Although the Teacher's Strategy Guide is just that, a guide for creating activities that can be used for more texts than Moby Dick, it really seems like old Melville's in style these days. NPR's been wondering if Captain Ahab was ahead of his time. Then there's Moby Disk, a bit of literary remix  April Foolery from MIT's own Nick Montfort.

Nick wasn't the only one to use appropriation and remix to  humorous effect recently. The fashion world was mystified by some very strange pictures that claimed to be ads for Marc Jacobs. The faux ads in question mimicked photographer Juergen Teller's iconic work for the designer.

Marc Jacobs is known to pull some pranks. After catching flak for starting all his shows late, his Spring 2008 show started promptly on-time and was, essentially, a Sonic Youth show with models. Latecomers-- even A-listers-- weren't let in! So, most people thought it was viral marketing. But, a spokeswomen for Marc Jacobs told WWD that the ads did not come from them!

So it turns out that the advertising creative team Hart+Larsson were behind it. The official explanation was something of a non-explanation. "We like to explore and to experiment and to challenge tired notions of what is and what is not," someone from Hart+Larsson wrote in an e-mail to the bloggers that traced the website. It was just, they said, for fun. No plans for the spoof ads...

So, are fake fashion ads  as interesting as fake fashion? So many questions... Hey NML team-- can I be in charge of the Teachers' Strategy Guide's fashion edition?