David Mikkelson
David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994 as a creative outgrowth of his wide-ranging interests in a variety of subjects (particularly folklore) and his professional expertise in the computer industry. Handling everything from researching and writing articles about urban legends to managing the site’s technical infrastructure, David saw snopes.com (which antedated the development of automated search engines) quickly become the go-to place for Internet users to query about anything questionable they encountered online, establishing it as the oldest and best known online fact-checking outlet operating today. David’s educational background includes a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas (San Antonio) and about a zillion course hours of post-graduate classes at California State University Northridge taken with no particular degree program in mind. His previous employment encompassed stints with the News-Chronicle (newspaper), Teledyne Electronics, USPS, JPL, Digital Equipment Corporation, Rocketdyne, and Health Net (HMO).
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 20, 2007
Video shows a television reporter being run over by a car.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 19, 2007
According to a popular presentation, eagles extend their lifespans by removing their beaks, talo ...
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Dec. 17, 2007
Did Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap's memoirs pin U.S. defeat in Vietnam on American anti-war ...
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Dec. 16, 2007
Are gang initiates in the Dallas area knocking on doors and shooting whoever answers.
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Dec. 13, 2007
Has Santa's 'Ho Ho Ho' been changed to 'Ha Ha Ha' because women felt insulted by it?
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Dec. 12, 2007
Prayers requested for child named Ivory Watts, who was seriously injured in go-cart accident?
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Dec. 11, 2007
Are thieves at shopping malls placing sharpened spikes up against the tires of shoppers' vehicles?
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Dec. 8, 2007
Credit card users are eligible $25 refunds from the settlement of a class action suit.
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Dec. 8, 2007
Rumor: Donald Trump left a Buffalo Club waiter a $10,000 tip.
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Dec. 7, 2007
E-mail memorializes the shaken baby death of 3-month-old London Marie Sherwood.
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Dec. 6, 2007
Can e-mailed '12 Days of Whataburger' coupons be redeemed for free food items at Whataburger out ...
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Dec. 5, 2007
No prankery on the part of animators is needed to explain this imagery.
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Dec. 5, 2007
Video clip shows a mid-1960s imagining of what technology would be like in the year 1999.
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Dec. 3, 2007
Imagine a disk drive that weighed over a ton but stored only 5MB of data.
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Nov. 29, 2007
Photographs show human remains discovered inside a crocodile.
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Nov. 29, 2007
Did Rapper 50 Cent undergo emergency surgery to reattach a severed hand?
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Nov. 27, 2007
Television news coverage of the 2007 Malibu fire supposedly displayed some risqué closed captioning.
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Nov. 26, 2007
Is Actor Christopher Walken planning on making a bid for the U.S. presidency in 2008?
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Nov. 26, 2007
Will MySpace start charging users $22.50 per month in 2009?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 25, 2007 (Updated: Nov. 21, 2017)
Is the Monday after Thanksgiving the busiest online shopping day of the year?
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