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« Defending Charles Dodgson | Main | Carnage and celebrity » Thursday, April 19, 2007Checking the checkersI've flogged this before, but I must emphasize my love for the comics at xkcd.com. The mind behind them, Randall Munroe, is, according to the site, just this guy, you know? I'm a CNU graduate with a degree in physics. I live in Virginia, where I until recently worked on robots at the NASA Langley Research Center (which is in Southeastern VA, not Langley). In my spare time I climb things, open strange doors, and go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat parties I do the same thing, but the other way around. Today Munroe takes a look at snopes.com, the fact-checker of urban legends. This site has been around for years and occasionally blips on the national radar with a particularly difficult debunking successfully executed. Sometimes snopes.com confirms widespread rumors, but mostly they find out they're false. Anyway, here's here's the newest comic, both paranoid and a spoof of paranoia:
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