Hoax vs. Truth. Bias? Confirmed!
While a lot of the sites dealing in satire and hoaxes are making it easier to detect the real news from the fake, it still turns out that people would rather believe the hoaxes than have them debunked.
Tagged: hoax
twitter tuesday: Impostors!
Unless you’re the one raking in money from the duped masses, chances are good that you don’t like spam. Estimates say that nearly 80-90% of all incoming e-mail these days is from spam senders. Thank goodness most of them haven’t...
TGIF: cheers and jeers
Jeers: File this first one in that category for things you want to say but that you should still give an additional 5-10 seconds of thought before so doing. [Warning, some of the tweets and/or Facebook comments linked in this...
What, that old trick again?
Seriously now, how stupid do they think people are? Since I read about the same thing happening 4 years ago (and 4 years before that, too) in other states, I’ve actually been waiting for this one to show up, almost...
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see
Remember to take everything with a grain of salt today, especially any e-mails and websites. The above image is from ThinkGeek which always has a plethora of amazing products available for sale on April 1st and in past years they’ve...
This is indeed a most disturbing universe…
digital-ed gave me a little chill when he posted a quick snippet from CNN December 9, 2005 (CNN) While interviewing an anonymous US Special Forces soldier, a Reuters News agent asked the soldier what he felt when sniping members of...