Who on earth is Al Gore talking to, and what is he saying? Crank away, gentle readers.

Well, here’s our first PhotoCrank caption contest and we’re going straight for the hardcore blasphemy. Or heresy. Or something. Anyway it’ll for sure drive away the born-agains who’ve been lurking here lately. The illustration was created by a dude named Marco who apparently leads a cult that worships me as a kind of saint or demigod. Marco says the group would like help creating a few slogans or prayers or something. So have it. Much love to Marco.

The idea with PhotoCrank is to automate the process of posting captions so we don’t have to overburden poor Iulia and Natasha, our interns in Krasnodar. All of us, but especially the interns, send love to the good folks at PhotoCrank. To check out the PhotoCrank site, go here. Namaste. I honor the place where your captions, Marco’s picture and my blog become one.

We’ve installed a widget from PhotoCrank that lets you write captions for photos on the blog. You’ll notice it because sometimes when you scroll over a photo a blue bar will pop up to let you write a caption. Our main idea was to use this for photo caption contests but it’s here for lots of other photos too. The folks at PhotoCrank are looking for feedback and have chosen our mega-blog as a good place to start. If you’d like to learn more about PhotoCrank go here. Now go ahead and have fun and we’ll see how it works out. Feedback appreciated. We’ll share it with PhotoCrank. Peace.

UPDATE: They’re working on support for Safari, but for now if you want to crank photos you need to use Firefox. Okay? It won’t kill you, I promise.

This comes from Dear Reader John M., who I believe is an inhabitant of that sceptred isle. Much love John M. and my apologies if I’ve got your location wrong.

UPDATE: This photo was taken by Christopher Williams of The Register.

Karl

Jason

Readers seemed to like Karl’s item about “Harvard Steak House” [shurely Pinocchio's or Grendel's?] but I liked Jason’s item about the pies, though I think it would be better without the explainer line.

Are here on the captions sister site. Vote away and we’ll post the winner(s) on the main site. Or don’t vote and just enjoy. Or whatever.

Iulia and Natasha, the interns in Krasnodar, have set up a separate page for captions. They’ve put some past ones up to just see how it looks. Check it out and let us know. The idea is to keep all the captions from cluttering up the main page.

Address is: http://captions-fakesteve.blogspot.com.

Or just go here.

Okay, it’s fish in a barrel time. Here’s the Beastmaster getting his law degree from Harvard today. Have at it. This time I’ll store them all up in a big folder and run them all at once.

Stefan