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Imaginative and spoof sites useful for promoting critical thinking about the truthfulness of information found on the Internet.

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• Alek's Christmas Lights Webcam

  http://www.komar.org/xmas/hoax/
  Control 17,000 Christmas lights via the web [Contains fictitious information.]

• Alex Chiu's Eternal Life Device

  http://www.alexchiu.com/
  Information about immortality rings. [Contains fictitious information]

• Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie

  http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
  Information about psychotronic mind control blockage using an Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie. [Contains fictitious information.]

• BBC News: Blondes 'To Die Out in 200 Years'

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2284783.stm
  Natural blondes are an endangered species and will die out by 2202, a study suggests. [Contains fictitious information]

• Buy Dehydrated Water

  http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/
  Information, store, and consumer testimonials. [Contains fictitious information]

• Crystal Spirit Wolf Runner

  http://members.tripod.com/TopCat4/crystal.htm
  A discussion of the 'discovery' of true Indian spirituality. [Contains fictitious information]

• Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division

  http://www.dhmo.org/
  The controversy and dangers of this widespread and potentially deadly chemical element. [Also known as water].

• Dog Island

  http://www.thedogisland.com/
  Information on a tropical island for dogs. [Contains fictitious information.]

• Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency

  http://www.fvza.org/
  Government agency responsible for controlling the nation's vampire and zombie populations. [Contains fictitious information]

• Floral Sculpture Clinic

  http://www.floralsculptureclinic.nl/
  Bio-ceramic cosmetic jewelry skeletal implants. [Contains fictitious information.]

• Genochoice

  http://www.genochoice.com/
  Genetics company selling the perfect offspring. [Contains fictitious information].

• Global Monetary

  http://www.idchip.com/s1/entry.htm
  Get a permanent IDchip implanted under your skin. [Contains fictitious information]

• Havidol

  http://www.havidol.com/
  Spoof pharmaceutical site for the treatment of "Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder".

• Hetracil.com

  http://www.hetracil.com/
  Hetracil is the world's most widely prescribed anti-effinate. [contains fictitious information]

• LASIK@Home

  http://www.lasikathome.com/
  Information on a home eye laser kit. [Contains fictitious information]

• Mankato, Minnesota

  http://descy.50megs.com/mankato/mankato.html
  Tour the underwater city, and learn how "the winter temperature in many Mankato neighborhoods has never dropped below a balmy 70 degrees." [Contains fictitious information].

• Microsoft Linux

  http://www.mslinux.org/
  News and features of the product for business or desktop uses. [Contains fictitious information]

• Microsoft Plans Toilets With Web Access

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1041_3-999509.html
  Article reporting that Microsoft is developing public toilets with Internet access. [Contains fictitious information]

• Minnesota Coconut Growers

  http://umclibrary.crk.umn.edu/MCG/coconut.htm
  Brief information about coconut production in the state of Minnesota. [Contains fictitious information]

• Petrol Direct

  http://www.petroldirect.com/
  Mail-order retailer of petroleum products. [Contains fictitious information]

• Primate Programming Inc.

  http://www.newtechusa.com/ppi/main.asp
  Dedicated to the advancement and gainful employment of non-human great apes within the United States information technology sector. [Contains fictitious information.]

• Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

  http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
  Information about this endangered creature and what can be done to save it. [Contains fictitious information]

• The First Human Male Pregnancy

  http://www.malepregnancy.com/
  Documentary on "the first human male to ever birth a baby from his own body." [Contains fictitious information].

• The Ova Prima Foundation

  http://www.ovaprima.org/
  It is the foundation's primary objective to continue to build a body of scientific evidence that will shed light on the egg-and-chicken controversy. [Contains fictitious information.]

• Visit Exciting Fredericton

  http://descy.50megs.com/descy/webcred/webcred/Fredericton.html
  "Fredericton is fast becoming the milk- and knowledge-based centre of Atlantic Canada." Town history, points of interest, businesses and accommodations, and the town crest. [Contains fictitious information.]

• Waterfall 2006

  http://www.waterfall2006.com/
  Program information for the "International Conference on Sequential Development." [Contains fictitious information]

• World Jump Day

  http://www.venehammerschlag.com/worldjumpday/
  Information on a plan to alter Earth's orbit by multiple people jumping. [Contains fictitious information]

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