Today is fucked up day, says Internet

OK, so pride of place has to go to Stealth Disco (via Boing Boing). The concept is wonderfully simple:

1. Find an unsuspecting co-worker
2. Sneak up behind them without them noticing you
3. Dance around
4. Have a colleague film you
5. Cut the best of it together and set it to music

There’s an optional last step, which appears to be “watch your site be slashdotted into oblivion”. Be prepared for the page (and QuickTime video) to load slowly.

Interestingly, it’s not strictly speaking an Internet thing, more of a collaborative prank at a Chicago advertising agency.

Also from Boing Boing comes, at last, the answer to the eternal question how much is inside a permanent marker? Thanks to Science, we also know as a side-effect how many CDs you can label with a permanent marker (because, er, that’s how they measured it).

Meanwhile, via Neil Gaiman comes news of the very latest costumed vigilante standing up for the common man: Angle Grinder Man. If your car has been clamped, he comes and takes the clamp off. You, er, still have to pay the fine, though. He’s a very English super-hero. (Clamping is illegal in Scotland, happily.)

And because it popped up again recently, this time on Andrew Ducker’s journal, here’s a link to, well, perhaps a quote is most appropriate: “My name is Ulrich Haarbürste and I like to write stories about Roy Orbison being wrapped up in cling-film.”.