When “Glasses Purge 3rd D From Films” popped up on Slashdot today I thought it was a joke. And apparently it is, but actually the theory behind ThinkGeek’s De-3D Glasses is legit. So kudos to ThinkGeek for coming up with an April Fool’s Day joke that also has practical value.

Some other good jokes of the day from around the tech world, mostly culled from Slashdot:

• LHC finds the Hugs boson
• Toshiba Spectacle, the world’s only 3D monocle
• Facebook Relationships from TechCrunch (I almost want this to be real)
• XK3D, the comic formerly known as XKCD now in 3D (side note: I’m pretty sure they used the conversion I sent in for one of the comics :-P)
• RFC 6214 adapts the classic RFC 1149 (“A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers”) to IPv6
• RFC 6217, “Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer,” well… just go read it.

There are also always some good joke papers posted on the arXiv; today I found “Schrödinger’s Cat Is Not Alone” and “The Observed Inclination Problem: Solved At Last?” but I bet that’s not the end of it.