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...While periods of combat were both intense and harrowing, the soldier's downtime could be incredibly mundane. In one photomontage, accompanied by narration, soldiers describe how they passed their time. Besides listening to their iPods and playing video games and Sudoku, they scheduled four-day bow and arrow competitions using tin cans and wooden posts as targets, with the winner receiving a bag of potato chips. Tired of eating their 4,000-calorie ration boxes that contained dried foodstuffs and chocolate, the soldiers express joy when friendly locals provide Afghan bread, onion and chilies...
...philosophy is that crosswords should embrace everything in life. When I started there were people who did not know much about the modern world so they found my puzzles harder and they wrote to complain. These people either died, or have given up on me. 11.FM: Sudoku seems to be on the wane. What are your predictions for the next big puzzle moneymaker?WS: I disagree on Sudoku. Well the craze has waned, just as the crossword craze of 1924-25 has waned. People at the time thought crosswords were another fad like flagpole sitting or raccoon coats...Sudoku...
...time it takes you to write on your own Facebook wall, Harvard chemistry graduate student Thomas M. Snyder can complete the average Sudoku puzzle—and he has an entry in the Guinness World Records to prove it. Snyder also had about this amount of time to dwell on his victory in the final round of the World Sudoku Championship, held two weeks ago in Prague. With just over a minute left on the clock, Snyder sat back while his contenders struggled away, and mused, “Wow, I’ve just won the championship...
Through Kajeet's "walleting" system, a parent deposits money into an account that allows kids to buy whatever they want from Kajeet--no less than nine SpongeBob ringtones ($2 each), celebrity wallpaper ($1.50), family friendly games like Sudoku ($5), text messaging (5¢ each) and, yes, phone calls (10¢ a minute). If a kid's Kajeet allowance is $20 a month and he blows it all on Beyoncé wallpaper, he won't be able to text or phone anyone--except his parents and 911, which are never blocked. "It helps kids learn about budgeting and responsibility without locking families into long...
...surely not the most difficult job in sales to persuade a kid of the appeal of a cell phone, especially one with serious mega-pixels, built-in video recorder and a web browser with access to a "walled garden" of family-friendly games from the likes of Nickelodeon. (Platinum Sudoku: $5) My daughter's one frustration was that the embedded foreign language translator could come up with no Spanish equivalent of "cranberry," which would have been helpful for a school assignment...