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Maybe this widget has been around for a while but I only noticed it today at the bottom of a story about disputed war casualty counts. (You may have to log in to WaPo.) Made in Flash and served on the Clearspring widget platform. I'll check out Clearspring.

Patrick Radden Keefe story in The New York Times.

The Notre Dame physicist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi studied one obvious network -- the Internet -- and found that any two unrelated Web pages are separated by only 19 links. After Sept. 11, Valdis Krebs, a Cleveland consultant who produces social network "maps" for corporate and nonprofit clients, decided to map the hijackers. He started with two of the plotters, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, and, using press accounts, produced a chart of the interconnections — shared addresses, telephone numbers, even frequent-flier numbers — within the group. All of the 19 hijackers were tied to one another by just a few links, and a disproportionate number of links converged on the leader, Mohamed Atta.

Nice to see the former presidents on Larry King. They seem so friendly, I can't help but think it's good for bi-partisanship. How did 43 turn out so unlike his pop, who seems to be smart, has a clue, is his own man.

Wow. I'm home from work with a sore throat, and watching the news developing on the shooting of a terrorist suspect by an air marshall at the Miami airport.

As of this moment it sounds like the passenger was manic but not a terrorist, though he did say he had a bomb. He seemed to be reaching for something when the marshall fired. It's almost exactly like the scenario on the London tube, isn't it? Too bad for the victim, but you can kind of understand how it happened.