5 May
2003
5 May
'03
7:55 p.m.
On Sun, 4 May 2003, Adam Shostack wrote:
I think it was Vinge who said that reality is getting ahead of an author's ability to invent it.
"There is a fine line between insanity and parody and he has erased that line." - Quote refering to Scott Lively, a member of the Oregon Citizen's Alliance, who claimed that gays were responsible for the Holocaust. Part of perpetrating an effective hoax is presenting absurd ideas in a manner that people want to believe. The problem is that every once in a while the people you are attacking with the hoax will make a statement so far off the edge of reality that nothing you can come up with could match it. "Loyalty Day" fits that category quite well.