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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4376" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="keatons" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/keatons.jpg?w=300&h=210" alt="" width="300" height="210" />Fool's Day pranks we like:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/03/29/reddit-turns-its-users-on-each-other-for-april-fools-day/">Reddit Mold</a><br />
Reddit is making some money with this year's gimmick, which lets users punk other users with annoying anti-features such as: gradually eliminating letters the pranked user is allowed to type; gradually eliminating the number of comments a user is allowed to see; and forcing the pranked user to see notes and comments from a special thread called r/basement/.<!--more--></p>
<p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/do-not-fool/">Urban Airship Revenge</a><br />
Urban Airship is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, but it powers push notifications and in-app purchases for a hell of a lot of games. UA made its own 8-bit browser-based game today.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.atlassian.com/en/angrynerds">Angry Nerds</a><br />
A spoof of Angry Birds by software developer Atlassian. Merchandise available.</p>
<p><a href="http://joeloncoal.com/">Joel on Coal</a><br />
A spoof of Joel Spolsky's popular blog, Joel on Software. "I can now announce that my new firm, Port Carbon, has already started work on a new coal mining management product, CoalBUGZ. Ask me if you'd like to be in the beta. And I may as well blather at you, about coal, about mineral extraction, and about energy in general. So here's Joel on Coal."</p>
<p><a href="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&amp;sugexp=llsfp&amp;xhr=t&amp;q=helvetica&amp;cp=4&amp;qe=aGVsdg&amp;qesig=XzVKJm0NY9r-alGJxMIEmQ&amp;pkc=AFgZ2tlg_A_NmT_-qx8W9Exody0I-xvfD8gXHAGdiS3QMPHOm2v81C5kC0p5cTsfpnCtioN7NXKDfLBmwMqIOwwpNY0IEp8KAQ&amp;pf=p&amp;sclient=psy&amp;site=&amp;source=hp&amp;aq=0&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=helv&amp;pbx=1&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&amp;fp=54b4861f18cab4a">Helvetica</a><br />
Google punks font snobs searching for the perfect typeface.</p>
<p>And finally, we can all have the choice to opt out of April Fool's Day in the future with <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/do-not-fool/">this protocol and Firefox add-on</a>.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4376" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="keatons" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/keatons.jpg?w=300&h=210" alt="" width="300" height="210" />Fool's Day pranks we like:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/03/29/reddit-turns-its-users-on-each-other-for-april-fools-day/">Reddit Mold</a><br />
Reddit is making some money with this year's gimmick, which lets users punk other users with annoying anti-features such as: gradually eliminating letters the pranked user is allowed to type; gradually eliminating the number of comments a user is allowed to see; and forcing the pranked user to see notes and comments from a special thread called r/basement/.<!--more--></p>
<p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/do-not-fool/">Urban Airship Revenge</a><br />
Urban Airship is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, but it powers push notifications and in-app purchases for a hell of a lot of games. UA made its own 8-bit browser-based game today.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.atlassian.com/en/angrynerds">Angry Nerds</a><br />
A spoof of Angry Birds by software developer Atlassian. Merchandise available.</p>
<p><a href="http://joeloncoal.com/">Joel on Coal</a><br />
A spoof of Joel Spolsky's popular blog, Joel on Software. "I can now announce that my new firm, Port Carbon, has already started work on a new coal mining management product, CoalBUGZ. Ask me if you'd like to be in the beta. And I may as well blather at you, about coal, about mineral extraction, and about energy in general. So here's Joel on Coal."</p>
<p><a href="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&amp;sugexp=llsfp&amp;xhr=t&amp;q=helvetica&amp;cp=4&amp;qe=aGVsdg&amp;qesig=XzVKJm0NY9r-alGJxMIEmQ&amp;pkc=AFgZ2tlg_A_NmT_-qx8W9Exody0I-xvfD8gXHAGdiS3QMPHOm2v81C5kC0p5cTsfpnCtioN7NXKDfLBmwMqIOwwpNY0IEp8KAQ&amp;pf=p&amp;sclient=psy&amp;site=&amp;source=hp&amp;aq=0&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=helv&amp;pbx=1&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&amp;fp=54b4861f18cab4a">Helvetica</a><br />
Google punks font snobs searching for the perfect typeface.</p>
<p>And finally, we can all have the choice to opt out of April Fool's Day in the future with <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/do-not-fool/">this protocol and Firefox add-on</a>.</p>
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