The guy who surgically altered his thumbs to improve his iPhone user experience doesn’t exist. It was satire (and really good satire, at that).

Strangely, while many readers have grasped that “Surgically alters thumbs” represents satirical social commentary, many on the internet, alas, have not.

Careful reading of the piece makes it clear to any critical consumer of information that the piece is pure humor and not news or reported as fact.

Among the points of the piece: that U.S. society accepts plastic surgery and decorative deformation of the human body for vanity, but not other reasons (consider the Bonds steroid stories); that technology has become a new cult phenomena, in which items are praised or ridiculed based upon tribal allegiances instead of functionality and performance (and we are members of the Cult of the Mac- iPhone division); and we like to pretend that some of our writers have a sense of humor.

Don’t believe everything you see on the interwebs. Funny comment on Digg:

I didn’t think it was a hoax, and now I’ll never believe anything from the NorthDenverNews again, because it wasn’t presented as HUMOR. you can’t come back a week later and say it was. jerks.

Heh.