Tag Archives: hoax
3 tonne meteorite stolen in Russia?
The following is being rewritten as Incontrovertible Fact at blogs all over the damn place just now: Russian police have been combing the northern Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk for a three-tonne meteorite that disappeared from under the nose of its … more…
Miniature horses for the blind
While I was away in Liverpool, I took a break from Against the Day, and read most of Will Self’s Great Apes instead. I haven’t quite finished Great Apes yet, so I’m not about to write anything definitive — like … more…
photographical evidence, ladies and gentemen
I believe this has already been slashdotted over the weekend, but there’s a blinking world exclusive at ufomag.co.uk, where they will shortly be revealing photographical evidence, ladies and gentemen, of UFOs taken by satellite and analysed by somebody called EUROSETI, … more…
Scams, frauds and con tricks
Theresa Nielsen Hayden of Making Light blog has clearly been doing a lot of thinking about con tricks, frauds and scams lately. She’s posted an overview of the topic yesterday, in which she observes: These scams take the forms they … more…
Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax?
Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? We all laughed when Alan Sokal wrote a deliberately silly paper entitled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity”, and managed to get it accepted by a refereed journal of … more…
Blondes to Have More Fun After All
Oh, I am glad I held off this one for a few days. The Globe and Mail reports that the WHO report that blondes would be extinct in 200 years turns out to have been a hoax. Immense congratulations are … more…
Circlemakers revisited
This RA stream from the BBC, about US tourists making expensive pilgrimages to Wiltshire in the wake of the success of the movie Signs, really amuses me, although it’s interesting to note how local businesses are adapting to the expectations … more…
Phoney Bomb Humor Fools Taliban?
Phoney Bomb Humor Fools Taliban? – remember the story (blogged here) about someone finding instructions for building a nuclear weapon in an abandoned safe house in Kabul? The document turns out to be a spoof from the Journal of Irreproducible … more…
World Trade Organization: WTO / GATT hoax site
You may want to have a squint at the fake WTO | World Trade Organization: WTO / GATT site, while it’s still there – it’s just bound to be declared un-american and terroristical any time now…