The War seems to have made people a little reticent about April Fools Day hoaxes. I haven't spotted any in The Independent, yet. But then, I've only read as far as page eight, and the war coverages goes on until page ten. Even I'd admit that putting a joke story in amongst that lot would be in poor taste.

So anyway, to lighten things up a little, here is someone's idea of the Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time.

I'm also rather fond of the MIT Hacks. (Not remotely computer related, by the way. This use of the word 'hack' predates anything computer related. The current meaning may be derived from the old practical-joke meaning, though.)

Update: One for the nerds - Whitespace. The best spoof language since Brainfuck. Perhaps even since Perl.

I'm off to the Python UK Conference 2003 after work today.

Say 'Hi' if you spot me. I'll be on the desk some of the time.

Loads of good stuff to see. Most important to me professionally will be Anthony Eden's Scripting Java Applications with Jython session. Guido's keynote will be unmissable too, naturally.

Other than that, well, I'll probably want to see the big names' sessions - Marc-André Lemburg and Alex Martelli. But then, I might find Boyd Roberts's Object Storage in Python session more useful tan Alex's, since I don't know C or C++. Andy Todd's PythonCard session looks good, too.