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Weird Wednesday: Real websites making fake stuff
Until we can finally allow robots to craft everything via iPhone CAD/CAM apps, you'll have to get your fix of fake tombstones and dress-up robots online. Here's a roundup of some helpful tools -- maybe. Honestly, several are horrendous to use. Others are merely fugly. One frightened my hamster. Still, if you are looking for a way to express yourself on the cover of TIME magazine, this may be your thing. Please add more in the comments, I know I've missed a few decent ones among the junk.
Make these crazy things online:
Tombstone
Great for making a very specific point (see above). Etch directly into a tombstone and right-click to download the result. Dead simple.
Internet Diploma
We've covered My Internet Diploma in the past. We sorta wish we hadn't. Luckily, now that we have all graduated with honors and have mad ninja skills, we know better. My Internet Diploma is as fake as My Little Pony.
Magazine
Put your face or drunk/nude torso on the cover of numerous magazines. There are bunches of these, but I chose the one with lots of real magazine covers. The workflow is irritating. You upload a pic, which opens a useless (new) window. Close that window, keep following the steps. Each step spawns a new window. If anyone knows a decent version of this, leave it in the comments.
Robot
It's a dress-up doll with robot parts. A little part of me died while playing with this. Still, the owner of this domain will be rich... when the robots take over.
Signs
The link takes you to the classic Church Sign Generator, but there are others. If anything comes up as sign generator in the URL, however, you may have stumbled upon one of the vast linkfarms of the interwebs.
There are many other examples, like a place that claims to print fake pay stubs (for a fee). I'm not linking to that one, but you get the idea. With the right web skillz you can fake just about anything. But with great power comes great responsibility, so don't go throwing your doctorate of hyperlinking in our faces -- we saw your nude cover for Byte magazine.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Martin-T said 4:20PM on 2-11-2009
You have a hamster that browses web sites on the computer?
Does it use a mouse?
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bdub said 4:20PM on 2-11-2009
Here is a site that does very good fake concert tickets among other signs and awards. http://www.says-it.com/concertticket/
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AlphaSurfer said 7:31PM on 2-11-2009
heres one!
http://www.meonmag.com/
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koloraro said 4:35AM on 2-12-2009
This is my gernerator fountain site: http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/
aye aye aye....
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EJ Hill said 3:24PM on 2-12-2009
I think MagMyPic is pretty cool at http://www.magmypic.com/
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EJ Hill said 3:26PM on 2-12-2009
I also added a host of others to the WW (webware) menu of my toolbar at http://ejays.ourtoolbar.com/
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jojo said 5:21PM on 2-20-2009
I used http://www.proofofemployment.com to get that paystub! They look great! I was able to qualify for a new car! Thanks obama!
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jojo said 5:45PM on 2-20-2009
Oh Yeah... i am going to print out the fake w-2 and 1099 form using the http://www.proofofemployment.com software in order to defraud the government and collect the biggest tax return possible! Thank you democrats!
http://www.FAKEPAYCHECKSTUBS.com helping you defraud the irs income tax federal and state ..... scam and fruad made easy!
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