April Fools' Day 2010 roundup
- Starbucks has listened to customer requests for more coffee cup sizes. The company says it plans to roll out the Micra™ and the Plenta™ sizes in North American stores this fall.
- FunnyorDie has changed its name to Bieber or Die.
- The Guardian has an exclusive sneak peek at the British Labour Party's new ad campaign, featuring Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
- BlatherWatch reports that the feds have just raided former KVI host Kirby Wilbur's rural King County property, confiscating a huge weapons hoard.
- In an unexpected move, David Letterman is quitting CBS and moving to Chicago to start a midday talk show on public radio.
- Kodak says it has just achieved a major breakthrough in its Neuro-Optic-Nasal-Sense Imaging research, marking the beginning of aromatography.
- Ben & Jerry's is now offering virtual ice cream that you can lick off your screen. It's only available from the United Kingdom.
- Reddit users can now browse using Digg's user interface.
- CollegeHumor is warning users that it is under federal investigation for "un-American sentiment". The warning adds that visitors' IP addresses are being logged by the fictional United States Department of Information.
- Pocket-lint has the details on a new joint venture between Canon, Olympus, and Nikon called the "App-eture Store".
- Syndicated columnist Jeanne Phillips (who writes Dear Abby) has posted a collection of goofy letters submitted by readers.
- According to Crosscut, our public infrastructure financing troubles are over. Microsoft is riding to the rescue with a huge boatload of cash, starting with the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge and Seattle Center.
- The Seattle Weekly has discovered that two local entrepreneurs plan to open a "bikini bookstore" in Pioneer Square to replace the departing Elliott Bay Book Company, which is moving to a new location on Capitol Hill.
- The Daily Telegraph says in a news analysis that ferrets will be key in expanding broadband to rural areas.
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