Today, The Guggenheim Got Painted Red (And Other Things That Didn't Happen)
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<p>ThinkGeek has a faux item on their site today: the <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8bb/?pfm=AprilFools_homepage_Featured_9#tabs">mini Apple Store playset</a>, with an <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8bb/images/8931/">optional line pack</a>. You'll get the store, 60+ miniature Apple accessories, and you can use your own real iPhone 4 as the screen behind Steve Jobs in the Keynote Theater! We would buy this.</p><p>Bonus points for their <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/looflirpa/e8bd/?pfm=Carousel_20110401_Angry_Birds_1">Angry Birds pork rinds</a>.</p>
Remember the Star Wars subway car mission from Improv Everywhere last year? The troupe also filmed this outtake, featuring Jar Jar Binks getting his ass kicked by some surly straphangers.
<p>The Guggenheim <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Guggenheim/status/53835344931590144">Tweeted</a> earlier that they "painted our building pink today, just the way Frank Lloyd Wright wanted." Then reminded their followers that Wright first proposed red marble for the Guggenheim facade, saying, "Red is the color of creation." You can learn more about that in <a href="http://web.guggenheim.org/timeline/index.html">their timeline</a> (which the photo above is from).</p>
<p>Groupon goes to Williamsburg! <a href="http://deals4hipsters.com/">Deals 4 Hipsters</a> looks just like Groupon, but with offerings that look more Fabulous Fanny's than LensCrafters, if you follow.</p>
YouTube produced this video for its April Fools announcement that it would be reverting back to what it would have looked like around 1911. Enjoy the old school look for some of the viral video classicsâspoiler: keyboard cat gets a new instrument!
IKEA has created the HUNDSTOL for doglovers who want their pup to know that the dog is a part of the family. The spokesman explains in the ad: "Dog comfort is paramount, so there's a hole in the back of the chair for the tail." People would buy this!