Skip to Content

Autoblog reviews all the hottest cars
AOL Tech

john ordover posts

Filed under: Internet, News

Marryourdaughter.com is a hoax (no, really?)

Marryourdaughter.com
While most states in the US prohibit sex with minors, marriage is apparently another issue. Children as young as 12 years old can get married in some states with nothing but parental permission. Of course, 12 year olds can't be expected to make an intelligent decision about something as important as marriage, so that's where parents step in. Marry Our Daughter is purportedly a site for parents to marry off their kids.

While the internet savvy have largely seen through the site as a hoax, apparently a lot of people have gotten up in arms about the site during its two weeks of existence. The creator gets over 1000 emails a day from people outraged at the site. He was kind of egging them on though. Not only did site creator John Ordover not tell anyone the site was a fake, he posed as a spokesperson for the service and went on the talk show circuit before coming clean.

He says his goal was to raise awareness of the ridiculous state of marriage laws in the US. Ordover's no stranger to controversy. He was co-creator of Technical Virgin, a website that got a lot of attention in 2000 and lost actress Melanie Martinez her job 7 years later.

Ordover's latest site has apparently been hammered so hard by traffic that it's down right now, but you can still read the ads using Google's cache.

Featured Time Waster

Civiballs is a beautiful, soothing physics puzzle Time Waster

CiviballsI have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.

In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.

View more Time Wasters

Featured Galleries

Defective by Design, London: Protest Pictures
Microsoft Security Essentials
Chromium Pre-Alpha on CrunchBang Linux
Safari 4 Beta
10 Firefox themes that don't suck
IE8 RC1
Download Squad at the Crunchies After-Party
Download Squad at the Crunchies
WordPress 2.7
Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals
Windows 7 Hands On
Comodo Internet Security
Android First-look: Amazon.com MP3 Store
Android First-look: Twitroid
Google Reader Android
Android Hands-On
Twine 1.0
Photoshop Express Beta
Mozilla Birthday Cake
Palm stuff
Adobe Lightroom 1.1

 


Follow us on Twitter!

Flickr Pool

www.flickr.com

Download Squad bloggers (30 days)

#BloggerPostsCmts
1Lee Mathews7979
2Brad Linder684
3Jay Hathaway671
4Jason Clarke312
5Grant Robertson912
6Christina Warren29
7Nik Fletcher20

More Tech Coverage

AOL Radio