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It’s true that Borden’s father, David Bor­den Sr., ini­tially wrote a per­sonal e-mail about the visit, accord­ing to Mas­ter Sgt. Joseph Lip­tok, the deputy direc­tor of the Marine Corps liai­son office at the med­ical cen­ter. But, Lip­tok told us, the chain e-mail now being for­warded and posted on Web sites is an altered ver­sion of the orig­i­nal. He also empha­sized that the views in the chain e-mail are not those of 1^st Lt. Bor­den. We made sev­eral attempts to speak with Bor­den and his father, but they declined to comment.”

“And Bach­mann is flat wrong about ACORN going door-to-door and gath­er­ing data. Being “part­ners” with the Cen­sus Bureau doesn’t entail as close a rela­tion­ship as one might think. For the most part it involves get­ting the word out that it’s impor­tant for every­one to par­tic­i­pate in the decen­nial event that helps deter­mine where fed­eral money goes and how House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives dis­trict bound­aries are redrawn.” So basi­cally ACORN is doing nothing.

“We’re not index­ing all of Twit­ter at this time… just a small set of promi­nent and pro­lific Twit­ter­ers to start. We picked a few thou­sand peo­ple to start, based pri­mar­ily on their fol­lower count and vol­ume of tweets. We think this is an inter­est­ing first step toward using Twitter’s pub­lic API to sur­face Tweets in peo­ple search.” Bing now includ­ing tweets, I’m interested.

“A press release from NASA: Ulysses, a joint NASA and Euro­pean Space Agency mis­sion, offi­cially ceased oper­a­tions today, after receiv­ing com­mands from ground con­trollers to do so. The space­craft, which oper­ated for more than 18 years, charted the unex­plored regions of space above the poles of the sun.” Sad to see this amaz­ing mis­sion ending.

“This is a clas­sic exam­ple of the Gay Panic Defense. In the very recent past all a straight man who bru­tally mur­dered a gay man had to say was, “He made a pass at me!”, and the jury would ignore the evi­dence and let the mur­derer off. The Gay Panic Defense doesn’t fly in many courts of law these days but it still has cur­rency in the court of pub­lic opin­ion. And the chief of police in Forth Worth, a major U.S. city, is attempt­ing to use the Gay Panic Defense to con­vince the cit­i­zens of Fort Worth to ignore the evidence—to ignore pho­to­graphic evi­dence and cred­i­ble eye­wit­ness accounts—and let his offi­cers off.” Dan Sav­age on the raid of the Rain­bow Lounge.

“A photo osten­si­bly show­ing a 15-year-old nude girl has appeared in an iPhone app, high­light­ing Apple’s inabil­ity to safe­guard its appli­ca­tion store from pro­hib­ited con­tent.” Oh great, though we all knew it was going to happen.

“Some 20 net users have come for­ward claim­ing they have been wrongly accused of ille­gally shar­ing video games.” This is news?

“The newly installed gov­ern­ment in Hon­duras has rejected inter­na­tional calls to rein­state deposed Pres­i­dent Manuel Zelaya. The Orga­ni­za­tion of Amer­i­can States has given Hon­duras a 72-hour dead­line for rein­state­ment or warned it could face sus­pen­sion from the regional group.” I’m shocked they didn’t undo the coup.

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