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The always sexy Yanko Design notes the futuristic Cityline concept bus.

TechCrunch has a running list of all the April Fools Day crap jokes on the interwebs. My favorite: maybe the LinkedIn connections, it’s fairly cute.

Don’t fuck with Android … anymore. BusinessWeek reports that the great Google Gods have started telling mobile carriers and device makers that tweaks to Android and outside partnerships must meet Googleplex approval. The big if: If you want to have early access to Google’s most recent builds. My guess is that the carriers will value their NASCAR partnerships more than the latest version of Google’s tasty deserts. A clamp down on Android overlays would actually be good for users, IMHO. Every version if Android I’ve seen — except for the pure version — pretty much sucks. John Gruber fires a hot daring fireball at the Google brass over their “open” pledge.

Sticking with  BusinessWeek (kicking it old school this morning), they’ve got an analysis of Amazon’s Cloud Player and how you actually get your music up there from iTunes. In a word: aaaaawkwaaard. Music in the cloud is coming — Apple and Google are also working on it. Amazon got there first, but its system is imperfect. Apple will get there next and kick everyone’s ass for ease of use — my guess is one-button upload from iTunes into the company’s North Carolina server farm. Google will come up with something convoluted and the geeks will love it because it’s “open” and not Apple.

Pixar’s next film is, predictably, Cars 2 but after that the genius factory is rolling to the Scottish highlands for Brave, an epic adventure that features a young archer going up against some “mythical beasts.” I am Rogue has some early concept art for the film. Epic indeed.

Breaking News from CNN: Americans don’t know shit about what the government spends their money on, but they’re mad as hell about it!

President Obama gave a speech on domestic drilling for oil and natural gas energy policy this week that was widely panned by enviros and tepidly praised by policy thinkers. Time’s incomparable Bryan Walsh has the easily digestible details.

ReadWriteWeb and HubSpot answer the age-old question: When should I tweet for maximum firepower? The Answer: when people are bored at work. In other words, late in the morning and late in the day. In other news: Don’t spam your Facebook followers if you want them to still “like” you.

There’s a lot of dead wood in the tweet stream. BusinessInsider and aprogrammer with a full Twitter API account found that of Twitter’s 175 million registered users, 56 million accounts have no followers and 90 million have zero followers. That last number means that over half of Twitter’s users have no one following them — that’s a serious problem for a social network.

Want to create viral content? BuzzFeed and Huffington Post co-founder Jonah Peretti tells you how on TechCrunch. Well, not really, but there are some interesting tidbits here on creating viral lift, designing content to be shared and mixing advertising, user-generated content and in-house content to maximum effect. The dude knows of what he speaks.