Word: humdrum
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...humdrum task you need to do over and over? Want to tell your computer to download all mom's emails to your iPod? Automator makes such jobs, well, automatic. One window (searchable with Spotlight) displays all tasks your various applications can do. Drag and drop them in order into another window, and presto-you're programming without the need to learn a scary computer language...
...good feeling and continued prosperity, voters in last week's humdrum off-year elections thumped for the status quo. New Jersey's Republican Governor Tom Kean, who won by only 1,797 votes four years ago, crushed his young Democratic challenger, Peter Shapiro. In a state where just 20% of the voters identify themselves as Republicans, Kean won more than 70% of the vote and every major city and district. The G.O.P., hitching a ride on the Kean juggernaut, achieved a majority in the state assembly for the first time in more than a decade...
...precise location of Manhattan's manholes and the Internet can inform us in seconds how to travel most efficiently from Tiananmen Square to the Champs Elys?es, maps have become monotonously correct. Everyone can have them. Almost everyone can use them. But their precision and ubiquity have made them humdrum. They intrigue us only slightly more than garden shears and can openers...
Unfortunately for the Cheney, he made a perfectly understandable slip of the tongue and instead gave out the address www.factcheck.com—which, at the time of the debate, pointed to a humdrum ad-bloated education site. Even more unfortunately for the vice president, whoever controls the web server with the .com address is apparently both quick-thinking and discontent with the current administration—factcheck.com almost immediately became a redirect to www.georgesoros.com, site (unsurprisingly) of wealthy liberal financier George Soros. The current tagline on that site is “Why we must not re-elect George...
Apron Chronicles A new exhibit reveals how this humdrum item evokes life stories...