I love this post from Alex Tabarrok, with the photo of George Bush heeding Tyler Cowen's advice on how to keep meetings short.
If you visit the original story, you will learn that those standing in the photo are actually journalists and not White House staffers. The photo was taken by a White House photographer named Joyce Boghosian, and since she didn't bother to clean up the EXIF data (newspapers rountinely do this, but apparently the White House press office doesn't run quite as tight a ship) you can see the exact time the picture was taken, what kind of camera equipment and editing software the White House uses, etc. Here's more on EXIF metadata from Ryan Brenizer, including how terrorists apparently use it to encode instructions via the internet. Tricky, tricky!
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