Huffington Post has what they believe is how right-wing eyes see the New York Times. Whether you agree or not with the content, it’s funny.

“Spam King” Davis Wolfgang Hawke was successfully sued by AOL for $12.8M. Since then, he’s been on the lam. AOL suspects that he put his wealth in gold and platinum bullion. Now AOL is trying to dig up the yard of Hawke’s parents in hopes of finding his cache. Seriously.

Wired has an article about game design and game theory in Survivor:

While tweaking Survivor, he closely studied John Nash’s game theory in order to better engineer the hysteria and emotional blowouts of each season’s finale.

“What Nash’s theory predicts is that whenever you have a group of people competing, they collude to squeeze one guy out, again and again, until there’s only two guys left,” Burnett notes. “Yet when there are only two of us left, we’re surprised when one of us fucks each other over. That’s the fun part. It surprised John Nash himself, but it happens every time.”

The AP has it:

A lunchtime parade of topless porn stars down the main street of New Zealand’s biggest city has been given official approval, as no laws will be broken.
The parade later this month will feature up to 30 porn stars riding on the back of motorcycles or in open cars through Auckland’s CBD to promote an erotica exposition.

Usually when there’s a topless march, it’s in support of some cause like Greenpeace, Cancer Research, Focus on the Family (not so fast, Dobson). That’s all well and good, but it’s nice to see the straight-forward literalism of showing boobs to promote the further showing of more boobs.

You can get evicted from your own house in London… if you’re the type who likes to dig a network of tunnels from your basement stretching throughout your neighborhood. Note to anyone considering doing this: When asked why you’re doing it, don’t say “no reason”.

McSweeney’s has a long running piece, called “Lists”. I had a slow day recently, so I’ve culled some and will be posting some of the funny ones.

If Poets Named Breakfast Cereals.

• Orgasmic Clusters of Searing Pain
• Bran and Plump Raisins, Pregnant With Earthy Promise
• Opalescent Flakes of Lonely Night
• The Sharpness of a Breath of Winter Air (with real strawberries)
• Cookie-Crisp

Worth1000 has a contest for who can Photoshop the best misfit toys.

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