Xiaoyun's Cheesecake for Chinese Charity

Earth Times reports on the controversial charitable blogging of a 19-year-old girl named Xiao Yun, who is posting pictures of herself on a Chinese message board to raise money for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake. The gimmick: the more people give, the more pictures she'll post.

Judging by the many photos flying around the web, her fundraising strategy has been pretty successful--so much so, in fact, that she's been banned in Thailand, a response not exactly unfamiliar here in the U.S.