YouTube mischief-maker BITcrash44 posted a video showing how he took control of several Times Square billboards with a homemade video repeater and a transmitter plugged into the headphone jack of his iPhone 4. I imagine he actually hijacked the screens with some clever Final Cut Pro work, but nevertheless I WANT TO BELIEVE. More »
Aww man! We knew it was too good to be true – and so did TechCrunch, who confirmed it with both The Chive’s founder and the actress Elyse Porterfield who starred as Jenny in the inspiring tale of how one woman took on her FarmVille-playing boss. [TechCrunch]
The grand total cost of pulling off a national hoax is whatever balloon-making supplies go for, $US42,000 in fines and 30 days of jail time. Richard “Balloon Dad” Heene probably considers that a bargain in the world of attention-whoring. More »
There is allegedly proof that the story of balloon boy Falcon Heene was a stunt to help pitch a television show. But the purported proof will cost you thousands of dollars to get. More »
What’s wrong with this picture? If you said the app’s price, you’d be wrong (its from the US store). If you said that the thumbnail pic looks suspiciously like porn, you’d be 100% right. More »
