Archive for the 'Wordplay' Category

Science Gone Wrong

Monday, May 5th, 2008

xkcd this week tells a remarkable tale of science gone horribly wrong.

The only thing that could make this tale more horrifying is… you guessed it! Poetry from The Digital Cuttlefish.
Genetically, of course, a spork
Is half a spoon, and half a fork
A laboratory in New York
Created them, then popped the cork.
Please, gentle reader, do not swoon,
But […]

Don’t Fuck With Free Speech

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Oh fuck. Let’s just get this out of the way. You’ll find no f-word, f*ck, f–k, @$!%, or other sanitized version used here. This is quite a change from Professor Allen Walker Read’s 1934 scholarly treatment of the word, An Obscenity Symbol—fifteen pages and eighty-two footnotes penned without once printing the word fuck anywhere in […]

Personal Pangram

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

“Robert McNally’s jokish God quiz vexes pewful.” (38 letters)

Pangrams are cool— why not try creating your own “personal pangram?” Include your name, and say something about yourself in as few letters as possible, and using every letter of the alphabet at least once.

Anagrams of The Dreamers Guild

Friday, January 27th, 2006

The video game company I helped to found around 1990 was called The Dreamers Guild, a name my brother Michael and I came up with. The time I was there (1990–1995) was an amazing experience; the environment was fun and challenging, and the quality of the people who worked there was usually first-rate.
The other day […]