Dowbrigade

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Dowd: Clarence Thomas is shallow and quite mad…
Sullivan: Maureen Dowd is shallow and quite mad… (Wednesday’s entry)

William Gibson (one of my faves) relates George Orwell (100th anniversary), Big Brother and 1984 to US Govt.’s Total (now Terrorist) Information Awareness.
“This outcome may be an inevitable result of the migration to cyberspace of everything that we do with information.” from “NY Times [...]

Useful specialized search engine searches Op-ed pages and letters to the editor of over 600 daily newspapers.

The big local Boston story today is Anna Gitlin,
a 25-year old woman who, trapped in a traffic jam and late for work,
rammed a cop
trying to redirect her.
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A Penn State study released today shows most users of search engines view not only just the first page of results, but only examine the first result on that first page.
‘About 55 percent of users checked out one result only. More than 80 percent stopped after looking at “three results”.’