At the "contagious festival" at
Huffington Post there's a contest:
"Each month, the Contagious Festival features original work by talented designers, activists, filmmakers and comics. You determine who wins the contest by deciding which entries to forward to your friends and which ones to ignore."
My favorite is Don Hopkin's "SimFaux", a simulation of Fox News. It features the disembodied heads of Dick Cheney, George Bush, Arianna Huffington and Bill O'Reilly spouting nonsense; meaningless graphs that are updated "in real time"; scrolling text that distracts and disorients while conveying no useful information; loaded polls and lots more, all under viewer control.
SimFaux is my favorite festival entry because it's funny & clever. It's also interactive: you can hook up your own webcam and microphone and conduct "interviews" with yourself or with any of the "faux" personalities.
I also like that it's written in OpenLaszlo, the free, open source platform for building "rich internet applications." (Disclosure: I write the documentation for the OpenLaszlo project.)
In these grim times it's good to laugh once in a while. If SimFaux doesn't strike your fancy, be sure to check out the other entries. There is plenty there to amuse.