The Pisstakers are the Jackass of the Week. There is too much British blood flowing through their veins. They should have listened to their American advisors and told it as it is to a complainant on a forum. But as reserved, polite and anally respectful idiots, they thought long and hard about a reply and came up with a compromise.

Of course the pen is mightier than the sword, and a pissed off Pisstaker came up with certain ways of expressing disdain for the stupidities of a homeworker with a dodgy navigation bar. Much of the retribution flew over certain people's heads, but the official line is, "Who cares!"

In the meantime, ever onward in the promotion of more deserving 3rd parties, ie bloggers who get the idea of content creation, cross-linking and mutual benefits from talking about the good and the bad in what they find.

Unfortunately this week's chumps have to be Digg fans who did their bit to bury a story that 200 folk had already voted as a worthy news story. Harrison, a young Californian lad has gone into relapse and requires a bone marrow transplant. His story moved a lot of people, the site was linked to and posted on Digg, but the request for help was deemed as spam. Great.

Firstly it is wrong that 10 Digg fanatics have the power to democratically over-rule the majority. What sort of social networking is going on there, lads! And secondly, how could they be so dumb as to be unable to differentiate between real life drama and the drama they create everyday with their silly little Playstation shoot 'em up games?

Hope they learned their lesson without the young lad in question having to suffer because of gross insensitivity. Maybe they could Help Harrison, not hinder him!

Check out this infomercial, pop-up marketing monstrosity from this week's Jackass Brain Splat, king of the marketing dunderheads.

Before you hit the link, (too late?) just imagine the internet in 1999 in its prime of tack. There was no way to stop those pop-ups from ruining your time on-line. Color and graphics were more abusive than some of the porno!

Within 75 seconds of surfing to this guy's web of fluff, you could have a free laptop - because this guy wants to help you along with the thousands he has already helped (out of their life-savings?)

Someone somewhere has undoubtedly replied to his tortuous plea already, and so he is hoping you will be as gullible. Enjoy and please keep your twitchy finger off the Reply button.

This weeks jackass brain splat is two people again. Or rather one stock-picker, Elliot Cash and their alias, Deborah Pierce.

Apart from the transsexual innuendos, it was the familiar story. An unknown sender in the Junk mail; an illiterate one-liner; To: person unknown in my little address book at least; no attachment included this time. (Even if it had been bearing gifts in attachments, curiosity would still have been sufficiently peeked to take a little peak - this avid researcher is still hiding in blind faith behind a Security by Obscurity Mac and a mirrored hard drive.)

Our picks bring our readers BIG gains! Why? Because we present well-researched, quality companies backed by promotions which have the ears of investors around the globe. When you have GREAT product and unrivaled PR you get super gains! This one is just what your portfolio needs:

Oh, yes, Elliot, or is it Deborah Pierce, you have my ears alright. I knew I could rely on you, a complete stranger, to make me rich beyond my wildest speculative dreams. So, what is the dealio this fine Monday morning, guys?

The Great American Food Chain, Inc.Symbol: GAMNCurrent Price: $0.96Projected Price: $3.20 (330% gain)

So, Elliot-orah, in which part of the food chain are you to be found? The broken link towards the Neanderthal end, or are you the link in the stock market chain, the cracked one, ready to fail and bring the whole thing down around our ears? Or the link that goes straight into the Junk mail? They persist though!

GAMN is has an incredible business model in a booming sector.

DAMN, I meant (GAMN) is a scam Mister, Miss or whatever you are out there in cyberspace. You want all us suckers to pile in with our life savings and push the price up so you can cash in on your 50 million shareholding that currently lies worthless at 0.0001 cent per share. Run along.

This week's award goes to two more people - the college boys wanting to sue the makers of "Borat" for portraying them for what they seemed to be like in real life - racist, sexist, childish, non-upstanding drunks! Yes, sometimes it hurts to be a jackass.

They aren't actors, so it is unlikely that they were putting anything on. The demon drink was just bringing out of them something that pre-existed. Whatever they may say about being set up, they were definitely not as bright as Borat star, Sacha Cohen, to invent their outrageousness. It all came straight from the heart via the bottom of a glass.

The underlying feeling that comes out of the report from MSN is that these yobbos seemed to forget that in life, sometimes we have to take responsibility for our actions. Ask the 178 grown men whose names and details were published on the internet by RF Jason, what it is like to act outrageously, and be called on it.

Run along lads and take it on the chin. Life hurts when you are a jackass. In fact, you probably feel as assaulted as the girls and Jews and any other minority listening to you being "cool" as you ripped into them.

