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The Slice archive for Jan. 23, 2012

MONDAY, JAN. 23, 2012



Weighing online product reviews

When reading customer feedback on products and services, It seems like there are three essentials. 1. Being able to spot cranky idiots who enjoy complaining and probably don't have sense enough to use the product as intended. 2. Spotting patterns. 3. Do you have a…

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This date in the features section (1999)

We had a story I wrote recalling the year a bizarre set of circumstances led to Spokane hosting the Super Bowl. That never happened, of course. Still, though I winked at reality several times in the story, not everyone realized I wasn't being serious. Maybe…

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Re: Today's print column

I am aware that the reader who quoted a lyric from the folk song "Little Boxes" took liberties with the wording. As he put this inside quotation marks, I assumed it was what he intended. So I correctly quoted him misquoting the line. If I…

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