Fact Checking (Lack of!)

Some people don't bother to check facts, do they?

A couple of years ago I put up a web page about the ficticious death metal band �ml��t as part of an on-line Call of Cthulhu game in which I was playing at the time. Part of the back-story featured the gruesome murder of one member of the band.

Looking at my web site access statistics recently I found references to my site from something other than the usual phoenyxs, googles and yahoos, so I investigate the site. It turns out my spoof web page had been taken as genuine, and my dead NPC is listed on a The Dead Rock Stars page alongside Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain - See it at users.efortress.com/doc-rock/1995.html

Of course, the band have been recyled into a different game, the said member is not due to die until some time in 2003, and I updated the page to reflect this.

Posted by TimHall at March 18, 2002 10:10 PM

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