This award goes to two people - the Continental airline pilots in charge of the humungous Boeing 757 that landed mistakenly on a 60-foot wide taxiway at Newark airport. The top guns calmly docked the 157 foot wing spanned jet they had just landed on a narrow piece of tarmac reserved for waiting planes and airport workers' cars, and went home as if nothing had happened!

They didn't hit anything, surprisingly, (they had just landed on a narrow piece of tarmac reserved for waiting planes and airport workers' cars) but the only oversight in their plan to escape detection and suspension, was an alert air traffic controller, thinking, "Wtf is that airliner doing over there?" There was also the slightly damaging issue of guilty-as-charged skid marks found by the Port Authority police investigating the incident.

Apparently, short of landing by mistake at a military airbase, landing with the wheels up, or flying while pissed, all of which have happened in the past, there is no worse cock-up in a pilot's repertoire than landing on a taxi way. It just shouldn't happen, seeing as there are two pairs of highly trained eyes guiding the plane down into an airport where every inch of the place is color-coded.

In civilian terms, what they did is similar to a car driver going through a red light thinking it was green, missing an old person crossing the street pushing a baby, in front of the cameras, and carrying on as though nothing had happened!

Anyway, once the Feds have finished with their sorry asses, if they get away with anything less than dismissal, they have the exciting prospect of facing the comments of their colleagues at work!

Halloween is here, however, the freak show had already started earlier in the week with Limbaugh on Michael J. Fox, a sufferer of Parkinsons Disease.

He is exaggerating the effects of the disease," Limbaugh told listeners. "He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. . . . This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

Good one Rush! Lest we forget your brush with prescription drugs! And was Michael ever that great an actor as to pull off the stunt he is being accused of?

Some technical journalists say Mac users are arrogant, superior and more elitist than Windows users. We say "Bollocks to that, we are just happier." We do however, hesitate to type, "Mac naysayers are jackasses" on our Apple Powerbook, as we are not really qualified to contest the facts! However, some serious Mac blogging experts enjoy the fruits of jackass spotting.

Those darlings, Bambi Hambi and co

...or is it Namby Pamby and co, have a Mac360 forum dedicated to Jackasses. Not too many contributions as yet, but there should be a stream of foolish, mistake-riddled articles on the way, as web and technology authors are pushed to write ever more for ever fewer cents per word.

Daring Fireball ace writer

John Gruber, seems to have been gunning for Jackasses for a while too. He first got a taste for hi-tech twats in 2004, writing about Rob Glaser, a guy who runs the Realplayer dealio. At one time that Real idiot tried to reverse-engineer iTunes to play with his software and wondered why Apple broke his code with their very next software update. Anyway, Mr Gruber has been getting a bit more of a high-brow piss-take feature going on in his blog since May 2005. Watch out techno jackasses, you may soon get a full blown 5000 word essay written about you!

Mike Rundell

He raised some temperatures with his lambasting blog about problems installing the Mac Operating System, Panther. For some reason almost every person who replied managed to make a jackass out of themself, taking all the criticisms personally. It took a guy called Honus to point out this mindset failing. (As a clue to the location of this brutal commentary, he addressed ALL Mac Jackasses and shortly afterwards, the comments dried up!)

Failed or abandoned jackass features

It seems surprising that more blogs and websites don't feature a Jackass of the Week. Paul Thurrot was labelled Jackass by OSviews, but never again did they go with this line of attack, which generated a few posts and plenty of views.

Andy Baio, who runs waxy.org, a mega technology culture blog if ever there was one, coined April Fool's Day as Internet Jackass Day. Take a look and you will see that whilst full of amusing stories, and no doubt bombarded with visitors, his annual jackass event never took off as a name and shame day. A shame indeed.

Paul Thurrot, best covered Jackass!

All news is good news for this guy whose blooper, a direct and very flawed comparison between a Mac and a Dell saw his Nexus blog featured right across the internet. Netscape, OS Views, Daring Fireball, Spoken, Mac daily News, jackwhispers, in fact, a search produced 9,500 references to the jackass known as Thurrot. Good emarketing!

Thurrott, did in fact preclude the aforementioned global humiliation by labelling Robert Manes a perennial Jackass. Oh how the mighty are fallen!

No jackasses here

The Pisstakers will not be jumping on the bandwagon of humiliation. After all, we make mistakes in our copy, misspell names, get our facts wrong, twist the truth just a tad for effect. So we will leave the real and credible criticisms to those scribes that don't make jackasses out of themselves in the course of their daily writing.