Day: March 31, 2005

I can’t even begin to think about the amount of work that went into this. If you’re a regular reader of boingboing, you’ll marvel at the detail of this parody site, done up in time for April Fools Day.

Update: Awesome.

The media is doing it again.

A week ago it happened with Jeff Weise. Today, they’re doing it with Terri Schiavo. Look around the web, and you’ll see what I mean.

Drudge has this picture…

Yahoo news has this…

MSNBC heads their main story using this picture…

And still others, with this…

Yet, the reality of what Terri Schiavo has been the past decade is this.

…and this.

Is the media purposely displaying a young, healthy, attractive Terri Schiavo to emphasize a life snuffed out too soon? Are we more outraged when we see the “before” pictures?

If the Pope dies, will we see more pictures of him from the late ’80’s and early ’90’s than pictures of the past couple of days? Jerry Falwell has been ill lately – if he passes, will we see today’s bloated, fat version of Jerry or the 1970’s skinny hipster edition?

I wonder.

If you were running a news organization, which photos would you choose and why?

If you visit, browse and read as many websites as I do, you probably have a short list of places that never fail to enrage you. It might be a militant left wing wacko blog, an MSM news site, or a bulletin board filled with whiners. Have you ever secretly wished you could simply click a button and immediately launch a missile attack, a meteor shower, or even nuclear holocaust on every square inch of that cursed HTML? Well, now you can, from anywhere in the world, muster God like powers to smite the blog, or vaporize the annoying columnist.

Look no further than Netdisaster.

Type in the “soon to be annihilated” URL, choose your catastrophe, and the level of destruction. Control the burn yourself or sit back and let NetDisaster do your bidding. It’s up to you.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.

UPDATE: I believe I’ve found a new site to smite. I’ll be “pushin the button” in your honor Jeff.

Congratulations Arthur.

RIP