Ever had a TV show that’s so well done and suspenseful that you just can’t wait for its day of the week to roll around so you can see the next episode (24‘s first and second seasons were like that for me–it’s still good, but not as good)? Well, Planetarium is like that, only it’s [...]
April 21, 2005 – 11:59 pm
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3445734
The Dark Room is a great collection of opaque puzzles of varying difficulty bundled up neatly together over on http://www.woolythinking.com. They even have a save & continue feature that’ll work as long as you didn’t disable Flash’s Local Shared Object store out of fear of supercookies. (I’m a cookie whore–I’m sure I’m set to accept [...]
I had a great meeting on Tuesday with some gentlemen representing a tech company based in Taipei, Taiwan. One of the slides in their presentation completely surprised me. It was a map of the globe centered on the North Pole and looking down. It had China front and center on the bottom part of the [...]
4d Rubik’s cube: http://www.plunk.org/~hatch/MagicCube4dApplet/ Another opaque puzzle (i.e. first, figure out what to do and then do it): http://www.deviantart.com/view/14864502/I know of at least four solutions.
http://www.koreus.com/files/200501/proximity.html Hexagonal grid, numbered tiles, interesting atack-and-defend mechanism. The AI seems good, but beatable with some practice.
http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/~xsvobod4/amanita/samorost/intro.html
January 31, 2005 – 4:07 pm
http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/v3/index.html My high score after three tries is 9600. I’m going to keep trying until I max them all out, though.
January 31, 2005 – 1:41 pm
Since my last post, I’ve taken a job on the MSN Search team. It’s a pretty interesting problem space to work in, but it’s tough to stay objective about which search engine is the best one around. I want to see us ship such a cool product that everyone prefers us hands down, but before [...]
December 29, 2004 – 8:17 pm
I’ve heard many instances in the last 5 years of people joking that something is "soooo 90s" indicating a passe taste or trend, but last night for the first time ever, I overheard someone use the phrase "back in the 90s" without a trace of humor in their voice. The conversation went something like: "Didn’t [...]