21.   A cookie is just a cookie.

22.   A cookie could be a sign-on password, an account number or, more often, information about your shopping preferences.

23.   A cookie is a tiny file sent to your browser by a Web site.

24.   After a few minutes in a toaster oven, the cookies are soft, chewy and smell like fresh-baked, the inventors said in their application.

25.   After making a meal out of Tulsa, a cookie was the perfect dessert.

26.   But then there are those cookies from advertising companies like DoubleClick, which track your activities on the Web.

27.   Butter cookies are best when the butter is just softened and beaten by hand or with an electric mixer with the sugar just until smooth and creamy.

28.   Cookies are always easy, but around the holidays, with time short and demand high, even they can use streamlining.

29.   Cookies are small tracking files that a Web site installs on your hard drive.

30.   Cookies should be slightly golden, not brown in color.