Word Up

theodp writes "Depending on your perspective, the National Scrabble Championship is a major sporting event, an unrivalled intellectual competition, or the world's biggest dork-fest. So says Slate's Dan Wachtell, who turned to an anagram-drilling Unix program to gain an edge on the 850+ competitors. While hardly mainstream, competitive Scrabble is getting newfound attention thanks to the publication of Word Freak and release of Word Wars."

Comments

The beautiful thing about Scrabble

[Shoeboy]

Is how it can help us become better Christians. The ability to spot patterns in seemingly random collections of letters is also key to understanding the hidden messages in the bible.

It's all about the acrostics, man. I'm actually working on a unix program to parse the KJV and reassemble the spiritual truths contained in the first letter of each verse. Look for it on freshmeat.

Yours in Christ,
--Shoeboy

Re:Um, I don't think so

[DigiShaman]

If it wasn't for the excessive amounts of pot and Sky Vodka...I might remember.

On a serious note however, I value what people have to say of their own experences. I could give a damn about the kinda BS "Intellectuals" shove in their face only for them to come back and regurgitate it back at me.

Keep it real, keep it clean, keep it pure. No liberal additives please.