Work, school, etc. Still thinking, just not blogging.

However, the economy must be doing much better - I've had 5 people call in the last month to offer me a job, out of the blue.

The first word of the Democrats' new commercial about President Bush is...Vietnam. Seriously, you guys don't get it at all. And Dan Rather is in your commercial. How convenient.

Okay, I'm not like the king (or queen, if you will) of fashion, but listen up. Denim miniskirts with pink Ugg boots?

I would lose that.

So Instapundit links to this column by John Fund. It's about that deal where the former CBS VP says that bloggers are in their PJ's (as I am right now.) Since I hadn't watched it, I only knew the pajamas line. Fund discusses the appearance a little more, and notes this:

He told Fox's Tony Snow that the "60 Minutes" team is "the most careful news organization, certainly on television." He said that Mary Mapes, the producer of the story, was "a crack journalist" who had broken the Abu Ghraib prison abuse story.

Wow, she broke that story? That is some great journlism. Did she sneak into the prison, in a war zone, with a hidden camera? Well, no, not exactly. She was handed the story, on a platter, by David Hackworth.

Frederick turned to his brother-in-law, William Lawson, for help. Both feared the younger Frederick would end up taking the fall for what they considered command lapses. So, Lawson sent an e-mail message in March to Hackworth, who is known for challenging the military establishment.

Within minutes, Lawson got a call back from one of Hackworth's associates. The author and commentator put Lawson in touch with the CBS News program "60 Minutes II" and helped set in motion events that led to the public disclosure and apologies by President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Wow, that's crack journalism indeed!

Instapundit links to a story in PCMagazine where a guy named Edward Mendelson puts up a story purporting to show that the IBM Composer and MS Word are practically indistinguishable. (He writes: "I performed this experiment in typography because I have been interested for years in the history and technology of type, not for any partisan political purposes, except to the degree that the public interest is better served by truth than by falsehoods" - i.e., he's not political, he's just for the truth.)

Anyway, he puts up a piece of a scan from the Composer manual that he got from the internet, then does a Word document of the same text, and lays them next to each other and says, see, you can't tell the difference. Instapundit notes in his post that the images are small, so it is hard to see. Well, they are small, but they are still easy to compare. And we are all empowered to do the exact same thing that Mendelson did. So I fired up Word and started typing. First thing I noticed, while Mendelson writes that he did this "without any adjustments whatsoever to the spacing of the type," he did have to make a couple of adjustments to Word out of the box - he had to turn on full justification and he had to adjust his margin to 3 inches.

And, yes, they look similar side-by-side, but do an LGF-like comparison, overlaying the two, and you see that they are different.

I took the one from the manual, made the text red, changed the transparency, then overlayed and adjusted the size so it matches. And I've doubled the size so you can see the results:

First off, the line to line height is different, but even if they were the same line height (the Composer was supposedly adjustable), the word spacing would still be different.

Mendelson here has pulled the old, look, I'm at a magazine, I represent the truth, believe what I say trick without realizing we'll check him. Even better, the blogosphere is way ahead of this - Shape of Things has done this already. Answer is, it ain't the same.

And I'm not going to be the only one to address this article, either.

I think Mendelson is about to learn about blogs.

UPDATE: LGF already on it.

A couple months ago, my 3 year old spent some time with a 5 year old, and discovered the knock knock joke. Which means we hear lots of knock knock jocks, even months later. However, I was pretty impressed that he began making up his own knock knock jokes. A sample:

Knock knock.

Who's there?

Choo choo train.

Choo choo train who?

Choo choo train...man!

Okay, he's still learning, but it's all in the delivery. Still, as a result, I am not one to think that the "knock knock" joke is a source for cutting edge humor. Until I saw this one over at Protein Wisdom....

Ace may have the goods on who provided the docs to CBS. This is fun.

UPDATE: Holy Schnikies! Ace gots more. The big media have sued Free Republic over and over. CBS just got owned by them.

This post at Powerline Blog compares Dan Rather to a suicide bomber. That sounds kind of extreme, until you read the whole thing. I would hope that it overstates the case, but unfortunately, I don't think it does.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, Wretchard compares bloggers and freepers to English longbowmen.