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April Fools Day at Google

There is a long tradition of April Fools gags in Silicon Valley, especially at Sun Microsystems, where engineers variously built a putting green (with real grass!) in founder Scott McNealy's office one year and another year McNealy unlocked his door to find his Ferrari sports car not only assembled in the office -- it was idling.

With a Sun Alumnus at the helm of Google, why should we expect them to be any different. Here are a couple different approaches to celebrating this kinda sorta holiday from the Googleplex:

http://www.google.com/tisp

http://www.traffick.com/2007/04/gmail-paper-is-scrapbookers-dream.asp

Listen to this article posted by Robert X. Cringely on April 1, 2007 3:10 PM | Permalink
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