Arab News posted the above screenshots of TV reporter Mazen Al-Tomaizi being hit in a US helicopter attack yesterday. He died shortly afterwards. As did lots of other people, some of them reportedly children. One report I read said Mazen got in a final cellphone call: “They shot us.”
Can you spot the difference? Look at the quote marks around “Selectric.” From what I know, Word uses curly quotes, Selectric has straight ones. That makes it Word on the left, Selectric on the right. I emailed the author to ask for higher-resolution images.
UPDATE: Edward says his source was the scanned manual here. The example still looks different to me, but it could be artifacts of the scan, since Page 19 shows how to do the curly quotes on the keyboard.
A reporter friend and I were wondering why you can’t turn the beep on a microwave oven down, or off, so as not to bother sleeping housemates (or yourself). I’ve never seen one with an adjustable beep. Anyone know why? Is there a regulation, or is it just … Tradition! It’s one of those little things that’s nagged at me for years; I may finally put in a few calls on it this week.
UPDATE: Readers own models by GE and Samsung that can be silenced.
A quick summary of my CNN spot with Collins Spencer this morning: If you’re in the path of the hurricanes but don’t have flood insurance, go to Google and search for “flood insurance“. But don’t read the search results; look at the ads in the right hand column instead. You’ll find some reliable resources to get quotes and applications without wasting hours on the phone, or days waiting for brochures in the mail.
Brian Carnell caught the above screen grab from CBS last week, during which Dan Rather claimed, “Other Bush military records already officially released by the White House itself show the same superscript.” Do they look the same to you?
To spell it out: The new document sports a true superscript, above the normal area of text. The old one has its “th” typed in line with the rest of the letters, which would be much easier mechanically - no need to move any hardware up or down.
Then again, I don’t think CBS was trying to snow viewers here. I think that, as Joshua Marshall did earlier this week, they looked at it skeptically but just didn’t see the difference.
