Monthly Archives: February 2009

A bad taste in your mouth

Immokalee is the tomato capital of the United States. Between December and May, as much as 90 percent of the fresh domestic tomatoes we eat come from south Florida, and Immokalee is home to one of the area’s largest communities of farmworkers. According to Douglas Molloy, the chief assistant U.S. attorney based in Fort Myers, [...]
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Don’t write on the screen, kids

Apparently “The Potato Chip Puzzles” will have a Kindle edition.
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How to guarantee a hard time at the airport

Buy one of these suitcases.
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Worry no more, British people!

The Faith of Britain is coming to save you! For exactly two minutes on March 6th at 11.00am our consortium of psychics and healers will act as a channel for the positive thoughts of the entire country. With over 80 million people concentrating their mental energies at the same time on the same day, we [...]
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Want to improve at crosswords?

Maybe you need Steven M. Manin, the crossword coach! It only costs $75 an hour, and hell, even that drops down to $60 an hour if you sign up for ten or more sessions. $600 to get better at crosswords! Tell me that isn’t a stone cold bargain. What, you might wonder, do you get for that money? Let’s [...]
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I, for one, welcome…

…the new Simpsons opening sequence.
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Dollhouse

I was late to discover the joys of Buffy and Firefly, so I was determined to get in on the ground floor of Joss Whedon’s latest show, Dollhouse. I caught the first episode on Hulu this weekend and was absolutely bowled over… by how little sense it all made. A few spoilery thoughts: - Attention [...]
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“Special needs senior can’t be in commencement”

A news story specially designed to make the blood vessels in my brain throb.
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Maybe I’m psychic

You won’t believe this, but it turns out that the bailout of the nation’s banks is going to be, according to the New York Times, ”far bigger than anyone predicted.” That’s right. No one in the country could have possibly guessed that when the government said the bailout would cost one trillion dollars, that it would really [...]
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What are these plus and minus signs doing near my crossword??

So the iconic New York Times crossword puzzle is joined, starting today, by a new puzzle — the mathy sudoku variant, KenKen. What do you think? Will it last? Will the word lovers who turn to the crossword every day be willing to take a few extra minutes to engage the numbers/logic side of their [...]
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