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[A nice, short sidebar after Lex's lengthy manuscript yesterday. You need friends who listen to you, Lex!]

Dustbusters have really come a long way. At the Black & Decker outlet store in Kittery yesterday, we picked up a new DustBuster 9.6V "cyclonic action" model. In a literal sense, this thing sucks. Unlike our old Dustbuster Plus, which always sounded like it was struggling to pick up bits of hair (and, indeed, did struggle), the new one sounds like an airplane taking off and captures everything near it.
--Max
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2005.02.27
Anecdote of the Moment
A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it.'
Niels Bohr
Query of the Moment
Watching some of the Oscars. Why are their so many empty seats at 9:40pm? You would think it would be a pretty hot ticket.