Word of the Day
Besotted (adj., BE! SOTTED! B-e-s-o-t-t-e-d!)
Drunk enough to not know what drunk is, but a cool, old-fashioned way of saying it. (It's from the French for "foolish", which...let's stop there before we say something we shouldn't.)
Gif of the Day
AnimalsCatsTV screensEndless fascinationSo that's why they made it like that
Link of the Day
Kazuo Nomura's incredible mazes
Two years ago, a girl was going through some of her father's old things and stumbled across a hand-drawn maze he had worked on for SEVEN YEARS. Kazuo Nomura was a janitor, and he had drawn the maze while working there on a sheet of A1 paper (33x23in large). His daughter posted photos of it on Twitter, where it went viral because, you know, amazingly complex maze, seven years in the making, lost for twenty years, the usual.
Nomura, of course, was asked to create a new maze, which he repeatedly declined, saying that he had retired from maze-making. But, after some cajoling/pressuring, he returned with Papa's Maze 2.0:
Nomura drew this over a period of two months, section by section, and tried to create one that was easier than the seven-year maze. But early players—you can purchase it for yourself—say that it's actually harder than 1.0.
In any case, both mazes are incredible and their story is equally cool.
ArchitectureMazesGamesExceptional craftsmanshipLost artFathers and daughters