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The civilized world is making a big deal out of the discovery of this as-yet unspotted Amazonian tribe:

Wonder what they would make of this image, captured in Chicago with Google’s legally dubious street-view van?

Having spent a bit of time on the Amazon myself, there is little question in my mind as to which image poses the greater anthropological curiosity…

The Many Names of "Alan" Jacobs...

1. “‘Come On, You Call This A Manifesto?’ screams a headline in the May 9th Wall Street Journal over a column by Wheaton College’s Gary Jacobs” (Martin Marty, “Manifesto,” Sightings, May 12, 2008).
2. “The Wall Street Journal on May 9 published an editorial by Wheaton College Professor Alan Jacobs (whom I misidentified as Peter Jacobs in a column May 12) that chided the authors of the Manifesto for not being aggressive enough” (Martin Marty, Washington Post’s “On Faith,” May 14, 2008).
3. “Last Monday’s column, ‘Manifesto,’ erroneously named Gary Jacobs as the author of a Wall Street Journal column … . The author is Alan Jacobs, of Wheaton College” (Ed.’s note, Sightings, May 15, 2008).