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BME: adding and subtracting

Theseidentical twinsare taking body modification to quite an extreme. I’m pretty sure it’s a hoax, some of it smells of photoshop, but you never know, especially as BME doesn’t really go for that stuff.(viapixelised)

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Posted on 26th October 2001 Details

Silicon.com - Hoax virus warnings and spam scams: The top 10

Thetop 1O hoaxes/spam. I think they’ve all hit my mailbox at some point.

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Posted on 3rd September 2002 Details

New Interactive: Shame she's not real . . .

Meet the new rising star of women’s tennis:Simonya Popova. If only she existed…

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Posted on 7th September 2002 Details

Was the moon landing a hoax?

Here we are, finally. Proof that the moon landingreally was a hoax.

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Posted on 9th November 2002 Details

NY Times: The Camera Never Lies, but the Software Can

The power of photoshop makes images just as difficult to trust as the written word.

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Posted on 13th March 2004 Details

Snopes: Space Pen

Somehow, that meme about NASA spending millions of dollars developing a pen which would work in space while the Soviets solved the problem simply by using a pencil, has been hitting my mailbox at least once a day for the past week. It’sfalse, please stop sending it to me.

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Posted on 12th April 2004 Details

Jacqueschirac.org - le Blog personnel de Jacques Chirac

Has French president Jacques Chirac reallygot a weblog? Nice effort, but something’s not quite right.A whois on the domain also indicates the following:

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Posted on 9th March 2005 Details

This McDonalds Interactive announcement feels like...

This McDonalds Interactive announcement feels like a hoax. The domain name is owned by the same people who run the McDonald’s Video game and hosted at the same place in Italy.

Linked on 6th June 2006 Details