Other things Wynn plans to take legal action against: the city-state, consumer confidence, heteronymy, sadness.

A delightful story keeps getting even more delightful. Over at VegasTripping.com, they put together a fake website for Wynncore.com that was going to be part of their Trippies awards. The gag was that Wynncore would hang on loading — a playful jape at Wynn Las Vegas’ website.

Except that one man’s playful jape, is another’s cease-and-desist letter. This led to a firestorm of Internet controversy (our favorite kind of controversy) and Chuckmonster at VT getting help from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to draft his response letter where he’ll agree to hand over the Wynncore domain — in exchange for a check for $22.95 hand-signed by Steve Wynn.

Really, the EFF and everything. Let this be a lesson to Wynn and other corporate operators. The Internet is like a sleeping bear, and when you poke that bear with a stick, the bear will rise up and craft snarky legal documents through the assistance of a major non-profit. It’s an object lesson in hubris. And bears.

It’s not all grim news, though. Our insiders at WLV have hinted that the company may counteroffer with two tickets to Spamalot and first dibs on one of the moving walls at Switch whenever it gets dismantled.

By Jason Scavone

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