Here’s a cute little quiz that ends with telling you what book you are.

Spawned from this news story about a Singapore mobile-phone game called “Gunslingers”, I came up with a (surely this has been thought of before) idea for a high-tech update to TAG.

We could design a spin-off from one of the social websites (like Friendster, etc.) that would randomly assign you a target of a participating player. The players could be given the Bluetooth ID of their target/assasin’s cellphone. The assasin would have to get close enough to his target to have the Bluetooth/java app recognize the target, then spend 5 seconds in their vicinity to “tag” their target. Targets would have to access a “return fire” app on their phones that would lessen in probability as each second ticked off. So, during the first second the probability of repeling an attack would be 100%, 80% during the second, etc.

Parameters would have to be drawn up about (a) number of tag attempts/day, (b) points for partial/repeled tags and a few other things.

UPS pulled next Monday’s “Dear Abby” column when they suspected it was a fake based on a Simpsons episode.

The writer says her husband, Gene, gave her a bowling ball for her birthday — complete with the holes drilled to fit his fingers and embossed with his name. Undeterred, the woman decides to learn to bowl and heads to the local lanes, where she meets another man, Franco, who is “kind, considerate and loving.”

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In the television show, Homer responds by ineptly professing his love for Marge, who later goes to him at the nuclear power plant where he works. He lifts her up and carries her out of the plant as his co-workers watch and cheer.

How can they miss this oppotunity to quote my (probably) second favorite Simpson’s line of all time: “…I’m going to the back seat of my car, with the woman I love, and I won’t be back for ten minutes!“