Get your headcrabs! Fresh from Xen! Don't be the last one on your block without a headcrab!

The above are fake banner ads on a site that has with sewing plans on how to make your own headcrab from the game Half-Life...Since the owner didn't have any real ads, s/he thought they would make up some fake ones. The sewing plans look vaguely involved but some of the end products don't look too bad.

Too bad that Valve chickened out with their own efforts on this front


They didn't make very many and they were very, very small...the only head they would fit onto would be a little bigger than a fist...I guess that liability (Hey, those teeth poked my eye!) concerns was the reason why they are so small....but it is pretty cool looking and would make an amazing full sized hat.

What doesn't Ebay pretend to sell?

It is reassuring to see that Ebay, when not trying to explain why Skype was worth $2 billion, is investing its cash in ad buys like this.

Given Ebay's rapacious and wholly inefficient ad buying strategy, I guess it shouldn't be that surprising that this sort of thing doesn't happen more often...such as in this Register piece on what cropped up shortly after the death of Croc Hunter Steve Irwin