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April Fools Day Prank Picked Up by CNET

April 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments

Today, I was pleasantly surprised to find my 2008 April Fools Day prank — concocted several weeks ago and posted early this morning at Bob McCarty Writes — mentioned in an article published at the CNET News Blog. Writer Jonathan Skilling began his piece, All the April Fools’ news that’s fit to print, with this [...]

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Americans Urged to ‘Tune In’ Before Next Terror Strike

August 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment

On October 30, 1938, Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast a radio drama based upon the H.G. Wells’ novel, War of the Worlds. The fictitious program’s storyline — about an alien invasion of Earth — genuinely frightened many Americans. Among the most frightened, however, were those people who had either tuned in to the broadcast [...]

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