Archive for February, 2006

Sudoku Contest = Be the First World Champion

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Sudoku Championship

Where in the World is the World’s first World Sudoku Championship going to be held?  In Lucca, Italy!  Thanks to puzzles.com, here is where you can sign up for a chance to go.

Web Sudoku = Numeric Crossword Puzzle

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Web Sudoku

Read about Sudoku, its mathematical foundations, and its relation to Latin Squares, on Wikipedia.  There is even a discussion board.

Googlewhacking = Metastylistical Solitarites

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

My Googlewhacks 

A Googlewhack is a pair of dictionary words that get only one hit at Google. To score, you multiply the hits for each word individually.  Invented by Gary Stock, GW pairs get old quickly.  For example, four GWs I created (see Googlewhack Stack above from October 2003) now have the following statistics:

2.   marzipan substituents (2,386,800,000,000) 121 hits - Patent 6866863

20. woad decapods (26,681,900,000) 139 hits - hennessey

30. scazon dyslexia (11,648,700,000) 94 hits – All word lists, domain names, or non-English

33. scazon babylon (16,899,000,000) 107 hits - Music composer

Today, scazon isn’t even in dictionary.com anymore!  Back in January 2002 RCassidy had the World Record score with checkerspot linux (39,564,000,000,000).  Today it has 449 hits topped by Joho the Blog.

Cookin’ with Google > Boarin’ Potatoe Mashup

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Broken Arrow Ranch     Harvest Table     Roasted Boar Leg

Cookin’ with Google is just one of many so called google mashups.  See www.mashupfeed.com to track new ones.  Get your wild boar at Broken Arrow Ranch.  Yum.