April Fool’s Day

Eye of Sauron for Compliance

What better way to ensure compliance than to have an eye watching you while you work? What better eye than the ultimate evil eye of Sauron?

It’s a product of the day at ThinkGeek. But since the day is April 1, it’s not real. (At least not yet.) Your workers can breathe a sigh of relief.

Some of My Favorite April Fool’s Day Items on the Web

The web is full of surprises today. Here are some of my favorites

The iCade to turn your iPad into an arcade cabinet
Google has renamed itself to Topeka Topeka went first and renamed themselves “Google” to attract their fiber for communities program.
Atlassian’s Fourwalls A location based social networking platform for inside your company. Don’t you want to be mayor of stall #1 in the first floor men’s room?
US Supreme Court Phases Out PDF – Embraces Apple’s iPad Format (and Money)
GeekDad Reviews the iPad
Starbucks New Plenta Size (I could have used that this morning.)
Peak Olive Oil from The Economist
Socialtext Releases Chatroulette for the Enterprise

April Fool’s Day is celebrated with hoaxes and practical jokes. I’m hesitant to post anything today for fear that a serious story would be seen as a joke or a joke would be seen as a serious story.

A few years ago, if I had told you that Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, AIG, General Motors and Chrysler would be bankrupt, out of business or owned by the US Government, you would have laughed. Today, you just cry when you look at your tax bill.

So I will sit motionless today, unsure if anything is real.

Yes, that is a Dharma Initiative Alarm Clock.