Apparently the publisher asked the adapter, Shirley Bogart, to jazz up the ending. In the chapter “The Golden Age of Science,” our hero transports himself 300 years into his future (approximately the year 2195) and encounters some characters from an Ed Wood movie.

The time traveler is squirted with “Apathy-Gas” and interrogated, before making his escape. The book has a copyright date of 2009, but appears to have been written and illustrated in the early 70s.


You can save 3 bucks, and read most of it on Google.

I wrote some scripts that did an exhaustive search of the Street View information for Manhattan, and found that there are exactly 10 intersections which Street View treats as 5-way intersections on the island – in reality there are more 5-way intersections, but the ones shown here are the ones Google Street View knows about. The rest of the intersections are 4-way or smaller. I call this image “Five Points” to recall the notorious 19th century intersection depicted in Gangs of New York.

These panoramic images were taken by the Google Street View camera. I’ve also constructed some interesting high-speed time lapse movies by using sequences of these photos that follow the car. You’ll find some others, made by other people, here.

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), was that the “game” on my screen was my work project…

Benjamin tells me his friends told him “Your uncle’s a creep!” Sigh…

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

Roanoke Times Link

For more information about algorithmic puzzle construction, check out this article I wrote for MungBeing magazine.

An oldie-but-goodie – the film “Powers of Ten” by Charles and Ray Eames.

“Take 1 large ‘Whitney Music Box’ and whisk together with ‘Mobius transformations revealed’. Add a sprinkle of ‘Indras Pearls’, the juice of a fresh Riemann Sphere, and stereographically project at 200C until crispy…”

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Following Mark’s advice, I’m buying one of those cool fisher space pens right now, as a form of structured procrastination. Oh, I love that term.