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...technology: radio. The Wi-Fi card in your laptop is a receiver, and the Wi-Fi router--which plugs into a cable or DSL modem at your home or office or coffee shop--is nothing more than a short-range transmitter-receiver. (Here's a piece of trivia for your next cocktail party: the patent on which Wi-Fi technology is based was filed back in 1942 by actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil.) Wi-Fi uses a frequency long set aside by the FCC for quirky radio devices--the downside being that microwave ovens and some brands...
...know quite how I qualified, but the Eisner nominees are decided by a panel of five professionals. These are chosen by Jackie Estrada, the award's long-time administrator, and a woman with whom you do not want to battle over "Little Lulu" trivia. The other four judges included Charles Vess, a longtime comix artist and illustrator; Jeremy Shorr, a jocular Texan who runs a comic store in Dallas; Steve Leaf, a purchasing agent for Diamond, America's largest comic distributor; and Jen Contino, a fellow web-based comix journalist. With the exception of Jen, who stayed home for personal...
Just two years ago, he seemed destined to become a mere footnote, a vague memory, the answer to an unasked trivia question. After watching the 2000 Harvard football season transform Barry Wahlberg from starting quarterback into forgotten reserve, few could have predicted that his senior year would find him chasing ghosts in the Crimson record books. Fewer still might have guessed that the records in question would come not in football, but in baseball...
...what Emmett is doing in his early-morning idylls is learning to love the trivia of daily existence--and he finds some of his life's missing meaning there. Baker doesn't just show us this: his prose is so luminescent and so precise it manually recalibrates our brains, so that as we read, we learn to see the way Emmett sees and find the beauty he finds. By the end of A Box of Matches, Emmett is a different person: a better, happier, more observant person. You just might find that you're one too. --By Lev Grossman
With the first round of drinks behind them, the seniors formed teams of three to play an FM personal-trivia game. Everyone in attendance left with some very valuable and often nautical-themed life lessons, not the least of which were that the Welsh word for Wales is “cymru” and male blue whales have an average penis length of 2m. Rampant cheating on the part of all parties involved prevented a clear determination of the game’s winners...