6 posts tagged with conspiracy by brownpau.
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When Ron Paul email spam started hitting inboxes in late October, UAB Computer Forensics Directory Gary Warner published findings on the spam's textual patterns and the illicit botnet used to spread it -- findings which were picked up by media outlets and tech websites like Salon, Ars Technica, and Wired Magazine's "Threat Level" blog, the latter in a set of followup posts by writer Sarah Stirland: 1, 2, 3. [more inside]
posted by brownpau
on Nov 5, 2007 -
306 comments
NASA and the Mars Bunny. I first heard about it from our own kokogiak. Then the conspiracy theorists: "They're destroying the evidence!" But now NASA has come out to tell us, "It's probably just airbag material."
posted by brownpau
on Mar 5, 2004 -
17 comments
How to be an Internet Woo-woo. From fake moon landings and mystery lights to Roswell Rods and Grey Aliens,
the Woo-woo Credo gives you the lowdown on being an effective conspiracy theory monger.
posted by brownpau
on Jan 15, 2004 -
11 comments
Most of us were expecting that astronomers would discover a tenth planet and name it Persephone. A mostly harmless author preferred Rupert. One clique of New Age doomsayers claims that it is "Nibiru," or "Planet X,", which will come in 2003 to wreak havoc and usher in a new era under (I kid you not) our new alien overlords. Well, hang it all. Planet #9.5 has been discovered, and they called it "Quaoar." And I think Pluto is pissed.
posted by brownpau
on Oct 7, 2002 -
41 comments
Whoops, turns out it wasn't Bin Laden who planned 9/11 after all; it was KOLVENBACH, THE BLACK POPE!!! Dispensational Fifth Monarchy Seventh-Day Baptist-Calvinist White American Freeman anti-Jesuit conspiracies, anyone?
posted by brownpau
on Nov 28, 2001 -
24 comments
The next person who quotes Nostradamus at me today is going to get yelled at.
posted by brownpau
on Sep 13, 2001 -
14 comments
