USA Today has doctored a photo of Condi Rice. From the Pen has the before and after shots, as does Michelle Malkin.

Mike says it’s more free publicity for Adobe.

UPDATE: USA Today corrects, with this comment:

Editor’s note: The photo of Condoleezza Rice that originally accompanied this story was altered in a manner that did not meet USA TODAY’s editorial standards. The photo has been replaced by a properly adjusted copy. Photos published online are routinely cropped for size and adjusted for brightness and sharpness to optimize their appearance. In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor brightened a portion of Rice’s face, giving her eyes an unnatural appearance. This resulted in a distortion of the original not in keeping with our editorial standards.

UPDATE 2:

California Conservative uncovers yet another manipulation. ;-)

And a Michelle Malkin reader thinks the USA Today’s note (posted above) is a lie. And Confederate Yankee also calls the bluff. Classical Values tries red instead of white.

Jack Germain of Newsfactor.com wrote an interesting article on Monday about a system that is in development to prevent email spoofing. The problem is, he gets a key point wrong. Emphasis mine.

When the telephone rings, most people check the caller ID window before answering. If they see the name or phone number of a family member, friend, or business associate, the conversation begins without fear or inconvenience

The telephone equipment cannot be tricked. Even when the caller ID window displays “out of area” or “name blocked” messages, telephone users do not have to worry about risking their identity or placing personal information at risk if they decline to answer.

But this is not the case with e-mail. Malefactors can easily spoof the sender’s address to trick the recipient into opening the message. Tricksters often make the subject line so inviting that the user cannot wait to click on a message that, once opened, might contain harmful computer code that installs ID-sniffing components or makes the computer susceptible to more unwanted e-mails, otherwise known as spam.

Mr. Germain should do a little Googling before he writes his next article on technology. :-)

Drudge has an interesting flash this morning.

“We have double sourced that the vice president’s chief of staff has been indicted,” a reporter for ABCNEWS claimed to a White House press spokesman this afternoon.

The White House refused to comment on the claim. The network said they didn’t need comment, they were preparing to run with the development on this evening’s network news broadcast, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

…

A senior White House source quickly determined ABC was bluffing; the report did not run on the East coast feed of the program.

Heh.

Or did Drudge get bluffed? Flopping Aces had a busy evening.