Being born and raised in North-East Kansas, I couldn’t pass this up. As you know already if you use Google at all (and who doesn’t?), you saw that Google renamed themselves to Topeka Friday for April Fool’s Day. There was a lot of media attention, some good and some bad. One particular blogger on a well-known site who trashed the idea of Google renaming itself to Topeka for the day (you know who you are) had no reason to trash the change other than, in my opinion, just to have something negative to write about. I mean come on, it was all in good fun.

Shout out to Topeka Rapper, Brail for this video:

Although Topeka is has now been changed back to Google, April 1, 2010 will remain a historic day for Topeka with all of the nationwide media attention in their competition to get Google to choose their city for a high-speed Internet experiment. Props to Google for having a sense of humor and choosing to be Topekans for the day.