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<p><P>Can you grow a bonsai kitten? Should you stock up on dehydrated water? Is it easy to order human-flavored tofu? Or is this all just B.S.?<P>In a world of lip synching, breast implants, payola punditry, and staged reality shows, it's hard to know the real from the fake. Hippo Eats Dwarf is the essential field guide to today's Misinformation Age. Whether you're deciphering political doublespeak or trying to decide whether to forward that virus warning, hoaxpert Alex Boese provides the guidelines you need. For instance, Reality Rule 6.1&#58; Just because you read it on the Internet doesn't make it true.<P>With case files, reality checks, definitions, and plenty of doctored photos, Hippo Eats Dwarf is an entertaining guide to life, death, eBay, and everything in between.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>Hoaxes are but one tile in the vast mosaic of mis- and disinformation detailed in this delicious compendium of fakery. The ones that Boese offers are a far cry from the classic deceptions spotlighted in his previous The Museum of Hoaxes; they're mainly smirky Internet pranks, like a fake CNN.com news report that fellatio protects against breast cancer. But Boese finds inexhaustib

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Author

Boese, Alex

Publisher

Harcourt, Inc.; Harcourt

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780156030830

Category

humor

Subjects

Computer Science, History, Fiction

Rating

3.58 / 5 (306 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14