http://42spotting.org Documenting the conspiracy. Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:52:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The US Postal Service annouced today it will increase the cost of a first-class stamp by one cent, to 42 cents, starting May 12. I expected the next increase to be in 2009 and to be greater than one cent. But this excellent news means there will be stamps emblazoned with ... http://42spotting.org/index.php/2008/02/11/stamps-set-to-increase/ My friend and fellow JC alum Heather writes to share this tidbit of statistical joy: AmericaBLOG.com: US 42nd in Life Expectancy.A baby born in the United States in 2004 will live an average of 77.9 years. That life expectancy ranks 42nd, down from 11th two decades earlier, according to international numbers ... http://42spotting.org/index.php/2007/08/13/us-42nd-in-life-expectancy/ In much (if not all) of the promotional literature, web photos, and videos of the Apple iPhone, the clock shows the time as "9:42." http://42spotting.org/index.php/2007/06/26/iphone-clock/ According to President Roslin in the first part of the Battlestar Galactica miniseries, there were 42 other government officials ahead of her in the Succession for the Presidency of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. http://42spotting.org/index.php/2006/12/05/battlestar-galactica-case-orange/ Donald Trump cited for 80-foot flag polePalm Beach officials cited Trump for hoisting a large American flag atop an 80-foot pole at his lavish Mar-a-Lago estate and club. Town officials said the real estate mogul has violated zoning codes with a flagpole taller than 42 feet and for erecting it without ... http://42spotting.org/index.php/2006/11/02/flag-pole/ Can you count all the stars? I can't. They make me a little dizzy and I keep seeing oddly-proportioned heptagons. We'll call this a contest. The prize is a gold star. http://42spotting.org/index.php/2006/10/28/count-the-stars/ From my sister, who is teaching in an elementary school this year:I was subbing for my favourite second grade class and we had just read today’s version of Weekly Reader. I was asking them questions about it… I think the topic was space. One of the kids was like “42, ... http://42spotting.org/index.php/2006/10/14/the-answer-to-all-questions-is-42/ ... Intelligence work has one moral law--it is justified by results. Even the sophistry of Whitehall paid court to that law, and Leamas got results. Until Mundt came. It was odd how soon Leamas had realised that Mundt was the writing on the wall. Hans-Dieter Mundt, born forty-two years ago in Leipzig. ... http://42spotting.org/index.php/2006/09/17/hans-dieter-mundt/ "They're an oversight. Some poor designer was too busy thinking about next week's production quotas, or his digestive troubles, or his unrequited love for whatever norm-conforming certifiably A-Equivalent piece of tail he happened to be chasing at the moment. His mind strayed"--Arkasha's free hand slid down Arkady's chest and across ... http://42spotting.org/index.php/2006/09/14/gene-d1746-chromosome-18-site-forty-two/ Ruth found this in her change yesterday. I believe it is worth roughly sixty times its face value! http://42spotting.org/index.php/2006/08/23/1942-mercury-dime/