Did you and/or your friends hear that July 5, 2010 — also known as "yesterday" — was one of the target dates for Back To The Future's time-traveling DeLorean? Well, don't worry if you didn't, because it's not true — not even for those late-aughts-produced DirecTV ads that starred Christopher Lloyd. This little bit of misinformation (complete with misleading Photoshop!) was apparently hatched by TotalFilm and turned into an Internet Holiday Wildfire (that's still burning, thanks to a follow-up Photoshop that changed the DeLorean's date to July 6!) thanks to the killer combination of that site's Twitter account having almost 30,000 followers and people not really double-checking [...]

The Huffington Post launched its New York section on June 22. Now we hear that, only three weeks in, the site's editor, Dan Collins, is leaving his job. Dan Collins, a noted author (you should read Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11!) and also the husband of New York Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins, is remaining as a New York Editor-At-Large. We hear Katharine Zaleski will be the interim editor. Do you know more? You're absolutely welcome to email us in confidence. UPDATE: As a matter of fact, David Weiner is taking over as the New York site editor. He has a [...]

You may have seen some news concerning French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, who are supposedly both having affairs (perhaps delivered with the headline, "French People Being French"). How did this fascinating story become a worldwide sensation?

I'd be happy to be wrong, because it would be pretty crazy, but rumors that Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro are planning a remake of Taxi Driver with Lars von Trier should be viewed with extreme skepticism if not outright disbelief. Here are some words and phrases that might help you reach the same conclusion: "it is being suggested," "is said to be," "remains to be seen," "he may now feel," "neither confirmed nor denied," "Lars von Trier," and "the prospect… has been discussed enthusiastically."