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Plug For an Old Nemesis

If you've read Prisoner of Trebekistan, you may remember my final nemesis, Michael Daunt, winner of the Jeopardy! 1997 International Tournament of Champions, at one time arguably the best player in the world.

Michael was the last (of several) players to beat me over the years, but he's a great, funny, brilliant guy, and we've stayed in fairly frequent touch ever since. Turns out he and some friends are just in the formative stages of launching a new online magazine called Quiblit, itself host to a series of ten other blogs (roll over "Hosted Blogs" for a list), none of which are nearly so hard to spell.

Worth a look. In a quick glance, "Man Bites Blog" looks particularly promising.

One warning: when Quiblit's writers all refer to Thanksgiving as something that just happened, they're not time-warped, they're Canadian. The only time-warping involved entails living in a country where wars aren't rushed into, health care and education are truly considered public issues of real import, and the environment is more than just a place to get and put junk.

I'm hoping that's ten years in America's future. Not part of some distant imaginary 1970s past.

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