Been so busy today, I completely forgot it was April Fool’s Day. The Beeb today posted 10 news stories that sounded like April Fool’s jokes but were true and one that was – a clever promo for iPlayer about flying penguins. Meanwhile, Wikipedia tweaked the truth in its On This Day section and Today”s Featured Article about “storied ostrich jockey” Ima Hogg (a real person, apparently). For more on these, see CNet’s The Social blog. And check out the top 100 legendary April Fool’s hoaxes – including my all-time favourite, The Guardian’s 1977 brilliantly elaborate San Seriffe spoof, an in-joke for type lovers everywhere …. 
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It isn’t often that I feel inspired by politicians these days but as the American election process grinds on, I find myself more and more impressed by Barack Obama’s apparent decency and integrity. This recent speech, on race in America, may one day come to be seen as historic in its own way as Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream”.
According to the New York Times today, the differences between hillaryclinton.com and barackobama.com, the official websites of the Democrat candidates, can be summed up this way: Barack Obama is a Mac, and Hillary Clinton is a PC. Bill, I guess, is just a regular plug-and-play guy …
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