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snopes.com's David Mikkelson Interviewed

pipingguy writes "Online Journalism Review interviews David Mikkelson of the Urban Legends Reference Pages. While the Internet has taken its share of knocks for helping scammers perpetrate e-mail and Web hoaxes (the Bambi hunt reportedly was staged to sell videos on the proprietor's Web site), not enough credit is given to the folks who are using the Internet to debunk them. Snopes.com is the work of the husband-and-wife team of David and Barbara Mikkelson, who have taken their passion for urban myths to the Web since 1995."

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    Just had a glance at HPcalc.org, and noticed that specifications for a new calculator, the HP49G+ are up. There's been talk that HP is releasing a new super calc, and this seems to be it.

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  4. Your campaign page is down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Re:Debunking snopes.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lol, nice troll.

    the link is to an animated gif of two guys having sex. so unless you're gay (like me :> ) then you probably won't enjoy it.

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  9. Parent posted URL http://www.hick.org/goat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Follow at u'r own risk.

    1. Re:Parent posted URL http://www.hick.org/goat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Parent's Slashdot comment URL is http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=73364&cid=6598 051. Read at your own risk!

  10. Fifteen blows to the back of your head by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  11. Why don't you assholes just stop it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sick of all the ACs posting gay/goat sex links. JUST FUCK OFF, THE LOT OF YOU.

  12. Re:Debunking snopes.com by integral_anomaly · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Actually, that's not two guys having sex. If you look closely, you see that the one on top is actually a chick wearing a strap-on (see the 'tan line'? that's the strap).

    So that's actually a guy having anal sex with a chick who's wearing a strap-on.

    Same difference though. Any guy that plays hide the salami in some chick's poop chute is a closet homo, regardless of what he says.

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  15. Re:Debunking snopes.com by Tuxinatorium · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    umm no, both of them are most definitely male. I don't see any signs otherwise in either of them. The top one just has smaller balls. he's getting fucked in the ASS, doesntr have a vagina

  16. YOU FAIL IT by Tuxinatorium · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I posted my troll LOGGED IN TO MY ACCOUNT with the +1 bonus from excessive good karma (mostly from good karma whoring)

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