Yesterday, in celebration of April Fools' Day, lots of people, blogs, forums, you name it, played a joke. One of them was AsiaFinest - it claimed that the People's Republic of China government banned the forum. Pretty convincing but it was April Fools'. But, hilariously, some fell for it!

But on the day before April 1st, it was all serious and so, Pakistani government went to work - they blocked all things Wikipedia. Not even a page about cuteness was accessible from Pakistan. The domain was blocked in entirety. From Blogcritics.org:

Today, 31 March 2006, the entire domain of Wikipedia.org, the free online encyclopaedia was blocked because one article of the massive 3.5 million topics covered on the website contained information pertaining to the controversial cartoons on the Prophet Muhammad. While the block appeared to be limited in duration, having been lifted at 20:00 (PST) seven hours after the initiation, the real issues remain about the future censorship of education and knowledge in Pakistan.

On Wikipedia:

...I don't know if I should feel proud or embarassed...

Amen.