April Fool's day joke, right?

Yeah, it's fake. I checked Magnus Hagander's profile, which links to his website, which links to his blog, where he made a post just today.

But it was a really tasteless joke, IMHO.

Come on guys, this is just a funny april fools trick. your acting like you don't get it

Hey everyone, guess what? The guy who posted above me just died! He was killed violently and painfully by a shark! Just kidding! We should all laugh about that, because we don't value his life as much as our own! :P

On April 1, the news wasn't even labeled as fake. Al though, to increase the humor, they should have had him post the message.

Right.
Have someone noticed the RED frame?
That means FAKE NEWS, right?
PS.Sorry for my english, im from poland and i write from my pda

But on April 1, the frame was blue, not red.

They do that every year. Otherwise, no one would fall for it.

I figured that. But still, this is my first year here.

Google had a pretty good idea, it looks like. (See link.)

Yeah, and look at youtube. it all links to the same video

That's not the only good idea Google had.

http://mail.google.com/ mail/help/customtime/index.html

That's not the only good idea Google had. Click the website URL.

LOL, that's an argument for local clients rather than web services, much easier to backdate an e-mail that way. :-D

I thought jokes about death weren't funny.

-antiderivative

Who would actually believe this convincing April Fools joke?

I miss the HP calculator and dog food ads from years long passed.

It was obviously an april fools joke, I would not take anything posted on april 1st for fact, but after a close death I didn't really think it was verry funny, I much preferred the one last year.

what was last years like?

[read: i'm new here]

It's not funny at all.

Anyone else but me notice that "Magnus Dies" means "Good Day" in Latin?

Does it really? That would be a heck of an irony.

You know, before I knew that red border meant joke news, I took that quite seriously. Imafool?