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  • Bob Harris
    7:33 pm Mon, Nov 9, 2020
    Remembering Alex Trebek and the Jeopardy! wedding

    Bob Harris is an author and screenwriter who appeared on Jeopardy! fourteen times between 1997 and 2014. His book about the show is Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!. … Read the rest of the article: Remembering Alex Trebek and the Jeopardy! wedding

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  • Bob Harris
    8:12 am Sat, Jun 30, 2012
    Bike Zambia to fight HIV/AIDS

    My friends at Bike Zambia have been working for months to raise both funds and awareness for local HIV/AIDS prevention with their 300-mile cross-country bike ride from the capital of Lusaka… Read the rest of the article: Bike Zambia to fight HIV/AIDS

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  • Bob Harris
    10:56 am Mon, Feb 28, 2011
    The fish pedicure: a foot-holder's-eye view

    Had a long layover in the Singapore airport the other day. What to do? Why, I visited the Fish Spa, of course, where for just S$30 (about US$23) I could… Read the rest of the article: The fish pedicure: a foot-holder's-eye view

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  • Bob Harris
    4:53 pm Fri, Feb 18, 2011
    What Watson might do after crushing humankind on Jeopardy

    Now that Watson has predictably used his inhuman buzzer skills to romp on non-inhumankind, what does the big lug do for a follow-up? Stephen Baker, who has written a whole… Read the rest of the article: What Watson might do after crushing humankind on Jeopardy

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  • Bob Harris
    10:21 am Fri, Feb 11, 2011
    IBM's "Watson" Jeopardy! computer: it's all about the digits

    Thanks to my own 13 games of Jeopardy! and the book about it and all, lots of people (including the New York Times) have asked my opinion about the whole… Read the rest of the article: IBM's "Watson" Jeopardy! computer: it's all about the digits

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  • Bob Harris
    3:16 pm Thu, Feb 10, 2011
    iPhone confession app for sinners on the go

    Finally! A way to confess your sins with one hand while possibly still committing them with the other: Confession: a Roman Catholic App comes with "a personalized examination of conscience… Read the rest of the article: iPhone confession app for sinners on the go

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  • Bob Harris
    9:17 am Thu, Feb 3, 2011
    Round-the-world with no bags for 90 days for charity

    ScotteVest, tech- and travel-friendly clothing makers mentioned here periodically since 2001 ("nerdwear of the first water" it was called then), started something called the "No Baggage Challenge" last year. Travel… Read the rest of the article: Round-the-world with no bags for 90 days for charity

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  • Bob Harris
    9:43 am Mon, Jan 31, 2011
    Hollaback: fighting street harassment, one uploaded nimrod at a time

    The folks at Hollaback! came up with a novel solution for combatting public sexual harassment of women: just grab your phone, take a picture of the chump, and upload it… Read the rest of the article: Hollaback: fighting street harassment, one uploaded nimrod at a time

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  • Bob Harris
    3:42 pm Fri, Jan 28, 2011
    Poster-sized map of BSG/Caprica 12 colonies

    Given the recent mournful Caprica love here, this should gladden a few toaster-loving hearts: former showrunner Jane Espenson and science advisor Kevin Grazier (a JPL astronomer who works on the… Read the rest of the article: Poster-sized map of BSG/Caprica 12 colonies

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  • Bob Harris
    11:10 am Fri, Nov 26, 2010
    Glenn Beck believes in four insane things before breakfast

    Missed in the brouhaha over Sarah Palin's verbal flub about our North Korean "allies," and much more telling: According to host Glenn Beck's own transcript, Beck's very next utterance was to proclaim… Read the rest of the article: Glenn Beck believes in four insane things before breakfast

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  • Bob Harris
    1:11 pm Fri, Mar 5, 2010
    A trip to the Peruvian Andes

    (As part of his research for a book he's writing on microfinance, Bob Harris took a trip through the Peruvian Andes, including Cusco, Lake Titicaca, Machu Picchu, where he studied… Read the rest of the article: A trip to the Peruvian Andes

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