Saturday, 2nd of April, 2005

Next batch of Year’s Best anthologies announced over at Locusmag. Jeff Vandermeer totally OTM…
It’s not the only April Fool’s at Locus - Paul di Filippo declares Charlie Stross officially posthuman… And:

Stross’s transformation is the first documented case of Singularity breach, but rumors persist that Australian writer Greg Egan made the emergent leap long ago

Elsewhere in their April 1 news, nanotech in the service of DRM (NRM?) for paper books.

In the electronic world, Britannica engage in a hostile takeover of Wikipedia (now Wikipædia), and Wikimedia (to be known henceforth as Wikimædia).

Graham Freeman did another April Fool’s edition of VM over here, although it wasn’t quite up to 2003’s effort :)

Any more for any more?
Update: Teresa Nielsen Hayden has an overview of April Foolses for the year.

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