PigBrother Goes Mainstream
from the who-are-you-picking? dept
How can you not like a site that has the tagline: "5 Pigs. One pen. Who goes? You decide." Someone sent me the link to PigBrother earlier in the week, and I thought it was very well done and very funny. It's a site that makes fun of all the Big Brother/Survivor type shows out there, but does it for a good charitable cause. What I didn't realize, though, was that the site has become extremely popular very quickly. People are obsessing about these pigs online. Is it really that big a surprise that the guy who created it admits that the idea came to him when he was "far-from-sober".
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