The Great Indecency Hoax
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To see how the hucksters of the right work their "moral values" scam, there could be no more illustrative example than the Nicollette Sheridan episode.
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Private videos seem to be escaping to the internet in droves. Do we care? In Sex Drive Daily.
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Revolutionary or unreadable? The long, strange afterlife of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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Also: Dating faux-pas: Stealing other people's profiles. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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A man who boasted to reporters around the world that his Web site allowed strangers to turn his outdoor Christmas lights off and on admitted Monday it was an elaborate hoax designed, he said, to spread holiday cheer.
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Here is the coverage in The New York Times and the New York Law Journal about the denial of United for Peace and Justice's Sunday rally in Central Park (United for Peace and Justice v. Bloomberg, 111893/04), and here is what NY Supreme Court1 Justice Silbermann said:      [...] the evidence established that the department's determination was based on entirely content-neutral factors, to wit: that the Great Lawn2 was not an appropriate venue for a demonstration of this magnitude.     [...]  The Parks Department appropriately applied content-neutral regulations while leaving plaintiff with a reasonable alternate site.
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Controversial Dutch show in which contestants compete for a kidney is revealed to be a hoax.
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I see that Cory Doctorow has made another panicked grab at relevancy once again! His most recent InformationWeek article, How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community, is his latest exercise in self-deception where he tries convincing himself that he knows something about the hip, happenin' thang we call the Innanet.        That Cory has little useful knowledge of keeping hostile jerks from taking over online communities is proven most aptly and amusingly by the way he chose to keep hostile jerks from taking over his weblog BoingBoing: he destroyed its community by shutting off its comments system.
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Scam or not, the Overdub Tampering Committee could signal the resurgence of the mash-up.
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A Hamburg newspaper that reported last week on a computer company manager who said he fired three non-smokers because they had threatened disruptions after asking for a smoke-free environment said on Monday the story was a hoax.
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JERUSALEM: A forgery ring that spanned the globe and produced a treasure trove of fake Bible-era artefacts was cracked yesterday. Police said the ring forged what were presented as perhaps the
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Tycho:  Today's comic is based on a story we saw at Kotaku, but when I went over there to verify the link the story had been removed altogether.  For those of you playing along at home, what that means is that Kotaku
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A Hamburg newspaper that reported last  week on a computer company manager who said he fired three  non-smokers because they had threatened disruptions after  asking for a smoke-free environment said on Monday the story  was a hoax.
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The author at the center of an elaborate literary hoax is finally coming clean &#151; or so she says.
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Many people in religious circles say it's one of the biggest problems facing families and congregations.  Yet:  It can go undetected.  It has no outward signs.  It is barely discussed.  The culprit? Pornography.  The Rev.
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How copyright has to leak Column Meejatarts, as my old friend Rupert calls us, will do almost anything for exposure. We're publicity whores. It's how we earn our daily crust.â¦
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Let's have a show of hands TV wit Stephen Colbert has had more fun at the expense of Wikipedia with another deeply ironic prank.â¦