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Really Really Close to a Tornado
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Frog ripped open by lawnmower stitched back together
A tree frog ripped apart by a lawnmower has been stitched back together after undergoing life-saving surgery in Australia.
The unfortunate amphibian was given emergency anaesthetic and operated on by doctors in the Northern Territory.
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Irish student hoaxes world’s media with fake quote
DUBLIN (AP) — When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news.
His report card: Wikipedia passed. Journalism flunked.
The sociology major’s obituary-friendly quote — which he added to the Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre hours after the French composer’s death March 28 — flew straight on to dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia and India. They used the fabricated material, Fitzgerald said, even though administrators at the free online encyclopedia twice caught the quote’s lack of attribution and removed it.
A full month went by and nobody noticed the editorial fraud. So Fitzgerald told several media outlets they’d swallowed his baloney whole.
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IMAX Deception
A little investigating turned up the news that IMAX and some theaters have started marketing IMAX’s new digital theater projection system as an IMAX-branded experience, despite it being nothing like what most people think of when they hear the word IMAX. It’s difficult to see how that’s not a deceptive and unfair business practice by IMAX and AMC — especially when they’re charging an extra $5 for it.
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