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MinnPost - Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes 'executive assassination ring'

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Two Indian men, with their faces smeared with colored powder, pose for a photograph after celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi, or Festival of colors, in the northern Indian city of Mathura, India on March 10, 2009.

Holi_Festival_of_Colors. UPI slideshow.

The Rainbow Vomiting Pandas Of Interestingness. On Flickr.

Cities Are Selling Stimulus Funds to Each Other.

Rumor Detectives: True Story or Online Hoax? The folks behind Snopes.com, at Reader's Digest.

Showcase of Beautiful Fashion Websites. Smashing Magazine.

Attacked from Within, Kuroshin:

This article attempts to fundamentally rethink what constitutes community and society on the web, and what possibilities exist for their maintenance and reconstruction in the face of scale and malicious users. The recommendations reached, after analyzing the weaknesses of the web forums we all know and love, are:

* User anonymity should be forced.
* Barriers to participation should be as low as possible.
* Moderation should not focus on users or on comments in isolation, but on the relational quality of comments.
* Passive moderation filters can mitigate problems of scale.
* Preservation of community must shift from being based on exclusion to being based on demonstrated constructive interaction.
* Forums should discriminate between content types: original content, links, and personal content.
* Story promotion and front page position should be driven by conversation, not voting.

FB fail: btw, I have just been poking Facebook for meaning. Its new homepage seems to mine us -- you can't ask for less. And, Facebook Wants to Read Your Mind. "What's on your mind?" asks the new Facebook, a big change.

Why?

Maybe because, "What are you doing" proved utterly boring?

I'm not sure anything meaningful goes on there. A lot of people report a factoid of the moment in their lives, and move on.

Professional network LinkedIn asks "What are you working on?" which always makes me want to type, "Mold on the shower curtain" or "The meaning of life."