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| Thursday |
the Second of January, 2004 |
Infected with the word "ludeme" from Parlett's Book of Word Games (a "justly
neglected technical term" which only seems to be used
satirically, online), I was compelled to throw together the
Ludemetic Game
Generator, taking the game categories and mechanics wholesale from
BoardGameGeek
and combining them back together at random; something to flip through at
half-amused random until you chance across something that's actually quite
a good idea.
I've been meaning to write an inspiration-pinging random-game-theme-generator
for a while, primarily as a what-shall-we-play crank for
Dvorak
("make a deck about farming that involves octopi"), so this
may well see a second version.
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| Tuesday |
the Thirty-First of December, 2003 |
The creator of
Chupa Chups dies, claiming (it's underclear whether on or
off the deathbed, and how much as convergent evolution) to have invented
the entire concept of lollipops from first principles in the 1950s.
Lollipops have actually been mass produced since 1916, and were surely pre-dated by
toffee apples (although all I can find is a lollipop-shaped
toffee
apple mortar from WWI). But I think
the
chimpanzees get prior art, really.
(Something that had never registered, and which I will now try to forget -
"Chupa-Chup" and "Chupacabra" share a derivation.)
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