I can’t resist blogging about weird new sudoku variants and the perpetual accident that is the T, so the blog is back. The website is also back at the ficml.org domain, although some links may be broken.
More news to follow at a more decent hour.
Sudoku Online now has a color version of their Jigsaw Sudoku of the Day. They also have a version with candidates, which is to say, the numbers 1 through 9 cluttering up the empty squares, and some examples of Jigsaw Samurai Sudoku.
Happy birthday to Jerie!
GeekPress linked some handy illustrated Sudoku tips this weekend. And for the truly addicted Sudoku fiend, there’s now a 3D Sudoku Cube.
I also found a zigzag sudoku solver, but the instructions were cryptic and it didn’t solve anything for me.
Wednesday marks the 500th anniversary of the Massacre of Lisbon, in which more than four thousand Portuguese Jews were killed over the course of three days (April 19-21, 1506). A memorial of sorts may be held in the Rossio; see Rua da Judiaria [in Portuguese] for more details.
See Wikipedia for some information about the massacre in English, or read The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon.
In the news (/., MacRumors): yet another attempt at malware for your mac. This one’s being touted as a virus but seems to be just a trojan.
Nevertheless, I briefly considered some advice in the MacRumors comments to stop running as an admin user. (See also the explanation of admin user powers in this informative thread.) But I consider myself geeky enough not to double-click something dangerous, so I’ll wait until a real virus starts circulating before I do anything that inconvenient in the name of security.
On the positive side, today I stumbled across HyperJeff’s catalog of OS X Apps while surfing. It’s a huge, unwieldy list, but handy if you want to look up all the mac sudoku apps.
Happy belated birthday to Seema!
According to Wikipedia, today is Festivus; I prefer a February celebration myself. That will give me plenty of time to shop for the aluminum pole…
Gmail RSS link of the day: Ask Yahoo answers the eternal question, What is the origin of the term “hands down”?
It’s that time of year again! Suffer with Seema as she wonders about another year of holiday shoes. Or celebrate the solstice with the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s holiday album, A Very Scary Solstice. They have three free Cthulhu Carols to download.
I was downloading some of Tom Smith’s free filks—I especially like “Callisto”—when I stumbled across his (text-only) Iron Chef parody, Iron Chef Human:
OTA: For the past few minutes, Dr. Lecter has been simmering a broth with parsley, sage, and rosemary, probably for a marinade or infusion of some sort and possibly to set up a really bad Simon & Garfunkel pun, while his personal assistant has been making steamed meatballs.