Reuters is reporting that The Beijing Evening News has printed an article from The Onion, believing it to be true.
(Via K5)
Update: This is everywhere!
Update 14th June: The Beijing Evening News has now retracted the story, but clearly hasn't got the whole idea - "Some small American newspapers frequently fabricate offbeat news to trick people into noticing them, with the aim of making money, this is what the Onion does. According to congressional workers, the Onion is a publication that never ceases making up false reports," it writes. Sigh.
Elvis Detector
The First Church of Jesus Christ, Elvis
Elvis shot J.F.K.
"From: I could tell you@forward1.us.inter.net, but I'd have to kill you.@surecom.com
To: E-mail: nbonaparte@jokewallpaper.com
Subject: Elvis/Kennedy Similarities
I've been digging around in the online references and have found some startling similarities between John Kennedy and Elvis Presley. Let me illuminate you...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy has three names.
Elvis Aron Presley also has three names.
Both names are, amazingly, comprised of consonants AND vowels.
Kennedy was born in 1917, and died in 1963.
Elvis was born in 1935, and died in 1977.
All 4 years have EXACTLY 4 digits.
Kennedy was 'The President'.
Elvis was 'The King'.
Kennedy commanded a PT-Boat in the Pacific for the Navy.
Elvis drove a truck in West Germany for the Army.
Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln.
Lincoln was the name of the President during the Civil War.
During the Civil War, there was Colonels.
'The Colonel' was the nick-name of Elvis's manager, Tom Parker.
Kennedy married a woman named Jacqueline Bouvier.
She later remarried a Greek named Onassis, one of the richest men in the world.
Elvis married a woman named Priscilla Beaulieu.
Their daughter married a geek named Jackson, one of the richest uh... PERSONs in the world. Jackson was also Greek... at heart. (i.e.: he liked little boys)
Kennedy approved the 'Bay of Pigs' invasion.
Elvis regularly invaded Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Kennedy's face is stamped into the American Half-Dollar.
Elvis's face is tatooed on some white-trash woman's fat ass in Mississippi.
And the most startling coincidence of all...
Kennedy died in DALLAS.
Elvis died on the TOILET."
From Elvis shot J.F.K. - brilliant!
And all this from the first page of links!
You've heard of The Sims? Now play The Osbournes!
One of the biggest changes in Python 2.2 so far as I was concerned was the introduction of iterators and simple generators.
These allow some very elegant solutions to problems involving the processing of generated sequences. David Mertz has an interesting article explaining Iterators and simple generators on the developerWorks site, and another explaining how to use them to implement very lightweight threads.
The first version of AMK's What's New in Python 2.3 document is out.
AMK puts out one of these per Python release, and they contain everything that you need to know to upgrade. Well, they contain everything that I need to know, at any rate.
The new enumerate() Built-in Function looks dead handy, and the new optional argument for the strip methods is my feature request! Cool!
Universal newline support looks good too, thought I haven't had a problem with this myself. I'm pretty much +0 on the bool type.
400times has a review of Linoma Software's RPGToolBox.
SEU sucks. This looks like it will make it suck less hard.
But never mind that - check out the menu applet on the review page!