April Fool 2012 roundup
Things we schooled on Apr 1 2012:
Telstra is bringing behind a Gold Phone.
Bulletproof, that powers Mumbrella among many other sites, is charity a new extraterrestrial backup service:
Bulletproof Networks to offer initial extraterrestrial Disaster Recovery service
Sydney, Australia, Sunday 1 April, 2012 – Australian Mission Critical Cloud Hosting provider Bulletproof Networks has launched a new use that it believes is a universe initial in Disaster Recovery. An prolongation to Bulletproof’s delegate Sydney information centre (well outward a 15km radius of Sydney’s CBD), a provider currently launched a new Disaster Recovery charity to concede smoothness of use in a eventuality of a many serious disaster scenarios imaginable.
Named “New Dawn”, a use will yield for hosting of customers’ applications from computing comforts orbiting Earth, divided from a planet’s surface. The use will use idle computing comforts inside a orbiting satellites of a series of commercially-failed communications networks, with a multi-hundred satellite footprint.
The use uses a series of internationally-hosted ‘Earth viability’ showing nodes, that can establish when a whole-of-earth disaster has struck that would describe many earth-bound hosting comforts inoperable by examination pivotal Internet trade metrics. In this scenario, a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite-borne hosting capabilities come online, creation calm accessible by a operation of wireless communications standards that concede entrance but a need for networks behind on Earth, and with low adequate latencies to be utterly usable.
“In a eventuality that an impassioned disaster eventuality takes down many hosting comforts on Earth, companies will wish to safeguard that as life earnings to normal, they are among a first-to-market with hosted capabilities that concede survivors to entrance their services, and to be a brands of a new beginning,” Anthony Woodward, Bulletproof’s CIO, pronounced in a statement. “We also trust that this creates glorious use of idle discriminate ability that is already in orbit, preventing a need to launch a own.”
The association also records that, in further to a immeasurable infancy of Bulletproof’s endless list of existent brand-name customers, several heading tellurian web sites have approached Bulletproof with a perspective to leveraging a use to safeguard that personal profiles on blogging and amicable media sites are still manifest to survivors permitting companies to precedence this information to aim their sales in post-apocalyptic products such as Geiger counters and building materials. Bulletproof expects that a use will have clever take-up after this year in credentials for events on Dec 22nd, per a Mayan Calendar.
Google is to addition Street View, around Street Roo, by chubby cameras to kangaroos’ heads
“Over a subsequent 4 weeks, some-more than a thousand Big Red kangaroos will be versed with a 360-degree conduct camera that will automatically constraint images when a marsupial is on a pierce during illumination hours.
“The cameras on a Street Roo collection group will be powered by solar panels stitched into a behind slot of custom-made roo jackets. Images will be connected to Google in real-time. A GPS tracker embedded into a coupler will compare a plcae of a kangaroo to safeguard a picture is accurately uploaded onto a new Street View layer.
“To safeguard a seamless knowledge – and to equivocate suit illness – we have also grown program that will well-spoken over a bouncing outcome gifted with a tender data.”
Meanwhile, Google Maps is now accessible on 8 bit cartridge:
And still with Google, Gmail is now accessible with a Morse Code keypad:
Kraft has announced a cherry essence of Vegemite:
News Ltd’s Amanda Meade has taken to Twitter to exhibit a new policy:
The Mini Countryman is now accessible for squeeze one square during a time:
(Hat-tip: Marketing Nabbed)
Richard Branson is to transport to a centre of a earth with Virgin Volcanic (hat-tip: Cathie Tranent)
And a Brisbane Times reports that Queensland is to change a regiatration plates slogan to “The can do state” in reverence to new premier Campbell Newman.
Meanwhile, Ikea has removed a left handed allen keys (hat-tip: Gavin Bain)
ZDNet reported that Huawei was perplexing to buy a Sydney Harbour Bridge to use for tools in a transmitter.
And TV Tonight suggests that Kyle Sandilands is to horde The Logies.
Publisher Lovatts is rising a crossword book for pets:
Meanwhile, Mumbrella reports that it is to start a recruitment agency.
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Apr 1st, 2012 during 10:58 am
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Andrew B
1 Apr 12
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Cathie Tranent
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Groucho
1 Apr 12
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Come on, they should move behind a Gold Phone…
STA Travel are also charity cut cost “Cargo” fares. Offering a ultimate no frills atmosphere transport experience, travelers will fly with no cabin crew, in moody party or food service. Cost of transport formed on weight and height.
Virgin Volcanic is a biggie!!
http://www.virgin.com/travel/n…..n-volcanic
One can usually assume: http://mashable.com/2012/04/01…..re-as-ceo/
Red Balloon Days sent me an comical email with travesty things to send to mates.
Made me laugh.
Adblocker replacing all web ads with cinema of cats for a Apr Fools win.
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/adblock
@SC isn’t that what tighten to what Qantas do in economy these days?
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