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      • Lord Google
        08/27/07
        A little over a decade ago, in Dave Barry in Cyberspace, Dave wrote, "THERE IS NO PERSONAL FINANCE PROGRAM OTHER THAN QUICKEN. THERE IS ONLY QUICKEN. YOU LOVE QUICKEN. QUICKEN IS GOD. YOU WILL BUY QUICKEN." This was accurate enough at the time, but if he were writing today, he would replac

      • Overdrive
        08/17/07
        In The World of Mathematics, James Newman writes about Truman Henry Safford, who, at the age of ten, was able to square an 18-digit number in his head in less than a minute. While he was performing this incredible feat, however, he “flew around the room like a top, pulled his pantaloons over the top