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18:15 - IHBT. IHL. HAND.
http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2002/04/20020423140855.shtml
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According to this AppleLinks article, the now-infamous "Macs are Satan's Computers" article from a couple of days ago was a troll after all. A very, very elaborate and well-done hoax.
As you will recall, I did express my suspicion that it was a troll before I even launched into my anti-religious tirade. After all, I'd recently been baited (unsuccessfully, but still) into falling for the "TruthMedia" review of The Fellowship of the Ring over at SomethingAwful.com, and I wasn't about to bite this time unless it really seemed genuine. And it did.
But apparently it's not. And this isn't even yet known for sure, because Applelinks' conclusion comes mostly from analysis and context and intuition, not from any well-hidden admission of guilt somewhere. After all, the site is huge for a hoax. It's extremely well put-together. And hey, what do I know about how to tell an actual religious zealot from a parody of one?
If it's a hoax, I doff my hat-- but you know, I'm still not going to retract the posts I put up in response to it. I've seen plenty of propaganda that's no less funky than this, produced by people every bit as wacked-out as the author of this one seemed to be, and my comments addressed to them remain. Frankly, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if there were thousands of fundies who did write in about that page with shock and horror over the hellspawn computers they'd been suckered into buying.
Heh. I knew there had to be something of a clue in the fact that my e-mail to the guy bounced.
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