Cure AIDS Now web dev

This particular project is for that of a grander purpose.

Cure AIDS Now (CAN) Foundation is undergoing clinical trails with Google.org to release a non-toxic anti viral patch to cost-effectively suppress HIV. The long term approach includes the solidification of a $50B bond to distribute cure nebulizers with integrated IP addresses to be linked with Google satellites. This will lead to the anonymous identification and tracking of all those who suffer from HIV around the World. Eventually leading to a meta-moment in which HIV/AIDS is eradicated from Earth.

The overall goal is to eliminate the human immunodeficiency virus from the human genome.

Wow, Joe, the only way to make this post any fishier would be to print it out and actually

staple it TO a real fish.

Let’s leave aside whatever your actual reason for wanting a three-year-old Craigslist clone

might be for the moment, and instead focus on the “project”. Here’s the website:

complete with an EIN for a supposed 501c3 that’s either fake or so new the IRS hasn’t

loaded it into their databases (http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=249767,00.html) yet.

Taking a look at the “contributor wish list”, we note Mr. Luckow is listed there; surely such

a significant addition to the project - your post says he’s on board - would merit an update.

Then we read the “business plan” (eye-bending caps preserved from original):

CAN FOUNDATION WILL RAISE CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPONSOR

A $10 MM PRIZE FOR THE FIRST NON-TOXIC ANTIVIRAL CURE

TO END HIV/AIDS IN A GLOBAL ERADICATION PROGRAM

TO ELIMINATE HIV/AIDS FROM THE HUMAN GENOME

Again, you’d think that going from a plan to raise contributions to sponsor a prize for people

to cure HIV to “clinical trials with Google.org” (oddly, not listed on Philanthropy Programs for Underserved Communities - Google.org)

would merit a site update.

We’ll skip over the more Time Cube-ish parts of the plan - the benefit concert, the cell phone that doubles as

a nebulizer, the solar-powered Internet-enabled homes for Haiti, etc - and focus on the

mysterious Mr. Brando Bronzino. (sometimes Brandon Bronzino, for example here:

New Inspiring Now App Sends Positive Text Messages and Raises Money for Charity -- InspiringNow.com | PRLog)

Amazingly, CAN’s SEO is so good that their business plan comes up first on a Google search

for “Brando Bronzino”. Truly remarkable, given that he created the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame.

http://rockhall.com/visit-the-museum/learn/the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame/

… or wait, perhaps not? Odd that none of the information I could find mentions him. I did find this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yobronzino/Brando_Palomino_Bronzino

Oddly, despite the page’s claim of having “many collectors in society of the cultural elite”, Mr. Bronzino’s

work doesn’t appear to be documented anywhere accessible from the Internet. Perhaps it’s simply too

avant-garde.

We also note the amazing Artists Movie Group, which remarkably sent a representative to a

not-mentioned-anywhere Forbes Film Finance conference two years before it was founded.

Visiting their website (http://www.artistsmoviegroup.com/?page_id=10), we find MOAR SHOUTING and

some seriously handwavey “non-contractual first look choice” connections.

Skimming farther down the Google results for Mr. Bronzino, we find Songbook.com:

http://www.songbook.com.co/about/

Here again, a wall of text; more vague claims; more grand plans - and more temporally-challenged

editing, since the “Revenue Model” section is entirely future-tense while the “Server Infrastructure”

(waaaaay down) talks about 4500 servers producing (present-tense) 100 Gb of traffic. In another

odd coincidence, the infrastructure description exactly matches Myspace:

Finally, a small additional matter: the last bit about collecting a percentage of charitable donations.

Turns out this isn’t actually illegal, but it is regarded as unethical by some:

Matt Jones,

Thank You for this information....

Decided to end any relations with this character.

- Joe