Category: Uncategorized

Most of the posts in this category are simply leftovers from a previous era before the site had categories. Over time I plan to reduce that number to zero and remove this category. Until then, here they are. I had to put something in the box.

Ok, Could This “Shakespeare’s Dictionary” Find Be For Real?

~ duane ~ 1 Comment

Just last week, “World Daily News” published a story about Cardenio that got forwarded all over the place.

So naturally I’m skeptical when I see Shakespeare’s Dictionary Found come up just a few days later.

Only this time it’s Forbes and New York Magazine (among others) writing about it. In great detail. Corroborating each other’s stories.  Could this be real?

It seems that a book came up for sale on eBay about 6 years ago.  A copy of John Baret’s Alvaerie to be precise, riddled with handwritten annotations.

Which are now believed to have been made by William Shakespeare.

I’m intrigued.  They’ve got a whole website up at Shakespeare’s Beehive detailing their find.

What do you think?

Twitter 5000

~ duane ~ 2 Comments

Hi Everyone!

As you all know, Shakespeare Day is coming. My favorite holiday!  I spent the day tweeting and blogging, and try to have as many special events planned as I can.

I’ve noticed that I’ve got 4943 followers on Twitter, which is awfully close to that nice round 5000 number. If you’ve enjoyed the Shakespeare Geek blog over the years and you’re not yet a follower on Twitter, is there something I can do to convince you?  Everything that gets blogged gets tweeted – but not everything that gets tweeted gets blogged! There are many spontaneous games that we play, links that are RT’d, etc etc etc that you never get to see if you’re only hanging out on the blog.

If you are already a follower (and, thank you for that) how about introducing me to some of your friends? Share a few stories around. Let me know what you like, I’ll do more of that.

Can’t wait for Shakespeare Day!  Let’s make a 5000 Follower announcement one of my posts!

Duane

The 2048 Faces of Shakespeare Game

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First there was Angry Birds, then there was Flappy Bird.  Then came 2048. If you’ve managed to escape the latest internet addiction, consider yourself lucky!  The game is a very innovative spin on a combination of “slide puzzles” and match game.  Every time you match a tile, it changes to a new tile. Keep going until you hit the top tile.  Easy? Try it.

It didn’t take long for somebody to realize that this game has nothing to do with numbers and everythig to do with having a custom set of images representing the tiles.  Thus, “Make your own 2048 game” was born.

Thus was “The 2048 Faces of Shakespeare” born as well!

I had to get creative to come up with enough images of Shakespeare to fill the requirement :).  See if you can find them all!