Time to wind down, watch some videos, and prepare for your weekly dinner at TGI Fridays.
Weve been watching a classic series of deadpan fake instructional videos,Infinite Solutions.
These fakes were so good, theyfooled Gizmodoone Friday in 2007.
The Infinite Solutions series would eventually be an obvious joke.
My personal favorite is their video on finding the skeletons of tiny dinosaurs, above.
Its highbrow prop comedy, with several layers of joke building on the premise.
But before these obvious jokes, Infinite Solutions started with a few fake tech tutorials.
The channels first video described a fake use for a real utility on CNETs freeware site Download.com.
Supposedly, you could use this app to identify the music in your iTunes library and correct the labels.
The video that tricked Gizmodo was called How to Sign Up for GoogleTV Beta.
It was a more elaborate prank that included footage of a fake GoogleTV interface.
And while then-Gizmodo editor Adam Frucci was skeptical,he tried it out anyway.
Frucci should have recognized the fake.
But not because it was sillyGoogle was known for elaborate tricks like the one Infinite Solutions described.
Three years before, Google had released Gmail with a whopping 1 GB of free storage on April 1.
In 2007, Google had recently bought YouTube and Keyhole (which became Google Earth).
Google Books still looked like a much bigger deal than it turned out to be.
No one knew what Google would come up with next.
The smoking gun, though, is in the videos credits: Special thanks to Fatal Farm.
And they were behind the whole Infinite Solutions series.
Be sure to tell your cab driver you want the special tourist rate.
