Comments on: Google does April Fools': 'Custom time' and a Mars trip

Need an "e-flux capacitor" for your calendar, anyone? Also, Project Virgle has some fun with Richard Branson's space-adventure dreams.

[dduck123]

YouTube as well

You tube is Rick Rolling everyone that clicks on any of the featured links.

[Braindead87]

I must be lucky

Yeah i scored a double date with anna kounikova and paris hilton:P

[kai6novice]

Suppor the idea of Custom Time

I total like the idea of Custom Time. Of course, not trying to send email to the past, but setup email that will be automatically be sent on a certain time in the future. It can act as a future reminder kinda email function.

[hadaso]

Custom time exists

Several desktop based email clients can schedule future delivery of email. There are some webmail apps that can. More should!

"Past delivery" is not possible. of course, but putting a time stamp in the past is possible. The simplest way is to use a desktop based email client and to set the clock on the PC to the wanted delivery time just before delivery. There are other ways to do it. All it takes is writing the wanted date and time to the Date header in the email message, so one just needs software that can do it. One can put anything in any header including the Date header in the same way spammers put fake addresses in email headers. Geeks can do it by typing the email message directly to the recipient's mail server (contacted using telnet to port 25). Many email clients trust the Date header and use it to order email so most recipients will be fooled.

[bob.callegari]

You nised one Google TiSP (BETA)

http://www.google.com/tisp/index.html

[deathnab]

That was last year.

Google's Toilet ISP was from April 2007. You are way behind the times!

[technoguys]

What a brilliant idea!!

Here is my indepth review of how this works..

http://innodesk.blogspot.com/2008/04/googles-custom-time-what-great-concept.html

I mean predating stuff is great for some Jobs!!

[GhostAlph]

Branson on Ferguson

Sir Branson was on The Late Late Show w/Craig Ferguson last night, touting "Virgle" and telling Craig about the "one-way trip" to "colonize Mars" and even tried to recruit Ferguson as "entertainment on the trip". :)
Heh heh...I've always liked his sense of humor...

[arlechinos]

http://www.shapedword.com/

Check on:
Big Show use his girlfriend?s panties
?Weird Al? Yankovic and his rabbi pact
Bruce Willis had in Paris an afro-american look
Michael Jackson cut off his dad ear!
And more about different things, enjoy http://www.shapedword.com/

[QuetzalcoatlUSA]

Whatever!

Gee, in the future, why don't you just keep a running blog of all the April Fools' Day pranks? That way all the hard work these pranksters put into their work can just be relayed as a news item that deconstructs them for people with no sense of humor.

[soggy0]

Random Event added to April 1st on Google Calendar?

Looks like Google Calendar is trying to punish the forgetful. My Google Calendar entry for April 1st incorrectly lists my brother's wedding anniversary, which is normally in June.

[jackdaniels08]

Google is so Awesome!

I love those guys!

[cameron2501]

custom time

Hey guys I smelled a rat early on the E-flux what a load of horse wacky hahahahah good try hahahah

[rdgadz]

one of the many reasons i dislike google

Sergey and Larry seem like a couple of high school punks. Horrible speakers, they barely make it though their lines. Everytime I hear one of them speak it takes me months to appriciate Google again.

I wish they would just shut up and leave public appearances to someone else.

[ca8h]

Virgoogled!

Virgined? Virgiled?
No, we were VirginGoogled.
Virgoogled, in fact!
Royally duped! Blushered! (That's Mars-speak for caught napping on April Fool's Day). We thought we were dreaming when we logged on to Google but didn't hesitate and thought what a great idea and what a great opportunity to jump in at the start of something wild like that and draw attention to our tythe-mania business model we're cranking up. Looks like your average stitch-pitch, but believe me we worked hard to make it real ourselves and knew the world-spirit behind it would pay dividends for us all on the big E. Got to start changing perspectives, and it starts here, with the seemingly quotidian at ca8h.com. So here's what we wrote after setting up a New User Group (Dirty Sexy Money and Dirty Sexy Earth, to draw attention to making money and the plight of the Earth - some correlation methinks) thinking we were reaching the world through Virgile - who knew (not us, obviously)...
"Dirty Sexy Money? Doesn't have to be. We could all contemplate a future on Mars and give up on planet Earth, or we could all work together to create the universal paradise this was meant to be and still is for some - the thing is it could be for all. We just need to work together. Most are too poor, too hungry, too weakened by neglect to do anything about it, but here's the thing: If we work together, we can create the only miracle that matters - feeding, clothing, housing, loving and educating every single child on this planet. We mean to do something about it at ca8h.com. Join us."
The key is tything. Oprah Winfrey does it for Chris'sakes! Nuff said;)
'Cept... We were virgoogled!
Here?s Google?s reply to us:
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

Subject: Google Groups: You've created the new group dirty sexy earth
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:03:20 +0000


Hello [e-mail],

Congratulations: you've successfully created your Google Group, dirty
sexy
earth.

Here are the essentials:

* Group name: dirty sexy earth
* Group home page: http://groups.google.com/group/dirtysexyearth
* Group email address [e-mail]

And here are links to a few more Google Group-related goodies:

* Change group settings:
http://groups.google.com/group/dirtysexyearth/manage
* Invite more users:
http://groups.google.com/group/dirtysexyearth/manage_members_add

If you have questions about this or any other group, please visit the
Google
Groups Help Center at http://groups.google.com/support.

Enjoy your group and make us proud!

The Google Groups Team ?

The Google Groups Team? Well hereafter they shall be know as the VirgoogleFoolsters ? and we were roundly virgoogled! Fair play...

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