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April Fool's Day - Be Forewarned, Especially Online

Welcome to the international day of distrust for everything and everyone you know. As we are coming to discover, April Fool's Day was both made for the Internet -- and made for the Internet to eventually destroy.

Here are some of this year's early entries:

1) Google Nose

Pick your smell, get your nose against the screen, and get a whiff of whatever crosses your mind. It totally works!

Characters are expensive, and the microblogging network understood how valuable vowels are. See you on the premium account to fully enjoy wrtng wth yr fvrt lttrs. dffclt t frst bt yll gt th hng f t.

Twyttyr? Why byy vywyls whyn yyy gyt "Y" fyr fryy? Syckyrs! #nvwls

— Joan Rivers (@Joan_Rivers) 1 avril 2013

3) The Daily Mirror goes backward

Select the display you want: drunk, mirrored, x-ray. The only time you'll actually need a mirror to read the Daily Mirror.

4) Youtube goes dark

After eight years of loyal time-wasting services, the video hosting site will no longer accept entries and make a massive selection of what the best Youtube video is! It's a suprising quest for quality. What's your guess?

5) The Gmail Blue revolution

It's Gmail. But it's not regular Gmail. It's Gmail Blue. Step up your game, go blue.

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Tales From A Blushing Nation: Exploring India's 'Issues' With Love And Sex

Why is it that this nation of a billion-plus has such problems with intimacy and romance?

Photo of Indian romance statues

Indian romance statues

Sreemanti Sengupta

KOLKATA — To a foreigner, India may seem to be a country obsessed with romance. What with the booming Bollywood film industry which tirelessly churns out tales of love and glory clothed in brilliant dance and action sequences, a history etched with ideal romantics like Laila-Majnu or the fact that the Taj Mahal has immortalised the love between king Shahjahan and queen Mumtaz.

It is difficult to fathom how this country with a billion-plus population routinely gets red in the face at the slightest hint or mention of sex.

It therefore may have come as a shock to many when the ‘couple-friendly’ hospitality brand OYO announced that they are “extremely humbled to share that we observed a record 90.57% increase in Valentine’s Day bookings across India.”

What does that say about India’s romantic culture?

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