Thursday, October 26, 2006

fact vs. fiction

Let's take a moment to seperate the wheat from the chaffe in the blogosphere today ...

Curbed follows up on the hipster homeowning howto session to report on all the deluded would-be real estate buyers it created.
Hipsters Get Schooled, Lied To [curbed]

I've been researching Parkinson's quite a bit these past few days (due to an extended family member's diagnosis) so I find this Rush Limbaugh thing to be eerily timely in addition to disgusting and offensive. But I still couldn't resist watching the video of his immitation today -- I'd previously only heard the audio. Go Rush. what a scumbag.
Olbermann Gives Us The Visual To Limbaugh’s Attack On Michael J. Fox [crooks and liars]

popbitch made this claim today in its email:
The word trivia comes from the Latin tri + via =
three streets. In ancient Rome an information
booth was situated where three streets met
which reference.com contradicts in its etymology of trivial.

Falsities abound as the email went on to cite OJ Simpson's new alleged hypothetical confession book ... which turns out to be a hoax.

And the Observer reports on this fascinating little technique the Times is using to distinguish objective and subjective reportage. This seems like something I would've heard about from kottke ... but alas, this is via the 37signals blog.
Times Draws Ragged Line Between Fact and Opinion [observer]

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