May 4, 2007 11:35am
The Top 25 Web Hoaxes
EmailPC World is out with a list of what it condsiders the 25 most infamous hoaxes and pranks ever spread over the Internet. Some are funny, some are awful, and all had some success. "Perhaps you even believed one or two of them yourself," says the magazine.
At any rate, take a LOOK. Then, perhaps as author Steve Bass suggests, you may want to poke around Snopes.com, which specializes in dispelling myths.
If you want a good laugh, take a look at this bit of VIDEO, showing the "real" Neil Armstrong at the moment of, uh, truth.
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I’ve previously read the “PC World” article written by the eminently funny and knowledgeable Steve Bass, and I think he chose the best hoaxes and frauds from a wide field! And Snopes.com is an invaluable website when you want to check on the legitimacy of something you’ve usually just been e-mailed.
Posted by: chuck | May 4, 2007, 11:54 am 11:54 am
The Web (and Snopes.com, in particular) is a good way to quash rumors, myths and urban legends. However, I sometimes wonder if it’s also a source of “life imitating art” (if you can call the Net “art.”)
For instance, people say the “lights out/gang initiation” story IS just an urban legend. But, I can’t help to think that some “hip” young gangsta-wannabe will (or already have?) read this on the Net and think, “Oh yea, let’s do this for real and get famous.”
Posted by: redtech5 | May 7, 2007, 10:37 am 10:37 am