Maurice Taylor, who bought the title Lord Taylor Windsor on the internet, tricked auctioneers into believing the 1964 Mill Street Scene was genuine.
Sign2Pay can technically work with any doodle you like; it doesn't have to be your signature (but obviously signing your name is a more immediately familiar authentication process than, for instance, drawing a picture of your cat. Mertens laughs when I joke he missed a viral Internet trick by not naming the service 'Cat2Pay'…).
Like the stoners choosing dope over reality, the land developers and the internet trick the public into exchanging the real for a hallucinatory simulation of it, costing us our cultural authenticity and interpersonal relationships.
But any national rivalries are just loose slipknots untangled by the Internet, where tricks are traded and friendships are tied.
And even bands that use all the right Internet marketing tricks can fail to find a way to get to the next level.
Since schools had not yet reopened and family members were preoccupied with the brutal rebuilding process, the teenagers took to the internet, learning tricks from YouTube videos.
Nate Hill's basically succeeded in pulling this off; both tricking the internet and not tricking the internet while tricking people like me into writing about him, to prove he's not a n00b.
It seems if you publish a game or an Internet parlor trick like this there's no end to the information people will volunteer for free.
In the age of glossy, image-obsessed reality TV shows such as The Hills and Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and as Hollywood stylists such as Rachel Zoe became famous in their own right, disseminating their tips on the internet, those cult tricks became widespread.
According to Gawker, Anonymous ratcheted up the force of its attack by distributing a link on Twitter and in chat rooms that tricks Internet users into loading a program that attacks websites.
