Over a century before Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” hoax, the New York Sun‘s moon hoax claimed that an astronomer discovered life on the moon. The website also describes many other hoaxes —Museum of Hoaxes
Similar:
Crash site and Tower of Voices. Well worth the side trip on the way back from a weekend gi...
Flight 93 crash site and Tower of Voices...
Culture
A practical application of close reading skills: Nazi-spotting
Whenever I teach a literature class, I p...
Aesthetics
'Fontgate': Microsoft, Wikipedia and the scandal threatening the Pakistani PM
I would call this "typefacegate," but th...
Culture
Rare find discovered amid town's Old West kitsch
Instead of dispensing a card like Zoltar...
Aesthetics
Pope calls Argentine kiosk owner to cancel paper delivery
This is a very cute story, further illus...
Amusing
Writing School Papers: Does Your First Version Say It All?
My colleague Mike Arnzen talked about th...
Academia
Pingback: In December 2001 I was blogging about -- Jerz's Literacy Weblog (est. 1999)