The contest, which ends at 1800 on 7 July, saw North Korea move from 24th to 1st place in less than two days, several thousand votes ahead of Israel.

Link: 4chan prank means Justin Bieber must tour North Korea – Boing Boing

Link: How “Christ, What an Asshole!” is the Answer to the New Yorker Magazine Caption Contest

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So I switched on LBC (a London talk radio station) where the topic was Gordon Brown’s alleged bad temper. I called up and got through almost instantly. “What do you want to talk about?” asked the LBC operator. Without time to think I replied, “Gordon Brown visited my place of work and lost his temper right in front of me”. Very soon I was on air, explaining how Gordon Brown had toured my workshop – a ‘lamination factory’ – and thrown a tangerine into one of the machines, breaking it, before calling a member of staff a ‘citric idiot’.  It was all I could think of at the time. A load of nonsense. But I was quite proud of the phrase, ‘citric idiot’.

Link: BBC – BBC Comedy Blog: Tangerinegate… by Robert Popper

Link: WHAT THE F*K HAVE YOU DONE?: TrustoCorp Guerilla Signs

This fall, Steven Kasher Gallery in New York exhibited Josh Gosfield’s collection of memorabilia relating to Gigi Gaston, the French singer/songwriter of the 1960s. His reproductions of album covers, posters, tabloid newspaper articles, fan magazines and scandal sheets tell the story of Gaston’s rise to pop stardom, the car crash that killed her stepbrother and briefly halted her career, her 1969 world tour, her scandalous love affair with an Italian film star, and all the triumphs and tragedies that kept Gaston in the public eye for more than a decade.

Link: How To Create a Pop Star in Photoshop

Link: U.S. Chamber of Commerce | The Yes Men:

In a dramatic announcement at the National Press Club today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reversed its position on climate change policy, and promised to immediately cease lobbying against the Kerry-Boxer bill.

Not.