Here's the rumor: Something big is about to happen. If that doesn't send a thrill through you, you must in cryogenic stasis.

"A staffer at a top U.S. brokerage firm that handles Intel and Apple's ocean/air accounts has informed the iPhone 5 News Blog that 'something big is about to happen,'" Nace solemnly informs his readers. "The source provided me with the address and telephone number of where she works, and I was able to call and verify her employment at the brokerage firm."

The first confusion is "brokerage firm," which commonly refers to a company that buys and sells stock -- a stock brokerage. But it eventually dawns that Nace apparently means that this is some kind of ocean/air freight shipping brokerage -- a company that acts as an intermediary between a firm with products to ship and transport companies that actually move them.

Nace apparently first posted the story with the following headline: "UPS Source Says Documents Reveal 'Something Big Is About to Happen' With Apple." But he took it down after the UPS source expressed concern that she might, you know, suffer adverse consequences for blabbing to a blogger. So the re-posted story has the headline, "Source Says Documents Reveal ..."

"Our new source's job is to scan paperwork into the computer systems and verify them for customs and auditing. She also works in data entry, preparing documentation from big business such as Intel and Apple, whose shipments frequently come from overseas."