Autodesk's founder reports gross errors by Limbaugh, CNN, Snopes (Remember "Columbia's Last Photo?")

Interesting-people.org | March 29, 2003 | John Walker

[Middle Man]

Still a neat image, much like those with Janet Reno's head grafted to a Mr. America torso.

[aruanan]

Autodesk's founder reports gross errors by Limbaugh, CNN, Snopes (Remember "Columbia's Last Photo?")

Someone who thinks this a "gross error" is the same kind of person who thinks his hangnail will be the death of him. He needs to get a little perspective.

[aruanan]

Don't most scientists rely on grant money supplied by We the People to perform their work?

That's "...by Us the People...."

[SunkenCiv]

Note -- this topic is from nearly three years ago.

I've visited the Snopes site several times over the last few years, generally from links in mail and news discussions and, while there's nothing explicitly bogus about the site, there's something about the tone which I've found consistently off-putting. It's reminiscent of the too-smug, overly-glib style of the Skeptical Inquirer which caused me to let my subscription lapse in the early 80's and, perhaps, set in motion my long migration from CSICOP to Psi-perp... Unlike NASA, they did not identify the source (although it had been identified on newsgroups long before Snopes posted this article), and the Snopes commentary itself contains two or three factual errors, depending on how you read it, and misses three of the most obvious things which identify the picture as not taken from Columbia.

[rimshot!]