Archive for the 'Jim’s Projects' Category
Thursday, December 8th, 2005
If you like my sudoku puzzles, you’re gonna like my new kakuro puzzles. Also called Cross Sums, these puzzles are like a cross between a Sudoku and a crossword puzzle. I’ve been working on some software that generates these puzzles, and have published a set of them here at Krazydad. Each file contains 20 puzzles, […]
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Friday, December 2nd, 2005
My phyllotaxy poster has been showing up in some unusual places, other than the sides of refrigerators. Not too long ago, it showed up as part of this amusing keynote presentation by Dick Hardt, for the O’Reilly Open Source conference. Dick was talking about new web technologies, and used an early image of the poster […]
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
I’m working on creating more printable puzzles for the site, in addition to the sudoku puzzles. Here’s a collection of printable mazes, suitable for solving with a pencil. Perfect for a rainy day when you’ve got a bored kid in the house or office. The mazes come in 5 different difficulty levels, ranging from easy […]
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Friday, November 4th, 2005
“Dear Mr. Bumgardner,” writes Scarlett, “Congratulations on writing software that goes the distance! We on Palace are celebrating 10 years of operation and it’s a pretty happy time among all the Palaces. I don’t think many software developers get to have their software in operation this long with a product going through multiple operating system […]
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Saturday, October 29th, 2005
Five new coverpops today, all wonderful vintage covers from the amazing collection at MagazineArt.org. I think you’ll love browsing thru these. Vintage Pulp Fiction Vintage Mass Market Magazines Vintage Womens Magazines Vintage Science & Technology Vintage Grab Bag
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
Here’s a Wacky Packages coverpop that I made, for those of you in search of your elusive Bum Chex. The images were provided by | Comments Off on Bum Chex
Friday, October 21st, 2005
The VISCO SF Cover Explorer was quite a hit this week, making a number of large blogs, including BoingBoing, UserFriendly and MetaFilter. Now, I’ve gone and made a few more of these things, which I’m calling CoverPops. Here are the 1,001 best selling graphic novels from Amazon. Here’s Doug Gilford’s entire collection of MAD magazine […]
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
I had a new idea for exploring large photo archives a few weeks ago: put all of them on an enormous virtual coffee table,
arranged by color and time. I had some free time on Saturday so I finally got around to implementing it, using the wonderful images from the Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover Art (VISCO), courtesy of Terry Gibbons.
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
I am on Los Angeles TV today, filling the role of “obsessed sudoku fan” for a KNBC-4 news segment on the puzzle craze. If you’re visiting this site because of the show, welcome! The free puzzles are over here. Enjoy!
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
Sudoku is a game of pure logical deduction, just like Kakuro and other Japanese number puzzles. Unlike games of luck such as card and bingo games, guessing is never required. I’ve now learned a number of methods for solving tough Sudoku puzzles by hand, including X-Wing, Swordfish, Jellyfish, Squirmbag, Turbot-fish, XY-Wing, XYZ-Wing, Conjugate Pairs, Bowman […]
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