Gossip

OK, these foolish things remind me of a fish...

Here's today's no-news. Some things were reported: a cold drink bottle that fed you what you needed; a nude model embracing a penguin, Steve Jobs getting into the painful furniture business and monkeys typing Shakespear. Some of them were true!

The cold drink with DNA testing built into the lip came from   Google. It was sort of half-way convincing as long as you know nothing about DNA.

Journalist Orlowski, having spent last year pretending to be pretending to not be Belle de Jour wasn't going to be eclipsed this year, and discovered 
 a chair with a spike. No, thanks.

The most convincing of the day was from a "survey of Foolish Americans.  Oh sure... And the sucker of the day was probably the  Washington Post, which thought  the bidet toilet was a joke. Funny, possibly; but it's standard equipment in Tokyo hotels so don't press the buttons until you're in position.

 Did you spot the duds? Several thought that it was more appropriate to do that, than run their own spoof: like the SunHerald, or the Garundina and no doubt, there were more.

For example, the irrepressible Goodwins was probably behind this one, where you have to spot the one accurate story amongst five fakes - hint:  if there really had been an Itanium M running at 70W announced by Intel, we'd have covered it here!

If Silicon managed a spoof, why not ZDNet, you may ask?

Easy. A few years back, the (then) news editor and the (then) Editor came up with a lulu, which had everybody in stitches. Everybody, that is, except the supposed star of the story - who failed to see the humour, and sued. Ever since then, April Fool is banned at ZDNet...

And of course, nothing fake on NewsWireless...

If you spotted any that you thought were particularly good, drop by the forum, and pass them on, will you?