You Missed It: Elephant in the room edition

This is easily the most annoying day to operate on the Internet. April Fools’ Day is bad not only for the news industry, but everyone thinks they can be hilariously original and switch their Facebook profiles to “engaged” or attempt to revive the rick roll. Google doesn’t really prank anyone, it just has some amusing features, like YouTube’s 1911 viral pictures. If you were busy having a musical episode of your doctor show, odds are you missed it.

Warrior of the Week
GoDaddy.com founder and CEO Bob Parsons posted a video that got big this week of himself shooting and killing an elephant in Zimbabwe. Parsons looks pretty pleased with himself, and then locals swoop in and carve up the dead beast.  Predictably, PETA has condemned the video, and called for a boycott of GoDaddy.com until Parsons “stops shooting animals.” Just for the record, this blog has never been prouder to be hosted by Parsons’ company.

Bring your green beverage
Remember Four Loko? If you do, odds are you didn’t drink enough of it. The caffeinated fruity alcoholic beverage is now getting some competition, after it was pulled from the market: Colt 45 is bringing us Blast, a fruity alcoholic beverage aimed at drinkers of Four Loko. Best of all, Snoop Dogg is going to be their frontman. So kids, watch out for a 40-something pot smoker telling frat boys what they should drink!

Snopening Day
The 2011 Major League Baseball season officially got underway yesterday with the always-popular opening day. The only problem is that games in the Northeast may end up being chillier than usual. For example, Massachusetts just got some more snow. I don’t have ESPN’s stat tracking crew behind me, but I’m pretty sure a game has never been called on account of snow.

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