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Criminal Charges Looming For Balloon Boy Mastermind Richard Heene
2:00AM Jack Loftus | Karma’s a bunch of hooey, but in cases like this I can understand its appeal: Richard Heene, the arrogant, self-centered con artist behind the “Balloon Boy” hoax, is about to be charged with a crime. More »
Vehicles
The Hotelicopter Outed as a Fake
8:25AM Sean Fallon | Admittedly, the renders of the Hotelicopter all pointed to a hoax, but the truth is that we all got swept up in a viral campaign for Yotel airport hotels. [Yotel and Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
Online
The Government is NOT Spying on You Through Your DTV Converter Box
11:20AM Adrian Covert | Last week, Spokane-based engineer Adam Chronister posted a Youtube video, where he cracked open a government-subsidised DTV converter box, only to find a hidden camera. Turns out, the whole thing was a hoax. More »
Entertainment
Mythbusters Will ‘Prove’ Moon Landing Wasn’t a Hoax
7:50AM Matt Buchanan | A week from today the Mythbusters say they’re going to tackle “one of the biggest myths of all”: that the moon landing was a hoax. Um, isn’t it the other way around? Waaay more people seem to think we took a tin can, loaded it up with rocket fuel and successfully shot ourselves to the moon and back. I’m not sure how showing how crappy your own fake moon landing looks proves anything, nor does going to NASA centres (the hoaxers themselves!) for “evidence.” Verdict: They’re totally in on it. I mean, just look at Buzz Aldrin. [Wired via Dirty Laundry - Thanks Richard!]
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