Another great day for the internet..
Man, lots of really good stuff today, so let’s start off with the best:
The top 100 April Fool’s Day hoaxes of all time. Including this great one from the BBC. And then there’s this:
In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch and he could reportedly throw a baseball with startling, pinpoint accuracy at 168 mph (65 mph faster than anyone else has ever been able to throw a ball). Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the “art of the pitch” in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the “great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa.” Mets fans everywhere celebrated at their teams’s amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. But in reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the writer of the article, George Plimpton.
A collection of The last photos you’ll ever take.
Here’s a pretty wild looking game. It’s like Scorched Earth but you play against people on the internet.
The top 20 cartoon characters most suspected of rampant drug use.
Weegee’s world. A good oldish photographer.
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