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Um no, badgers are not man-eaters. According to http://www.whatbadgerseat.com/:

"Badgers subsist primarily on a diet of stoats, voles, and marmots. In a pinch, badgers have been known to eat woodpeckers."

Even the creators of Friends were smart enough to register www.hahanotsomuch.com before it was used as a joke URL in the TV show two seasons ago.

The Simpsons did the same with whatbadgerseat.com.

FOX did that for the Simpsons too (at least for What Badgers Eat). Of course, there have been dozens of other websites references on there they haven't bothered to register.

You might want to learn about What Badgers Eat

According to this, badgers don't eat Linux installations.

They must not know what badgers eat.

If your gonna be friends with a badger you should know http:/whatbadgerseat.com.

What badgers eat dot com

Still on the web years after the in-episode joke.

http://www.whatbadgerseat.com/

Indeed. It still amuses me that Fox thought this one through a few years ago when Lisa Simpson visited http://www.whatbadgerseat.com/ .

Simpsons did it.

What Badgers Eat.com

I love it when TV extends itself into reality.

Furthermore, {flame} Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment Season 8, Episode 818 is obviously the best episode ever. How it got left off the top 25 is a mystery to me{/flame}

Actually, if you pay attention to the show, the websites they mention frequently really exist.

The one that leaps to mind is WhatBadgersEat.com used in the episode where the town is split in half and Homer is the mayor of the sucky half.

The TV show Alias set up a Followers of Rambaldi fake site, which I've seen but may not be working now. (Much info is on this fan site.) Also in alias they once mentioned an IP address directly, and while I couldn't determine what that computer was (legally ;-) ) because it wasn't running any obvious services, it did exist, which makes me wonder if it was deliberate or if the show's author's didn't consider that a randomly selected IP address stands a pretty good chance of existing now-a-days.

And I once located the source information for a quick display on the Egyptian god Seth used on Daniel Jackson's screen in Stargate: SG-1. It was actually from a wierd site that I assume is info for a role-playing game, though it gave no hint that the site didn't really believe it and it's sometimes hard to tell... I often wonder if the web site was told what use their text was put to.

Wondering what badgers eat? Visit WhatBadgersEat.com!

Provided by the Simpson's folks to be an actual site that Lisa went to one evening to find out what badgers eat. I think it was episode BABF20, but there's no capsule at snpp.com.

While it's not exactly the same thing, as it's pretty obvious that this one is in cahoots with the Simpson's creators, it is still the same kind of guerrila marketing plan. I found it pretty entertaining.