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Fake news is old news. → Yellow Journalism: The “Fake News” of the 19th Century
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I first noticed the little warnings (“to bake is to wait…”) while doing some Thanksgiving baking. Apparently, there is good reason → Thanks a Lot! New Reasons Not to Eat Cookie Dough. And it looks like the time is finally right for my manuscript, Flours of Evil.
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Scurrilous manuscript that could have undone John Donne discovered
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“[Tarrare] died shortly afterwards, following a lengthy bout of exudative diarrhoea.” And that’s far from the worst part of a story of failed espionage and a pathological food obsession…among other things. → Tarrare [Thanks, Reader C.!]
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“On the eve of the Civil War, a nightmare at sea turned into one of the greatest rescues in maritime history. More than a century later, a rookie treasure hunter went looking for the lost ship—and found a different kind of ruin.” → The Wreck [Thanks, Reader B.!]
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Last month was 2017 National Novel Generation Month again, in which participants write code that generates novels…and the results are in! Naturally, I am fond of the Edward Lear Limerick Generator, Shakespeare Summarizes Everything and Acrostic Sonnets on Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
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And in the same vein, the 2017 Interactive Fiction Competition (IFComp) winners have also been announced and some of them are amazing. See also: the IFDB (Interactive Fiction Database), “an IF game catalog and recommendation engine.”
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“After academics picked out 30 words that have been ‘lost’ from the English language, self-confessed ‘word geek’ Paul Anthony Jones reveals obscure yet delightful terms that also need to be saved from falling into disuse.” → Twenty-six words we don’t want to lose
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Today in 1926, Agatha Christie—future Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, “Queen of Crime,” and the best-selling novelist of all time—disappears. Christie’s car was quickly found abandoned at a quarry along with an expired drivers license and some clothes, but despite a massive search and front-page stories in England and the United States, it took ten days to find Christie, who was registed at a hotel in Yorkshire under the name of her husband’s lovers. Christie never provided an explanation, but many little gray cells have been applied to the real-life mystery, yielding theories ranging from amnesia, fugue states and suicidal depression to an aborted attempt to frame her unfaithful husband for murder.
