Google pulls April Fools prank in offering free wireless...

Obviously not everyone read the fine print when it came to discovering that Google's offer for free wireless was a joke.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Presiding over a company with a market value of $143 billion apparently gives Silicon Valley's most famous billionaires a good sense of humor - and a case of corporate potty mouth.

Senior executives at Google Inc. (GOOG) launched their annual April Fools' Day prank Sunday, posting a link on the company's home page to a site offering consumers free high-speed wireless Internet through their home plumbing systems.

Code-named "Dark Porcelain," Google said its "Toilet Internet Service Provider" (TiSP) works with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s new Windows Vista operating system. But sorry - septic tanks are incompatible with the system's requirements.

I actually got a few emails from people earlier today who wondered how this would affect Toledo's plan to provide free wireless...thru the traditional system rather than thru a toilet...

:-)