Web designer (and Newsvine CEO) Mike Davidson pulled a sweet little prank on John McCain’s campaign today to get them back for stealing his MySpace design. Seems they not only used Davidson’s MySpace template without crediting him — which is not that big of deal, he admits — but they used his bandwidth to serve up one of his images from his server. “Bad McCain!” Davidson writes, and he explains how he swapped out his image with something a little more exciting. “A few minutes in Photoshop and a quick FTP, a new John McCain was born,” writes Davidson. “And the Straight-Talk Express isn’t just for straight people anymore.” (Thanks for the tip Corey!)
Update: Davidson’s prank is getting linked all over the place. Writes one guy in comments on Newsvine, “This is the funniest thing I have read in a LONG time. I’m sitting here laughing my ass off and clapping in my cubicle. DAMN, Mike. You’re awesome. Huge kudos.” Truly a classic web prank.
