Cramazingly, this paper was being hawked out on the street with the NY Daily and Metro today. The typefont is a little wonky, but yep, that's definitely the Times from July, 2009, telling us that the war is over and Bush is indicted on treason and they are finally going to build some more bike lanes. (Glad someone was listening.)

But unfortunately, these papers didn't come fresh out of the Delorean, but are the sociopolitical hoax of two infamous pranksters:

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We guess getting all our womens and our generals and having all the oils wasn't enough for them, because now the Muslins are coming for our video games, too.

Just one week after it was discovered that Barack Obama had purchased ads in car racing video game Burnout Paradise, a Muslim gamer has discovered quotes from the Koran in the background music of the title Little Big Planet. In Islam, it's sinful to set the Koran to pop music, and even if it weren't, the quotes used in this case weren't very poppy: "Every soul shall have the taste of death" and "All that is on earth will perish." Fun!

Unlike Mattel, which did nothing when a bunch of paranoid hicks thought a baby doll it sold was spouting Muslim rants, Sony has issued a global recall of Little Big Planet.

April Fools' Day is over. The pranks are not. Employment blog Jobosity finds itself with a co-worker who's out of town, which leaves just one obvious option: Screw him over. They're taking your votes on which asshole move you'd like to see happen: newspapering, Styrofoam peanuts, plastic wrap sheet, or plastic wrap coating. [Jobosity]

With April Fool's Day coming at you tomorrow, expect erroneous publicist pitches, misleading tips, and phony Facebook friend requests. History is filled to the brim with elaborate tricks, from Discover magazine's April 1995 story on the naked ice borer to PC Computing's 1994 article on legislation aimed at banning Internet use while intoxicated. So how to sort out who's pulling the wool over your Lasik'd pair?

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