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'Facebook Shutting Down' and 3 Other Rumors About the Site
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsLet's just be clear: Facebook is not shutting down. A ridiculous rumor began circulating over the weekend that the Internet's premier social network will be closing up shop on March 15, 2011. And while, hypothetically speaking, pulling the plug on Facebook would be a fascinating experiment in drastically altering how people communicate, the company denies it has any plans to stop operating. According to one theory, the rumor is the result of a satirical article published by tabloid site the Weekly World News. Mashable reached out to Facebook Director of Corporate Communications Larry Yu, who ...
Massive Art Forgery Scandal Unravels in Germany
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Nov. 8) -- If Thomas Crown had been an acid-dealing hippie instead of a billionaire, this might be his story. New details are emerging about Wolfgang Beltracchi, the mysterious figure at the center of German history's largest art-forgery scandal, Der Spiegel reports. Described as a "luxury hippie," Beltracchi spent time throwing lavish theme parties, attempting to to direct movies and living on a commune in Morocco. In his earlier days, he sold drugs to American soldiers on military bases. But Beltracchi was also a gifted artist who was able to paint from memory. He was described by a ...
'Balloon Boy' Anniversary: Lesson Learned?
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Oct. 14) -- Rewind to one year ago: We watched, transfixed, as a giant silver balloon hurtled across the sky, chased by aircraft and vehicles on the ground. Inside was an undoubtedly terrified 6-year-old boy. The nation held its breath. And then exhaled in a giant sigh of disgust as it slowly became clear the whole episode was a giant hoax, perpetrated by the boy's parents, who'd launched an unmanned -- or un-boyed in this case -- Mylar bag toward Denver International Airport and then called authorities. And the media. With the first anniversary Friday of that cringe-inducing ...
A UFO Picture Worth More Than 1,000 Words
By Lee Speigel - AOL News(Aug. 25) -- I read with great interest on Friday David Corn's column in which he wonders, with all the recent technological advances and availability of new photographic and video equipment, why "no one captured clear and unambiguous evidence of UFOs from outer space." That may not be entirely true, and maybe this galactic burst of billions of devices that enable people around the world to more readily capture things on pixels and videotape doesn't necessarily mean they'll have more opportunities to photograph a mothership from another world. Corn refers to the recent UFO sightings in China ...
NYC Sidewalk Gag Old News to Veteran Prankster
By David Moye - AOL News(May 24) -- The old phrase "What goes around comes around" is a fairly accepted axiom, but it doesn't always work for pranks -- or for the pranksters. Recently, an anonymous prankster in New York City decided to express distaste for slow tourists who dawdle on sidewalks by painting a line down the middle of a Fifth Avenue sidewalk between East 22nd and 23rd streets. NY Post / Splash News A separate lane for tourists? For frustrated New Yorkers, it might seem like a good idea. Instead, it's just an old joke. The result was two lanes of traffic, one marked specifically for locals who need to ...
Prank Group Stages Fake Chamber of Commerce Event
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce has had a rough few weeks, taking public heat from the White House, organized labor and even its own members. Now, the venerable business group is making unwanted headlines again after what are thought to be members of the activist prankster group The Yes Men posed as Chamber officials and staged a fake policy event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The shenanigans began this morning when an email blast that looked remarkably like a regular Chamber email briefing went out to members of the press announcing that the group had caved to pressure and ...
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