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In this episode we honor Senator Ted Stevens with a whole lot of crappy news stories that will make you appear to be the most informed individual at the office or watercooler (or unemployment line).
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Here’s our latest episode of Watercooler All-stars, hosted by Adam Cochran and Erik Groves.
Watercooler All-stars is a podcast offering commentary on news we found on the cutting room floor of several respectable news outlets. This is not a fake news show. We cover actual news items from obscure news sources.
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This month we discuss the evils of Norton Antivirus, how to troubleshoot obscure crashes, choosing the right tech for your student, the impact of iPhone 4 on modern journalism and much more.
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We have been working on the concept for this podcast for months. We hope you like our first beta episode. Please leave your comments.
We hope to cover news, information and insights that are missed by other news and entertainment podcasts.
The show is recorded with minimal pre-show discussion to keep the conversation fresh and unrehearsed.
photo credit: romana klee
You read it on the Internet, so it must be true. No, really, it was on TimeOnline.com, so it’s real!
By now this image has circulated through every blog (like this one) that is looking for a few hits to bring in some Google Adsense revenue. Even legitimate news sites are running the story without any confirmation.
We will be the first to call it a hoax, or a misidentified creature at best. What makes us jump to that conclusion? We’ve been there before.
Besides intuition and past experience, how do we know it’s a fake or a hoax?
Look at the rungs behind the creature. For some reason most of the bars mysteriously end before they go behind the creature.
Notice the strange focus along the creatures back. Everything in the foreground and background is in focus, but in the spots where the bars disappear and along the creatures back, it is mysteriously fuzzy.
There is no point of reference. The only way we know that this thing is the size of a bear is because that is what the story reports. It very likely is the size of a large rat or small Kangaroo.
No moving video has been posted. Oddly, there is a YouTube slide show (the moving kind) but it features still pictures of the animal and explains that China does not allow moving video to be uploaded. First, China has no idea whether the video being uploaded is video of an Oriental Yeti or a slide show containing still images of an Oriental Yeti.
Similar hoaxes from the past.
Montauk Monster – It turned out to be a partially decomposed raccoon.
Mermaid Corpses & Florida Mermaid – Read the attached for various explanations.
Dead Fairy – Yep – another fake.
Oh how we could go on with pig-human hybrids, chupacabra and so much more.
As we prepare to post this, it looks like someone else has gotten to the bottom of it. We love the Internet.
