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...been teaching the important holiday lessons for years. Charlie goes from juvenile depressive to play director, Linus goes from psychological problem child to biblical prophet, and the whole gang learns Christmas is about decorating puny trees. If you need to keep your annoying cousins company after Christmas dinner, plop them in front of the TV, pop this into the DVD player, and break the seal on a bottle of gin. TAKE A SHOT… 1. Every time Linus does something vaguely biblical—throwing his snowball with a slingshot a la David, being offered Sally as his wife...
...sure, the decision to plop “garden” down after the “flowing” syllables of “TD Banknorth” was neither hasty nor lighthearted. It was stupid. If TD Banknorth was looking to inspire brand loyalty, it should have re-renamed the arena Boston Garden and then, in the tradition of most halftime shows these days, added a little, semi-noticeable blurb underneath saying “Presented by TD Banknorth.” Exactly why the company thought elongating an arena name to epic lengths would endear goodwill among...
...correction - resulting in a reduction of opportunities for advancement. Know what I'm talking about? Hutch Owen knows. He knows it's b.s. He's that little guy inside your mind telling you you're wasting your life in a cubicle. He's the one chiding you as you plop down your dough for some stupid new gadget. He's also the star of Tom Hart's scathing new collection, "Hutch Owen: Unmarketable!" (Top Shelf; 180 pages; $15) A devastating satire, "Unmarketable" feels like a scalding hot poker cauterizing the open wound of American corporate and consumer culture...
...starters, you'll never knock over your coffee with your mouse cable again--but it comes at a price: most wireless mice eat AA batteries the way real mice eat cheese. That's where Logitech's new MX700 mouse ($80) comes in. The MX700 runs on rechargeable batteries. Plop it into its base station whenever it runs low, and it will be good as new the next day. The MX700 also has racy wind-tunnel styling, and it's studded with useful dials and buttons for scrolling and switching applications on the fly. True...
...Plop...click...whirr. It is not exactly lilting, but that electronic tune is rivaling Silent Night and Jingle Bells for popularity this Christmas season. It is the sound of videocassette recorders gathering tapes into their cradles and, with a twinkling of lights and the push of buttons, bringing forth a host of intriguing new images on millions of TV screens. The machines, universally known as VCRs, are selling at nearly double the rate of a year ago; with the holiday boost, December sales alone are expected to reach 1 million, a single-month record. ...Plop...click...whirr. The sound...