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stormiestlHHGG text-game on the Web
The old Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy text-based Infocom adventure game has been tarted up with some new graphics and re-released as a little Flash app by the BBC.
Link (via Waxy): http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
RIP, Twinkies, Wonder Bread, Ho-Hos, RingDings..
Interstate Bakeries files Chapter 11. And with it, an era of American pop gastronomy meets its end. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the carb; For in that sleep of death what Twinkies may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal Ho-Ho, must give us pause; there's the respect that makes creme-filled treats of so long life.
Link to Business Week article:
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2004/nf20040923_2833_db016.htm
But Newsday wins the best hed award: Twinkies Maker Out of Dough:
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzbake0923,0,246937.story?coll=ny-business-headlines
Major League Baseball Fans
Four Major League Baseball fans went rock climbing: a Yankees fan, a Red Sox fan, a Cubs fan and a Cardinals fan. They had been arguing all the way up the mountain about who amongst them loved their team more and was the most "diehard" fan. The argument grew hotter and hotter and the four fans grew more and more agitated. Such was the emotion that upon reaching the top of the mountain, the Yankees fan proclaimed loudly and earnestly to the other three, "This is for the New York Yankees!" and without a moment's hesitation threw himself off the mountain. The supreme sacrifice!
Not to be outdone by a Yankees fan, the Red Sox fan jumped up and cried out, "This is for the Boston Red Sox!" and quickly threw himself off the mountain, also willing to sacrifice himself to prove his devotion to his team. Refusing to be outdone by the Yankees and Red Sox fans, the Cardinals fan rose to his feet, summoned up every ounce of his courage, and yelled at the top of his lungs, "This is for the St. Louis Cardinals!" and without a moment's hesitation, shoved the Cubs fan off the mountain. GO CARDS!
The old Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy text-based Infocom adventure game has been tarted up with some new graphics and re-released as a little Flash app by the BBC.
Link (via Waxy): http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
RIP, Twinkies, Wonder Bread, Ho-Hos, RingDings..
Interstate Bakeries files Chapter 11. And with it, an era of American pop gastronomy meets its end. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the carb; For in that sleep of death what Twinkies may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal Ho-Ho, must give us pause; there's the respect that makes creme-filled treats of so long life.
Link to Business Week article:
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2004/nf20040923_2833_db016.htm
But Newsday wins the best hed award: Twinkies Maker Out of Dough:
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzbake0923,0,246937.story?coll=ny-business-headlines
Major League Baseball Fans
Four Major League Baseball fans went rock climbing: a Yankees fan, a Red Sox fan, a Cubs fan and a Cardinals fan. They had been arguing all the way up the mountain about who amongst them loved their team more and was the most "diehard" fan. The argument grew hotter and hotter and the four fans grew more and more agitated. Such was the emotion that upon reaching the top of the mountain, the Yankees fan proclaimed loudly and earnestly to the other three, "This is for the New York Yankees!" and without a moment's hesitation threw himself off the mountain. The supreme sacrifice!
Not to be outdone by a Yankees fan, the Red Sox fan jumped up and cried out, "This is for the Boston Red Sox!" and quickly threw himself off the mountain, also willing to sacrifice himself to prove his devotion to his team. Refusing to be outdone by the Yankees and Red Sox fans, the Cardinals fan rose to his feet, summoned up every ounce of his courage, and yelled at the top of his lungs, "This is for the St. Louis Cardinals!" and without a moment's hesitation, shoved the Cubs fan off the mountain. GO CARDS!
