Best of April Fool Hoaxes - 2006

These are this year's Best of April Fool Hoaxes posted in Wiki. Check it out!

Blizzard Entertainment announced that the new Alliance race for their upcoming World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade will be Wisps. They possess the radical ability to detonate themselves in order to strengthen their fellow players or weaken enemies. Due to the fact that the player would be permanently dead after doing this, many players claim that this is a joke, considering the news was released on March 31 - the day before April Fool's Day.

ModTheSims2, a popular Sims 2 fansite, renamed itself to ModYourLlama2.com, had multiple Llama related uploads and changed the theme.

# Slashdot incorporated a pink "OMG!!! Ponies!!!" theme at 00:00 UTC. This girlish theme is in stark contrast for a techie website believed to be mostly frequented by male nerds. A "Special Birthday Report" [4] about Jeff "Hemos" Bates emerged in the first minutes of the day. A link to Thinkgeek's wireless extension cords has also been posted. The presence of humor on Slashdot has yet to be confirmed.

# Astronomy Picture of the day sing the new camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have been able to confirm that the Moon is made of green cheese. The telling clue was the resolution of a marked date after which the Moon may go bad.

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