Proper Nouns Allowed in Scrabble
No game rule is finite, Scrabble is allowing proper nouns to come into play. Is this a lack of word reservoir from players or changing with the times?
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Maggie and Mildred Stitched Animation
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6687510&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1Maggie and Mildred is the hand-stitched animated story of the friendship between two girls. These girls aren't your usual friends, however!
Cecilia Cassini: America’s Youngest Fashion Designer
There are many cases where young computer whizzes are striking early with enterprising ideas. Cecilia Cassini is by far "America's youngest fashion designer."
Giant Robot Magazine Needs You
Giant Robot Magazine needs your help. Advertising money is hard to come by for a niche magazine that is Asian driven.
World’s Tallest Skyscrapers on Hold
The tallest buildings of the future are mostly either delayed or canceled due to lack of money. Nimrod will have to wait before he can bend his bow
MS Paint World
MS Paint is the free painting program that comes with Windows. Not much you can really do with that program, that is good news for Adobe.
Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America’s Leading Comic Artists
This little gem got under the radar. Andre Schiffrin collects the pre-Seuss classic editorial cartoons. True Seuss collectors will enjoy this book precursor to the children's line of
Robert E. Lee Day
Robert E. Lee Day is a state holiday in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Virginia and Mississippi celebrated along Martin Luther King Day. Go figure.
Danger to Public Health New York City
In the later part of the 19th century till the advent of the automobile there were close to 200 000 horses working in New York city.
Ice Castle
Some countries celebrate the coming of snow and build around the frigid conditions to amuse themselves. Take Harbin in north-east China as an example, they turn ice into
The Cargoshell, the Future of Transportation
The Cargoshell is an ingenious new way to transport products and is easily collapsible for future storage. You will no longer need empty towering shipping containers stacked like
Weird Snow Globes
The primary purpose of a snow globe is to captivate our senses and evoke the gentle beauty of falling snow. Those of us residing near the 49th parallel