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9 Things To Do Sunday Night Instead of Watching The Super Bowl

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 04.06.2012

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There are actually other things you could do with those four hours Sunday besides watch the Patriots and Giants do battle: "Downton Abbey" is on, damnnit!

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'Words With Friends' Game Saves Man's Life

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 02.03.2012

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UPDATED Feb. 3: "The Doctors" arranged a surprise meeting for Beth Legler and the Fletchers on the TV show. Watch the video above for more. * * * ...

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Xbox 360 vs. Mom 51

Melissa T. Shultz | Posted 02.11.2012

It wasn't always like this. I welcomed you into our home, made you part of our family. Soon you were the go-to source of fun, intoxicating, always on, ready. Still, I had my doubts about your influence and your stability.

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5 Games Every Post50 Woman Should Know

Posted 11.16.2011

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Along with dealing with defiant teens, adjusting to empty nests, and struggling through divorces - not to mention the plotting, scheming, and murder-f...

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Strip Scrabble? Missing Tile Leads Player To Make Odd Demand At Championship

Posted 12.17.2011

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Folks at the World Scrabble Championship take the word game pretty seriously, and when a tile goes missing, they'll even demand a strip search of thei...

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Model And FEED CEO Lauren Bush Gives Us Her 5 Favorite Apps

The Huffington Post | Jason O. Gilbert | Posted 09.20.2011

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Perhaps best known as a model and niece of President George W. Bush, Lauren Bush is more importantly the co-founder and CEO of FEED Projects, an organ...

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Controversy Over Scrabble Admitting 3000 New Words

Slate Magazine | Stefan Fatsis | Posted 07.16.2011

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Here we go again, Scrabble fans. A year ago, the media went bonkers over news that the venerable word game, seeking to spice things up for the youn...

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Finding Artistic Inspiration in People With Asperger's Syndrome

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Many people take their ability to think for granted. For some people, thinking seems to happen automatically. Others struggle to understand a concept....

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Throwing Out the Job, Throwing in the World

Stacy Tasman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Americans feel pressure against taking a year off between studies to gain broader experience in the world. Such a breach of structure, and the word "gap," is all too threatening to the resume.

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Word Junkie?

Posted 05.25.2011

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The unofficial number of apps available is something like ten billion. Of that number, eight billion are amazingly boring free apps like Pimple Popper...

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Books Keep The Obamas Busy On Vacation

New York Times | JACKIE CALMES | Posted 05.25.2011

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The president and his daughters have books to keep them company; they bought two bags' worth at a bookstore here over the sunny weekend....

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Official Scrabble Rules NOT Changing

AP | MAE ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Scrabble purists can relax. News of a new version of the classic word game that Mattel plans to sell in the U.K. allowing proper noun...

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Stephen Colbert On The Scrabble Controversy (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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There's been a lot of controversy on the Internet recently over the word game Scrabble, which the BBC claimed yesterday would be changing its rules to...

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Scrabble Rules CHANGE In UK, Proper Nouns Now Allowed

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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The rules of word game Scrabble are being changed for the first time in its history to allow the use of proper nouns, games company Mattel has said....

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Scrabble: the Movie

Lawrence Shulruff | Posted 05.25.2011

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After spending years trying to break into the Hollywood ranks by penning rom-coms, thrillers, and a sci-fi flick or two, I have finally come up with a formula that spells B-L-O-C-K-B-U-S-T-E-R.

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Did Sarah Palin Ever Play Scrabble?

The Atlantic | Andrew Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amy Hertz from Huffington Post: We found this little tidbit of Scrabble gossip from Sarah Palin's memoir with a query about whether or not she played ...

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Dave Wiegand: Oregon Man Wins National Scrabble Competition

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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DAYTON, Ohio — An Oregon man is $10,000 richer after winning the 2009 National Scrabble Championship in Ohio. Dave Wiegand of Portland, Ore., t...

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Plumbing the Depths of GOP Labels

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011

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How can the GOP get more votes in the future, even if it doesn't diversify its monikers? Perhaps by assembling a synergistic coalition of "hockey moms" and "NASCAR dads."

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So Long, Scrabulous! Hasbro/Scrabble Wins

CNET, ReadWriteWeb, Facebook | Posted 05.25.2011

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What's a nine-letter word for copyright? Well, er: C-O-P-Y-R-I-G-H-T. The popular Facebook application Scrabulous, a word-making board game that qu...

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What is it That Jesse Jackson Wants to Cut Off?

Joan Garry | Posted 05.25.2011

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From what I am able to gather, Jesse got really, really mad at Senator Obama about something. He wants something cut off from the Senator: N _ _ S.

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What Businesses Can Learn From Scrabulous

Technology Evangelist | Ed Kohler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scrabulous, as the New York Times reported this weekend, is spreading like wildfire within Facebook. People who were logging into their Facebook accou...

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Hasbro Tries To Shut Down "Scrabulous"

Fortune | Josh Quittner | Posted 05.25.2011

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I can't tell if Hasbro (HAS), the maker of Scrabble, is the smartest company in the world or the dumbest. Over 100 million sets of the game have been ...

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