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Here are some examples of what companies and sites did for April 1, 2009:

• Kia unveils Aero Soul APRIL System: 2010 model will harness wind energy
• Google Gmail Autopilot: automate your e-mail responses
• UK paper “The Guardian” twitters: claims it will stop printing newspapers and will only be available through 140 character news clips on twitter
• YouTube on its head: shows videos upside down
• CERN discovers what caused Big Bang
• Digg has series of overlays
• Ford and GM team up: create Android car with Google
• Research claims iPods get fractionally heavier with more music
• Expedia offers flights to Mars : starting at only $99

Check out the top 100 April Fool’s Day hoaxes of all time at the Museum of Hoaxes.

It’s no big deal… this guy is just RIDING A LION

This is animal tamer Askold Zapashny of the Zapashny Brothers Circus in St Petersburg and not even his ponytail can keep this guy from looking absolutely, freaking, awesome.

Forget a new logo,  the Detroit Lions should just pay this guy to be their mascot.  That’ll turn around a season…

Though it’s not official yet, the Detroit Lions are giving themselves a much-needed (and rather spiffy) face-lift, and recent history shows that’s probably a smart move.  As you can see the font is more dynamic and contains a bit of a reference to lion’s mane, while the logo’s silhouette is largely unchanged, but the additional details are more fearsome, dynamic, and just cooler in general.  This comes after the Detroit Lions completed a historic, first-ever 0-16 season in the 2008 NFL season.  But fear not Lions fans, an logo/uniform update has proved good luck for recent sports teams.

2003 San Diego Padres finished 64-98 as the worst team in the MLB
2004 San Diego Padres finished 87-75 and competed for NL Wild Card (with a new logo, jersey, and ballpark)

  vs 2007 Tampa Bay Devil Rays finished 66-96 as the worst team in the MLB
2008 Tampa Bay Rays finished 97-76 and represented the American League in the World Series (with a new logo, jersey, and a name-change)   vs 2008 Detroit Lions finish 0-16 for the first time in NFL history… obviously worst in the league
2009 Detroit Lions….? vs

Amazon.com is probably one of the best-known companies to use the pure-play level of business commitment.  That is, one that exists only on the Internet.  Amazon has thousands of webpages and sells thousands upon thousands of products at discounted prices.

Woot.com sells one discounted product.

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Amazon.com’s latest edition e-reader, the Kindle 2, is making noise in the publishing world… literally.  Other than sporting a slimmer body, the newest version of the reader is very similar to its predecessor (even priced the same at $359).  There is one addition that has lawmakers and (more specifically) the Authors Guild concerned: the Kindle 2’s new text-to-speech ability.
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