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The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell was an okay book, not as great as I was anticipating it do be. It started slow, but picked up about a hundred pages in. There were some interesting points made throughout the book, interesting insights into the way certain things caught fire and snowballed from [...]

Now that’s a burger!

The Progress News: Behemoth burger puts Denny’s in top spot again
Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub of Clearfield retook the world record for largest restaurant hamburger on Saturday.
Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s latest salvo in the giant burger wars weighed in at 123 pounds, shattering the previous record of 105 pounds that was held [...]

Here’s a fun little flash game I saw mentioned on
paulandemily.com:

Monty Python’s Spamalot
You can play as the English or the Stinky French and catapult cows, chickens, etc. at approaching invaders, including the Black Knight and the Knights of Ni.
Enjoy!
My highest score so far was 2090…

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For the lack of anything else to post, here’s a quiz:

How Well Traveled Are You?
My results:
***Your Travel Profile:***
You Are Well Traveled in the Midwestern United States (50%)
You Are Well Traveled in the Northeastern United States (43%)
You Are Somewhat Well Traveled in the Western United States (26%)
You Are Somewhat Well Traveled in the Southern United [...]

Gollum and Smeagol Sing Barry White
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From ComingSoon.net -
C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters coming to the bigscreen.
Ralph Winter Productions is producing a bigscreen adaptation of the C.S. Lewis novel The Screwtape Letters with Philip Anschutz’s Walden Media, reports Variety. The film will be produced via Walden’s Bristol Bay Productions (Ray, Sahara).
The movie, which Walden hopes to release in 2008, [...]

Dating explained using circuits:
Smart Guys Date in Parallel.

Two years ago, I posted an entry entitled
Find Your Spot in which I listed my top places to live as chosen by my answers to questions on
FindYourSpot.com
I decided to take that quiz again. Lots can change over two years - job, age, opinions and feeling on issues, overall mindset, etc. [...]

Via Boundless.org:
Valentine’s Day by the Numbers

2.2 millionThe number of marriages that take place in the United States annually. That breaks down to more than 6,000 a day. <
http://www.cdc.gov>
25.3 and 27.1 The estimated U.S. median ages at first marriage for women and men, respectively, in 2005. The age for women rose 4.2 years [...]