MacJournals

Ignore any story whose headline ends with a question mark, or attributes the information to a “report.”

The former means the author is just making up stuff about a rumor; the latter means the author is just repeating a rumor. In both cases, the story is extremely unlikely to contain any actual news, facts, or analysis based in reality.

We’re seriously considering concocting an AppleScript for NetNewsWire that simply marks all such articles as “read” just to get them out of the way. Try ignoring them—it makes reading news much faster, and you don’t lose any information!

Philip Elmer-DeWitt, yesterday:

Forgive me if you’ve already seen this—and nearly a quarter million people already have, according to YouTube—but I just stumbled across this video and thought I’d share it on what’s shaping up as a slow day for Apple news.

If you live and work “outside the reality distortion field,” why do you need to find something to post when you freely admit there is no news that’s worthy of your readers’ time?

You’d think it would be impossible to run out of poorly sourced rumors to pontificate about over the cracker barrel, but there ya go.