How to view a solar eclipse: "There will be a partial eclipse from 5:08 to 8:24 p.m. Monday -- here's a simple viewer you can make in a few minutes. You'll need only a cardboard box, a piece of aluminum foil and some tape, and since you look at a projected image of the sun, it's safe."
Spider finds home in Greek woman's ear: "An Athens doctor who examined a 33-year-old woman after she complained of headaches has removed a spider that had made its home in her ear."
The Philosophy of Punctuation: "First come the period and the comma. These are the only lovely marks of punctuation, and of the two the period is the lovelier, because more compact and innocent of ambiguity. I have fantasies of writing an essay punctuated solely with periods and commas. I seldom see a piece of prose that shouldn't, I feel, have more periods and fewer of those obtrusive marks that seem to have usurped its natural place. The comma, as noted, was once overused, but it now suffers from relative neglect. The missing comma before the 'and' introducing the last item in a series is merely the most obvious example."
Creating Traffic With Creative Branding: "Instead of offering discounts or merely promoting its URL, the pizza place's radio ads asked listeners to tear out all the pizza-restaurant pages from their yellow pages and bring them in. In return for the pages, customers received a free pizza of their choice and a sticker with the restaurant's URL."
In World Cup news: Mexico beat Ecuador 2 to 1, Costa Rica tied with Turkey 1 to 1, and Japan beat Russia 1 to 0!
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Senegal - The Computer's Choice: "Almost no one could have foreseen defending World Cup champion France's stunning 1-0 defeat at the hands (well, actually the feet) of its former colony, Senegal, on the opening day of the tournament last week. A computer, though, got it right."
In progress: Brazil 3 - China 0. Brazil just scored on a penalty kick.
In World Cup news, South Africa beat Slovenia 1 to 0, and Croatia beat Italy 2 to 1.