Know Your Hoaxes

With silliness running riot at ScienceBlogs, it's more important than ever to keep your fraud-detection skills sharp. Thankfully, the BBC is here to help, with a list of real news stories that sound like they might be hoaxes (via Making Light).

Unfortunately, they're mostly not very funny. A couple are just lame celebrity trivia. But it's the thought that counts.

(As far as actual hoax posts go, I sort of like jefitoblog's Idiot's Guide to Kenny G ("Is it his mellifluous playing or the beautiful songs that make the record so great? Heck, that's easy: Both!"). April Fool posts in general tend toward the depressingly lame, though. Dying is easy, comedy is hard.)