Indy Telecom & Industrial Media

Mere words cannot describe this.

And of course, her smashing intellect can be seen in action elsewhere, too.

A list of interesting articles from the past couple of weeks:

• Dear AIG, I Quit! — To quote a friend, a very John Galt-ian response, the likes of which we haven’t seen in some time.
• Rethinking the American Dream — Excellent essay on how the American dream has changed.
• The Big Takeover –Interesting article, if you can ignore the obvious partisan bias.
• Goldman may return TARP money — Hey, if you had to face questioning by Maxine Walters, so would you.

Well, it turns out that people aren’t happy with just the real world being overvalued.  Coming up next – how to win Scrabble games quick!

Since there aren’t enough worlds in the English language with Qs or Zs (which of course have 10 points each), Za, Qi and Zzz have been added to Scrabble to help people rack up high scores easily!

A trio of words — one that’s slang for pizza, another defined as a body’s vital life force and a third referring to a snoring sound — have conspired to change the game of Scrabble. “Za,” “qi” and “zzz” were added recently to the game’s official word list for its original English-language edition. Because Z’s and Q’s each have the game’s highest point value of 10, those monosyllabic words can rack up big scores for relatively little effort. So now that those high-scoring letters are more versatile, some Scrabble aficionados would like to see the rules changed — which would be the only change since Alfred Butts popularized the game in 1948.

Why stop there? Hey, if you are going to make up rules, why not go for the big ones? Personally, I’d just change all the vowels to be 10 points each. Makes everyone’s life a lot easier, you know? Evening out the odds and all that.

Well, these aren’t particularly great looking nor classy, but they certainly are unique (and quite steeply priced than, say, silk knots).