April Foolery

April Fool’s Day has returned and it has graced us. Well, Google has graced us at least. Google launched a myriad of jokes centered around CADIE.

CADIE is an artificial intelligence system that apparently is going rogue and is taking control of Google. However, CADIE allows Google to improve it’s products with features such as 3D Browsing in their Chrome browser, Gmail Autopilot in Gmail and Brain Search with Google Mobile.

YouTube joined in on the fun again this year after rick-rolling everyone to death last year. Actually, I don’t know if you’d like to call it fun when all the videos are inverted and start playing upside down.

The Guardian in the UK says they’re going out of print and will use Twitter only to deliver the news.

All fun and entertaining, but I think companies need to get a little more aggressive with their jokes.

Maybe Apple could pull a prank where every song downloaded on April 1st is the same song. Perhaps something by Prince? But yes, the same exact song. No matter what you’re downloading you get that same Prince song. Actually, Paula Abdul may be more funny.

Microsoft could file for bankruptcy! That would get some heads spinning.

Facebook could announce that you can now sell your information online.

The government could put our an absolutely brilliant prank though, or a couple. Could you imagine President Obama announcing that he’s painting the White House black? Or maybe the Treasury announces a $5 coin?

In all honesty, at this point the best joke would be Obama coming out and saying the words that would soothe the ears of millions, perhaps billions: the financial crisis is fake! April Fools!

GOP YouTube Debates a doozy.

Just a couple days ago the Republicans had their very first YouTube debate on CNN, and boy did they go after each other.

Numerous heated exchanges were the highlight of the debate, with McCain and Romney battling it out over torture and Romney and Giuliani duking it out over ’sanctuary mansions’ and the claim that Romney employed illegal immigrants.

Two people stood out of the debate and the rest made me cringe. Huckabee is a great talker and is easy to like, even though I don’t totally agree with his policies the way he talks makes me understand why he thinks the way he does. The others, like Mitt Romney, just rub me the wrong way and make it seem like they’re ‘double talking.’ Romney’s response to whether he supports homosexuals serving openly in the military was one such example.

Another one that stood out was Ron Paul. He seemed like the only thinker at the debate and he had the best points and arguments in my view.

The Republican side is a mixed bag to me, one on hand there’s candidates like the flip flopping Romney, Bush #2(McCain), and The One Who Relies on New York(Giuliani) and then there’s Huckabee and Paul.  I would not be surprised to see either pick up the nomination, especially since they’re the only ones who performed well at the debate. Well, at least in my eyes.

By far, the worst showing was by Romney. Not only for the attacks by his opponents, which he didn’t defend well. Not only for his constant flip flopping. Not only for his response to the homosexuals in the military question. But also for how he answered the question about black on black crime in urban America: black people just need better parents.

Yes, that’s essentially what he said, and honestly… it’s absurd that he thinks that. Maybe he should have listened one of the twenty times Giuliani explained how he lowered the crime rate in New York City.