Infoworld certainly to add to the foolishness. It's always a treat to see how ticked-off some readers get about these stories, despite having "April Fools" stamped all over them. (FYI, I don't recommend the humor bypass surgery -- it has some nasty side effects.)

As for the rest of geekdom, it was a mixed bag.

I thought Google's jokes were lame, mostly. Then again, it's under a lot of pressure to top itself each year, and you know that can't go on forever. The concept of unleashing an Artificial Intelligence engine on the Web that immediately transforms into anime-inspired Japanese tween with a fondness for pandas and unicorns is a funny concept, but doesn't really work in a ha-ha sort of way. Ditto for flipping YouTube videos upside down, Chrome 3D, and Gmail Autopilot, which automatically composes responses to your e-mail.

On the other hand, the preview for Microsoft's Xbox 360 title, Alpine Legend, was a hoot, despite the game's "." Don your lederhosen, grab your tri-horn, and party like it's Austria in 1899. (Microsoft finally proves it can do something better than Google. Who'd a-thunk it?)

I also liked the UK Guardian's decision to publish the newspaper exclusively via Twitter, boiling every story down to its 140-character essence and tweetifying all the stories in its 188-year history. To wit: