Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Too Clever for Words

1. "'Fictitious' author publishes the first book without verbs"
   <http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/09/
       wverb09.xml>
"First, there was the novel written without using the letter 'e'. Now a
 French author has produced what he claims is the first book with no verbs"
   "Lipogrammatic Works of Fiction"
   <http://phrontistery.info/lipworks.html>
A list of ancient and modern lipograms (compositions that do not contain a
certain letter or letters)

2. Palindromes
   <http://www.palindromelist.com/>
   * Possibly the longest palindrome ever
   <http://www.palindromelist.com/longest.htm>

3. Anagrams
   <http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/>
   * Topical anagrams
   <http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/topical.html>
   * Hall of Fame
   <http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/hof.html>