Word: numbering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Number of those films that contain at least one act of violence...
PURE PLAY: Superbad.com is part art, part puzzle and part mind number. Since there are no directions, you don't really know where to click or why. But once you start, the series of strange, colorful pictures and patterns that flash before your eyes will keep you amused and intrigued. For more pointed fun, check out the minigames on shockwave.com which require a quick download of the Shockwave player. I got hooked on Water Balloon Drop, but there's also online poker, trivia games and even an Austin Powers dancing game...
...first blush, a novel about a pair of twins yoked together at their chests by a 7-in. band of cartilage sounds like one of those ideas more intriguing in the conception than the execution. Once the unusual premise has been established, what's left to do? A number of good answers can be found in Darrin Strauss's Chang and Eng (Dutton; 323 pages; $23.95), a fictionalized account of the real-life, and eponymous, Siamese twins (1811-74) who were widely exhibited as touring oddities and who then settled in rural North Carolina, married a pair of sisters...
...half-century after the Korean War, THE PENTAGON has just revised the number of Americans killed in the conflict, from 54,246 to 36,940. It seems that the higher figure--endorsed by the Encyclopaedia Britannica and engraved on the five-year-old KOREAN WAR VETERANS MEMORIAL on the National Mall in Washington--cropped up shortly after both sides declared a truce in 1953 and has been repeated, erroneously, ever since...
...founder of SonicNet (and I'm pretty sure, despite his denials, the Science Guy), wanted to interview me for a job at his new Internet start-up. He was vague on details about the company and said he couldn't tell me its name. He did, however, mention (a number of times) that it is pre-IPO. That was exactly how I dreamed it would happen...