Last Friday's multicolored menagerie was very well received, with the purple polar bear and pink squirrel receiving particular attention. Obama riding a space corgi was also a reader favorite, and has even become an iPad background. (Told you he was loved!) And speaking of iPads, one reader offered some fantastic puns for the Apple product fragrance. Anyone for some iPadfume or Macologne? They would certainly sell better than his final suggestion of "Steve Sweat."
To transition us out of last Friday's issue and into this Monday (and there is no weekday transition more difficult), we have another story of an oddly colored animal. Scientists have spotted an adult white orca off the coast of eastern Russia. While the evidence of its existence is nowhere near as adorable as last week's animals, it does have a name, which is super cute. Iceberg, though, is not the most famous white whale; that title, as the article notes, belongs to Melville's Moby Dick.
Which brings us to more news of World Book Day, scheduled today (at least partially) in recognition of William Shakespeare's birthday. This birthday celebration, in conjunction with the upcoming London Olympics, is being used to kick-off a Global Shakespeare festival. The centerpiece of the festival includes "Globe To Globe," a series of stagings of all 37 of Shakespeare's plays in 37 different languages, including a hip-hop staging of Othello and a British Sign Language interpretation of Love's Labour's Lost! Theater field trip to London, anyone?
That's all for now! Stay tuned as the week goes on for continued corgi coverage (sorry, Kevin) and some dated playground equipment. Breaking my promise of anonymity here to call Kevin out as the leader of the anti-cute animals movement.
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