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• Farmer spray painted birds for prank

  
  Skeptic.com — Authority: 428
  Farmer’s spray paint prank raised bird watchers’ hopes of a new species | Herald Sun . BIRD watchers’ hopes they had discovered a new species of hawk have been shot down after a New Zealand farmer was revealed to be spray painting the birds pinkish-red and releasing them for fun. In a judge’s decision ...
  1 week ago

• Ameritech Phishing Scam Alert

  
  TechJaws - Fraud Alert, SEO Tools, How to Stuff — Authority: 100
  There’s an email purporting to be from Ameritech, claiming that due to congestion, all  ameritech.net users that don’t verify their accounts will be removed from the system. This is a phishing scam out to steal user account information to be used for unlawful activity. If you receive such an email like the one ...
  1 week ago

• Sounds from the sky: Reflections on historical observations and recent events

  
  Skeptic.com — Authority: 428
  The recent wave of sky noise videos and reports from across the globe have sown concern and copycat hoaxes. Historical observations disclosed here reveal that mystery noises in the sky are not new and have many and various potential explanations. Our urban and industrial society may be contributing to the recent ...
  1 week ago

• DailyMail’s “Alien Aircraft” Photos

  
  Ghost Theory — Authority: 460
          The photo above is what’s being passed around as “Alien aircraft” over at the DailyMail UK . Without going into any photo-analysis, I can tell you right away what these objects are. I’ve seen the same hoax perpetrated on some online forums. What the DailyMail posted up were photographs ...
  1 week ago

• How Stolen Data is Bought & Sold Online

  
  Denise Richardson, credit, identity theft, personal finance, consumer protection — Authority: 89
  Have you ever wondered how identity thieves use the Internet to buy and sell your stolen information? When most people think of identity theft they imagine people stealing credit card applications from their trash or stealing their credit card numbers...
  1 week ago

• NH Supreme Court Rules On Bigfoot Filmmaker

  
  Cryptomundo — Authority: 551
  #Bigfoot #Hoax #FreedomofSpeech #SupremeCourt #NewHampshireImages.
  2 weeks ago

• The 50 Craziest Lies in Wikipedia History

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 139
  From death hoaxes to straight slander, this is the other side of The Free Encyclopedia.
  2 weeks ago

• I’m Feeling Lucky Easter Eggs

  
  Fortydudez — Authority: 107
  A step ahead of search Easter eggs Google also has many I’m Feeling Lucky tricks as well. Whenever you search for a keyword on Google, you get a I’m Feeling Lucky link, on clicking this link with specific keywords you can see those Easter eggs. Listed below are the few hoaxes which I have come across by now. ...
  2 weeks ago

• How I Made $70 Selling Myself on Twitter [Adventures]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 827
  Do you know how easy it is to make money on Twitter? I found out this morning when a bunch of pranksters turned me on to a service called Pay4Tweet that theyd used to Tweet disgusting pictures to hundreds of thousands of people. I signed up — and made 70 bucks while people Tweeted "fuck you" to my boss. More »
  2 weeks ago

• DDT news: Ethio Sun reports, “Ethiopia and Botswana in banned DDT pesticide deal”

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 507
  How many hoax claims of Steven Milloy, Roger Bate and other DDT advocates are exposed in this one news story ? Somebody count.  The story reveals African nations still use DDT. There’s a lot of DDT in Africa to be used. Some nations don’t use DDT due to fear of health effects on people; they appear to have ...
  2 weeks ago

• European Bank Phishing Attempts

  
  TechJaws - Fraud Alert, SEO Tools, How to Stuff — Authority: 100
  In Europe, we are faced with many fake emails purporting to be from legitimate banks that want you to believe that they’re coming from your bank. At my company, we’ve received several phishing emails notifying the recipients to confirm/update their personal information. The text looks rather official and it’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fact or Faked: Bigfoot Hoaxer Dies

  
  The Debris Field — Authority: 137
  Cryptomundo » Fact or Faked: Bigfoot Hoaxer Dies
  3 weeks ago

• Last unique moon mineral brought back by Apollo astronauts is found in billion-year-old Australian rocks

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 131
  Australian paleontologist Birger Rasmussen has found tranquillityite, a mineral thought to be unique to the moon, in billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia. When the Apollo astronauts returned to Earth, they brought back three minerals - armalcolite, pyroxferroite, and tranquillityite, named after the Sea of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Search Easter eggs!

  
  Fortydudez — Authority: 107
  We use Google search to find things we need all the time. But this search bar is a lot of fun with specific keywords. Some of them are listed below. Searching for the keyword tilt or a skew makes the page tilt to the right. Click here to see tilt or askew . Typing do a barrel roll or z or r twice result ...
  4 weeks ago

• 2012: Western Culture Obsessed with End of the World, not Ancient Maya

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 131
  Our world is fascinated by prophecies of doom. Every day the media carry reports of predictions that the next year, decade, century or millennium will bring untold disasters. From a reading of current news headlines, this is difficult to argue against. And now, we are bombarded by predictions of a disaster ...
  4 weeks ago

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