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• "'True' is a great place to read about Fabio getting smacked in the face by a bird, French conservative Jean-Marie Le Pen defending male nudity, and a woman who created a ceremony so she could marry herself." --Playboy

• "Siz de bizim gibi garipliklerle ilgilenen bir kimse deðilseniz yine de arada bir yaþamýma bir renk gelsin diyorsanýz sitedeki haberlerin her hafta e-mail hesabýnýza ücretsiz olarak gönderilmesini saðlayabiliyorsunuz." --PC Magazine/Turkey "Link 500" ("You can get the news in the site sent to your e-mail address free every week, if you are interested in strange things and want some color in your life.")

• "I think that we'd all like to believe that humans aren't as stupid as they seem in Cassingham's column, but we know that sometimes we are. That doesn't make it any less hilarious to read." --Virtual Airlines News Flash

• "This stuff is so funny, it can't be real... but it is." --Lockergnome

• "Cassingham ignores HTML e-mail for now in the interest of making his e-mail newsletter quick to download, and thus more likely to get read. He says the only reason for offering an e-mail newsletter in HTML is because the publisher wants to offer graphic ads. 'That serves the publisher, not the reader,' he says. 'I prefer to serve my readers.'" --Editor & Publisher

• "Entertaining weekly news of unusual/bizarre nature." --Inklings

• "Truly valuable." --Salon Magazine

• "Livens up the week with bizarre-but-true news." --Playboy

• "Sometimes it's hard to know what's real and what's not. My site of the night, This is True, gives you weird-but-true stories that have been verified from all over the world." --KVII-TV Pro News 7 (Amarillo, Texas)

• "THIS is TRUE is so popular that the author is able to sell books of past issues." --I Hate Computers

• "Syndicated columnist Randy Cassingham's weekly weird news is not fabricated. His commentary is." --MiningCo.com

• "Bored with all of those silly, untrue nightmare stories that people pass around like the flu over e-mail? Then check out 'This is True'." --Celluloid Jungle

• "This Is True--more true, though preposterous, stories of the unpredictable doings of human beings." --This Week: the Best Information on the Net

• "A delightful assortment of oddball news items and humorous commentary." --American Medical News

• "Tales of hapless criminals, outrageous lawsuits and tortured logic." --American Journalism Review

• "Get paid to be funny! Boulder writer Randy Cassingham does, e-mailing a weekly humor column to subscribers and newspapers around the world." --Denver Rocky Mountain News, "100 Great Colorado Web Sites"

• Hot Site: "May convince you that the nation's capital isn't the only place where strange things happen. This is True even adds some zinger commentaries to outlandish real-life stories." --USA Today

• "Consistently good humor is hard to find -- on the net or anywhere else. Here's a good one." --Internet Tourbus

  

• "Weird News Web Sites: *** (Three stars -- Best)" --Infoseek

• "This is True finds strange but true news stories, which would be great enough. But ...Randy Cassingham adds the coup de grace -- a witty line that completes each story in precisely the way a news reporter wouldn't dare." --Dummies Daily, "The Web After Five"
• "Randy is a founding father of Internet humor, which wouldn't mean a thing if 'This is True' wasn't reliably funny. It is." --Jim Rosenberg's Monologue

• "On paper, Randy Cassingham has what many journalists would consider a dream job.... He has no boss, writes whatever he wants and earns a profit. But newsprint toilers beware: it's not that easy." --Online Journalism Review

• "Exactly the kind of random, barely-relevant, yet vaguely unnerving item[s] The Finger appreciates." --The Finger

• "A compilation of weird news, accompanied by acerbic and often hilarious commentary. Randy skims about 500 newspaper articles per day, and distills from them summaries of the strangest news stories -- the ones that make you turn your head and say, 'They did what?" --Contentious

• "Well worth a visit." --The Guardian (UK)

