1 April 2008: Morning

Felons in Florida slowly win back their voting rights.

With a city more bustling than the numbers show, San Francisco questions federal census.

A court in the southwestern state of Saarland ruled that smoking could continue in hookah bars. Germany rebels, relaxes anti-smoking rules.

Airline hires seat-fillers to meet passenger quotas.

How April Fool's jokes are a sign of friendship, and help keep our egos in check.

Pitchers' mounds in DiMaggio's day were fifteen inches high but in 1969 were lowered to ten inches, to make them more dinger-prone. On the changing face of baseball.

Exploring the no-longer-secret tunnels underneath the University of Texas at Austin.

Physicists investigate why it's completely impossible to open a DVD wrapper.

Video: Elephant paints self-portrait. Or not.

Photos: Portraits before and after death.

Blacklisted director Jules Dassin dies at 96; the song you may know from the movie you may not.

...Now listen to the Chordettes sing it; and now, the Muppets.