Zoom, indeed. Uh.…wow. :ko:

Uh, didn’t finish reading the book? Something like this is probably a bad idea… 😀 (“…and Zeus watches and laughs, ’cause he’s immortal.”)

Just for fun, here’s a list of creepy links and other miscellany from around the Web for your late-October enjoyment. I had more lying around, but no time to sort through them. 😥 Feel free to leave your own favorites in the comments! Some Games and Toys A Murder Of ScarecrowsEerie raven-swattin’ fun from My Pet Skeleton! Marshie’s Malloween Mix-UpDifficult to … 

Oh, man. Forget the debates, I’m spending all evening playing Political Circus! (Well, not really…I’m spending all evening making vocabulary quizzes. :sad:) Take your candidate of choice, stuff him in a cannon, and fire him toward the stratosphere! Do exciting tricks and stunts to pump up the crowd, while you gather up campaign funding and pop opponents’ balloons! Watch out … 

I just read that Topps was making Wacky Packages again, and was slammed back into my early childhood— especially after I followed another link to a web site that has an exhaustive index of all the old stickers from the ’70s, with close-up pictures of each one! Wow. I have vivid memories of my friend Keith’s massive collection—I imagine he had … 

This showed up in the New York Post Online today: A 15-year-old Long Island student has become the youngest person ever to receive a Ph.D. fellowship from the Pentagon. Alia Sabur turned down a NASA fellowship in favor of a $150,000 Department of Defense fellowship, and picked a sophisticated project for the Pentagon. She’s working on a method of trapping … 

Here’s the scoop on the cryptic crosswords we took a brief look at Friday, if you’re interested in knowing more. The tiny ones we looked at in class were from the book pictured here. It seems like a good one to start with: Games Magazine’s World Cryptic Crosswords, by Mike Shenk Paperback: 80 pages Published by Random House Puzzles & Games (1992) ISBN# … 

Journallers and bloggers have been playing around with this 23/5 meme for a little while, and I ran across this Exquisite Corpse variation the other day at language hat that looked interesting: Take the nearest six to ten books from your shelf.Open them to page 23, and find the fifth sentence.Write down those sentences and arrange them to form a … 

For those interested, a brief history of the letter Q. Specifically, why “q+u” all the time?

What a surprise—we were looking at Decius’ comment in Julius Caesar (II, i, 202–211) that Caesar loved to hear that “unicorns may be betrayed with trees, and bears with glasses, elephants with holes, lions with toils, and men with flatterers…” I pulled out a copy of T.H. White’s The Book of Beasts, and we quickly blipped through a bit of …