Embedded Firefox coming to Second Life

The game Second Life will soon include a thin, embedded version of Firefox. Only a matter of time until you can do crazy stuff like have your character's face overlaid with an ever-changing bitmap of the top links in your RSS reader, or map the latest images in a Worth1000 photoshopping contest to your t-shirt. — Read the rest

Star Wars photoshopping contest

There's loads of great stuff to love in this Worth1000 photoshopping competition to remix Star Wars cliches, but the Beverly Hillbillies mashup, "Return of the Jed," (pictured here) made me laugh aloud.

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Weird Alpert in "Whipped Cream"


Boing Boing loves "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Boing Boing loves the old Herb Alpert "Whipped Cream" LP cover. Worth 1000 recently held a 'mate an album' contest, and someone decided that these two great tastes would taste great together.

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Previously: Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream" cover girl, Message from Weird Al Yankovic, Chris Pirillo interviews "Weird Al" Yankovic

Update: Mara Schwartz points us to another infamous visual remix of "Whipped Cream": "This is an actual Soul Asylum album cover," she says. — Read the rest

Future of advertising photoshopping contest

This Worth1000 photoshopping contest to imagine the future of advertising has lots of interesting entries, including this one — a heavily logoed endangered elephant; I could actually see conservationists financing their work this way.

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