The shark jumps me

I used to pride myself on coming up with awful ideas before they appeared on the Internet.

So, when I said to myself “hey, why hasn’t someone taken this mashup silliness to its logical conclusion and made a National Sex Offender Registry/Google Maps hybrid?”, I was disappointed to discover that someone had already done that.

I’m still waiting for the crimelibrary.com/Google Maps “Jeffrey Dahmer Walking Tour” mashup, though…

16:36 EST | permalink | /computers/internet/web/weirdness

How to score an above-the-title slot on the Drudge Report

By now, everyone’s heard of the website whose owner promises to butcher and eat Toby, his pet rabbit, unless he receives US$50,000 by the end of June. As with the infamous Bonsai Kitten, Snopes says that it’s a hoax.

Toby’s owner had the right idea, but he wasn’t exploitative enough: I’d like to see a website whose owner vows to have an abortion unless she receives some enormous amount of PayPal donations in the next nine (eight…seven…six..five…four…) months. (Bonus points if the “mother” fakes her photo the old-fashioned way using a balloon, rather than just stealing pictures from Google Images or launching Photoshop.)

Maybe Drudge will dust off his flashing-police-beacon animated GIF for this one.

15:16 EST | permalink | /computers/internet/web/weirdness

Necroterrorism

Third hit on Google for “necroterrorists” (I guess they’re funded by smuggling corpses instead of drugs, like their narco- cousins) is an index of “death metal” bands. I’ll file this in the “people who take themselves way too seriously” category:

22:25 EST | permalink | /computers/internet/web/weirdness