From the Beacon: What's a 5-letter word for crossword puzzle fans? Books
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The Puzzle of Two Footballs
American football is a staccato, violent, over-plotted travesty bereft of flow.

The top 50 Android tablet apps
Whether you've got a Samsung Galaxy Tab, Amazon's Kindle Fire or another Android tablet, you'll be looking for some great apps. We've picked some of the best Apple sold 15.4m iPads in the final quarter of 2011, but there is more to the market than one manufacturer and OS. Strategy Analytics estimates that 39% of the 26.8m tablets that shipped that quarter were running Google's Android operating ...

Actually, I've Tried Google Ads And Facebook Ads And Facebook Ads Are Much Better...
When a few weeks back my friend and occasional interviewer, Henry Blodget , the CEO of Business Insider , tweeted word of a new BI piece defending Google (with the characteristically understated headline, “ Like Hell Facebook is Killing Google �), I tweeted back to Henry that I’d be happy to take the other side of that argument.

Jaroslav Foglar and his “Rapid Arrows�
Writer and youth movement activist Jaroslav Foglar left a deep trace in Czech popular culture. Besides more than 25 novels for children, Jaroslav Foglar is also the father of Rychlé šípy, or “Rapid Arrows�, a legendary comics that has earned a following with generations of Czech readers. Persecuted by the Nazis and the communists, the writer also single-handedly founded his own youth ...