Nothing like seeing your friends' Twitter quoted in Quasi-mainstream media to make your morning a litle brighter.
I'm pretty sure @saxifridge heard about the Jeff Goldblum died hoax. And laughed. About an hour after the #omgconan joke began, he posted what I think was the best encapsulation of the whole event, "HOLY CRAP! CONAN IS ACTUALLY AN ALIEN WHO CAN CRAP SKITTLES AND YODDLE IN JAPANESE!"
From the article
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20000410-52.html?part=rss