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Game over? Not quite: Scrabulous' founding brothers, Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, just launched Wordscraper, a build-your-own game that, coincidentally, uses a grid the same size as Scrabble's. If a Facebook player happens to make a board that's identical to Scrabble's--a feat that takes less than two minutes--well, it's a free world. Hasbro officials did not comment on the new application...
...help promote reconciliation on a national scale, Samarra's security forces last month invited some 12,000 Shi'ites from Najaf and elsewhere to visit the shrine site. "After two months, it will be Ramadan, and we will invite many more," said Mohammed. "We are trying to re-build the relationship between both sides...
...those twisty carbon fluorescent lightbulbs. We can unplug our televisions, computers and phone chargers when we're not using them. We can seal our windows, install more insulation and adjust our thermostats so that we waste less heat and air-conditioning. We can use more-efficient appliances, build more-efficient homes and drive more-efficient cars, preferably with government assistance. And, yes, we can inflate our tires and tune our engines, as Republican governors Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Charlie Crist of Florida have urged, apparently without consulting the RNC. While we're at it, we can cut down...
...place at the best of times. Around half of the population are Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority that has long chafed under highly repressive Chinese rule, and it shares long borders with both Afghanistan and Pakistan, home to jihadist movements such as the Taliban and al-Qaeda. In the build-up to the Beijing Olympic opening day of August 8th, normally tight security in the region has been ratcheted up even more; in recent months, senior Chinese officials have boasted of capturing and jailing scores of would-be separatists...
...claim that he could achieve balance by cutting government spending elicited an immediate and justifiable Yeah, right from the experts. As always, he was fixated on cutting little things, the so-called earmarks that our legislators put in to provide funds for museums commemorating the harmonica and to build bridges to nowhere. A worthy crusade, a hardy McCain perennial, but one that would net only about $20 billion per year. Meanwhile, McCain was also proposing to extend the Bush tax cuts and add others, including a significant corporate-tax-rate cut, which would subtract about $300 billion. "McCain...