--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: clips@philodox.com Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 19:39:39 -0500 To: "Philodox Clips List" <clips@philodox.com> From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] Does Zarqawi Take Shorthand? (was Re: OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today - December 9, 2005) Reply-To: rah@philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces@philodox.com At 2:09 PM -0500 12/9/05, OpinionJournal wrote:

Does Zarqawi Take Shorthand? http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10382716/

Here's an amusing goof from the Associated Press: "Terrorists also have made only infrequent use of stenography, the practice of hiding a text message in another kind of file, typically a picture."

Actually, stenography, also known as shorthand, is a method of taking notes. The AP meant steganography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography .

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