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Yeah, that’s right: VIACOM. You know- Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, Neopets, the works. They’re massive. And evil. And here are some reasons exactly why.

1. Neopets

A year or two after I stopped playing Neopets, I had a sudden urge to go back and look at my profile, maybe check to see if TNT (The Neopets Team) had done anything about my inability to log in. What I saw was shocking- the site was completely different, nothing was where it should’ve been, and the whole thing looked so…commercial. After a few minutes of investigating, I discovered that Neopets had apparently been bought out by none other than the notorious Viacom. From there, they have ruined the site, introducing all these things you have to pay for, changing the cute little pet pictures, and, as far as I can see, made all the fun things impossible to find. Recently, it got worse- now even ignorant 4 year olds know that the “nickelodeon people” own Neopets, due to an annoying toolbar on the top of every page.

I mean… Neopets is how a whole generation of ten year olds got into web design. I’m not kidding you. This site is only here today because the original Neopets team (some awesome, British, 20 year olds) decided to see if kids could learn HTML. It obviously worked.

Will someone please, please spam TVT?

2. MTV

The original purpose of MTV: play music videos.

The current purpose of MTV: play a few decent music videos and brainwash children and teenagers with really, really bad reality shows.

3. The internet

Besides failing with Neopets, Viacom is taking two of Comedy Central’s most popular shows (The Daily Show and Colbert Report) off of Hulu. As you should know, Hulu is a really popular internet-TV site. You know…the one with Alec Baldwin, and gooey aliens. It’s the only place that has full Simpsons episodes.

We’re getting spamz0red by spambots making spam accounts.

So for now, registration is closed. Email me at alice [at] unedible.com to request an account if you must.

Recently, a malware attack has been spreading all over Facebook. It’s really easy to spot, but it’s dangerous, since the spyware can create false Facebook accounts to spread it even more. Here’s a picture of one of the fake profiles:



According to Mashable, “it means the hackers have figured out a way to endrun around the captcha system”. As you hopefully know, captcha is a way of ensuring the account creator is an actual person- and this could be bad news, not just for Facebook, but for the rest of the internet. Captcha has been cracked before, but on major sites like Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking spots, it could be utterly disastrous.

via Mashable.