At this stage in my Internet life, I’m wise to April Fools’ Day on the web and haven’t truly been had in years. However, that’s not to say I don’t look forward to the one day every year when cornball webmasters and bloggers try to pull one over on unsuspecting visitors. Honestly, I love the cheap humor April 1st brings and thought it would be fun to share a few fool sightings from around the web.

My first foolish sighting of the day was Wikipedia’s homepage. Most mornings I’m greeted with a rather bland but necessary infusion of random trivia from the web’s main tome of knowledge. However, my eyes perked open and a smile came to my face when I saw that the main article today is for a museum called MOBA (Museum of Bad Art). Cool. The best thing about Wikipedia’s “prank” page is that all of the content is seemingly true. For example, Britain’s oldest man, Henry Allington, really does credit his longevity to “cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women—and a good sense of humour.” Latecomers can see the April 1st site here.

An overwhelming amount of unbelievable news is usually a good tip that the calendar reads April one. For example, Warner Bros. Acquires the Pirate Bay for the price of a whopping $13 billion is unbelievable. BMW releasing cars that have a magnetic tow feature is totally unbelievable. And although there are some times I wish Google would really create this feature, Gmail’s Autopilot is unfortunately just unbelievable April news.

Some other notable pranks around the web include…

YouTube’s foolish contribution to April orientation here.  Try it yourself by addin “&flip=1″to any YouTube video.

Pizza Hut is apparently getting into the portrait business. Check out their artsy prank here.

Funnyordie.com has been completely taken over by Reba.

LOST is cancelled.

If you were made a fool today or did some fooling of your own, I’d like to hear about it in the comments. And for those of you who think that you made it all the way to the end of my post without getting pranked, why don’t you check out the history behind the name “April.”

The good news is, if you can figure out who the culprit is, you get yourself $250,000 in cash! And we all could use that cash right about now.

It seems nobody is certain what will happen, but that something will happen. I wouldn’t be completely surprised if nothing happens though. Remember Y2K? What an anti-climactic moment that was (thankfully). The good news for the IMA is our IT posse has been training for this bout for weeks now. I’ve been assured by Yvel we’ve got our machines ready for what may ensue. Below is an inside look at our McAfee stats for our machines machines he shared with me (shh… don’t tell):

Things at the IMA are in full swing and I’m as busy as ever so my apologies for lack of depth and thoughtfulness. Tune back in on April 7th and it’ll be more apparent what we’ve been up to, promise.