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Following up on one of yesterday’s bits: after people started pointing out that there didn’t seem to be an airplane in the released shots of the Pentagon 9/11 attack, some new photos have been released. It’s a little difficult to see, as they’re from a security camera some distance away, but some enterprising online people have put together some helpful pages. Aren’t conspiracy theories fun? :D

I think GoogleWhack could entertain me for hours.

Y’know, I was pretty curious about this when the photographs of the Pentagon’s 9/11 attack started hitting the media. Considering that a Boeing 757 slammed into the side of the building…there just didn’t seem to be much in the way of airplane debris around there. It’s good to know I wasn’t the only one to notice this.

Certainly, faith in God has often been linked to patriotism in the US through the pledge of allegiance, which contains the words “I pledge allegiance to the flag…one nation under God.” But God is, in fact, a relative newcomer to the pledge and was only included in it because of a right-wing religious lobby’s efforts during the McCarthyite era.

Read the rest of the article here….

Another political cartoon is causing an uproar — there’s an excellent editorial here examining the cartoon in question and the motivations behind it.

More interesting Googlebomb bits: apparently the Church of Scientology figured out how to use it to their advantage. Some bloggers are working on combating this.

An interesting commentary on the flipside to Googlebombing (in response to these articles).

A pair of articles that I wanted to comment on, but don’t have time to right now. Very interesting reading, though, especially if you read or write a weblog (such as this one), or if you use Google for your searches.

• Google ♥ Blogs: How Weblogs Influence A Billion Google Searches A Week
• Google Time Bomb: Will Weblogs blow up the world’s favorite search engine?

Just something amusing Tom sent me.

He’s a hate-fuelled misogynist stage actor from the Mississippi delta. She’s a transdimensional red-headed nun who hides her beauty behind a pair of thick-framed spectacles. They fight crime!

Once I know I’ve got the funds settled for both the move and my June trip to Alaska for James and Stacy’s wedding, I’m getting at least one of these. Probably one of the BSOD-t’s and the Mac Bomb-t.