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USA: When W says that the war on terror can’t be won, W is really admitting that his policies are ineffective. “This is no time to declare defeat.” “The war on terrorism is absolutely winnable,” John Edwards said later on ABC’s “Nightline.”

Tech: Alex Halavais decided to perform an experiment on Wikipedia. He inserted incorrect information into several Wikipedia pages. The edits were fixed in a matter hours by volunteers who noticed the changes. I presume most of these people learned of Alex’ edits through RSS. Take that, Al Fasoldt. Your fifteen minutes are up.

Tech: InfoWorld offers a followup article to an earlier piece of the 6 great myths of IT, with items like, “The mainframe is dead”, “Unix is more reliable than Windows”, and “Apple is going out of business”.