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04/23/08 09:59:27 | 0 Comments
GARAGE SALE: Place an ad in the classified section of your local
newspaper advertising a GIGANTIC Garage Sale listing the
address of your victim. Advertise televisions, cam-corder, vintage
automobile, antiques, etc. Sale begins at 6:00 a.m. Come early!
X-RAYS AT AIRPORTS: Purchase a large adult bedroom toy.
Wrap it in a large amount of tin foil. Secretly hide it in a piece of the
victims carry on luggage. As it goes through the airport x-ray
machine the contents of the device will be shielded by the tin foil
and will be unwrapped and inspected by airport security officials.
LOST KEYS: Get a hold of some old useless keys (car, house,
etc.). Place victim's name, phone number and $50.00 reward... if
found and returned. Drop the keys in one of the less desirable
areas of town.
PAPER MONEY: Write a sexually oriented solicitation message,
victim's name and phone number (inviting a phone call) on the edge
of several pieces of paper money before spending them. The
victim will receive many eye popping inquiries.
DOGS: Purchase a silent dog whistle. In the early hours of the
morning (2am-4am) go near the victim's house and blow the silent
whistle and the dog will begin to bark uncontrollably until the owner
awakes and disciplines the animal. When the owner goes back to
bed repeat the process again.
FAX MACHINES - Write whatever you wish on 9 pages of 8 1/2 by
11 inch paper and tape them together (end to end). Dial the
victim's fax number and start sending the pages through. After
page two has been transmitted, tape the top of page 1 to the
bottom of page 9 making a continuous loop. The document will
continue to cycle until the victim's fax machine has run out of paper.
Be sure and disable your phone number from being printed on the
fax and also disable caller I.D. This prank is great to get even with a
business or individual who has somehow cheated you.
04/20/08 11:05:01 | 0 Comments
Parody sites start anti-social networking trend
TORONTO (Reuters) - Tired of phony online friends? Make enemies instead. Riding on the popularity of social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, new Web
sites are poking fun at online friendships that connect you to the people you like, by turning attention to the ones you don't.
Over the past 18 months, sites such Snubster, Enemybook and Hatebook are appealing to Internet users who get a kick out of the tongue-in-cheek humor of mocking
their friends and others who are just plain cynical.
"I didn't understand these fake-friend war chests that people were so busy building online," said Bryant Choung, a technology consultant who started Snubster last year.
"I would get Facebook requests from people I talked to for three minutes at a bar or party, and now this person wants to go online to peruse all of my photos and contacts. I just didn't get it," the 26-year-old added.
Snubster, a Facebook application and a Web site with 16,000 users worldwide, lets users compile people and things they dislike.
No one from Facebook, which boasts 59 million active users worldwide, was available to comment about the sites.
When Facebook opened up its network to outside applications earlier this year, some users decided it was an opportunity to poke fun at the phenomenon.
Kevin Matulef, the creator of Enemybook, said the idea for his Facebook application started as a joke last summer when friends at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were asking if someone was a real friend or a Facebook friend.
"It started basically as a satire, sort of a parody of some of the superficial aspects of Facebook and the connections that you have, but now it's kind of evolved and it allows people to express themselves via their dislikes," said Matulef, 28.
Enemybook, which has 9,000 users, is similar to Snubster in that it lets you "enemy" so-called friends, public figures and fictitious characters.
"A lot of people like myself use it just to joke around with our good friends," said Matulef.
Choung agrees. "I hope that most people take it as a joke, on occasion I do get complaints from people about others who take it too seriously."
But Murray Pomerance, a professor of pop culture sociology at Ryerson University in Toronto, said most people take their online relationships very seriously.
"There are a lot of people who do not believe the friends that they have on these sites are phony," he explained.
"I know people who have lots and lots of friends on these sites and who say things about themselves on these sites that they would never say to anyone straight up in public or in private."
Pomerance added that any online social networking, whether it's making friends or enemies, could be dangerous.
"Who you liked and who you hated used to be private," he said. "What they're doing is taking human feeling and emotion and
making us actually register them through these online services."
03/18/08 15:12:57 | 0 Comments
Mid 80s AIDS scare
If you weren't already invovled, you were without a chair when the music stopped.
It all came down to social coucooning. People you knew for a while were safe, newcomers (no pun intended) were suspect.
This lead to closer to home dating, IE: peers became prospects, new people were shunned.
A seperation of same class social beings became common. Singles were left out in the cold so to speak.Married and soon to be married couples were safe. The
people lucky enough to be in on the inside track of the "safe" were "hooked up".
Those on the outside were left to their own devices. Meet people they are fearful of from the begining.Paranoia and mistrust doesn't make a good
foundation for any couple.
After a while "safe sex" was common place, too little to late for a generation of singles left out in the cold when the music stopped.