via Hog Whitman

Submitted by Steve Lambert:

Dan Provost, an MFA student at Parsons, created FacebookBusinessSolutions.com, a prank on Facebook’s Beacon software bomb from a couple weeks ago [see articles below for details about this software and the outcry it has sparked].

According to msnbc.com, Beacon was created “to boost revenue growth by tapping into the deep social connections between Facebook users, who use the site to share messages, photos and other information with online friends.”

Here are some excerpts from the FacebookBusinessSolutions.com Web site:

Facebook Image Scan
Facebook Image Scan uses a sophisticated computer algorithm to filter through every image in the user’s Photo Album, identifying brand markings and products and tagging them with links back to your homepage.

Facebook Recycle
The items a user deletes on their own personal computer can be very important data for a business to uncover. Facebook Recycle harvests files from a user’s Trash Bin and posts the findings to their News Feed, as well as sending a copy to your business. (more…)

Available at Amazon.com.uk, this pen has received 57 rave reviews, with some issues. Here are some representative comments:

More reviews here

Price: £0.13
Availability: In stock
Boxed 20, sold singly
This item can only be delivered within the UK

Thanks Erin

Since Fox will not be airing a new season of 24 due to the writers’ strike, they plan to air a season that was originally filmed in 1994. CHTV obtained this exclusive clip:

From College Humor, via Neatorama. Thanks Erin

Kant Attack Ad by James DiGiovanna and Carey Burtt from KingHotPants:

Thanks Erin

Maopost.com Presents: Chinese Propaganda Posters

More than 1,400 different posters can be a model for your painting!

An original work entirely done by hand, without the assistance of any printing technique. The artist’s talent and our standards for quality guarantee you an outstanding result, as evidenced by our samples.

The painters are freelance professional Chinese artists selected for their portrait skills and their ability to reproduce the propaganda poster styles. We do not commission “painting factories” and their salaried artists.

Each painting costs from USD $169 to USD $269. Price depends on canvas size and model complexity. Paintings with several characters or a complex background require more work.

We propose two formats: 24×15 inches and 32×21 inches (61×38 cm and 81×54 cm). Your painting is delivered no later than 3 weeks after payment is received.

A few examples: (more…)

The all-purpose lifestyle… pharmaceutical (and, apparent travel agency):

Fukitol

Thanks Linda

From Peter Moosgard - A video by Adam Buxton:

From Eepybird.com: What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? By Fritz Grobe (the short one) and Stephen Voltz (the tall one). Music by Audiobody.

This is the video that started it all: a backyard experiment became a cultural phenomenon. We couldn’t believe the reaction! The video even won the Webby Award for best viral video and was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding broadband content.

We’ve since taken Diet Coke & Mentos madness onto the Late Show with David Letterman, the Ellen Degeneres Show, the Today Show, and performed live around the world, from Istanbul to Paris, even in Las Vegas!

Click here to read more of the amazing Diet Coke & Mentos story. Click here for a free download: EepyBird’s Diet Coke & Mentos How-To (pdf).

From John Ordover: Just wanted to say that while I didn’t start the fire, I’m fanning the flames. Check out the reaction to my hoax site www.marryourdaughter.com here on youtube:

Check here for more video coverage of this hoax.

Religious scholars mull Flying Spaghetti Monster
by Justin Pope
November 16, 2007

(AP) — When some of the world’s leading religious scholars gather in San Diego this weekend, pasta will be on the intellectual menu. They’ll be talking about a satirical pseudo-deity called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whose growing pop culture fame gets laughs but also raises serious questions about the essence of religion.

The appearance of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the agenda of the American Academy of Religion’s annual meeting gives a kind of scholarly imprimatur to a phenomenon that first emerged in 2005, during the debate in Kansas over whether intelligent design should be taught in public school sciences classes.

Supporters of intelligent design hold that the order and complexity of the universe is so great that science alone cannot explain it. The concept’s critics see it as faith masquerading as science. (more…)

Submitted by Marcy LaViollette: Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show is perfect for anyone who’s ever watched (and tried to make sense of) Japanese TV shows. Written by Kim Evey and directed by Greg Benson.

Web TV Hub reveals a hoax involving a 3 year old genius kid painter, finger paints and the Playmates toy company telling you where to buy Mutant Ninja Turtle toys. This is followed by a very funny spoof on the hoax entitled 3 Yr Old Genius Plant by AlaskaRobotics.

3 Yr Old Genius

3 Yr Old Genius Plant

Lord R and Eloise, two Memphis rappers, bring forth the birth of Aristocrunk, with rhymes from respected crunk artist Al Kapone:

Here’s an article about Lord R and Eloise from The Naughty American.

Submitted by Peter Moosgaard:

Dr. Steel is a quintessential evil scientist persona — a man of many talents with one simple goal: To make the world a better place. Through entertaiment, vision and passion, Dr. Steel feeds the hungry masses who starve for happiness.