Al Macintyre's Radio Weblog

Al Macintyre's Radio Weblog : Al's random interests while learning what can be done with Weblogging, and perhaps what ought to be done.

Updated: 11/01/2002; 11:27:29 AM.

Sunday, October 13, 2002

What we have here are some links inspired by me visiting places that are visited by people who also visit my site, showing some interests that we have in common.

Christian stories that never happened.

I'd like to see something similar on other Religions, because those of us who are not believers can sometimes have a hard time distinguishing truth vs. distortion.

Computer Virus Myths - how to spot them.

Warning - that site disables the back button.

Darwin Awards for people who have found incredible ways to remove themselves from the gene pool. These are true stories, that someone could easily think were made up.
Discuss Urban Legends.
Electronic tour of artistic renditions of Urban Legends.

I was not impressed with what I sampled, but different strokes for different folks.

Hoax Identification Education
Hoax Kill Service

Once you find out if a message is a hoax you can send it to a designated email address and their software will then extract the addresses of all previous recipients from the message and inform them all that the message is a hoax.

Humor about Hoaxes.
Latest Urban Legends.
Net Lore and Urban Legends.
Norton Symantec Security Response Directory of e-mail Hoaxes.
Researching Urban Legends.

This might be where my sister got the idea that the volume of visitors to a website, translated into extra charges for bandwidth. Oh! that Is a true story for this site.

Scam Busters list e-mail chain nonsense and other scams, tips on fighting spam, lots of good links, also including links to info on real computer viruses.
Scope of Urban Legends.
Many people think something is a hoax when it is not. See my Sep 20 post about the plight of a Nigerian woman, sentenced to be stoned to death for the crime of being jilted by the husband of her child, in which I got a flood of referers due to people searching Gooble and other engines for information on the hoax details on this story, so their only hits were on sites that both talked about this real life situation, and some unrelated hoaxes.

3:07:23 PM