25 Pranks You Can Pull to Improve the Internet

by @nick 176 days ago #internetpranks
25 Pranks You Can Pull to Improve the Internet




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The internet is fun. But not fun enough.

  1. Enter the soundtracks of your favorite movies into Pandora and make your personal soundtrack. Every time you’re in a room with a computer, turn it on
  2. Load Mac.com on Microsoft store computers
  3. Load Goatse on Apple store computers
  4. Load People of Wal-Mart on Wal-Mart computers
  5. Spend a hundred bucks on Fiverr and buy your girlfriend twenty five-dollar projects
  6. Put your family’s home videos on ChatRoulette
  7. Put your actual parents on ChatRoulette
  8. Subscribe all the National Review writers’ emails to newsletters from the Huffington Post and vice versa
  9. Ask ChaCha and Aardvark all the questions from last night’s Jeopardy. Score them against each other
  10. Find a relevant way to politely steer every conversation on Fark, Digg, and Reddit toward the practices and beliefs of Adolf Hitler
  11. Hack Symantec
  12. Get all your friends to search for Ebola symptoms on WebMD and Google. Then their friends, and so on…
  13. Copy romance novels into 4chan, with all the names find-and-replaced with Fresh Prince characters
  14. Rate everything on ToysRUs.com by taste and “mouth feel”
  15. Email the staff of Wrong Diagnosis asking, “So I should do the opposite of what the site says, right?”
  16. Comment on every Gizmodo post in the character of a Victorian-era inventor. Post steam-powered versions of new gadgets
  17. Submit Cracked lists to McSweeney’s
  18. Comment on every Instructables post offering to pay someone to do the work
  19. Write the stories of famous literary characters into Fmylife posts
  20. Install the Alexa toolbar and visit Alexa a million times
  21. Rename the Trololo video as Kazaa’s most popular search terms. Upload
  22. Fill your LinkedIn profile with links to flash games. Slow down all the people looking for jobs
  23. Load lyrics sites in public and try to start midday karaoke
  24. Play Yenta on OKCupid. Find pairs of people who’d make great couples. Then find them a 1 BR on Craigslist
  25. Make jumpsuits out of your junk mail and sell them on Etsy
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This post was written by Nick Douglas

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