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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Where to get answers

As with most of my "discoveries" probably I'm way late. But yesterday two things occurred that the world should know about.

One: My wife got an e-mail that claimed to be a reproduction of a column by Paul Harvey entitled "Wake Up America" and/or "Conveniently Forgotten Facts." It supposedly reports how Sen. Clinton defended Black Panthers many years ago.

That same day I also stumbled on a little desktop application called 1-Click Answers from Answers.com. Once installed (yes, it works on a Mac too) you can highlight any words on your screen and with a combination of simultaneous keystrokes bring up facts and references to those words.

So I typed "Black Panthers and Hilary Clinton" in a word processor, highlighted them, and hit the magic keys. Bang! A whole page full of links to articles about this as an urban legend of wide distribution.

The message from Newark Ohio then is to get 1-Click Answers and to ignore the fake Harvey column. Also, Answers.com offers a question box to web masters that you can try out at the Newark Tea Party site.

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