This pic elicited gasps, then indignation.
iphone, fake, picture, waiting, anticipation

Posted June 29, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog. Tags: anticipation, fake, iphone, picture, waiting. One Comment.

A recent comment here reminded me to check in on our options for flying cars, now at least seven years overdue.
It turns out that Moller International, the folks developing the M400 Skycar aerodyne, are accepting deposits:
As a result of the recent successful hovering flights of the M400 Skycar, Moller International is accepting deposits [...]

Posted April 15, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Politics & Controversy. Tags: aerodyne, Discojet, Discojet Corporation, fake, flying car, flying disc, fraud, Moller, Moller International, Moller Skycar, scam, Skycar. 4 Comments.

I just got a heads up on an Advertising Age story that Wal-Mart is trying to be MySpace (and, yeah, I aped their headline, too).
Here’s the lead:
It’s a quasi-social-networking site for teens designed to allow them to “express their individuality,” yet it screens all content, tells parents their kids have joined and forbids users to [...]

Posted July 30, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology. Tags: AdAge, fake, Hubsters, knock-off, myspace, MySpace.com, The Hub, wal mart. One Comment.

Memepool.com points out that the folks at Supermasterpiece are claiming priority over Britney Spears’ Oops ! I Did It Again. Their story is:
“Oops ! I Did It Again” was recorded in April, 1932 in a Chicago studio, most likely Nearlie’s or West and Fourth. Cut for the Decca label by Louis Armstrong and elemends of [...]

Posted October 21, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: britney spears, cover, cover track, fake, louis armstrong, memepool, music, oops i did it again, original, pop culture, satire, song, supermasterpiece. 7 Comments.

Steffan O’Sullivan writes:
“This is from a 1954 edition of Modern Mechanics Magazine, predicting what the home computer will look like in 2004. I think I worked on that printer once…
How can I get a steering wheel like that on my office computer here?”
The caption reads:
“Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this [...]

Posted November 22, 2004 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: 1950s computer prediction, 1954, 1954 2004 computer, computer, computer steering wheel, fake, fark computer photoshop, home computer, modern mechanics, RAND, scientists from the rand corporation. 3 Comments.