WestJet Airlines in Canada announced today (April Fools Day) that they offer sleeping cabins in their modern fleet of Boeing 737 “Next-Generation aircraft”. The fee is around twelve dollars. Probably US dollars.

“WestJet now offers scheduled service to 47 destinations, continuing on our strategy to be Canada’s favourite airline,” commented Bob Cummings, Executive Vice-President Guest Experience and Marketing. “Our leather seats and live satellite television are a great part of WestJet’s guest experience however, by offering our existing overhead bins as sleeper cabins, guests will now have the opportunity to lie down for a period of time and arrive at their destination refreshed, rested and ready to go.

“The overhead compartment has traditionally been a place where guests have placed their carry-on baggage. Given that the overhead bins on our fleet are among the most spacious of any airline, we made the decision to offer sleeper cabins in that space.”

Unlike most pranksters, WestJet wanted to make sure we are able to contact them by phone (both English and French lines) to make reservations. They also spoke about  their huge network, etc but I guess it was worth it, they’ve managed to get the buzz the wanted around the company.

The not-so-famous Michael Arrington (he says he is one of the 25 most influential people on the web, but we doubt it, since 10 people at Smilespedia are on the first 10 spots) says he is suing Facebook.
Facebook used his image to promote products (or some Facebook users did, not sure).
Here is the quote:

So we’ve been increasingly concerned about developments at Facebook over the last few months that allow advertisers to post ads using my picture and name to endorse their products without my explicit permission. I’ve received literally dozens of emails from readers asking me if I’m associated with Blockbuster’s Movie Clique application, or the new Jackass movie (no to both).

Remember people, it’s April Fools Day, and we are hunting for pranks on the major websites.

The BBC will today screen remarkable footage of penguins flying as part of its new natural history series, Miracles of Evolution.

Watch footage of the flying penguins

Camera crews discovered a colony of Adélie penguins while filming on King George Island, some 750 miles south of the Falkland Islands.

The full article here.

Google and Virgin launched Virgle, the project to establish a permanent human presence (colony) on Mars.

We have all the informations you will ever need on Virgle right here.

Question: What is Virgle?

Answer: It’s an April Fools Day Hoax.

No more questions needed.

After last year’s move to North Korea, this April Fools Day TPB decided to move to the desert of “Sinai in Egypt”.  

From The Pirate Bay:

In Sinai we’ve set up the systems with three redundant fibre links. Besides local connectivity in Egypt we also have connectivity to Saudi-Arabia and Israel. Jordan is quite close and we hope to install a link there as well as soon as our budget will reach that level. This way we’re actually hosted in Asia as well as Africa.

More updates on this will come later today, hopefully. Everything will be the same as before, we will have slightly higher latency for European and American visitors.

A special note to Ifpi: Moses walked in the desert of Sinai for 40 years. Our servers will be active for at least another 40 as well.           

They have a ton of deleted comments. I’m guessing they are deleting everything related to April Fools Day.

More hoaxes will come, we expect all the major websites to have such great news.