Rolf wrote in with the following message for the readers of KrazyDad: Here is a link to a website that has photos of the large clay tablet unearthed recently by archeologists from the University of Brattleboro. Here is a link to a photo of the tablet on Flickr. The tablet, which measures 16 inches by […]

Here is my estimate of worldwide Twitter volume since November 7th. A few things to note: * The growth in overall tweets per day has slowed a lot since the beginning of the year – it started to stall a bit in the autumn. Recent Comscore results show that visits to the Twitter website began […]

This weekend I compiled the data to produce the above graph, showing the level of activity on Twitter. I figured this out using a commonly known method. Every tweet has a unique id number, for example the 20 that appears in the URL of this tweet which kicked off the service: http://twitter.com/#!/ev/statuses/20 Assuming these id […]

A more individually tailored version of the famous 411 scam arrived in my inbox this morning. I thought I’d share: From: customerservice@citibank-group.com Date: Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:18 AM Subject: SUB: CUSTOMER INFORMATION * Attention The Genealogical database of our deceased customer Mr. Bill Bumgardner has revealed you as his family relative. Kindly confirm […]

Hey folks, I’ve added some new Bridges puzzles to the site. In Japan, Bridges are known as Hashiwokakero which means “Bridge Building”. They are also known here as Hashi. In these puzzles, you are presented with a collection of numbered circles, which represent islands. You connect the islands with bridges to form a network of […]

While waiting around at the local Michael’s, I picked up a 3 dollar copy of the Great Illustrated Classics version of The Time machine by H.G. Wells. I was surprised to open it to an illustration depicting a character from a cheaply made 1950s Sci Fi film — most certainly not a character from Wells’ […]

The last few days, I’ve been obsessing over the island of Manhattan (which I’ll be visiting briefly in May), and Google Street View. I’m currently working on a few Street View related hacking projects in my spare time. Here’s one of them. I wrote some scripts that did an exhaustive search of the Street View […]

My nephew Ben, a budding computer programmer, found this old picture of me in a book about computer programmers. The photo has the following caption: “Sometimes programmers play computer games when they need a break from their work projects.” What the author perhaps didn’t realize (the photograph was obtained from the Corbis Stock photography archive), […]

The Griddle is a beautifully designed puzzle site by David Millar. It will especially appeal to more advanced solvers who are bored with the same-old same-old. You’ll find a new puzzle variety, in PDF format, nearly every day, including some interesting variants on Sudoku, Kakuro and Slitherlink. Check it out!

via Laughing Squid, which eulogized Art Clokey today