virGLE - Virgin and Google sending people to Mars in 2014

[bugzy]

http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html
we should all sign up !

[oc-audica]

Prank?

[bugzy]

no its for reals, ive been hearing about virgin working on converting their airline planes to be sub-atmospheric to allow for space travel ... they been talking about this for a long long time, i think since yesterday

2014 gives them a couple years

[creanium]

Lon, what day is today?


Google's April 1, 2008 pranks

For the ninth year running, Google has decided to apply their quirky brand of humor/style to April Fool's Day fun. This year Google really got into the spirit.

First, the announcement that Google has teamed with Virgin, to form Virgle (http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html) -- an ambitious effort to forge the first permanent human colony on Mars. The Virgle site is pretty complete, with videos asking for interested users to send it their audition tapes (via YouTube, of course), applications (http://www.google.com/virgle/application.html) (using Google Docs), a 100-year plan and more.

GMail added a "new" feature today as well, Gmail Custom Time (http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html), which allows users to send e-mail BACK in time (as far back as April 1, 2004) and still show up chronologically in their recipient's history. Be careful though, you only get 10 (ten) a year!

Google Calendar added an "I'm Feeling Lucky" button which creates an evening date with someone at random. You might get Angelina Jolie, you might get Britney Spears. Google Calendar has also added a new Wake-Up Kit (http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new_wakeup.html) option to make sure you don't miss that date.

But wait, there's more. Try clicking on any featured video on YouTube today, and you'll be Rickrolled. And Google's Blogger Buzz blog (try saying that ten times fast, or even once) has announced an upcoming service called Google Weblogs beta (http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/04/announcing-google-dweblogs-beta.html), which will auto-populate your blog with interesting links and media and add your content directly to Google Search results.

[via the Official Google Blog (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/announcing-project-virgle.html)]

[lbvr6]

kinda sounds like a cult thing

[creanium]

WTF? Deleting my posts without any notification?

[bugzy]

WTF? Deleting my posts without any notification?
;) what notification?

[PassatBoy101]

I heard about it a while back too, so I will back Lon up