Yup, we're getting in on the act too.

It's April Fools day, and that means ANY story you read online is a load of lies. Kind of annoying really. When someone dreamt up the idea of making April 1st a day for jokes, they clearly hadn't imagined the Internet and the ability to post stories quite as rapidly as they are today.

So here is a list:

1/ UK YouTube has all featured videos linking to a certain Rick Astley song.

http://uk.youtube.com

2/ Tech ARP "uncovers" the news that DirectX11 is on the way in Vista SP2, which will support ray traced rendering, all before the end of the year. Sounds like the sort of thing designed just to turn on the average geek, but sadly a load of BS

3/ Betamax to HD-DVD converter. No irony at all.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/betamaxhd.html

4/ Google and Virgin Media to go to Mars.

http://www.google.com/virgle/faq.html

Yup, although I did argue it could be another Gmail. If you are too young to remember, four years ago today Google announced GMail, a revolutionary new email system that gives you 1GB of storage, making the biggest rival, Hotmail, look extremely poor. Nobody believed it because of the date, but it was actually true. Superb marketing!