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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 12
• 8-letter words: 4
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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• aneared
• denarii
• earlier
• handier
• hardier
• lardier |
• leadier
• learier
• lurdane
• pareira
• randier
• tearier |
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• handheld
• handrail |
• nearlier
• rehandle |
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  by Philocrites.
Unicorns: Unreal Shades of WhiteLegendary and mythical creatures are best seen with the inner eye of imagination. When we bring color to mythological creatures, we invite others to behold the fantastical. We have the opportunity to conjure up an encounter as visceral as it is visible. Hence, we should strive to be inventive, inspirational, and provocative. A unicorn, for example, would not optimally be pure white. Pristine as the creature may be, pure white doesn't tell a story, and story is the driving force of myth. Even the subtlest of shades are required to establish poetic dimensionality. Peter Beagle, author of the The Last Unicorn (1968), took great care to distinguish between two shades of white on a unicorn's coat. He described a very old unicorn as being "no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night." The following two colors illustrate his description:
  Unicorns Have Also Been Described As: 
 
 
 
 
by Sebastiá Giralt.
[Read the entire article in my guest blog at ColourLovers.com.]
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I stumbled upon the official Abecedarian Coat of Arms!
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Piecing together the secret of joy . . . |
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Tension and ReleaseTension and release. The oldest trick in the book for generating a great performance, drawing us up tight with emotion, filling our hearts with pain and pleasure, then torching the pressure with ritual until we are cleansed, and can continue afresh—lighter, transformed, absolved.
—Holly Kreuter, Drama in the Desert (2002)
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| Did You Hear the One I Just Made Up? |
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Isn't it hilarious that the Weather Channel is listed in TV Guide? As if anyone could predict what's coming up! Here's a watch that depicts a three-day weather forecast. I prefer my own system of throwing jumping beans onto an ancient map of the cosmos drawn by St. Isidore, Bishop of Seville. Then I look out the window and dress accordingly. But that's just me. (Apologies to my meteorologist friends, but who are we kidding?) |
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| Did You Hear the One I Just Made Up? |
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Q: How do artists' colonies form? A: They simply draw together. Q: What's the difference between an artists' colony and a nudist colony? A: Nothing, if you can get past the naked models. Q: What's ironic about this bedroom at a nudist's colony? (Image is safe for work.) A: The bedclothes! |
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Square pegs and round holes need not be incompatible. Consider the cube made from 2,222 holes.
Full-resolution photo available via flickr.
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Piecing together the secret of Janus . . . |
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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 6
• 8-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
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• capelet
• capered
• flatted |
• lapeled
• reglued
• tapered |
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| • repeated |
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The game of Jenga-Chess. See full-sized photo at Kim's Place.
Temporary Sacrifice of the Queen
Speaking of Chess, some people apparently play it on the sand dunes of the beach, with giant pieces. For example, here's a black queen (controlled by a bathing beauty) that just took a red knight. Others combine the games of Jenga and Chess, to build ornate towers (see photo). Here are the nuts and bolts of Chess. --- Foo writes: Just for the fun, I don't know if you are aware that your "bathing beauty" is actually the Female Chess World Champion.
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Details of the "Crayon Sharpener" palette are available here.
This color palette was inspired by a humor piece about a fictional painter who produced canvasses with one solid color each:
There is much controversy among art historians surrounding this stage of Sottise's career, for the simple reason that these works could easily be forged by almost anybody, and no one is quite sure which ones, if any, are authentic. Still, the later, more exotic pieces in this series ('Chartreuse,' 'Raw Umber,' 'Burt Sienna') are fascinating no matter who painted them. But in the fall of 1937, tragedy struck: Sottise ran out of colors and, after exhibiting the 65th and final item in this series ('Crayon Sharpener'), he was forced to enter the next phase of his work.
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