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September 1, 2005 12:22 AM
Broken: Wrong fake Shakespeare portrait
Jose Rivadeneyra writes:
I was reading Yahoo News when I saw the headline, "Experts confirm Shakespeare portrait fake." Imagine my surprise when I opened the link and found the portrait...
No, it says "Try the Beta version of the new Yahoo! News: Go to Beta now" at the top.
Nice try though.
It says ADVERTISEMENT right above the Yoda pic. I could've sworn I've seen an ad with this same Yoda picture somewhere, but I don't think this article was intended to have a picture with it. It's good for a laugh, but not broken, in my opinion...
i dont know why but almost every image on your site dosent work on my computer.
its my new school, its sh!t all the comps are win2000 pentium 2
what can i do to help
it works on firefox but i prefer ie. and i cant install it
also videos never play on other sites
Preferring ie to FireFox is definitely broken. The article, however, is clearly not broken and I'm pretty sure Jose new as much before he wasted our time.
By the way, kiplinght, try copying the link and pasting it directly into the address bar.
I'm having the same problem with image popups on this site not working. I have IE w/XP SP2. When the popup window opens, inside of it shows garbage text instead of the image. Started to happen a couple of weeks ago. The only thing I can do that seems to help briefly is clearing the browser cache... but I haven't seen similar problems on any other sites. Also problem doesn't occur on firefox. I am pretty convinced there is something broken about this site that is causing this.
What nobody has realised is this IS a picture of Shakespeare! It's a projection of what he would look like if he were still alive!
;)
Seriously though, I have heard that there is a debate as to weither there ever actually was a playwright named Shakespeare. The works attribuited to him may actually have been written by another artist or artists. If that is true then any Shakespeare portrait would, by definition be a fake.
This may have been a "Just for fun" posting, but I think it does show a certain amount of genuine brokenness on the design of the Yahoo news site. When you read a news article, and see a picture next to it, it's only natural to expect the picture to illustrate the article. Ideally, they should do something to offset the ad, like put it in a box or something.
Sean P., the debate is not whether Shakespeare ever actually existed. The details of his life -- birth, marriage, real estate purchases, part ownership of the Globe Theatre in London, last will and testament, etc. -- are all reasonably well documented. The question is whether he was actually the author of all those plays. However, I understand that the debate isn't really taken seriously in most academic circles.
That's pretty hilarious! Does anyone else ever wonder if stuff like this is done on purpose, just to have some harmless fun with people? Seems like an awfully big coincidence...
Also, Alex, I think you solved your own problem- USE FIREFOX! =D
ROFL.
Not broken (posted in "just for fun"), but damn funny.
"these aren't the portraits you're looking for"
Shakespeare is not really all that great. If it were released as new today, it would work it's way to Broadway and them shrivel up and die when everyone realized how juvenile the themes really are
If you look at the bottom you can see the text "The work shows Shakespeare gazing out at an angle and wearing a..." which is pretty funny because Yoda IS gazing out at an angle and wearing that robe.
Of course Yoda WAS Wm. Shakespeare. I have also seen a photo of Albert Einstein that bore a suspucious resemblance to the Master Jedi. I'd post it, but my scanner is broken...maybe somebody has seen the same pic and will post it.
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when 900 years old you reach, look as good, you will not.
These arent the portraits your looking for....
Posted by: gmangw at September 1, 2005 12:37 AM