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Archive for December, 2008

Quirk – a Bendable Pencil

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Denise Bagley from ComfortStylus.com recently sent me a sample of their Quirk Bendable Pencil, thinking it would be of interest to the puzzle solvers who visit this website.
I generally solve puzzles with a pen. However my wife, Janet, used it for a few weeks, and submitted the following review:

Comfortstylus is a fancy name for a [...]

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Vote for Topspin!

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

My employer, Topspin, has been nominated for a Crunchie award for “Best New Startup of 2008.”
I will personally vouch for us: Among all the Crunchie nominees, Topspin is indeed the best new startup of 2008! Okay, seriously, I don’t know a heck of a lot about the other nominees, who I imagine are [...]

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Instant Party Videos – a How-to Guide

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

At our company Christmas party, I helped set up two monitors to display an endless stream of amusing short videos, including cartoons, psychadelic eye candy, and various shorts of guys in Santa Claus suits doing extreme sports and other interesting things. The videos were chosen so they could be watched silently, while loud party [...]

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GEL Videos

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Hey kids, remember that 2007 GEL conference talk I posted on YouTube a few months back? Well, GEL impressario Mark Hurst has posted my talk, along with a collection of other equally (if not more) fascinating GEL talks (each precisely 20 minutes long), for your amusement and enlightenment.
Hopefully, these videos will inspire [...]

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