The seven ways that people search the Web. August 15, 2006
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In the wake of the AOL search log fuckup, you can now analyze and search the logs at splunked.com. Using that site, some guy called Paul Boutin has identified the seven ways that people search the Web. I’m an “Omnivore” myself, but my absolute favorite is of course the “Basketcase”.
US planned Lebanon War months before August 14, 2006
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Interesting CNN clip where Seymour Hersh, the guy who broke the Abu Ghraib story, reveals he has confirmed with insiders that the US and Israeli governments had long before planned that any incident, no matter how small, would ignite a broad and punishing response by Israel in a preemptive move for US to eventually start a war with Iran. Why am I not surprised? Well, perhaps because of the blog entry I did a few months ago?
Half of U.S. still believes Iraq had WMD August 8, 2006
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Yahoo! News reports that according to a recent poll, half of the American population still believes there were ABC weapons stockpiled in Iraq. No reason to be surprised, I guess, since the American government has always excelled in propaganda and disinformation. Also covered in the article is the recent intelligence report released by two Republican senators – one of them Rick Santorum, one of the greatest assholes ever to have a public office. The report states that no less than 500 chemical warheads have been found. Problem is, they’re orphans. Dud, abandoned warheads. Ah well.
(For those of you who have taken my advice and read the greatest sex-advice column in the world, Savage Love, the name might ring a bell. Yes, it’s that very same senator whose surname got hijacked by Dan Savage, the column’s author. Nowadays, “santorum” also means “the frothy matter of lube and fecal matter that sometimes is the byproduct of anal sex“.)
