RE-35 no longer available
The belated trophy for best photo-related April Fool’s gag has to go to the RE-35. A digital cartridge for film cameras? It’s so brilliantly silly that it’s almost believable.
Category: Pranks
Husband plays funny fake news prank on his wife
This morning I changed my name in her contact list to “AP Mobile” and sent her a short and sweet message and waited for her to turn her phone on. Her mouth almost came down to the floor.
Link: Husband plays funny fake news prank on his wife – Boing Boing
Koch Industries Quashes Global Warming Parody – NYTimes.com
“We assumed they would be upset about it,” said one of the anonymous pranksters in a telephone interview arranged by Mr. Gupta. “But we had no guess that they would go to the level of a lawsuit. It’s ridiculous and overblown. What we did is completely acceptable, as parody.”
Link: Koch Industries Quashes Global Warming Parody – NYTimes.com
On N. Korean heir's birthday, a rude cyber-greeting
By the time the micro-blogging mischief was over, the North Korean tweets had ranted to its 10,000-plus Twitter followers about profligate nuclear weapons spending and lavish Kim Jong Il drinking parties – hosted “while 3 million people are starving and freezing to death.” A video also had been posted on North Korea’s official YouTube channel that showed a caricature of Kim Jong Eun driving in a luxury sports car, running over women and children on the side of the road.
Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff From Prankster in Slovakia
Tea Party website 4Channed – Boing Boing
Wooster Collective: panoptICONS – An Introduction
camera birds – city birds with cameras instead of heads – were placed throughout the city centre of Utrecht where they feed on the presence of people
Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott
It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content.
I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers. I’ve been putting them on copies of the free papers that I find on the London Underground. You might want to as well.