Dante’s Inferno ASCII Viral Marketing Scheme Attacks Source Code of Popular Sites

Dante’s Inferno ASCII art has popped up in the source code of some of the most popular websites on the web, including Digg, IGN and Kotaku. All of the art links to the same Dante’s Inferno website, so the source of the coding is definitly not a secret.

Appearing in the source code of these popular sites are apparent attempts at viral marketing through the use of ASCII art in the very fabric of the websites themselves. Images of demons appearing in the very margins of the Internet.

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Hello Kitty Chainsaw Will Lead to the First Hello Kitty Massacre

You say you’ve never heard of the terrifying Hello Kitty Massacre? Not yet you haven’t. But just wait. There’s still time. And something tells me this Hello Kitty Chainsaw won’t prolong the wait.

Not that we haven’t seen some wacky Hello Kitty combos in the past? I mean, hello? Hello Kitty made with random Hello Kitty Crap? The Hello Kitty Stormtrooper? Yeah, strange. Fatal? Not so much.

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Steve Jobs Unveils the iPad (in Diorama Form)

That’s all we need is to rehash the underwhelming experience of the iPad unveiling, but alas, this diorama does exactly that, illustrating El Jobso displaying the iPad over his head like it was some sort of baby lion royalty.

Sure it’s cure and all, dude, but if anything the iPhone unveiling would be the announcement worthy of a diorama. But hey, to each his own. Actually, now that I think about it, both dioramas would look exactly the same anyway.

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Got a Cavity?: The Drill-Free Solution is Here

While we’ve been more than amicable with dentists in the past, even going so far as helping them deal with the guff of digging pencil shavings from between your teeth, we have a dirty little secret. Deep down inside, we despise dentists. We loathe them. And not because they’re not the sweetest, cuddliest living beings in the universe, because lord knows they are, but because of all of that damn drilling. But no more! If we have our way, drilling will be the thing of the past.

Icon, developed by dental-materials manufacturer DMG, does away with both the drill and the waiting time. A dentist simply slides a thin plastic applicator between the patient’s teeth and squirts the cavity with hydrochloric acid, which etches away the enamel to access the tooth’s deeper layers. Using a fresh applicator, he then injects a low-viscosity resin into the gaps in the tooth’s lattice and hardens the resin with a quick flash of high-energy blue light to fortify the tooth.

Hell, if it wasn’t for all of that drilling I might actually go to the dentist once in a while. DMG, you might just be my new hero.

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How to Turn Your PC into a Mac

There’s nothing a little tape won’t fix.

Ever wondered how to fit in with the rest of your college buddies? Grab an apple and a big ole’ roll of tape and get to it. No one will be able to tell the difference, I promise. They still haven’t figured out your scale in an iPhone costume isn’t actually an iPhone, amirite?

Super Mario Tote Bag

While I’ve been hesitant to display my love for plumbers ever since Joe the Plumber came along, there’s something about this Super Mario Tote Bag that seems completely harmless. Just a fun way to brandish my 8-bit pride. Not too mention it would go great with my awesomely sexy and manly Jedi Mario tattoo.

Flickr user renatahashimoto says that if you ask her real nice, she might even make you a tote of your own for $15. I’ve been looking for a new beach bag.

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Apple iPad Packaging Revealed

Apple’s revolutionary new product, the iPad, might be one of the most mis-titled gadgets in a century. Something tells me this packaging isn’t going to help very much. Perfect for heavy downloads, but only light flow. I think I’ll still prefer to use my USB Tampon. Wait a second, what the hell am I talking about? I’m the man here, I’m supposed to be the one playing pranks on unsuspecting woman. Enter the Pink Stinger Tampon. Yippee!

Kudos to Tubes for actually going the extra mile and creating what we were all thinking.

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Star Trek Gone Wild

Who knew that Star Trek was such a raunchy example of sex in the media. This nearly 10 minute video illustrates just how sex obsessed not only us humans are, but just how down and dirty Klingons can get when they’re in the mood. Chocked full of innuendos, the fun just seemingly never ends.

Star Trek: The Sexed Generation includes oodles of video snippets illustrating the result of piling dozens of horny geek screenwriters in a room and letting them go at it. Ever wondered how the Klingons call for a mate? Who are we kidding, your geeky ass probably already knows the answer to that. It’s now we wonder why the cast couldn’t at least have been mildly sexually attractive. Just check out this Trekkie, there’s no shortage of geeky hotness!

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Sputnik Lamp: Light Bulbs Upon Light Bulbs

Are traditional lighting fixtures just not cutting the mustard for your interior decor? Chromochrome mood lighting not your style? You need something really geektastic to light up that big ole’ man cave of yours, and Pacman just doesn’t float our battleship like it used too. Feast your eyes on the gorgeous Sputnick Lamp which is pretty much a spiky sphere composed of a multitude of light bulbs.

Designed by Henrik Klug, the Sputnik lives up to its namesake by resembling a fragment of beauty that fell from the heavens. If God was in the lighting fixture business, this would surely be one of his models. But then he’d probably have to uninvent bats, sledgehammers, little kids and paintball guns because this has to be one of the most fragile pieces of lighting I’ve ever set my eyes on, and I’ve seen a chandelier made out of fricken’ gummy bears.

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Product Placement: Ikea Brings The BILLY to Bondi Beach

In celebration of one of their most popular bookshelf’s 30th birthday, IKEA has decided to give their BILLY fixture a little fun in the sun, setting up a BILLY installment on Bondi beach. The BILLY shelves are loaded with books for the tourists to read. While they might not be expandable bookshelves, they still offer plenty of literature for these beach combers.

Adding a dash of Dutch-fashioned class to a beach setting never looked this good, or this insanely mis-matched. Alright, ladies, time to whip out the bikinis and read some lit.

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