New Namath Book Is Fact, Not Fiction
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If you read the recent excerpt of "Namath" in Sports Illustrated and were put off by the apparent focus on the iconic Broadway Joe's personal life, be comforted in the knowledge that Mark Kriegel's 441-page biography includes plenty of football, too. The book is exhaustively researched and includes telling anecdotes from Beaver Falls, Pa., to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to New York.
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Miguel de Icaza, in this weblog entry says, "Facts barely matter when they get in the way of a good smear. The comments over at Groklaw are interesting, in that they explore new levels of ignorance." This comment rings especially true of his weblog entry. For example, Miguel states... We have been working on OpenOffice.Org for longer than anyone else has. We were some of the earliest contributors to OpenOffice, and we are the largest external contributor to actual code to OpenOffice than anyone else. Say what?  Who created OpenOffice? Who bought it?  Who opened it?  Anyone ever hear of Star Division gmbh or Sun?  Since when did Novell become the earliest contributor to OpenOffice.org?  The earliest and largest external contributor, maybe.  I'd like to see some hard facts to back up an assertion like that (not that facts matter, as Miguel admitted), but his hyperbolic boasting of Novell's contribution is obviously overblown.
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- The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth website now carries a statement from Larry Thurlow, who insists that John Kerry wrote a report &quot;which falsely described the action on the Bay Hap River&quot; (for which Kerry later received the ...
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By ALICIA ANSTEAD OF THE NEWS STAFF  If you're a hard-core hiker who lives by a "because-it's-there" philosophy, I can pretty much assure that this isn't your kind of adventure story.
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Two new books provide ambitious overviews of complicated topics.
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The half sister of convicted murderer Scott Peterson has written a book about the "untold story" of the case &#151; and why she believes he's guilty, her publisher announced Thursday.
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Great .torrent link of Joshua Kinberg being arrested.    This is of course being documented over on this MSNBC HardBlogger blog  (which btw is news in of itself).
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"Oval Office Oddities: An Irreverent Collection of Presidential Facts, Follies, and Foibles" (Harper Paperbacks. 352 pages. $13.95), by Bill Fawcett: It's time again for presidential candidates to drag bones or worse from each other's closets and chirp endlessly about their cures for all that ails us.
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There have been some rumors floating around lately about an RNC ad that is being sent to people living in the Bible Belt about how 'liberals' want to "ban the Bible" (what that really means, I don't know, but there you have it).  It ain't a rumor folks, this is U.S. Presidential Campaign 2004, at its finest.
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And other revelations from Bob Shrum's No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner. An exclusive excerpt
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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By THOMAS B. LANGHORNE, Courier & Press staff w
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The author of a best-selling Australian book about the honor killing of a Jordanian woman has admitted she fabricated parts of her supposed true-life story.
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What are the facts? What's only fiction? Roy Lewis explains.
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By Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 20--A 78-year-old author in Georgia sells books teaching that the Earth is the center of the galaxy, that modern science is all a Satanic lie and that evolution is a Jewish belief that promotes one-world government.
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Reader Suchet Bal sends us his experiences.
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Amid a slew of real  documentaries and richly detailed nonfiction books illuminating  the ways in which America's current leadership has used deceit  and misinformation to advance its political agenda and engineer  greater repression comes a fake documentary trying to do the  same thing.