The first day of April

Some news stories that have caught the eye today:

• Avril de Poisson of the Guardian explains how Gordon Brown has enlisted Mme Sarko to inject more style into British life
• Metro reveals BMW’s war on dog wee
• The Londonist highlights a new ‘piggy-back’ plan to beat the congested runways at Heathrow
• The Sun reveals that Sarko is going for a ‘revolutionary treatment’ to gain five inches in height
• The Daily Mirror reveals that Dog racing on ice gets green light – Wembley to host first meeting

Some other topical links:

• BBC Natural World – Flying penguins
• Google’s “Virgle” mission to Mars
• Wikipedia article on the Jovian-Plutonian gravitation effect
• How Stuff Works explains the ‘hybrid’ fueled Air Force One
• NASA explains Dextre the Magnificent
• ReadWriteWeb uncover Google’s new ‘DreamAds’ scheme
• ThinkGeek have an array of ‘new’ products today, I particularly like: Personal Soundtrack t-shirt, Spazztroids cereal, and the Betamax to HD-DVD converter.

I also enjoyed reading Anne Galloway’s interesting and topical blog post today.