Today, I too don’t know which things I read on the Internet are real. Is Kate Middleton actually a Kennedy? Was the Bronx Zoo Cobra really found? Is there really a video of Julian Assagne cutting up a dance floor? Who knows? Alas, this is what I’ve found on the Internet today…
1. “Hey, it’s April Fools day, when half the Internet acts like morons and the other half bitches about it.” [@mdflores]
Meet the most notorious hoaxer in New York City history:
- Google has been known to pull off some of the most elaborate April Fool’s Day pranks. Today’s included getting funny with Helvetica. The Font.[HuffPo]
- The 8 greatest pranks in art history: [ArtInfo]
- April Fools 2011: the Big List: [TechCrunch]
- The best pranks of the year: [HuffPo]
- The Sunburnt Cow on ninth street pretended to be closed: [EVGrieve]
- The Top 10 April Fool’s Day hoaxes 2011 [Telegraph]
- The funniest April Fools’ Jokes [Mashable]
- Hulu.com goes back to 1997 [Hulu]
2. Kate Middleton has Kennedy blood running through her veins. In a shocking Vanity Fair exclusive, the magazine uncovers a young Kate Middleton sailing aboard Uncle Ted’s schooner with the Clintons and more! [VF]
3. Eight U.N. staffers were killed in an attack in northern Afghanistan on Friday following a demonstration. [CNN]
4. Rob Lowe is pratically naked on this month’s cover of Vanity Fair. He talks about his early years as an actor, his friendships with the Sheens, and the movie The Outsiders. [VF]
5. We’ve Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers. More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined. [WSJ]
6. The complete list of recipients of the 70th annual Peabody Awards! [Peabody]
7. Yesterday, the NYTimes employees gathered to officially welcome home the four reporters taken hostage in Libya last week. Here’s a photo from the inside: [PopTech]
8. Google is making an app that would allow users to snap pictures of people’s faces and instantly identify them in order to access their personal information. [CNN]
9. Sssssserach is over. The missing Bronx Zoo Cobra was found. Bummer for his twitter fans. [Today]
10. I like this photo of Japan’s Emeror Akihito, left, and Empress Michiko talking with evacuees at a shelter in Tokyo. [WaPo]
11. The Dow Jones was up 95 points, the highest yet. Investors were heartened by signs of stronger job creation in the U.S. and the lowest unemployment rate in two years. [WSJ]
12. Is the photo of Donald Trump (left) “Evidence of a rarely-sighted, possibly unprecedented ‘double comb-over?’ [VF]
13. Millennials want their news from major national newspaper according to a new Harvard Study. (Note: this doesn’t mean they don’t want their news in digital form.) [NationJournal]
14. Cellphone radiation may alter your brain. It is unclear whether the changes in brain activity while holding a cell phone up to your ear (an increase in glucose metabolism), has any negative health or behavioral effects, but people still riled up by news. [NYT]
15. Rob Pruitt stands in front of his Warhol statue outside of what used to be Warhol’s studio in Union Square. [Purple]
16. Juliet Lapidos has seen every Woody Allen movie. Here’s what she’s learned: [Slate]
17. Julian Assange “gets down” on the dance floor in Reykjavik. We saw the photos, now watch the hilarious video of WikiLeaks founder Assange, owing a dance floor: [Yahoo]
18. This video of two fraternal twins communicating has gone viral, leaving many to wonder whether the twins are communicating in a secret language. The video is pretty hysterical. Paging Cameron and Tyler! Also, thanks Joy! [NYDN]
19. Your favorite movies as pictograms. [Flavorwire]
20. Who else feels super sorry for the poor guy that opted out of the $2 lottery pool, loosing out on a $319 million pay out? He claims he’s totally okay with it, but he’s obviously lying. [NYP]
21. Relax! It turns out food coloring and artificial dyes are totally safe to eat! [NYT]
22. The Muppets-to-Angry Birds equation: [amyvernon]
23. The New Yorker explains your Time Warner Bill: [NY]
24. Easter is almost here. And that means that in just over two weeks, the Washington Post will be revealing the winner of the 2011 WaPo Peeps Diorama Contest. Left is last year’s winner: A takeoff of the Pixar movie “Up.” [WaPo]
25. The famous polar bear Knut died from drowning. 
[AP]
26. Going to leave you with this Mechanical Wooden Elephant that apparently went on a European tour. [CVXN]
Well, that’s all for me today. Do you have something to include in Monday’s List? Email me: Rachelle@guestofaguest.com!
