Watch out! (Iran)

With the current unrest in Iran, the amount of fakery on twitter is spiking! Some examples:

Example 1: Older video from Argentina passed off as occurring in Iran:

Example 2:  Older video from Bahrain passed off as occurring in Iran:

Example 3:  A convenient 'mis-characterization':

Example 4:  Still from a 2012 movie passed off as occurring in Iran:

Example 5:  Some disinformation:

Random pictures - here be dragons

"The fantasy of California as an island earthly paradise can be traced back to a 1510 book, Las Sergas de Esplandian which describes a land of Amazonian women without a single man. The women were of course beautiful, had weapons made of gold and tamed wild beasts..."

Source: The phantom atlas: Islands, seas and countries on the map that don’t really exist

Random charts - perception errors

 

 

Source: Perceptions are not reality: what the world gets wrong: Ipsos Perils of Perception Survey 2016 

"The latest Ipsos Perils of Perception survey highlights how wrong the public across 40 countries are about key global issues and features of the population in their country.

The key patterns are:

• Most countries think their population is much more Muslim than it actually is – and that the Muslim population is increasing at an incredible rate
• All countries think their population is less happy than they actually say they are
• Most countries are more tolerant on homosexuality, abortion and pre-marital sex than they think they are
• And nearly all countries think wealth is more evenly distributed than it actually is."

Random picture - maps

Source: Legendary Lands: Umberto Eco on the Greatest Maps of Imaginary Places and Why They Appeal to Us

Random picture - Verne

Source: (Wikipedia) Journey to the Center of the Earth. ... and the Project Gutenberg version of A Journey to the Interior of the Earth.

Also vapor?

The July 24th, 2013 blog entry 'And the answer... (AI watch)' noted that this was vaporware (with a heavy sigh of regret). Well, we have another cool-looking watch, the RIST watch, that has the same flavor as the defunct AI watch. Alas, is this one also mere vapor?