-fashioned way?). Mashable chimes in, suggesting Google Writer (”writing your silly blog posts for you — automatically!”) might (or should) be among the day’s jokes, but many people believe it can actually work beyond the joke-only level.

All these while we’re still gazing into the slimy hole of newly launched Yahoo Underground, running our hands on its gritty hide and trying to decide if this elaborate thing is indeed Yahoo trying to remind us they still have some sense of humor.

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