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Hoax websites are the WWW’s optical illusions. As of today, Wikipedia’s entry on Hoax begins:

A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real.

Imagine a liar’s website about a hoax. How do you tell right from wrong? Is this blog a hoax? Yes, in some way it probably is. As there is more to it than its trueness.

We have been featuring the World Jump Day, recently. Here are some more hoaxes:

• Clones-R-Us by Dream Technologies International, the world’s “largest reproductive cloning provider”: Buy your clone child on-line.
• Bonsai Kitten: preserving the long lost art of body modification in housepets (Wikipedia’s entry, Web.archive version)
• Dihydrogen Monoxide Info about controversies surrounding DHMO. “Yes, you [really] should be concerned about DHMO!”
• GenoChoice: “Create your own genetically healthy child online!”
• PetsOrFood: “The best place for pet and food products on the Web!”

The Museum of Hoaxes maintains a weblog about hoax websites.

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 at 7:38 on rattus rattus' blog and is filed under No liars. Responses are currently closed.
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