Monthly Archives: April 2009

“The well-meaning idea has missed the mark.”

Really? You mean “Dress as a Disabled Person Day” wasn’t a great big hit?
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Is this a joke?

Or is this the worst Internet consultant ever? I’m really not sure.
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He got the beat

Wes Carroll, an excellent beatboxer in his own right, says this is the best beatboxing he has ever seen. I believe him.
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Let the experiment begin!

What the heck, why not? I’ve started a Kickstarter page for a new crossword project. Want to get in on the ground floor? Click here.
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Kickstarter

This is an intriguing new Web site. Basically, it’s a meeting site where various people can tempt others into funding their projects, whatever those projects might be. If the person who started the project raises the desired amount of money.. well, I guess that person goes on to actually create what he promised, and everyone [...]
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Oprah owns the phrase “Aha moment”?

That’s certainly why her company seems to be implying. I had no idea she even made puzzles.
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Wow, I must be playing it wrong

This is a Scrabble commercial??
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Today’s Vital Question

Okay, crossword people: Is there a hands-down winner in the “best online crossword-solving interface?” The Across Lite Java app — used by BEQ and others — seems to have become the gold standard. Is that really the very best one? It’s certainly playable, and I like how the clues are shown in red, but it [...]
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Only Ken Jennings can save us now

IBM is completing a computer program it hopes will take on human Jeopardy contestants.
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Idunit

Every hobby, occupation, and passing interest has its organization, and for writers and illustrators of kids’ books, that organization is SCBWI, or the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. (I assume people pronounce this “Scooby.” I certainly do.) (It’s a silent W.) I’m not a member of Scooby, but six months ago I applied [...]
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