Westboro Baptist Church gets a fabulous Google Maps makeover

Search for Westboro Baptist Church on Google Maps right now, and you'll see that their avatar has been, well, rainbowed.

Their "about" page has also been updated with some homoerotic imagery:

I don't know who is responsible for this, but just recently a gay rights centre opened up right across the street from WBC.

People are certainly pissed off with "Rec" Phelps and his ilk right now, as they had planned to bring their "God Hates Fags" protest to today's interfaith service for the Boston marathon victims. (They never showed up.)

Thanks to Marco for the tip!

Facebook: Born of nerds, killed by nerds?

Mashable reports that some (although not all) members of the headline-hungry hacker group "Anonymous" have declared that they will destroy Facebook on November 5:



This video, which looks like something from Robocop, cites users' total ignorance of privacy issues as the cause.

I guess we'll just have to see what happens...