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Yes but the congresscritters want to know how committed you are to that point of view. So believe it or not a five line handwritten 'kitchen table' letter is regarded far more highly than a laser printed form letter.

Thats not quite what is being talked about here which is bogus letters to the editor. Looks like the GOP is getting really rattled by the drop in Bush's opinion ratings which are now lower than his father's at the same point in the cycle. So they have a Web site that pumps out bogus letters to the editor under the names and addresses of local supporters. They need the local addresses because even the most ludicrous GOP lapdogs like the New York Post are not going to publish a letter saying 'President Bush is the greatest President ever, he has been demonstrating genuine leadership, blah blah' if it is from GOP HQ. And even if they did publish it readers would ignore it as a piece of ludicrous propaganda.

The GOP 'aliengrams' only have force if their source is disguised. They are written as independent letters of support. The only thing that makes them of interest to a local paper is that they come from a local person. Hence the need for the lie.

Campaign tactics of this sort say a lot about the character (or rather lack of it) of the politicians who use them. The intention is to deceive people into believing that there is widespread support for Bush's policies such as the invasion of Iraq.

The major newspapers like the London Times or the New York Times will almost always call before publishing, at least in my experience. The London Times wants to know that the letter has only been sent to them, and will quite often want to edit for length (although my style is compact enough to usually not need this).

Googlewacking just got a hell of a lot easier.

Is it possible for Google (or the people at Google) to calculate a finite number of possible "Google Wacking" searches that result in
only one web site?

In other words, given the content of all the webpages that Google can search, is it possible to determine how many search requests will yield only one site as a result?

> This project improves upon traditional hyperlinks by creating a signature of the target page, selecting a set of very rare words that uniquely identify the page, and relying on a search engine query for those rare words to find the page in the future

Takes all the fun out of Googlewacking, doesn't it?

An automated Googlewhacking system.

Ingenius!

-Waldo Jaquith

ZDnet has a story about a contest with the Google search engine. 'The game starts by typing two words into Google's search bar, with the goal of obtaining a single result. The ultimate goal of a Googlewhacker: seeing the words "Results 1-1 of 1" appear in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.'

-Metrollica

Why not this one?

ZDnet has a story about a contest with the Google search engine. 'The game starts by typing two words into Google's search bar, with the goal of obtaining a single result. The ultimate goal of a Googlewhacker: seeing the words "Results 1-1 of 1" appear in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.'

I could have logged in but I didn't.

-Metrollica

09/09/1993
Middle East
PLO-Israeli Mutual Recognition
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel signed a mutual recognition agreement.

09/13/1993
Middle East
Israeli-PLO Peace Pact
Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) signed a peace agreement in Washington, D.C. outlining a plan for Palestinian self-rule in the Israeli-occupied territories.

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If you are concerned that you may have friends in the area, unfortunately the Port Authority of NY and NJ site ( http://www.panynj.gov/ ) now reports:

"All facilities are closed due to a state of emergency."

However, see this inside page at the Port Authority:

http://www.panynj.gov/wtc/wtcfram.HTM

Directions appear here:

http://www.panynj.gov/wtc/directions2.htm

"The World Trade Center is located in lower Manhattan, stretching from Church Street on the east to West Street on the west, and from Liberty Street on the south to Vesey Street on the north."

Best vicinity map:

http://www.panynj.gov/wtc/wtcareamap7-00.gif

Other interior maps:

http://www.panynj.gov/wtc/mallmapframe.html

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http://www.flightexplorer.com/FastTrack.asp

http://www.trip.com/trs/trip/flighttracker/flight_ tracker_home.xsl

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