• "Success was immediate -- subscribers were so many that in two years time Randy was able to leave his job and dedicate his full time to 'This is True'. He moved to Boulder, Co. and there he writes his weekly column, sending it to half the World." --Informazione (translated from Italian)

• "News You Can Use: 'This is True', Randy Cassingham's famous collection of offbeat news stories." --PC Computing, "Amazing FREE Stuff!" issue

• "Very professionally done.... and an inexpensive paid version has even more fun oddities." --Microtimes

• A "wildly popular email newsletter." --The Emailian

• "This e-mail-zine does everything so well and is entertaining enough that I'd like to give it a six. [But] if I did I'd have to spend an hour or two making a new award graphic. So if Randy's ok with it, I hope the five works well enough. Score (scale of 1-5): 5+" --Todd Kuipers' Open Road

• Incredibly strange but true stories. One anecdote won't be enough." --WKBW-TV (Buffalo, NY)

• "The column consists of several rewritten recent news stories that comes with his droll remarks added in just a few words. God, these stories are so interesting that really, they need no decoration entirely!" --Chinabyte (translated from Chinese)

• "This is True came into being in 1994 when Cassingham, a journalist by profession, began clipping funny and bizarre items from newspapers, adding editorial comments and then posting them on the employee bulletin board at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where he worked. It became an intra-office hit." --Rocky Mountain News

• "Guaranteed astonishment!" --Monde (translated from French)

• "Most folks are afraid to tell it like it is. Regardless, the truth will set you free. Enter This is True." --Fierce

• "Randy Cassingham is an example of why you don't need a syndicate to have a successful career as a national columnist. He used the Internet to promote himself instead, even turning down an offer from a U.S. national syndicator to run his quirky weekly news column called 'This Is True.' ... This columnist's business model is one that even syndicated writers might envy." --Editor & Publisher Interactive

• "This is True is one of the biggest lists on the Net.... It's [sic] popularity comes from Cassingham's shrewd selection of subject matter." --Wired

• "With so many rumours doing the rounds on the Net, it's often hard to sort the fact from the fiction. Randy Cassingham has made it his mission in life to bring unusual stories to the attention of a Net-using audience." --London Daily Telegraph
• "Author Randy Cassingham culls the odd and eerie events of the day and publishes them, along with his own sardonic comment." --Netsurfer Digest

• Hot Site: "Randy Cassingham has a passion for the truth. And you'll never believe the stuff he's dug up.... Truly stranger than fiction." --USA Today

• "A brilliant example." --Computer Source Magazine
• "Delights thousands of subscribers every week." --$ales Doctors

• "For years, Cassingham has been searching the papers for amazing but true news stories or headlines, to which he attaches a witty, funny or borderline-sarcastic tagline. It's nearly impossible to read these and not laugh out loud." --Philadelphia Daily News

• "Cassingham has spent considerable time and money boosting his mailing list security." --Information Week

• "Randy Cassingham is a gutsy writer. He was offered a syndication contract for his column This is True from one of the largest newspaper syndicates on the planet, the Creators Syndicate (the folks who carry Ann Landers and Johnny Hart to a worldwide audience). He turned the contract down and has never looked back." --HumourNet

• "Inspired: 'This is True' author Randy Cassingham. Mired: Grizzled conspiracy fan Pierre Salinger." --Wall Street Journal Interactive, "The Year on the Net"

• "Truth is stranger than fiction and sometimes it's funnier too." --Washington Post

• "Plucks headlines and stories from the nation's newspapers and wryly comments on them." --Entrepreneur

• "Each week Randy Cassingham searches the news for the strange, the bizarre, and the just plain funny events that have taken place around the world. ...We subscribe to several mailing lists here, but 'This is True' is always a 'must read!'" --News@SYIX

• "In a reversal of the current trend, he broke into print -- and profit -- using his on-line popularity as a springboard." --Denver Post

• "Quirky stories... punctuated by Cassingham's humorous tag lines." --Editor & Publisher

