I’ve added a new feature to the Extras section—Ferrellweb Puzzles. It’s full of Java-based crossword puzzles and word searches that you can complete right in your web browser—pretty cool. (Ok…it’s nowhere near full. There’s only one there, for now—a crossword about Oedipus and Greek drama. But there’ll be more. Once I get some, um, time. Yeah.:ponder:)
In other puzzlin’ news, I just found out that writer Hunter S. Thompson shot himself yesterday. I can’t say I’ve read much of Thompson’s stuff, but his The Rum Diary put me in a not unpleasant foggityhaze a few summers ago, and his colums for ESPN’s Page2 were always sharp. In my mind, at least, he trailblazed a modern voice and writing style along with Tom Wolfe and Kurt Vonnegut. Whatever else his legacy, he certainly was one-of-a-kind.