Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...WITH SWEEPS UNDERWAY, NETWORKS ASK RUNAWAY BRIDE TO RUN AWAY AGAIN" --Fake news headline from THE BOROWITZ REPORT...
...Yahoo! is all about the people," says Caterina Fake, co-founder of the wildly successful photo-sharing site Flickr, which Yahoo! purchased last year. Flickr symbolizes the Yahoo! approach. Its collection of tens of millions of photos is all user generated and user cataloged. Participants themselves "tag" the pictures by typing in keywords that let others search the photos. Yahoo! last year also acquired del.icio.us, a social-bookmarking website that lets users share their favorite sites, music and other findings--allowing others to effectively look over their shoulders to find interesting stuff. "We're applying the wisdom of the crowds...
...comparison to the relatively sober 2002 winter games in Salt Lake, where a solemn ceremony began with the display of a tattered American flag recovered from the wreckage of the World Trade Center. The production had surprising lulls, though, such as the boring balloon heads who followed the fake cows pulled by waltzers in Holsteinesque spotted costumes on the white-floored performance ring, which the choregraphers called a mosh pit (piazzetta). Actually, according to the Opening? Ceremonies Media Guide, a fat 68 pages in both English and Italian, those were not technically "balloon heads." They were 50 snow women, "symbolizing...
Xiao admitted he was initially skeptical. “I thought it was going to be fake, but it’s very useful,” he said...
...forcing senior forward Mike Beal to move from his favored position as a slashing-and-rebounding small forward back to running the offense at the point. “We knew they liked to block shots, so our key was to get it down low, give them a pump fake and go through them,” Cornell forward Jason Hartford said of Stehle and Cusworth. “That’s what we tried doing all night, [and it] paid off down the stretch.”Even with the three foul-outs, coach Sullivan and the players...