Phoenix Ratta
August 4th, 2006
Archive for August, 2006
Using Use
August 4th, 2006Using use in misuse is no abuse
but users use use for no use
or reuse use to overuse
until use’s usage is
only usefully useless usance.
At least.
“Use” first used in “Use” @ Verbloggtnoamal
Hoax websites
August 3rd, 2006Hoax 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.
Push harder
August 1st, 2006
[Ratta says: Please, could you try a little harder to feel less pressed!]
