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Thursday, 29 July 2004
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Bush's lies about Castro plagiarised from undergraduate essay on Internet. Bush recently characterised Castro's remine in Cuba as proud of the prostitution there, a bizarre charge that had no basis in fact: Castro simply never said what Bush accused him of saying ("This is his quote -- 'Cuba has the cleanest and most educated prostitutes in the world' and 'sex tourism is a vital source of hard currency.'"), and no one except Bush says that he did.
It turns out that Bush's speechwriters found the quote in an undergraduate paper for Dartmouth, and they plagiarised it out of context:
Three days after Bush's remarks, the Los Angeles Times reported that the White House found the comments in a Dartmouth undergraduate paper posted on the Internet and lifted them out of context. "It shows they didn't read much of the article," commented Charlie Trumbull, the author.
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(via Fark) [Boing Boing]
11:31:07 PM 
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Random: Stupidity Awards Results. Our friends at the World Stupidity Awards have presented
President Bush with the award for Stupidest Man of the Year,
among others...
Here's the press release from the World Stupidity Awards:
Bush, Hussein, Trucker Hats win big at Stupidity Awards
President Bush and deposed dictator Saddam Hussein were the big
winners at a start-studded presentation of the World
Stupidity...
[morons.org headlines]
11:10:35 PM
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How and Why Wonder Books. 
Did you read them as a kid? Rob Storey has scanned in all the covers from his collection.
[I certainly did read them. Mum and Dad bought them for me all the time. I always wanted more. I definitely had the one pictured which gave me a fascination for dinosaurs which has lasted my whole life. The dinosaur on the cover was probably the best known and loved, and is now known not o have existed. That is brontosaurus was the body of one animal attached to the head of another. The body is now known as apatosaurus; I don't know wht the head was.]
[Paul Boutin]
10:56:44 PM
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Date Friday, July 23, 2004
Their e-mail: With all the Flash crap in the world, it is good to see an excellent use of Flash.
My comments: You're right about the page. This is what Flash is great at doing. On the other hand, the proper terminology for crappy Flash is "FlashCrap."
Le Tour de France [Web Pages That Suck -- Examples of Bad Web Design]
12:23:11 AM
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