As always, Google has some pretty nifty April Fools pranks this year. Previous pranks included the Google Gulp, Google hiring folks to go to the moon, the Google Mentalplex, and the hilarious PigeonRank.
For this year, I’ve seen two so far:
On the Gmail login page, they’ve announced a new feature: Gmail Paper. The concept is fairly cool sounding, actually: select any of your mail you would like in paper form, then click Paper Archive. After that, Google will print the mail out, box it up, and send it to you. Furthermore, they say that’s completely free, due to it being covered by ads printed on the pack of the mail. Truth be told, I almost thought it was legit, until I came across this:
But what about the environment?
Not a problem. Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment. For every Gmail Paper we produce, the environment gets incrementally healthier.
Post-consumer organic soybean sputum, huh? 
If my mail is going to be printed on that, I’ll stick to the digital form, thanks. Lastly, Google paid a little bit of homage to the Lord of the Rings movies:
Keep it secret, keep it safe? That sounds like a Gandalf phrase if I’ve ever heard one!
The other new feature they’re offering is Google TiSP. It’s free wireless internet access which is provided through… your toilet. You just have to read about it. Snippet, though:
Within sixty minutes — assuming proper data flow — the other end of your fiber-optic cable should have reached the nearest TiSP Access Node, where our Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) will remove the sinker and plug the line into our global data networking system.
Heh. Plumbing hardware dispatchers. I love Google. 
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Mmmmm….. Sputum paper. I wonder what happens when it gets wet? Perhaps they answer that in their FAQ.
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I’d rather not know, honestly.
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I actually believed it, you know, the paper thingy (NOT the toilet idea). And I was like, “Do they ship to Malaysia?” Hahhaha
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pelf: Yeah, like I said, I thought it was legit until I came to the “soybean sputum” bit.
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