I imagine somewhere in the world, probably overseas since we export everything we do, there is a little underground bunker where a group of people who really don’t have much else to do sit around and think up the most obscure thing in the world to give to the public. The most mundane thing of all, something no one would ever really need in their lives but because it ends up being free, interesting and feeds into our love of knowing what we normally don’t always know – it becomes reality.

A new addition to the AOL instant messenger not only functions as way to kill time and talk to friends but now, now you can stalk just about anyone you want on your buddy-list as long as they download the new addition to the program

You’d think after all those weird old guys on Myspace started courting a young people online that stuff like this would never see the light of day. But people like little stuff like this. Curiosity killed the cat, and people just love to push the border between privacy and stalker-hood. Most likely, this will be become yet another stitch in a line of guilty pleasures that the internet fan-base latches on to; a new way to finding out whether your boyfriend or girlfriend is cheating on you, or a new way to use the Patriot Act. Either way, this thing is oozing with creepy vibes.
—Eming Piansay