NYT 6:40LAT tbaNewsday tbaCS tbaWhen I was in Hollywood for Merv Griffin’s Crosswords, I didn’t see a single movie star. I will, however, be having dinner Saturday with two stars—Al Sanders and Tyler Hinman from Wordplay. Al and his son are in town for a youth hockey tournament this weekend and Tyler lives about 12 [...]

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The Baylor Basketball team is off to a great start this year. After a heart-breaking 10-point loss in an exhibition game to Tarleton State at the beginning of the month, Scott Drew’s squad has a 4-0 record, capped off by defeating Wichita State, Notre Dame, and Winthrop to win the 2007 Paradise Jam tournament in the [...]

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Is this the epitomy of lazy or are we shopping smarter to reduce returns? It may be that too often we find that the gifts we give are returned because of the wrong size, color, an unwanted item, a duplicate, or a defection, but gift cards solve those issues. A gift card is a quick [...]

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Let’s not forget Radio Shack for Black Friday. They have some pretty good deals on GPS navigation systems. Magellan Maestro 4040 for $300: For $499.99 (list), the Maestro 4040 offers a surprisingly large number of features. Most important is Magellan’s SayWhere text-to-speech engine, which enables the device to pronounce street names and exit ramps. Next, [...]

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For the rookies and veterans preparing Thanksgiving Dinner…a very important cooking lesson. Rat Poison canNOT be subsituted for flour.  One wonders why anybody would have rat poison in the kitchen anyway. Still in the midst of China’s big push for safety, quality control, sanity and such, a Chinese cook, put rat poison in his rice [...]

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I had some time this morning since I have my dinner basically finished (evil laugh) and I wanted to post some ideas for what to do when, all of a sudden, you find out YOU are hosting Thanksgiving, and cooking. It happens. Maybe the relatives that were going to host got sick, or decided to [...]

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I thought this story had quieted down but it apparently hasn’t.  The film is so good and so sweet and so sad – it’s difficult to get behind the mentality where the victim is blamed, and in this case not even the victim but the actor playing the victim.   Here is an NPR updated story [...]

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Simon Barrow and Jonathan Bartley from Ekklesia are beginning to tread onto the hallowed turf of Church of England Church Schools and to ask some serious questions from a Christian perspective about their appropriateness and success. This makes a pleasant change from the normally shrill  and frequently ill-informed criticisms of the small group of left-wing [...]

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We do think this is a good deal if Google will finally buy Skype, as for our users, we may get more free quality VoIP service. From Guardian.co.uk Currently in favour around London’s webbist community is the rumour that Google has been in negotiations to buy Skype, the web telephony firm, from eBay. This makes [...]

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Rumors are surfacing that Brad’s ex-girlfriend got in contact with him and they were dating during the entire show. She is also expected to give birth to Brad’s baby fairly soon, allegedly. OH. MY. GAWD.Last night the bachelor, Brad Womack went to a Rodeo Drive jeweler, picked out a nice shiny diamond engagement ring, then [...]

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