Shop Game Network New York Times Fail

It won't end until it ends in the oil scarcity induced crash of the Spectacle:

Read the Onion version first:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-social-networking-site-changing-the-way-oh-chr,17465/

Then, read the real thing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/technology/internet/19foursquare.html?_r=2

Afterwords, scrub your brain with mouthwash, because not even the Onion couldn't spoof the self-spoofing reality of our new reality.