10 Greatest Tech Hoaxes

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

Google reveals the secret behind its algorithms: pigeons.

http://www.redherring.com/Home/6286

Red Herring told this story about TIDE, the bridge between the human brain's impulses and a variety of Internet-based computing functions, as a perfectly straight-faced news feature.

http://www.april-fools.us/internet-cleaning.htm

Please disconnect all devices from the Internet now.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/wec.shtml

Whatever you do, don't get anything between the transmitter and receiver.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/games/forever.ars

The game that will never, ever ship. Maybe. By the way, it still hasn't shipped.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone-implant.htm

Still a joke ... for now.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/01/china_buys_google/

No more Google news about Tibet for you!

http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149 

RFC 1149, Internet via homing pigeon, started as a joke, but in 2001 a

group actually pulled off running a network off pigeon power. Kind of. Sort of.

http://www.google.com/romance/

"When you think about it, love is just another search problem."

http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/K/kremvax.html

An oldie but a goodie about a fake Usenet site in the Soviet Union which, oddly enough, became a real site and an important one for news during the attempted Soviet coup in '91.

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