All the online April Fools' jokes were poor this year. The whole point of them is that they're supposed to be vaguely plausible - so you'd read/look at them and think that it's real.

Who's ever going to believe that Google and Virgin would open a Martian colony? Or that kernel.org.uk, the home of the Linux kernel, was switching to FreeBSD?

Then there's the jokes that are just designed to get a laugh - like Youtube's redirection of videos to the Rick Astley classic, "Never Gonna Give You Up".

Maybe the days have gone where we'd be fooled into thinking spaghetti grew on trees, and we're all far more 'informed', due to the wonderous interweb...