- April Fool pranks throughout the world are celebrated on 28 December in Spanish speaking countries, on 3 April in Iran, and on 1 May (in addition to 1 April) in Denmark.
- Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie was a child star in Kids Incorporated.
- The ‘Expanded view’ feature in Google Reader makes me save an enormous amount of time, now that I don’t have to click on posts I want to read but just scroll. However, my Google Reader trends are now wrong (every scrolled post appears as “read”, whereas before it would correctly be flagged as ignored).
- Minimum wage laws were only introduced in the UK in 1999 (in very poor taste on April 1st), and many European countries still have no minimum wage legislation but rely on employer groups and trade unions to set minimum earnings through collective bargaining.
- Flickr has a feed about things you’ve left comments on that sends you updates when other people leave additional comments.
- Torchwood‘s amnesia drug, Compound B67, shares its more common name (Retcon) with the process of adding new information or changing previously established facts in fiction (retroactive continuity).
- Prankster twins Fred and George Weasley from the Harry Potter novels were born – when else? – on April 1st.
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