NPR Sunday Puzzle for July 31:
Name a famous person from America's past who has four letters in his or her first name and five letters in the last. Take a homophone of the last name, move it to the front. The result phonetically would be something a woman might write. What is it?
In honor of Ernő Rubik, inventor of the iconic Rubik's cube, the creative food bloggers over at S'tasty created this colorful Battenberg-style cake.
What is a Battenberg cake?
Traditionally, the Battenberg is a light sponge cake that, when cut in cross section, displays a distinctive two-by-two check pattern alternately colored pink and yellow. The cake is usually held together with apricot jam, covered in marzipan and, when sliced, the characteristic checks are exposed to view.
The cake was originally created to honor the 1884 marriage between Queen Victoria's granddaughter and the Prince Louis of Battenberg, with the four squares representing the four Battenberg princes: Louis, Alexander, Henry and Francis Joseph.
NPR Sunday Puzzle for July 24:
Name the female of a certain animal, add the name of a bird, say these two words out loud one after the other, and phonetically you'll name a country. What country is it?
To celebrate this summer’s blockbuster movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: – Part 2, the folks at Jelly Belly commissioned California artist Kristen Cumings to create a giant portrait of the boy wizard. The finished mosaic was constructed from 14,000 jelly beans. Wonder how many she ate along the way?
Parmesan Pencils should be manufactured in bulk, like in a 64-pack, à la Crayolas. Because I'll be requiring more than just three.
The cheeses are shaped like oversized pencils, where the “leads” contain three different flavors: truffles, pesto and chili. With the sharpener included, the required amount of cheese can be sprinkled on the dish. A scale on the pencils and on the back of the packaging doesn’t just simply list how much of the Cheese Pencil is needed for each dish, but even how many calories the portion contains.
Unfortunately, only 500 of these were made and they've already sold out. Somebody call Kraft!
Possibly the only good reason to shop at Wal-Mart...
As part of an extensive promotional campaign, Year of the Fan, to observe the 15th season of the show, Comedy Central, which has been presenting “South Park” since August 1997, is teaming up with the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo to produce 1.5 million packages of Cheesy Poofs to be sold in Wal-Mart stores beginning next month. (via NYTimes)
NPR Sunday Puzzle for July 17:
Think of an adjective that might describe a child before a summer vacation. Change the second letter to the next letter of the alphabet, and you'll name someone you might see in a hospital. Who is it?
“With Marilyn, we hope to rekindle an attitude and optimism from an era that this iconic figure represents – a time when we, as a nation and a people, were proud, productive, optimistic and self-assured, if a bit mischievous," said Paul Zeller, chief of Zeller Realty, the company that leased the sculpture. "We seek a return to American Exceptionalism, and trust Marilyn will propel our attitudes in the right direction.”
"Forever Marilyn" will be on display until spring 2012.
If you're lucky enough to score tickets to "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," this simple, yet creative project is one the kids you can wear to the theater. Fashioning a spectacular pair of glasses à la the boy wizard just takes a little bit of magic. And five black pipe cleaners.
French creatives Zim and Zou can manipulate paper in interesting ways. Incredibly, all of the items in these photos were constructed using scissors, paper and glue!
The project, called Back to Basics, meticulously recreates retro gadgets — such as a Nintendo Game Boy, a Polaroid camera, a Sony Walkman and cassette tapes — out of brightly-colored pieces of construction paper.
Don't believe it? Check out the video of how it was done below.
What time is it? When I grabbed this screenshot it was rouge o'clock!
The Colour Clock represents the current time as a hexadecimal color value, and the website's background color changes to match.
HTML colors are defined using a hexadecimal notation (HEX) for the combination of Red, Green, and Blue color values (RGB). For example, #000000 is black.
NPR Sunday Puzzle for July 3:
Name a classic television show in two words with eight letters. Remove one letter from each word. The remaining six letters, in order, will spell the last name of a well-known writer. Who is it?
A quick thank you to Blogging Women for including Jenny's Noodle in their listings!
Blogging Women is a free directory of blogs written by us women. Manually edited and organized by category, Blogging Women aims to offer a comprehensive collection of the best spam free women's blogs online.
It's always wonderful to be recognized by the blogging community, so thanks again!
A group of creative farmers in the French countryside have constructed a giant bike made of hay bales and moving tractors. The animated sculpture was built in honor of the 98th annual Tour de France, taking place July 2-24, 2011.
Virtually every product or package has one, but now traditional barcodes are getting a creative new look.
A Vanity Barcode is a product UPC (or similar) barcode that's being turned into a decorative design, yet still scans like a regular barcode. They're a powerful marketing tool that can transform a boring, space-hogging barcode into a terrific brand asset.
NPR Sunday Puzzle for July 3:
Think of a common four-letter adjective. Then take its opposite in French. (It's a French word that everyone knows.) Say the two words out loud, one after the other, and you'll name a famous film director. Who is it?
ShareThis
| Posted
July 31, 2011
at
8:00 AM
