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Ok. Here’s a roundup of Wired.com’s Top 10 April Fools’ Pranks for Nerds.

1. Re-map the Keyboard of Your Excitable Co-worker
2. The Speech-to-Text Platform Joke
3. Desktop Havoc on the Mac
4. Optical Mouse Confusion
5. Change the Language Settings on Google
6. The BlueScreen of Death Screensaver
7. Splitting Monitor Cables
8. The Old Screenshot-as-Desktop-Wallpaper Gag
9. Change Autocorrect in MS Office
10. Remotely Monitor a Friend’s Webcam

check it out for more of these on Wired.com. Happy April Fools Day everyone.

Note: originally written by Kevin Poulsen for Wired.com

A Washington state man who used Caller ID spoofing to send armed cops to the homes of a dozen innocent people was sentenced to 30 months in prison Wednesday, and ordered to pay nearly $24,000 in restitution to the police departments he hoaxed.
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