Militant Geek Custom Shirts

AOL company moral has to be soaring. Rumors of a mid-December layoff where confirmed when a number of employees didn’t receive invitations to the company Christmas party - classy. Opportunistic photoshoppers (and these days, who isn’t?) spent the time between the initial discovery and the ensuing stuffing of pink slips into stockings working on a number of fake shirts now posted on Flickr. The ‘2007 Annual AOL Xmas Layoff’ collection doesn’t actually exist outside of images (at least not yet). But for those who’s perceptions that AOL was a good career choice have now been popped the shirts-that-could-be might be worth a look.

According to Caroline McCarthy’s article AOL is getting into Second Life. With little fanfare and less reason, the universally despised provider of free coasters (see use #12) has decided that it didn’t want to be the only adolescent web company not to jump the shark.

From the CNet piece:

The company expects AOL Pointe to have three main areas: an amphitheater, an extreme-sports park and something called Hollywood Pop-Land. Some of AOL’s more popular brands, such as TMZ Productions and Lat34.com, will be highlighted in the virtual space.

If by “popular” they mean “familiar to my mom’s friends” and “highlighted” they mean “plastered on objects that don’t really exist” how can they fail??!!