worst profile on orkut... ;)
found this in du's scrapbook.. it said:

hey check out the worst profile on orkut.
http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?2uid=3849827725404266552

now if you click on the link, u'll be surprised to find ur profile being the worst profile on orkut :)) in fact, initially the trap almost got me.. I began wondering since when did I become so popular ;) well, I can't accept my profile to be the worst (coz I've seen worser ;) ). moreover I don't even know the guy who scrapped that.. so I began suspecting it.. the URL seemed to be a lil out of place, tho I couldn't exactly say what it was.. tho 2uid was visible in place of uid I dint realize that to be the problem.. but just to verify my hunch, I created a Harry Potter on orkut, went to du's scrapbook and clicked on the link.. whoo... there comes Harry Potter, having the worst profile on orkut :O [I might say, "difficult times ahead, Harry..." ;)]

well, now that I know it's a (nice) prank, I was curious to find out how it works. the URL was screaming since beginning. inspecting it for a while, I find that it's really passing in some invalid GET parameter, which the page is just ignoring.. ah! so stupid! I was about to fall into THAT?! I'm stupid..

so, this's how orkut pages work: give me a proper parameter, I'll take you there.. give me something I don't understand, I won't crib, but 'll take u to a default page.. so, any URL like this shud take you to your profile page: http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?[somthin invalid]
and of course, to take u to the default page it shud be making use of the current session parameters..

hmm.. my hunch is that there's a bug lurking in there waiting to be xploited ;) I might be wrong, but I definitely sense somethin bad.. it's making use of the current session info to take you to ur page by default.. well, almost everyone does that.. but still.. this one's a lil suspicious.. I dunno.. maybe I'm thinking too far :D maybe it aint a bug really..

in any case, it's a real good candidate to play pranks with ;) u can come up with the worst home page, worst scrap book, worst friends network etc (don't think they'd make much sense tho :D )... or invent an entirely different prank based on these ;) neways, the other URLs which can be used so are:
http://www.orkut.com/Home.aspx?[somthin invalid]
http://www.orkut.com/Scrapbook.aspx?[somthin invalid]
http://www.orkut.com/Friends.aspx?[somthin invalid]
http://www.orkut.com/Communities.aspx?[somthin invalid]
I guess almost (almost, coz I don't think links like News and Media can be used like this) all orkut pages can be included.. but I've not tested em all..

somthing funny happened after this.. after figuring out why it works, I started scrapping it in quite a few scrapbooks. maybe 5-6.. by the time I finished that, I recieved a scrap.. it said somethin like: "u suck... as if your profile rocks... r u jobless [blah blah blah...] go get a life" don't remember it exactly.. I'm surprised, coz I don't even know her /:) and I'm amused coz I got a bakra before I even thought I'd ;) I burst out laughing. turns out she saw it on someone's scrapbook while I was scrapping. but later, when I told her about the prank, she apologised and deleted that scrap.. but it's damn fun to fool ppl, isn't it?

couldn't find out who started it.. but hats off to the guy who started this :)