• "A great resource for those looking for [sermon] illustrations." --Internet for Christians Newsletter

• "For those Sunday mornings when the house is quiet and there's time to sip a cup of coffee, treat yourself to This is True." --Computer Shopper

• "Written with dry humor." --Nihon Keizai Shimbun (The "Nikkei" -- translated from Japanese)

• "If you can't make it home to watch the weird perversions of society on the Sally Jesse Oprah Geraldo Povich show... try This is True." --The Whole Internet Calendar

• "The [David] Letterman of the 'net." --MediaTelevision (CityTV Toronto)

• If you enjoy irony and have a good sense of whimsy, you'll love it!" Computer Currents

• "If you're fascinated by whimsical news stories, then you'll definitely want to subscribe to Randy Cassingham's weekly syndicated Internet column, 'This is True'. You'll soon be swimming in odd little tidbits guaranteed to make you the hit of the water-cooler circuit." --The Davis (Calif.) Enterprise

• "And now for something completely different." --CNN Morning News

• "One of the most popular Internet sites in the world." --KEX-AM (Portland, OR)

• "Cassingham is a humorist for the Information Age, an Internet-savvy satirist and social commentator. The Jay Leno of Cyberspace." --Los Angeles Times

• "The truth sometimes hurts, but when it crosses the line to downright funny, that's when Randy Cassingham swings into action." --Boardwatch

• "Cassingham believes he has the best of both worlds. He gets to report on stories but can add his own twist." --American Bookseller

• "One of our favorite [online features]. If you like what you read, buy the book." --Internet World

• "How did he get so popular so fast? Well, for one thing, he writes funny stuff." --New York Times

• "Filled with interesting off-beat news stories." --United Press International

• "The connoisseur's cornucopia of oddness." --.net magazine (UK)

• "One of the most popular columns on the Internet." --QST

• "Best in Net Entertainment, 1994." --Internet World

• "The kind of news items that keep comedians and commentators in business." --Washington Post

• "All the News That's Not Fit to Print." --Newsweek

• "Two minutes after I subscribed... I was reading the current issue and chuckling." --The Detroit News

• "A tasty weekly collection." --Net-Letter Guide

• Randy Cassingham and This is True have also been featured on or in: the Australian Broadcast Company's Stateside program, The Champaign-Urbana (Ill.) News-Gazette, The Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel, KPCC-FM (NPR, Pasadena, Calif.), The Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff), The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.), The Democrat and Chronicle/Times-Union (Rochester, NY), The Dallas (Texas) Morning News, The Journal Gazette (Ft. Wayne, Indiana), The Virginian-Pilot, The Toronto Sun, Nerd World, New Scientist, Business 2.0, Liberation (France), The Boulder County (Colorado) Business Report, The Industry Standard, KFRX-FM (Lincoln, Neb.), WTTM-AM (New York), KBVD-AM (Boulder, Colo.), CBC Radio (Toronto), and probably a bunch more we don't know about.

Randy Cassingham has a university degree in Journalism, but he has never been a conventional news reporter. His unbounding sense of curiosity has led him to explore a number of careers, including commercial photographer, freelance writer (including magazine articles, technical articles, fiction, and screenplays), editor, publisher, ambulance paramedic, search and rescue sheriff's deputy, process engineer, business consultant, software designer, and an entertaining speaker. He is an expert on using the Internet to reach a diverse international audience with entertaining human interest content, and publishing and distribution on the Internet -- and he has definite opinions about where all this is going. Randy is also one of the leading experts on the ergonomic Dvorak keyboard, and has literally "written the book" on the subject; he is also a technical advisor to the American National Standards Institute's keyboard standard committee. His column This is True is one of the largest subscription features on the Internet, with readers in more than 200 countries; it's also carried in print publications in three countries. He and his wife, Kit, live in Ridgway, Colorado. Journalists wishing to interview Randy Cassingham are invited to contact him via one of these routes.