A panagram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet. You probably learned where the keyboard letters are by typing this one: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” According to Robert Quigley at Geek O System, linguists and puzzle-solvers like to see just how few letters they can use in [...]
Nathan Yau at Flowing Data demonstrates that there’s more to winning this game than just luck. File under Playground Tips Via Instapundit
The UK Telegraph reports that British historians believe they’ve found the site of King Arthur’s Round Table on the site of a Roman amphitheatre in Chester. They haven’t found the Round Table itself, but here’s something I didn’t know about it: … rather than it being a piece of furniture, historians believe it would have [...]
The New York Post reports: ‘Beavis and Butt-head” — the show that celebrated the slacker way of life and helped make MTV into a network that did more than just play music videos — is coming back. The move to resurrect the hugely popular 1990s animated anti-heroes has been rumored for several days. But yesterday, [...]
It appears that’s there’s much more to be done with an Etch-a-Sketch than keeping kids occupied during a long car trip. Take a look at the incredible Etch-a-Sketch art at the UK Telegraph. Via Dr. Helen Update: Play Etch-a-Sketch online here.
The Wall Street Journal‘s Eric Felton asks us to “Imagine If Every Celebrity Had a University.” You might call it snarky. My favorites are: The Richard Dawkins Theological Institute. A rather ordinary modern seminary in that none of the students believes in God. Most popular course: Horology 201—Intermediate watch-making with an emphasis on blindfolded manufacturing [...]
You have to love a college chemistry student who fights crime in his spare time. In tights. Well, he hasn’t come upon any crime yet, but he’s looking. Skyler Swisher at The (Columbia,Tennessee) Daily Herald reports: By day, he’s a mild-mannered college student studying chemistry. But at night, he becomes the Viper, a superhero looking [...]