hoaxes 10

April fool.

You turn your house into a bank. Act it out. Take the money and run. And then you call up and brag.

Microsoft iLoo. Yes, it’s what you think it is. No, it’s not a hoax, though at one point, Microsoft itself thought it was.

Yahoo on a time traveler busted for insider trading. Unfortunately, the urban legends site denounces it. via Sid

McWhortle is an SEC hoax.

An update on coincidencedesign.com. I got a mail from “Your Biggest Fan”. It’s a hoax, after all.

Is Jose the tourist guy?

A list of hoaxes following Sep 11.

That Nostradamus quote was not by Nostradamus in the first place. (16 Sep: fury, cbs, nostradamus-repository, 18 Sep: yahoo, about, urban legends)

The next stop was Inverness. I didn’t know Inverness had any history to it. It wasn’t till we got there that I learnt that the Inverness castle was where Macbeth (of Shakespearean fame) ruled from. In fact, it turns out that Macbeth was a really nice king. There was this barbarian who fought him, lost, and turned to the English for help – who of course were delighted, and they killed Macbeth. This barbarian stupidly signed a document saying that Scotland would pay tributes to England, and that’s been the source of all the trouble. ...