TIME Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year is... You!

TIME Magazine has unveiled their person of the year for 2006. And who gets this well-known culture award? Everyone. According to the magazine, everyone is coming together as a community and collaborating "on a scale never seen before," in between social sites like Wikipedia, YouTube and MySpace. The current use for the Internet is a tool to bring millions of people together to make small contributions back to everyone else. It's not just "Web 2.0," they say. "It's really a revolution." A mini-revolution that could perhaps include the Twin Institutes, Delta and Epsilon? (Editor: Only if you updated more than once a week!)

Because we're all spending this time networking with the rest of the world on the Internet, TIME magazine has named "You" as the Person of the Year for 2006.
(Click here to read TIME.com's profile of the 2006 Person of the Year.)

Report: AP fabricated source, Mosque masacre made-up

Did they, or didn't they? That's the question surrounding the Iraqi offices of the Associated Press, where it sounds like they might have made up at least one police officer's name and perhaps fabricated accounts of a horrible scene of death and carnage. The AP has put out a article detailing witness accounts. (Warning: Story contains graphic descriptions)

But this story hasn't become a firestorm among certian bloggers because of what the AP is saying about themselves, it's about what others are saying about the AP. The AP's main source for this particular news story was a "Capt. Jamil Hussein," a man that the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior says is not a Baghdad police officer nor a MOI employee. In other words, the man quoted in the story does not exist, as far as the Iraqi government is concerned. In addition, the American government is denying that it had any operations in the area at the time the article stated, and as such, what the article said happened simply did not.

Who's right? Who's wrong? Is America's main source of news lying about events in the war, or is the government trying to cover-up a terrible violenent event? That's not for TDIN to say. But we can help you to make up your mind on this issue. Below are some suggested sites for continued reading on this complex, troubling scandal.
- AP: Witnesses detail Iraqi burning deaths
- Flopping Aces (Main site that helped break the story)
- Opinion Column: Pro-AP
- Opinion Column: Anti-AP
- Article talking about the whole complicated mess

Philips introduces PC-free phone for Skype

Have you heard of Skype? It's that free international online phone communications system that lets you have all the benefits of having a phone, without having to use a phone. Unless, of course, you want to use a phone using Skype, but that would just kind of defeat half the purpose of Skype. (If I understand the concept correctly, that is.) Well, Philips Electronics announced that it would introduce the "world's first cordless DECT phone that can make Skype Internet calls" without being connected to a computer. The phone will be avaliable by the end of the year.