“More than 500 years ago, when the Spanish Conquistadors landed in what is now Mexico, they encountered natives practicing a ritual that seemed to mock death.
It was a ritual the indigenous people had been practicing at least 3,000 years. A ritual the Spaniards would try unsuccessfully to eradicate.
A ritual known today as Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. “
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Since its debut and unvailing its product line, Libermann Inc. has recieved a spark of controversy over the legitimacy of the business. The site spotlights hardware that certainly evokes professionalism in its keenest sense. From the laptops to the desktop configurations, everything screams style. Especially the embedded ‘L’ logo which according to their site is “carved by nature for millions of years, then individually sculpted and crafted by hand into the shape that makes our trademark so unique.”
Why then, if the legitimacy hangs loosely in the air has Libermann been featured on MacCentral as “top prize” or Forbes — if in reality it’s actually a hoax?
plex.us explains their theory and investigates what they call a hoax:
bq. “On September 22, 2003 I was first made aware of this company’s (fictitious) display product known as the Grand Canyon. I looked briefly at the press release on their site and thought: ‘oh that’s cool, but too exotic for me.’ On Thursday the 25th, I somehow got the idea that there was a controversy over the legitimacy of Liebermann, Inc. I went back to their site, and went to their home page for the first time. I was immediately suspicious and, with Steve’s help, we pieced together a lot of the scam that evening. Aside from outlandish claims, general unrealism and a broken e-commerce system, there were numerous other discrepancies contained within their site. Most surprisingly and amusingly, several Mac news sites, and even Forbes.com were befooled by this hoax — and continue to believe that it’s real. [Forbes has since come to its senses.]“
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Could you ever imagine a Batman film as directed by Orson Welles? How about James Cagney as the Riddler or George Raft as Two Face? Some might call this ludicrous and others might proclaim genius. The same man who adapted H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds to radio (and frightened thousands of listeners across the Nation) might very well have breathed new life into this comic book character.
According to comicbookresources.com:
bq. “Orson Welles seriously considered doing a Batman picture and even got as far as production designs, an early draft of a script and some casting photographs featuring various friends and colleagues in prototypes of what would eventually become the finished costumes.” (link)
Many of us remember the movie, A Beautiful Mind, winning Best Picture of the Year in the Academy Awards in 2002. However, what most people don’t realize (or the ones I’ve talked to) is that the real John F. Nash, Jr. is somewhat different from the character of the same name in the movie depiction of his life.
For instance, many of the sequences in the movie were exaggerated for the typical Hollywood effect of instilling emotion and drama within a 2-hour time frame. The movie was inspired of course by the life of John Nash as written in the biography “A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash” by author Sylvia Nasar.
However, a man’s life is best told through his own words:
My beginning as a legally recognized individual occurred on June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia, in the Bluefield Sanitarium, a hospital that no longer exists. Of course I can’t consciously remember anything from the first two or three years of my life after birth. (And, also, one suspects, psychologically, that the earliest memories have become “memories of memories” and are comparable to traditional folk tales passed on by tellers and listeners from generation to generation.) But facts are available when direct memory fails for many circumstances.” (John F. Nash, Jr.)