Here’s another edition of ten random items found in the weekly blogjog.

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1. NOW WE GET IT: Today is the fifth anniversary of that famous scene with President Bush standing beneath the big “Mission Accomplished” banner, and the White House is finally getting around to explaining what that message really meant: Spokesperson Dana Perino said, “President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific, and said, ‘Mission Accomplished For These Sailors Who Are On This Ship On Their Mission’. And we have certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner. And I recognize that the media is going to play this up again…as they do every single year.” Wonder why.

2. WRITING REWRITTEN HISTORY: Of course, this isn’t the first time the White House has tried to supply a rational explanation for “Mission Accomplished.” Just last year, Perino insisted that “we did prevail.” Which do you believe.

3. GOING UP?: You get in the elevator and push the close door button because you feel it’s not moving fast enough. But you’re wasting your time. The Close Door button doesn’t really work with the exception of one specific instance, and that’s not the one you’re in. There is also a limit to how high an elevator can be. These and other things you never knew about elevators can be found here. Now you can amaze your friends.

4. NEW HOPE IN THE LAB: Scientists have found what could be a serious breakthrough in stopping the spread of HIV. Researchers have managed to block HIV infection in the test tube, which could destroy the virus’s ability to dodge anti-HIV drugs. Let’s hope. This would be a nice one to do away with.

5. DISTURBING: The Montana Meth Project is determined to alert people to the dangers of the drug meth. A series of ads drive that point home, in a manner that’s almost as disturbing as the reality of a meth user’s addiction. Which one hits you the hardest? I think “Mother” and “Lipstick” are particularly rough to view.

6. PROTESTING HOW?: A newly-featured blogger over at Lowcountry Blogs, Jeff Tompkins, reported on a protest of record fuel prices by a convoy of truckers who drove to Washington. He had the line of the week: “Isn’t driving huge trucks around to protest gas prices a little bit like PETA protesting meat-eating by, I don’t know, eating hamburgers?”

7. HOW LOW CAN SHE GO?: You have heard this one before: a week after the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric posted its lowest ratings ever, they’ve dropped even lower for the week of April 21. Katie is staying, according to her bosses at CBS. Wonder how long the insistence will go on if the rating slump also goes on.

8. MONTANA MEMOIR REVISITED: Just last week, in this same slot, I pointed out a story about Miley Cyrus, better known as “Hannah Montana,” planning to write her memoir at 15. “How long can the memoir be?” I seem to remember having asked. I guess the photo shoot controversy for Vanity Fair came just at the right time. She can probably get several chapters out of that fiasco!

9. DROP ZONE: In the town of Solapur in India, Muslims have been engaging in a bizarre practice for hundreds of years: they drop their babies from a 50-foot high tower into a white sheet stretched out below. The practice is designed to make the kids healthy and strong. In America, wouldn’t this be child abuse? Or at least reckless endangerment?

10. GREAT INVENTION: If you’re a soup lover, this could be the greatest invention ever. I’m not going to say anything else about it…you’ll just have to go see it for yourself.