Introducing… Popular Misconceptions

After introducing you to my new on TV tonight website a couple of months ago, I now want to point you towards another new whimsical side project of mine, Popular Misconceptions.

Some of my friends and family will have heard me spout on about this idea for years (indeed, I’ve sat on the domain a good year), so it’s good to finally get something started. Basically, the idea is to investigate ‘facts’ and ‘truths’ which have become well circulated and accepted, but which are in fact popular misconceptions. Whilst it might seem like a pedantic exercise, the original idea was anti-pedantry, in the sense that it would be a compendium of ammunition against boring people in pubs who go on about how it’s illegal to deface the queen’s head on banknotes, or wild moon landing conspiracy theories involving flags flapping in the vacuum.

For now, it’s just a fairly standard Wordpress blog (RSS feed), but it will soon have a wiki, serving as a more collaborative knowledge bank.

I’ve kicked it off with an introductory post, and then a copy of a recent office e-mail forward, which I will be slowly deconstructing. So, if you think you’ll be interested in this kind of thing, subscribe and stay tuned.

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