There are many pictures of silly things at www.worth1000.com, but others border on genius. It claims to be the “top creative competition and photoshop contest site on the web” and has more than 5,500 galleries of 200,000 original images. Some fantastic computer-aided photographic manipulations include Hillary Clinton berating Oliver Hardy, Fred Astaire breakdancing and Charlie Chaplin patting a Roboraptor.
The website www.pigsback.com is another specialist consumer site, this one aimed at women, that offers some new ideas and incentives to attract users. It awards PiggyPoints, each worth a penny, that members can exchange for cinema tickets and shopping vouchers. The service is free and funded by advertising revenue.
The war on smokers continues with www.ashtraymouth.com, which allows you to drag repulsive things such as a rotten apple, dirty socks or a dead cockroach on to a cute doll’s mouth. An image is produced that suggests that “kissing a smoker is just as gross”. Smoking info and “TV spots” are available for further elaboration.