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Sometimes I’m really jealous of the folks over at Geekosystem. While we’re constantly writing up news stories that make us angry, they get to do posts on fun video games and stuff that makes them happy. Well, yesterday, they finally got one that disturbed them as much as we usually are: a commercial for a new video game (only being released in Europe!) that appears to be being sold as the perfect orgy starter. Say what you will about the “Lean Forward” campaign, but no one got spanked in any of those ads.

How does one rack up misdemeanor counts of “desecration, theft or sale of venerated objects, abuse of a corpse; institutional vandalism, theft, receiving stolen property, disorderly conduct, and harassment” in one day? By robbing a dead boy’s casket. The 37-year-old Jody Lynn Bennett was at Rairigh Funeral Home in Arizona when he saw a Game Boy in the casket of Bradley D. McCombs Jr., a 17-year-old boy who died on Christmas morning. Bennett snatched the Game Boy and waltzed out of the building.

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The creative forces behind the hit television show Lost began to unveil their promotional campaign this week, starting with a stunning image of the show’s cast shot in the style of the Last Supper. You know the one, Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th century depiction of Jesus announcing that one of his 12 disciples would betray him? If this looks familiar to you (at least in a pop culture sense), its because you’ve probably seen this idea before. A bunch of times:

This morning, TechCrunch stumbled across a time capsule: a brand-new video promoting Friendster, touting its upgrade that, it appears, makes it function like the MySpace of eight years ago. They miss, though, the Secret Hidden Message™ of the video. That being: Asians only, please.