The Internet loves April Fool’s Day jokes. Especially Google. Here’re some (bogus) announcements from Google and its various projects thus far today:

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• Google has teamed with Virgin to create Project Virgle — an ambitious plan toward the first human colony on Mars! Coming soon: a Relay Service call-center on Mars.
• Google Docs (an on-line wordprocessor) now has a “new airplane” option under its File menu that allows you to print out and fly a paper airplane with Google’s logo. While this is indeed an April’s Fool Joke, it’s a nice, legit feature — so enjoy it while it lasts!
• A wake-up feature via Google Calendar that features progressively more vigorous means to wake up an user — starting with SMS text messages and cumulating in “more coercive means” like tipping water-filled baskets and even bed-flipping. Very useful for waking up us deaf folks, I daresay.
• A new Gmail feature that allows you to back-date your emails as far back as April 1st, 2004 (the day they, not so ironically, launched Gmail). Very nice for when you forgot a special event and can claim that the email got delayed — and then the email arrives, correctly back-dated with the “old date,” in that person’s inbox!
• Google Australia has launched gDay, a search service that will allow you to search “future sites” up to a day in advance. You could peruse newspaper articles that haven’t even been written yet but will be on the Internet tomorrow, future sports scores, whether you’ll have an interpreter in your class tomorrow, and more. The possibilities are endless.
• Google Talk makes it possible to save energy by adding a translation feature that abbreviates words and reduces the vowels and consonants in your conversation. Vry usful fr tlkg w/ ur bss w/o ur intpr nd gttg ur pt acrs.
• Google Books has added a “stratch and sniff” feature. I wonder if Google Classifieds will add a new car smell feature for its car listings …

Google ain’t the only one having fun with this. Below is a scattering of websites also offering exclusive April’s Fool Day features — I’ll update this as I hear (well, see) of more. In turn, let me know in the comments if you see any that aren’t listed, and I’ll add them as well!

• A.viary.com, a photo manipulation website, has added Dodo, a nice feature where you can upload a photo, designate certain areas of it, select a few options, and have it be aged appropriately. See your favorite enemy be aged 20, 30, 40 years! Retro-age your car 250,000 years in the past and see it turn into a Flintstone-esque foot-operated conveyance device! See young Michael Jackson as he would be without plastic surgery, or as he is with plastic surgery!
• TechCrunch, my favorite tech blog (and the source of my knowledge of many of these hoaxes - thanks, TechCrunch!), is suing Facebook for $25,000,000 because Facebook constantly lets others know via status feeds what Michael Arrington, TechCrunch’s well-known founder, rents or buys at different sites like BlockBuster. Funny only if you know who Michael Arrington is and have been reading his blogs all along.
• Google Sightseeing, which is not affiliated with Google itself but blogs about Google Maps and Google Earth, has announced that Google Maps / Earth has added an x-ray feature that allows you to look INSIDE buildings — like the Pentagon! I guess our Video Relay conversations will no longer be confidential anymore.
• Weebly, an useful online service where you can create your own websites, has announced that it will terminate service on May 1st. I’m not sure if this is an April Fool’s Day joke. I hope it’s a joke. Gulp.
• Download Squad is moving to Planet of Internet. Um. I don’t get the humor.

More coming soon - keep checking back!

• (8:53am) Wunderground, my favorite weather website, gets into the action and announces that research conclusively proves that there is a link between global warming and increased numbers of hurricanes. Said research was done via consulting oujia boards, crystal and magic-8 balls, and even channeling.
• (9:10am) Daveynin reports that CSD is acquiring DeafRead!
• (10:15am) Download Squad now reports that Microsoft will be unveiling a new Developer Fitness program with exercise videos by Microsoft’s CEO. Just be careful not to boot your computer while doing those kicks.
• (April 2nd) Blogger ThinkGeek breathlessly reports that there is a new Wii game and controller, Super Pii Pii Brothers where you strap on a Pii and try to, ahem, pee into toilets with varying levels of difficulty.  Gives a totally new meaning to “joysticks!”  (Thanks, Daveynin.)