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Written by Associated Press
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 Google plays epic April Fool's Hoax
Senior executives at Google Inc. launched their annual April Fools' Day prank Sunday, posting a link on the company's home page to a site offering consumers free high-speed wireless Internet through their home plumbing systems.
Code-named "Dark Porcelain," Google said its "Toilet Internet Service Provider" (TiSP) works with Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows Vista operating system. But sorry -- septic tanks are incompatible with the system's requirements.
The gag included a mock press release quoting Google co-founder and president Larry Page, a step-by-step online installation manual, and a scatological selection of Frequently Asked Questions. On some Google sites, the company's official logo -- a multicolored "Google" that changes according to the season and on holidays -- substituted a commode for the second "g."
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 1. Apocalypse Now -- Helicopter attack
Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory."
Robert Duvall's helicopters wreak bloody destruction upon a Vietnamese village
to the strains of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries in order to secure a beachhead
for a bit of post-combat surfing. No cinematic moment better captures the folly,
absurdity and tragic human cost of America's war against the Vietcong.
2. Saving Private Ryan -- Omaha Beach landing
Steven Spielberg, 1998
The graphic depiction of the Omaha beach D-Day landing shocked audiences and
even induced flashbacks in Normandy veterans. The shaky, hand held cameras,
the desaturated color and the unflinching portrayal of the near-suicidal assault
all add up to a sickening sense of realism that remains unmatched in war films.
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 Police are looking for a man who shot and killed a motel guest in the parking lot after he got the last available room.
Officer Mike Lopez says the shooting occurred early this morning at the Cornett Motel in South Los Angeles.
The victim -- 33-year-old Gerald Anthony Jones -- had driven some companions to the motel and one of them rented a room.
Police say Jones was still in the parking lot when a man called him over and then shot him in the chest with a blue-steel handgun.
The gunman had apparently just been turned away at the desk because the motel was full.
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