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Now this annual event used to be OK because you would just get a ridiculous story at the end of a news bulletin or a piece on GMTV about how a family of ferrets has started caring for a nursery class. However, in the internet connected world, I get severe trust issues on 1st April. BBC News online is one of the worst places to be on the morning of 1st April. What's real? What isn't? Is it all a sham? Come to think of it I don't remember the BBC being here this time yesterday, the whole corporation is just a fool and the joke is on us.

Anyway, enough of my April Fools paranoia. This thread is actually to highlight one of the best April Fools I've seen for a while which came through my email from retailer Firebox. They highlighted how for today only you can buy a disposable cardboard bike, but perhaps my favourite product is detailed below - which I'm sure will remind you of a certain new standard in digitised television presentation.

Radio 2 is playing their joke out at the moment, a rather clever one too!

'This Week' threw Twitter into a wobbly after Midnight last.

Smooth Radio did an April Fools this morning on the Simon Bates Breakfast Show, with Soul Train presenter Andy Peebles getting a new job as "Head of Car Parks" at London 2012.

Broken electronic equipment? Has all your magic smoke escaped leaving you with worthless lumps of silicon? Look no further than the Sparkfun Magic Blue Smoke Refilling Kit!