From MTA Service Specialists’ Website:
We bring NYC Subway Riders Service with a Smile
Unfortunately, they are not affiliated with the MTA…
And the MTA wants them gone…
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Creative Cups
Don’t Let Cancer Dominate Your Life
Nearly 250 bras have been decorated as part of the “Creative Cups” campaign. It benefits Adelphi University’s Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program in New York. Photos by Jim Lennon
Check out more photos here.
Happy Birthday to The Art of the Prank (almost)!
On April Fools’ Day 2009,
The Art of the Prank Blog
will be two years old!
Note to our contributors, friends and fans:
In celebration, we have moved the entire blog to a cloud server. This will help us accommodate more volume and more traffic. Since we’re making big changes, we decided to change our Web address at the same time. Why not cause the maximum confusion for the most people?
Henceforth, The Art of the Prank Blog will be found at
http://artoftheprank.com
(instead of http://Pranks.com)
Our new email addresses are:
admin @ artoftheprank.com to talk with us
submit @ artoftheprank.com to submit materials to the site
You can continue to count on us to bring you the profound, the profane, and the pathetic, that is — the widest spectrum of artful pranks; culture jamming & reality hacking; creative activism; literary, media & political hoaxes; truth that’s stranger than fiction; prank instructionals; and loads of practical jokes and mischief.
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Join the Plot
Greenpeace Buys Land To Block New Heathrow Runway
by Dave Demerjian
Wired.com
January 13, 2009
Greenpeace announced today that it has bought a parcel of land that sits directly in the path of a proposed third runway for London’s Heathrow Airport. It’s the latest move in a long-running battle between environmentalists who say expanding Heathrow would be an environmental catastrophe, and expansion advocates who say without a new runway Europe’s top airport will become an antiquated also-ran.
Greenpeace’s plan for the 0.4-hectare parcel, which it purchased from an undisclosed owner, is sure to have expansion advocates reaching for the Rolaids. The group will sell off the land in tiny pieces to environmentalists, celebrities, and anyone else who feels like buying in. This means that if the UK government were to exercise eminent domain laws to acquire the land, it would have to deal with thousands of different landowners and the lawsuits they would be sure to bring. Regardless of where you stand on the expansion issue, you can’t deny that Greenpeace’s move is a brilliant one. Continue reading “Join the Plot”