As you might guess from reading my anti-animal rights website I am very much pro-hunting. On the other hand, I’m also very pro-truth, which is why this pack of lies from the Heritage Foundation is so annoying. There’s enough things to hang the anti-hunting movement with; conservative groups don’t have to go out and lie…
April, 2005
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On Friday, the local Newhouse rag, The Kalamazoo Gazette, fired reporter Craig McCool and photographer Mairin Chapman over a story the two contributed to about alcohol usage by local college students (guess what — they drink a lot). McCool and Mairin went to a party to report on beer drinking games. Now McCool did one…
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In January, Hitachi anounced that it would release a 500gb hard drive sometime this year. In late March it released more details, announcing that the drive would be released sometime in the second quarter and come in both ATA and SATA versions at $500 and $520 respectively. In its article on the announcement, PCWorld notes…
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The Associated Press reports that the dress Judy Garland War in “The Wizard of Oz” is set to be auctioned off on April 26 in London. Auction house Bonhams & Butterfields estimates the dress will go for $50,000 to $70,000.
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The BBC runs a lot of stories which are little more than rewriting some organization or another’s press release. I don’t necessarily have a problem with that, except when they can’t be bothered to be even slightly circumspect about being accurate when they are doing so. I mean, if all you’re doing is rewriting someone’s…
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Ran across this 2003 article from Science News about stylometry — using mathematical models driven by computers to determine authorship of disputed works. For example, two years after L. Frank Baum died The Royal Book of Oz was published and billed as Baum’s final Oz novel. But stylometric analysis of the book suggests that it…
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I have to say that the father mentioned in this story displayed an extreme amount of self-control. If I showed up at school to learn my daughter had been sexually assaulted and a) school authorities had failed to contact me or the police, and b) the school authorities urged me not to call police, I’d…
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This blogger started a bit of a trend by taking the title song from NWA’s Straight Out Of Compton and producing a track that silenced out the non-profane parts. But someone did him one better. This track consists of a sped-up version of all the profanities on the entire album in one 34 second track!
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According to The New York Daily News, comedian Harry Shearer played an audiotape on his Le Show (which is available via podcast format) of Sean Hannity up to his usual tricks on Hannity & Colmes. On March 31, Hannity & Colmes featured two women who had formerly worked as nurses taking care of Terri Schiavo.…
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On Friday, the Boston Globe fired one of its freelance writers, Barbara Stewart, after it was discovered that Stewart fabricated large parts of a story she wrote about the Canadian seal hunt. In her article, Stewart described Tuesday’s hunt in vivid detail, describing how hundreds of Canadian hunters in boats shooting seals until the waters…