Last week, dozens of sites picked up a story that appeared under the headline: Man surgically alters thumbs to better use Apple iPhone.
Unfortunately the humour seems to have been far too subtle for most sites, and the MacDailyNews doesn't just swallow something that is obviously nonsense, it adds: "The article is dated August 8th, not April 1st -- that was the first thing we checked."
The last thing too, apparently.
Now an Editor's note on the North Denver News site has finally told the gullible that the story "represents satirical social commentary". It says:
Among the points of the piece: that U.S. society accepts plastic surgery and decorative deformation of the human body for vanity, but not other reasons (consider the Bonds steroid stories); that technology has become a new cult phenomena, in which items are praised or ridiculed based upon tribal allegiances instead of functionality and performance (and we are members of the Cult of the Mac -- iPhone division); and we like to pretend that some of our writers have a sense of humor. .
