Yes, it’s April Fools’ day, which means I’ve procrastinated even more this morning than usual. So that I can get on with my life–but mostly so I can procrastinate more–let me share the best foolish tidbits I’ve seen so far.

The morning begins with an announcement of Nature and Science‘s merger, into an open-access super-journal with an unorthodox Facebook-inspired peer-review system. (Phew that was a lot of hyphens.) For the inaugural issue, I was enlisted to provide a cover (pictured here), since the art department–i.e. the people who actually use Photoshop–were undoubtedly busy with real work.

XKCD rolls out a command-line interface on its front page (screenshot), which could be funny, confusing, or technically dazzling depending on how much of a computer geek you are. Starbucks introduces Plenta and Micro cup sizes (complete with pitch-perfect promo photos), and the Economist conveys some alarm at the “peak olive-oil crisis.”

Of course, ever since 2000 or so, no April Fools’ day is complete without the obligatory Google prank. This year’s is a spin-off on a bit of ACTUAL news (not a joke!) that broke last month. In case you’re confused about what is a joke and what isn’t, the readers clarify in the comments:

And given computer hackers’ general aura of geeky irreverence–and possibly because Google engineers get 20% of their time to do whatever they want–every April brings a slew of strange and elaborate “features” to Google products. Exhibit A: “store anything on Google Docs.” Exhibit B: Google Annotations Gallery (abbreviated “GAG”).

If you still want more, the science blogs have been busy collecting funny links–and it’s only noon on the east coast right now! The Great Beyond (Nature’s news blog) digs up some delightfully esoteric–and hilarious–Arxiv submissions today, including “a bibliometric study by Zuntz, Zlosnik, Zunckel, and Zwart showing that people whose names appear at the end of the alphabet produce superior science.”

New Scientist jumps into the fray, and Carl Zimmer of Discover provides his own roundup, which includes a link to a vintage April Fools’ item about “the Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer.”

And last–and the opposite of least–my favorite item by far also seems to have taken some institutional preparation: Johns Hopkins University renames itself to “John Hopkins”, complete with a homepage redesign (screenshot).