Cryptic Crosswords: The Games People Play
If you love word puzzles, then you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy of Games magazine or its sister publication, World of Puzzles, which appears in alternate months. Both contain a pot pourri of standard and quirky crosswords, encrypted ciphers and word searches, as well as a spate of trivial pursuits, eyeball [...]
Where There’s A Will: Bryson on Shakespeare
Bill Bryson’s Shakespeare: The World as Stage is a short and, if you are interested in the topic, most interesting read. Part of the Eminent Lives series published by Atlas Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, it is one of a collection of biographies of historically important figures written by top writers. Drawing on Bryson for [...]
Don’t Snigger at Sniglets
Words can be a fun pursuit, starting with the tracking of their creation and then tracing their eventual absorption into and evolution within the language. The term neologism, a term signifying new words however odd their origin and unexpected their construction, was coined back in 1803. That was the year the first public library opened [...]
A Case of the Twiggles
I’m sure most of you have heard of Web 2.0. Essentially, it encompasses web technology that facilitates creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users. The practical and most visible effect of 2.0 is the development of self-propagating and self-sustaining web-based communities and social networking sites, wikis, blogs and so on. Tech blog A List Apart [...]
