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Dan Rather is stepping down in advance of the report from the CBS independent commission investigating Rathergate. It’s quite possible that he knows what that report will say, and that stepping down in advance is a face-saving measure, so that he can say he left voluntarily rather than as a result of anything contained in the final report.
Can anyone doubt this would have happened without the efforts of the blogosphere to expose the Rathergate memos as forgeries? There’s an old saying, “Who’s watching the watchmen?” Mainstream media now has an efficient watchman—the blogosphere. It may take years, but MSM will improve greatly as a result.
On Furl, I noticed a number of people linking to this gallery of photos of a spectacular location. However, the text of the site is in pictographs (Chinese?), and I have no idea what the location is. Is it real? Is it from a videogame? Here are a couple of sample images.
Update 11-24-04: I ran the gallery’s about page through the automatic translators at WorldLingo.com The Chinese-to-English translator didn’t come up with much, but the Japanese-to-English translator had more luck:
...The people of the town which is the worldwide biggest enormous flood-prevention facility…
...We would like to designate the start-up of this home page as G-CANS PROJECT where anyone can participate in the opportunity. The person who has lived in area and so the person who is not, being this enormous, concerning the charm of minute engineering works structure…
So—unless this is an elaborate hoax to promote a video game— it seems like this is a gigantic flood-prevention facility in Japan.
