What is it about Iowa that lends itself to huge hoaxes and pernicious pranks? Riverside's claim to fame is the future birthplace of Star Trek's Captain Kirk and a monumental hoax, Spike TV's Invasion Iowa from 2005. Now the town of Bancroft, Iowa is in the news. An old hoax about Animusic, that astounding feat of computer animation that PBS runs at fund raising time, is circulating again. The story says an incredible music machine was fashioned from tractor parts. The tale, a prank of the highest order, names names and institutions, all phony, to add credibility to it all. I don't think the person who started it has laid claim to his creation . That's too bad. It's as much a work of art as Animusic itself, which exists only on a computer's hard drive. Rube Goldberg would love it.
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