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Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since last year. Further, Hersh alleges that leading Democrats in Congress have been passively supportive in funding this effort. Via HuffPo, watch video
interview with Hersh here.
Pre-order Malcolm Gladwell's upcoming book, Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't. It was noted in today's New York Times. Gladwell is the author of bestseller The Tipping Point.
An interesting and timely op-ed piece in the Times covers a phenomenon, known as source amnesia, that can lead people to forget whether a statement is true. Even when a lie is presented with a disclaimer, people often later remember it as true. With time, this misremembering only gets worse. A false statement from a noncredible source that is at first not believed can gain credibility during the months it takes to reprocess memories. The article presents the science behind the success of swift boat ads and other campaign lies.
The owners of Banya 5 have opened a bar next door called Venka (I think). The garlic infused vodka is quite good - recommended before you soak though I haven't tried that yet. It's a nice quiet intimate space that has not yet been run over by Paul Allen's condoland.
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Skillet Street Food? And is this turning into a food blog?
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Just thought you might want to know. It's an ongoing promotion at Seattle's best gourmet vegetarian restaurant.
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The Knight Foundation is sponsoring an ongoing funding effort to support new media expansion for the Drupal platform. It's called the Knight Drupal Initiative (KDI).
I've submitted a proposal to complete and expand the beta Drupal Newsroom that we launched in February. Please take a look, add your comments and vote.
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Funny - from MacWrite: Mac OS supported a number of keyboard shortcuts, one of which is Cmd-Shift-4 plus Spacebar plus Click over your window of choice. (Can you believe this?) Doing so will get you a screenshot of the window saved to your desktop in Portable Document Format with a name like Picture 1, which you can readily open in Preview.
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Here's an iGoogle Widget for showing the latest Daily Show Clips.
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