retroremakes
December 11th, 2009, 07:40
Today in the last frontier otherwise known as Remainders, we've got a mysterious (possibly viral) video involving an apartment stowaway, a prank featuring gay porn and an LCD TV, and a surefire way to kill your Facebook self.
Video Shows Mysterious Stranger Hiding Out in NYC Apartment Crawlspace
This is a video that's been making the rounds lately, but I've never seen it and it sparked a lot of discussion amongst the staff this morning. That it's fake we could all agree on, but exactly why—that we couldn't decide. A viral video? But for what? What could be the purpose of faking such an odd thing, besides hundreds of thousands of YouTube views? Take a look and see for yourself. [
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06X9qXTvKNQ&feature=player_embedded]
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/12/3k03m83p25te5pe5sc9c75bb36fd9c30512c7.jpg
Free LCD TV—Nevermind the Burned-In Gay Porn
This is a pretty great prank. I'll let the Craigslist listing explain it:
My room mate thought it would be "hysterical" to pause gay porn on my TV while my girlfriend and I were on vacation for 2 weeks, thus burning and image into the screen. So...If you dont mind a sillouette of a skinny white guy taking a load in the face from the biggest black penis in recorded history forever adorning your new TV, Its yours.
Childish, yes. Hilarious, also yes. [Craigslist (http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/ele/1498514993.html)]
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/12/facebookmyitunesgiftcard.jpg
Facebook Allows Users to Gift iTunes Giftcards to Other Users
This ends up in Remainders because I am literally snoring right now, as I type this, but Facebook is now allowing users to buy and deliver iTunes giftcards through the site. You can choose which date the gift will be delivered (like, say, a birthday), which is actually a pretty nice feature. This is, unfortunately, US-only for now, because people who hate freedom enough to resist living in the Land of the Free don't deserve iTunes gift cards. [TUAW (http://www.tuaw.com/2009/12/10/facebook-gains-itunes-gift-card-feature-just-in-time-for-christm/)]
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/12/main.jpg
Seppukoo Lets You Kill Your Facebook Self
It sounds kind of interesting in theory: An entire site dedicated to eradicating Facebook profiles. It must be some kind of statement on avoiding association with social networking, right? Well, no; it's actually just another social networking site, trying to get you to cancel your account with the most popular one. It's not going so well, either—apparently only six people "killed" their profiles yesterday. [Techie (http://www.techie.com.ph/news/848)]
http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1 (http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1) http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226 http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/805xQYDnX7elNUpjGe38phGnczw/0/di</img> (http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/805xQYDnX7elNUpjGe38phGnczw/0/da)
http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/805xQYDnX7elNUpjGe38phGnczw/1/di</img> (http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/805xQYDnX7elNUpjGe38phGnczw/1/da)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=7lg8YF-ZwJ0:d5_LArF92hk:H0mrP-F8Qgo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=7lg8YF-ZwJ0:d5_LArF92hk:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=7lg8YF-ZwJ0:d5_LArF92hk:D7DqB2pKExk</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=7lg8YF-ZwJ0:d5_LArF92hk:D7DqB2pKExk) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=7lg8YF-ZwJ0:d5_LArF92hk:V_sGLiPBpWU</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=7lg8YF-ZwJ0:d5_LArF92hk:V_sGLiPBpWU)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/7lg8YF-ZwJ0
More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/7lg8YF-ZwJ0/)
Video Shows Mysterious Stranger Hiding Out in NYC Apartment Crawlspace
This is a video that's been making the rounds lately, but I've never seen it and it sparked a lot of discussion amongst the staff this morning. That it's fake we could all agree on, but exactly why—that we couldn't decide. A viral video? But for what? What could be the purpose of faking such an odd thing, besides hundreds of thousands of YouTube views? Take a look and see for yourself. [
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06X9qXTvKNQ&feature=player_embedded]
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/12/3k03m83p25te5pe5sc9c75bb36fd9c30512c7.jpg
Free LCD TV—Nevermind the Burned-In Gay Porn
This is a pretty great prank. I'll let the Craigslist listing explain it:
My room mate thought it would be "hysterical" to pause gay porn on my TV while my girlfriend and I were on vacation for 2 weeks, thus burning and image into the screen. So...If you dont mind a sillouette of a skinny white guy taking a load in the face from the biggest black penis in recorded history forever adorning your new TV, Its yours.
Childish, yes. Hilarious, also yes. [Craigslist (http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/ele/1498514993.html)]
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/12/facebookmyitunesgiftcard.jpg
Facebook Allows Users to Gift iTunes Giftcards to Other Users
This ends up in Remainders because I am literally snoring right now, as I type this, but Facebook is now allowing users to buy and deliver iTunes giftcards through the site. You can choose which date the gift will be delivered (like, say, a birthday), which is actually a pretty nice feature. This is, unfortunately, US-only for now, because people who hate freedom enough to resist living in the Land of the Free don't deserve iTunes gift cards. [TUAW (http://www.tuaw.com/2009/12/10/facebook-gains-itunes-gift-card-feature-just-in-time-for-christm/)]
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/12/main.jpg
Seppukoo Lets You Kill Your Facebook Self
It sounds kind of interesting in theory: An entire site dedicated to eradicating Facebook profiles. It must be some kind of statement on avoiding association with social networking, right? Well, no; it's actually just another social networking site, trying to get you to cancel your account with the most popular one. It's not going so well, either—apparently only six people "killed" their profiles yesterday. [Techie (http://www.techie.com.ph/news/848)]
http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1 (http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1) http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226 http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/805xQYDnX7elNUpjGe38phGnczw/0/di</img> (http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/805xQYDnX7elNUpjGe38phGnczw/0/da)
http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/805xQYDnX7elNUpjGe38phGnczw/1/di</img> (http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/805xQYDnX7elNUpjGe38phGnczw/1/da)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=7lg8YF-ZwJ0:d5_LArF92hk:H0mrP-F8Qgo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=7lg8YF-ZwJ0:d5_LArF92hk:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=7lg8YF-ZwJ0:d5_LArF92hk:D7DqB2pKExk</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=7lg8YF-ZwJ0:d5_LArF92hk:D7DqB2pKExk) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=7lg8YF-ZwJ0:d5_LArF92hk:V_sGLiPBpWU</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=7lg8YF-ZwJ0:d5_LArF92hk:V_sGLiPBpWU)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/7lg8YF-ZwJ0
More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/7lg8YF-ZwJ0/)