PacManhattan: LARPing Pac Man

By Cory Doctorow at 5:18 pm Saturday, May 1 • Comments • Share

PacManhattan is a live-action version of PacMan, played around Washington Square Park, in which people in Pac Man and ghost suits chase each other through the streets, seeking out power-pellets. Link (via Kottke)

Chick-Fil-A's lawyers fried to a crisp by smart alecks at attrition.org

By Mark Frauenfelder at 10:19 am Saturday, May 1 • Comments • Share

Hilarious line-by-line retort to a nastygram sent by Chick-FIl-A's lawyers,

: It has recently come to our attention that your website, : tor.at/resources/fun_stuff/www.attrition.org/gallery/other/tn/
: eat_mor_chikin.jpg.html>, includes a picture of the "EAT MOR CHIKIN" cows.
: This picture is an exact duplicate of CFA's U.S. copyright registration
: (Registration No. VA 760-668), and use of it is an unauthorized infringement
: of the CFA's intellectual property.

Oohh, your mail was going SO good until this part! But, unfortunately you "screwed the pooch" as the saying goes. Not only do you demonstrate you know jack and shit about how the Internet works, you prove that you are not legally competant to defend your client's intellectual property rights. If you feel you are competant, then you must be doing this to fraudently bill your client for additional wasted hours. Which is it, i'm curious?

Link

What would Jesus say about Pete the Porno Puppet?

By Xeni Jardin at 8:33 am Saturday, May 1 • Comments • Share

Newsweek's Brian Braiker says,

This is a story i wrote this week about Pete the Porno Puppet, a truly bizarro PSA campaign that XXXchurch ("the #1 Christian porn site") launched -- it's an ad designed to convince parents to get rid of their porn stash so that children aren't exposed to it. The irony is that the anti-porn ad was filmed by smut peddler Jimmy D. Also, it's creepy as all getout.

Indeed. When I first ran accross the site a month or two ago, I was surprised to see they were posting excerpts from an article about Hustler publisher Larry Flynt that I wrote for Wired News. Seeing your work snipped out of context to promote a political agenda you're not part of is almost as disturbing as... um... a talking, evangelical sock puppet that wants your porn.

Link to Newsweek story on XXXchurch

Animal-shaped rubber bands

By Cory Doctorow at 1:46 am Saturday, May 1 • Comments • Share

I never thought I'd find myself drooling over a premium rubber-band, but these animal-shaped rubber bands from the Japanese design firm Plus-D are super-cool. Flash Link

Update: you can buy these at the Container Store for $7 plus shipping