More fine dining at McDonald's

Fine dining at McDonald's photo gallery. Clever marketing or genuine prank? Via.

Image roundup

Pull for candy.



Pug hates baths.



Fully loaded.



Jamnik - Church of St. Primus and Felician.




Hedwig balloon.



Camels at an oasis in Chad (wallpaper-sized at the link).

Image roundup

Tokyo Rockabilly Club. (Lots more videos and pics available.)



Jello prank.



Penguinologist.



The view from Mount Reinebringen.

Grabbing ice cream cones by the ice cream

Obviously I strongly discourage this sort of behavior ("cone-ing"). And I don't find it funny at all watching the looks on the workers' faces. Via.

A use for DVD cases

Putting DVD cases to good use.

Image roundup

Chicago's shadow.




Escape.




Fun at Walmart.




I'm a sign.




Puppies.




Nuzzling owls.

A Paris Hilton album you want to buy

Spin:

Over the weekend, British papers discovered that Banksy, the artist who notoriously sneaked fake versions of famous paintings into art galleries last year, replaced as many as 500 retail store copies of Paris Hilton's debut CD with a retouched and remixed version. Now, it has been revealed that Danger Mouse -- the producer behind Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, and the famous Grey Album -- is behind the remix portion of the disc. Along with completely reworked liner notes that included topless photos of Paris slathered with slogans like "Every CD you buy puts me even further out of your league," the CD featured remixes of Hilton songs by someone credited as "DM," letters that stand for Danger Mouse. The song titles were also changed to names like "Why Am I Famous," "What Have I Done," and "What Am I For." According to an email from his management company obtained by SPIN.com, Danger Mouse met Banksy in London while shopping for disguises. The two had one singular statement about the project: "It's hard to improve on perfection, but we had to try."

NSFW photos of the enhanced version here.

UPDATE: As the commenters point out, this happened in 2006.

Fun with hotel rooms

Comedian Brett Kreischer is apparently in the habit of leaving surprises for the hotel maid. Via.

April 1 Links part 2

Here's a few more clever April Fool's Day links:



World of Warcraft unveiled a new helper - - Crabby.





Lunar Poker Tour on the Virgin Galactic.




Art Lebedev unveiled some exciting new trash can designs.

*Here's the batch I posted earlier today.

April 1 links

Bieber-izing a desk.




Bringing Jar Jar Binks onto the subway was a rare misstep by Improv Everywhere.







Think Geek announced the Apple Store Playmobil set.





Windlets are a hot new blind box toy, made of wind. Via.





Games Workshop's latest book shows how to roll dice.




Canned Air from Prague. Via.



Hulu has been devolved to 1996.

*Buy Playmobil toys at eBay.

There's nothing scarier than a little girl in a hallway

Watch as people react to spotting this little girl standing in a hotel hallway. Via these sites.

*Buy The Shining movie posters at eBay.

I do not endorse this behavior....

But well, I might have laughed once or twice, especially when he set the guy's newspaper on fire...

Urban Camouflage

Urban camouflage. Here's a few videos:







Via.

*Buy DPM - Disruptive Pattern Material at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. 20% off toys, 40% off comics at the BBTS.

2. Scott Campbell's Cult Tree poster is $16 at Gallery1988.

3. "In what was apparently a phone prank, a motel guest said someone called his room and told him to smash the things inside in order to free a "midget" trapped next door."

Link roundup

1. Photos of new Clone Wars action figures (Clone in training armor, new Cad Bane with robot assistant, etc.).

2. A crocodile smuggled onto a plane got loose and caused a crash (killing everyone on board, except for the croc). Via.

3. An ESPN reporter fell for a prank and smashed up her hotel room. Via.

*Buy Star Wars Happy Meal toys at eBay.

ADT invaded homes to try to sell alarms

How to convince apartment dwellers that their homes weren't safe and that they needed to pay for security systems? Why not slide a spring-loaded box under their door so they'd think their home had been invaded? Via these fine sites.