1. Gmail Motion

2. 2. Comic Sans

   

   Searching 'Helvetic' on the Google changes the font on the search page to everyone's favorite font: Comic Sans.

3. 3. Chromercise

4. 4. Google Earth

   

   Google has added various wild animals to its maps on Google Earth. For example, a narwhal in England, a dragon in Germany, and The Loch Ness Monster.

5. 5. Google Blimp Ads

   

   Google's new way of displaying ads: Blimps.

6. 6. Google Teleport

   

   Google Teleport is a website written in Simplified Chinese that allows the user to travel through space and time. I don't get it either.

7. 7. Job Openings For Autocompleters

Meet the new flavor of the moment from Britain's Got Talent ! His name is Eugene the Librarian, and he will win you over with his dorky, offbeat charm.

The disgraced Illinois ex-governor has been offered a contract by minor league baseball team the Joliet JackHammers. And, reportedly, he's interested (surprised?).

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Defamer said it first , and now Entertainment Weekly's getting in on the action, speculating that Joaquin Phoenix's “retirement” from acting and new rap career are an “elaborate Andy Kaufman-style hoax.” Casey Affleck is supposedly documenting the transition in a new film, but the guy is Phoenix's friend and brother-in-law and could just be doing him a solid.

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Commenters on 4Chan, eBaum's world and other sites rile up the internet by getting a crude visual reminder of 9/11 to the top of the Google Trends page.

The Best Links:

1. 4Chan: Go To Google, Search For ✈ ▌▌, Bring It To The Top Of The List
2. Google Trends: ✈ ▌▌
3. The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11
4. Unpleasant Google Trends Subversion

The man who claimed to be behind the “Sarah Palin doesn't know Africa is a continent” news item doesn't actually exist.

The Best Links:

1. Martin Eisenstadt Responds to “The Last Republican”
2. The Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy (FAKE)
3. Martin Eisenstadt’s Blog
4. A Fake Expert Named Martin Eisenstadt

When this report was broadcast on the BBC in 1957, hundreds of people phoned in asking how they could grow their own spaghetti trees.

CBS News: Police sources are saying that “a campaign worker has now confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter ‘B’ in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.” The story broke in the press two days ago and was all over the news, but police said there were inconsistencies with her story. She has since confessed that it was a total lie, and is facing charges.

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Obama supporters sign up to get a text from the campaign when he picks a VP. Someone finds a way to spoof texts from the campaign. Hilarity ensues.

The Best Links:

1. Spoof a Text Through Sprint
2. Spoof a Text Through T-Mobile
3. Freak Out Your Friends With Fake Obama VP TXT
4. “So last night I got a text message from the number 62262”
5. Spoof a Text Through Verizon
6. HoaxMail, Cheap Text Spoofing to Any Carrier

A fake Twitter competitor dreamed up as a hoax to rile the Twitter-esque Plurk .

The Best Links:

1. Mocking What Shouldn’t Exist With What Doesn’t
2. An Easy Joke to Play on Those With “Social Network Exclusion Anxiety”
3. “It’s probably an elaborate inside joke.”
4. The Flume: an Older Web 2.0 Hoax
5. How the News Spread
6. Lots of Twitter “Thought Leaders” Were in On It Or Fooled by It
7. Follow Pheltup on Twitter

No, pig’s bladder powder did not regrow a man’s finger.

The Best Links:

1. Esquire Reports on the Story in September
2. Breathless Report of Finger Growth!
3. Video Slideshow of the Re-growing Digit
4. “It grew back — ‘flesh, blood, vessels and nail’ — in four weeks”
5. Only Trouble: There Was No Missing Finger

Don’t get all excited, there’s nothing to see here.

The Best Links:

1. OMFG - They Tricked Lindsay Lohan and People From “The Hills”!!
2. “Things Aren’t What They Seem” Turns Out to Be Boringly True
3. S C A R L E T - The Official Site (For the TVs!)
4. “The nontraditional campaign hasn’t exactly ignited “Scarlet” fever online”
5. New Fake Show Pushes New Real LCD HDTVs
6. No, There’s No Show. Move Along