Kind of. OK, not really. Bram Cohen (creator of BitTorrent) muses on the solvability of Sudoku puzzles here. Puzzle creation is an interesting problem as well.

So I'm watching the end of the Giants-Vikings game yesterday. The Vikings are ahead 21-13 and punt the ball to the Giants, which they get around their 35 yard line with just over 3 minutes remaining. Now, there is a time and place to play the prevent defense. If there were 20 seconds left, the Giants, with no timeouts, could only run 2 or 3 ( Read more... )

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So I'm on my way out after work today, and there's a car in the parking lot parked exceptionally poorly, all the way across the lines. On the side of the car, I see one of these:
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http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/reference/whambamtramramcounter.html

Today I discovered a new genre of rap, namely Computer Science Gangsta Rap, which itself is a subgenre of Nerdcore. The leaders in the CS gangsta rap biz are apparently MC:NP and MC Plus+. They're both pretty good, but the new playa in the hood, Monzy, has apparently decided to start a bicoastal CS gangsta rap war and has released a track titled ( Read more... )

Apple's yearly developer's conference starts tomorrow, and Friday evening, CNET posted an article (http://news.com.com/Apple+to+ditch+IBM%2C+switch+to+Intel+chips/2100-1006_3-5731398.html?part=rss&tag= ( Read more... )

So I'm shopping at Kroger today and get to the checkout line. The cashier finishes up with the person in front of me in line, and the bagger leaves to help them get their groceries to their car, leaving the line without a bagger. As the cashier starts scanning my items, I'm standing there with two options ( Read more... )

See, football is good for something after all!

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/16/science/16foot.html?oref=login&8dpc

The seemingly big story coming out of the election is that the most important issue for people was "moral values" (nice unambiguous phrase there, guys). This has led to a lot of blustering on both sides about the issue, but if you break down the numbers a bit, it becomes obvious that this wasn't what decided the election at all. A very good ( Read more... )