It was all a lie! Or art. Or both.

The New Yorker, I think, was the first to break the news, and thus ruin the fun:

Then came the video that seemed to tie everything together, without having any of the charm of the originals:

The New Yorker continues:

They're BuzzFeed people, which really makes this disappointing. Something as odd and brilliant as Horse_ebooks really doesn't belong on a site with stories Six Things Farrah Abraham Said While Getting Her Private Parts Molded.

But wait. Hold on. A Gawker writer went looking for the author of the site and found this guy.

But wait! Hold on. Gawker went to the event this morning, explains the previous piece, and reports from the scene. They made an art installation. Because it was really art.

This spoils it. Horse_ebooks was fun because it appeared to be a program spitting out random nonsense that stumbled on mystery, profundity, and manic comedy; you could read meaning into the meaninglessness, like finding pathos in a robot's Chaplinesque gait because its programming went awry.

Thanks; pass.

In related news, the Minneapolis Police Department is concerned about your weight:

They said they were "hacked." Which means someone guessed the password.

MILEY IS A TR FAN Rolling Stone has a piece about Miley Cyrus getting another tattoo. Granted, fashion icons do change over time . . .

And I suppose every era gets the fashion icon it utterly deserves. She explains one of her tattoos, a lengthy quote in all caps in case it's noisy and you need to have her skin yell at you:

Yes, that's a perfect description of Miley Cyrus, especially in the "spending one's self in a worthy cause and knowing the triumph of high achievement" part. Yes, her tongue is hanging out on the cover photo.

TR, if you can't quite place the name: