Review of the best new sudoku apps for the iphone.

Quoted: Sudoku fan? Overwhelmed by the 19 (and counting) versions on the App Store? Dan Frakes has taken them all for a ride and picked out the cream of the crop.

Thinking of selling my imac and just going with a monitor for my laptop.

Quoted: Feature-Packed LCD Display

I don't know how we missed this lunch spot the whole time I worked at Blue Dot. It's one-block off the main Pioneer Square neighborhood.

Cheap sandwiches, ultra-fast, fresh and inexpensive (sandwiches are $3.50 to 3.75 for a full). Just remember to bring cash and be prepped for brusque service. I had a great ham and swiss sandwich and a cup of navy bean soup.

Quoted: The turkey sandwich is definitely worth the hype: Whole turkeys are roasted every night and the sandwich is filled with large, moist chunks of the stuff, recalling day-after-Thanksgiving munchies. Succulent meatloaf makes another popular sandwich. Soups rotate daily, but the turkey noodle and feisty chili are mainstays. The home-style apple pie, blessed with large chunks of apple, is a worthy end to lunch.

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The video review of the forthcoming Gears of War is very well done, capturing the strengths as well as the weaknesses. The major issue appears to be a short storyline but the online play looks great.

Overall, they give it a 9.1 out of 10.

I just posted a book review for Elliot Perlman's "Seven Types of Ambiguity" to The Puget News.

Read it and let me know what you think!

Links to multiple reviews of "Seven Types of Ambiguity."

Quoted: Links to multiple reviews of Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman

The first review of the new Pynchon novel has already been published (3 weeks prior to the release date). It's by Publisher's Weekly, you have to be s subscriber to get it, but Amazon got access and posted it to their blog.

It seems like this new Pynchon novel is going to be right up my alley and I've already recruited one intrepid soul to read it with me. If anyone is interested in tacking an 1,120 pg monster over the holidays with Ken (user: redelk2535) and I, let me know. I plan on doing my own review for "The Puget News" when my pre-ordered copy gets here from Amazon.com.

Quoted: Knotty, paunchy, nutty, raunchy, Pynchon's first novel since Mason & Dixon (1997) reads like half a dozen books duking it out for his, and the reader's, attention. Most of them shine with a surreal incandescence, but even Pynchon fans may find their fealty tested now and again. Yet just when his recurring themes threaten to become tics, this perennial Nobel bridesmaid engineers another never-before-seen phrase, or effect, and all but the most churlish resistance collapses.

Seattle Times review by Michael Upchurch of Ryan Boudinot's new book.

Quoted: Seattle writer Ryan Boudinot tries a variety of shock tactics in his debut collection of stories, "The Littlest Hitler" (Counterpoint, 215 pp., $22). The results are provocative, if uneven. Indeed, the book could almost serve as a textbook to illustrate what works and what doesn't work when you're out to outrage.

I finally finished reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" last week. I quite enjoyed it and am looking forward to Susanna Clarke's next work. I just wanted to Dot this review from the NYT on the book I just finished since it is a really well-written review by Gregory Maguire, a well-established writer on his own.

Quoted: A densely woven debut novel by Susanna Clarke chronicles the world of a magician and his young rival in early-19th-century England.