PAULA NEAL MOONEY

by Paula Neal Mooney MC Hammer dead ? Did MC Hammer / Stanley Kirk Burrell really die ? Folks are wondering about new MC Hammer death rumors that just hit the net. Here's the supposed report being circulated about how MC Hammer allegedly died : "MC Hammer dead .......RIP MC Hammer (Kirk Burrell), Pop Rap icon of the 90's , passed away today in a Baltimore hospital room outside a Tribe Called Quest show in New Jersey last night, the singer was struck by a car passing by the front of the Ventura Theatre. Brunswick police say that the driver allegedly stopped, but then fled the scene. There is now a police investigation underway. Hammer was rushed to St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, where he was pronounced dead this morning at 6am. This is a tragedy for the underground music as a whole." But let's look at the evidence that suggests the MC Hammer (nee Stanley Kirk Burrell) died rumors are just that, rumors: Google News has no reports of MC Hammer's alleged death...

by Paula Neal Mooney MarryOurDaughter.com Here we go with another weird website that bills itself as "an introduction service assisting those following the Biblical tradition of arranging marriages for their daughters..." First of all, it's not MarryMyDaughter.com -- that appears to just be a parked page. But the web site in question wherein supposedly real parents ask people to "marry my / our daughter" looks like a crazy hoax scam designed to draw fake outrage. The sign up page on MarryOurDaughter.com doesn't work, thankfully, so it screams scam. Snopes is leaning towards calling the Marry Our Daughter site a big hoax . Techies are busy digging up the WhoIs info to find out who registered the MarryOurDaughter.com domain name , and writing about who saw Google Adsense ads on the site at one time or another -- and wondering if the marry-off-your-daughter site is a sting operation. I doubt that last idea. The cops usually have (or are in need of) a lot mor...

by Paula Neal Mooney There was a certain photographer (who shall still remain nameless as long as he no longer bugs me 'cause I'm not trying to completely ruin his life) that contacted me with an over-inflated invoice because I'd attached a pic he took to one of my articles. He'd displayed it on the web without those cool logos that legit places like Big Stock Photo splash across their copyrighted pics, so I considered it fair game... Anyway, after I got Mr. Shady Photog's email, I removed the photo and went on with life till I heard that said photographer was trying to extract all kinds of crazy payments from another related site for copyright infringement. Help me, Holy Spirit , I prayed. As God always comes thru so creatively for me, He told me to do a little digging into this shady photog's life. I did so and found his MySpace page. Setting myself up with a profile of a pretty blonde white woman, I contacted the photog and pretended to be a poor, gorgeous, m...