The Skull Phone-“glitched” billboards that made waves yesterday turn out to be a hoax, sort of. Rather than cracking the Clear Channel mainframe and uploading a Trojan horse poison packet virus worm or some such, artist Skull Phone used a different technique. He paid Clear Channel a large sum of money to place his image on their nice billboards, thank you kindly.

Not only is that less impressive than the supposed “hacking,” it’s also a waste of money. Here in New York we have the huge PSP billboard on Houston & Lafayette that regularly glitches out free of charge.