Crosswords: Why are so many of us obsessed with puzzles? Here are some clues (Deseret Morning News)
Why are crossword puzzles so popular? "Nature abhors a vacuum," The New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz theorizes. "You see that empty black-and-white grid, and you want to start filling it in. You like to fill up those squares."
Drug-fighting money puzzles sheriffs (The News & Observer)
Local authorities say they don't know why their counties were chosen, or what to do.
Penumbra: Black Plague Review [PC] (GameSpot)
The Penumbra series comes to a close with more creeps and physics-based puzzles.
Sudoku And Other Big Issues (The Namibian)
Sounds like the opening of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting but even number puzzles can create addiction and in my case nearly did!
Online only letters (Seattle Times)
Capture a memory and own a moment with photo reprints, digitally reproduced on archive-quality paper. Plus, create mugs, mousepads, puzzles and notecards using your favorite images.
Microsoft pulls buggy Vista SP1 update files (TechWorld)
Redmond puzzles over endless reboots. Responding to reports of endlessly rebooting PCs that flooded support newsgroups last week, Microsoft has said that it had pulled an update designed to prep Windows Vista for Service Pack 1.
GDC '08: Lego Indiana Jones Impressions [PlayStation 3 Wii PSP PlayStation 2 DS Xbox 360 PC] (GameSpot)
We tell LucasArts to throw us the idol before we throw it the whip in our first look at the upcoming Lego-isation of the Indiana Jones Trilogy.
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction (New York Times)
1. THE FAITHFUL SPY, by Alex Berenson 2. SISTERS, by Danielle Steel 3. SNOWFALL AT WILLOW LAKE, by Susan Wiggs 4. TOM CLANCY?S ENDWAR, by David Michaels 5. DREAM CHASER, by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hardcover Fiction (New York Times)
1. THE APPEAL, by John Grisham 2. 7TH HEAVEN, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro 3. DUMA KEY, by Stephen King 4. A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini 5. STRANGER IN PARADISE, by Robert B. Parker