Missed yesterday’s All Things Considered April Fools story? They’ve now posted it up on their website. I was completely taken in… and I’m not proud of that. The story claimed that the Library of Congress is transferring years of cassette, 8-track, CD and MP3 onto durable 78rpm shellac records. On the face of it, doesn’t it sound plausible? After all, all those floppy discs and computer tapes are pretty much useless now, but punch cards still hold their data!
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Best snippet from today’s Onion, in the infographic on Jayson Blair’s falsified journalism:
Wrote fabricated story about Iraq possessing massive stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction
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The popcorn is here!
How ridiculous is this: my entire office, and me in particular, are excited year after year when our insurance company sends us a metal canister of three different flavors of popcorn (amusingly named “Three [more...]
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