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Happy April Fool’s Day….I think we are taking ourselves too seriously these days…and I think a little irreverant mischief might be just what is needed in our depressed economy and changing times…ALWAYS love the work of David Shrigley and Jan von Holleben, and you might consider using them for inspiration…

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The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions is a book of pranking devices by New Yorker cartoonist and freelance illustrator Julia Suits.

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Over a pixelated reworking of the photo, the text, “All Art is Theft.”

Link: Jay Maisel’s building tagged with “Kind of Bloop” cover art – Boing Boing

He dresses up like a cop and stops motorists and then gives them bribes, he puts up election posters advertising his Jihadi credentials and asking for the public’s votes, and so on

Link: Afghan artist adopts “Jihadi Gangster” persona to lampoon official corruption – Boing Boing

Peabody, which launched a “Coal Cares” website to advertise the campaign, hoped to tackle the stigma associated with asthma by giving away a variety of colorful and hip inhalers to dignify the use of asthma medication.

“For kids who have no choice but to use an inhaler,” the website reads, “Coal Cares lets them inhale with pride.” Above all, the empathetic hearts behind the “Coal Cares” initiative are seeking to make what they have deemed “Asthma-Related Bullying (ARB)” a thing of the past.

Link: Yes Men hoax uses Twitter, Facebook to put Peabody Energy on the defensive | Poynter.

Link: Stickers on the Central Line

Why now after all these years like Deep Throat have I decided to reveal this information you ask? Well if you must know I narrowly avoided a head on crash returning from an assignment in Burma. Deep Mott got to thinking and I realized any day could be my last. So the hell with it, it’s time to let the cat out of the bag and in turn show you what goes in the bag when the cat isn’t in there

Link: On and Off Assignment by Justin Mott: Finally Revealed!!! What’s In My Camera Bag
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The belated trophy for best photo-related April Fool’s gag has to go to the RE-35. A digital cartridge for film cameras? It’s so brilliantly silly that it’s almost believable.

Link: B: RE-35 no longer available

This morning I changed my name in her contact list to “AP Mobile” and sent her a short and sweet message and waited for her to turn her phone on. Her mouth almost came down to the floor.

Link: Husband plays funny fake news prank on his wife – Boing Boing

“We assumed they would be upset about it,” said one of the anonymous pranksters in a telephone interview arranged by Mr. Gupta. “But we had no guess that they would go to the level of a lawsuit. It’s ridiculous and overblown. What we did is completely acceptable, as parody.”

Link: Koch Industries Quashes Global Warming Parody – NYTimes.com

By the time the micro-blogging mischief was over, the North Korean tweets had ranted to its 10,000-plus Twitter followers about profligate nuclear weapons spending and lavish Kim Jong Il drinking parties – hosted “while 3 million people are starving and freezing to death.” A video also had been posted on North Korea’s official YouTube channel that showed a caricature of Kim Jong Eun driving in a luxury sports car, running over women and children on the side of the road.

Link: On N. Korean heir’s birthday, a rude cyber-greeting

Link: Tea Party website 4Channed – Boing Boing

camera birds – city birds with cameras instead of heads – were placed throughout the city centre of Utrecht where they feed on the presence of people

Link: Wooster Collective: panoptICONS – An Introduction

It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content.

I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers. I’ve been putting them on copies of the free papers that I find on the London Underground. You might want to as well.

Link: Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott

via: Print your own journalism warning labels – Boing Boing