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Author: Ken Newquist

Killer Spiders Stalk Airplanes, Restaurants

January 7, 2003 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings, Hoaxes

Forget about faulty wings and bad engines — the “killer spiders on airplanes” hoax wants you to believe that scary South American arachnids are preying on our friends in Chicago. Here’s the original e-mail: WARNING An article by Dr. Beverly[…]

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Atheist Forces Touched by an Angel Cancellation

January 1, 2003 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings, Hoaxes

Has the dead hand of a notorious atheist succeeded in getting the federal government to ban the word “God” from America’s airways, thus forcing CBS to cancel Touched by an Angel? In a word, no. This hoax has been circulating[…]

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DC Hypertime HeroClix Whomps the Competition

December 23, 2002 Ken Newquist Game Reviews, Games, Miniature Game Reviews

DC HeroClix: Hypertime builds on WizKids Games’ success with Marvel HeroClix: Infinity Challenge, adding some of the biggest names in the DC universe to the game’s superhero fray. As with Marvel HeroClix (read my review of the initial release in[…]

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MonkeyMan935 Stalks Women Online

December 23, 2002 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings, Hoaxes

The SlaveMaster e-mail has returned to stalk the Internet, this time donning the persona of “MonkeyMan935” in an attempt to scare uninformed men and women. Like its predecessor, the MonkeyMan935 e-mail is a hoax. To date, we’ve captured two versions[…]

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Reader Damns Consumerism, Christmas Trees

December 20, 2002 Ken Newquist Blog, Commentary

With my Thanksgiving editorial, I urged people to piss off a liberal and buy something on Black Friday. And amazingly enough, it worked! In an e-mail succinctly entitled Go To Hell Kenneth an irate reader took me to task for[…]

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Explore Frodo’s World with the Guide to Middle Earth 2003 Calendar

December 18, 2002 Ken Newquist Books & Print

Once some fans encounter J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth, they never truly leave it, choosing instead to keep exploring the myriad, mystical depths of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The rest of us though, could use some help staying in touch[…]

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Coca-Cola Promises Free Soda for Forwarding E-mail

December 18, 2002 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings, Hoaxes

Why buy the world a Coke, when you can just forward an e-mail? That question’s at the heart of an e-mail hoax that promises free cola for fowarding a certain e-mail around the Net. Here’s the original e-mail: Date Captured:[…]

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Thirty-One and Still a Geek

December 17, 2002 Ken Newquist Blog

Well, it’s official. I’m 31. Doesn’t seem all that different from 30, aside from that whole “one year older” thing, and even that’s not a big deal. I may be a year older, but I’m also a year closer to[…]

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Thoughts on Fading Suns d20

December 12, 2002 Ken Newquist Games

After years of talking about it, we finally ran our first game of Fading Suns last week. It was a Wednesday night session run by one of the guys in my gaming group, Damon Agretto, in his first outing as[…]

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Sick Little Rachel Hoax Promises Money from AOL, ZDnet

December 11, 2002 Ken Newquist Hoax Debunkings, Hoaxes

An e-mail claiming to be raising money to save a kid dying of brain cancer claims you don’t have a heart if you delete the message (no doubt it will have been stolen by a rampaging band of kidney thieves[…]

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Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that’s been published continuously since 1996.

It’s publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.

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