You're really selling me on it ...

from the NYT...

HANK STEINBERG already had the best kind of creative credentials when he walked into network offices ready to pitch his idea for “The Nine.” He had created a hit series in the CBS procedural drama “Without a Trace,” one of the many successful hourlong shows that tell a complete story each week. He was looking to branch out creatively.

“I wanted to do a serialized show after doing a closed-ended, episodic series,” Mr. Steinberg said. He was aware of “24” and “Lost,” he said, and how addicted viewers were to them, though he himself was not hooked.

But he and his co-creator, his sister K. J. Steinberg, wanted a more realistic series, without any supernatural plot twists. “We wanted the event to have a mundane quality to it,” Mr. Steinberg said. “A sense of randomness.”

1 vs 100: What have we learned?

One of the "Deal or No Deal" models is just as smart as Ken Jennings.

America's great new catch phrase is not "The Money ... or the Mob."

Plato and Aristotle were bouncers.

We really need to pay (some of) America's science teachers more and/or buy better textbooks.

This would be an exponentially better game without the multiple choice answers.

"Who Wants to Be A Millionaire" really f***ed up game shows forever in terms of easier ($100) questions and bad Star Trek scenic design, although they may have based this set on the water drop scene from "Flashdance."

i'm so glad they listed death last.

Less than a week after the Food and Drug Administration lifted its warning on fresh spinach grown in California's Salinas Valley, a popular brand of lettuce grown there was recalled Sunday over concerns about E. coli contamination.
The lettuce does not appear to have caused any illnesses, the president of Salinas-based Nunes Co. Inc. said.

The lettuce scare comes amid other federal warnings that some brands of spinach, bottled carrot juice and recent shipments of beef could cause grave health risks — including paralysis, respiratory failure and death.

Ask any child under ten ... vegetables are evil. And not just the killer tomatoes.

Handle with care

So i'm in the new Starbucks bathroom and I notice the paper towel dispenser.

Not only does it remind the employees they are required to wash their hands there are actually 6 diagrams WITH WRITTEN INSTRUCTIONS underneath that reminder ... on how to wash your hands.

1. turn on faucet.

I think they need to improve the job applications if they really hire people who need six. Two diagrams seemed has always seemed excessive on a hand dryer.