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Selchow and Righter/Hasbro has released another game in the Scrabble® series of word games: Super Scrabble. Unlike their previous efforts to 'gimmick' the brand, this game is actually a reasonable enhancement idea, preserving the simplicity of the original game while renewing it.

Super Scrabble's premise is simply: "Take Scrabble, and double it.". That is, there are approximately twice as many squares on the board (it's now 21x21), and there are twice as many tiles to play with (they've taken the distribution from the original set, and simply doubled the number of tiles of each letter (including blanks)). Obviously, the new, larger board means more premium squares, and they've extended out to Quad-letter and -word scores. Any ten-letter words with a Q and two Zs out there?

Current Mood: awake

The BBC food meme is making the rounds again. I did it here. But here's the update...

Bold what you've eaten, italicize what you'd like to try, ~~strike out~~ what you intend to avoid...

The original list (from the BBC)

Fresh fish
Lobster
Steak
Thai food
Chinese food
Ice cream
Pizza
Crab
Curry
Prawns
Moreton Bay Bugs
Clam chowder
Barbecues
Pancakes
Pasta
Mussels
Cheesecake
Lamb
Cream tea
Alligator
Oysters
Kangaroo
Chocolate
Sandwiches
Greek food
Burgers
Mexican food
Squid
American diner breakfast
Salmon
Venison
Guinea pig
Shark
Sushi
Paella
Barramundi (?)
Reindeer
Kebab
Scallops
Australian meat pie
Mango
Durian fruit
Octopus
Ribs
Roast beef
Tapas
Jerk chicken/pork
Haggis
Caviar
Cornish pasty

And a few more that weren't on the previous list...

Indian food (other than curry)
Kiwi (the fruit, also called "Chinese Gooseberry")
Rabbit
Japanese food (other than sushi)
Rijstafel
Hot Dogs/Frankfurters
Goat
Mongolian "Barbeque"
Viet-Namese food
French food
Jambalaya

And a few more, from pauamma...

Hare
Horse
Boa
Beaver
Squirrel
Bee larvae
Indonesian food (other than rijstafel)
Korean food
Flounder
Eel

And more from catwyche...

Blood Pudding
Gumbo
Rattlesnake
Squab
Turducken
Fleur de sel
Swan
Plantains
Starfruit
~~Cat~~

Current Mood: hungry

I originally got this from gridlore last November, but it had gone away by New Year's; now dewhitton has found it again, now at http://www.eviltree.de/zoomquilt/zoom.htm.

The link at the bottom of it leads you to more info and a downloadable screensaver-for-Windows version at http://zoomquilt.nikkki.net.

For those who have an interest in optical illusions, Akiyoshi's Illusion Page has some, with an explanation of why they "work" (PDF).

Current Mood: curious

He denies it's filk, but it is. It's here. It's great. Go look. Thanks to

gridlore for bringing it to my attention.

Current Mood: amused

Snarfed from

catwyche, passed on to

pauamma, re-gakked by

catwyche, and resnarfed and edited by me...( Yummitude follows... )

Current Mood: hungry

Ganked from

gridlore: http://www.cyphic.net/zoomquilt/zoom.htm

Edited 1/1/05: Seems that Joe Public is no longer authorized to view this. Damn. It was niftycool!

Edited 3/18/05: it's been found again, by

dewhitton at http://www.eviltree.de/zoomquilt/zoom.htm and more info and a downloadable screensaver-for-Windows version at http://zoomquilt.nikkki.net

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From the Bigger Is Better Department...

Yumeme, redux

Niftycool, relocated

Seeing Is Not Believing...

ROF,L

Yumeme

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