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Archive for February, 2012

Wau!

Monday, February 13th, 2012

One of the wonderful mathematical notebook videos from Vi Hart. This one contains a curious puzzle – can you identify Wau?

Sheet Music for “Being There” soundtrack

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

I first saw the Peter Sellers movie “Being There” in 1979, and fell in love with Johnny Mandel’s two piano pieces on the soundtrack. For years, pre Internet, I didn’t know what the pieces were. Although they sounded like classical piano music, they are not credited in the film, there is no soundtrack album, nor […]

Perplexible

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

David Millar, of the excellent puzzle site The Griddle, has launched a new collaborative puzzle site called Perplexible. The intent is to provide a forum for diverse puzzle authors to post new creations. I’ve posted an unusual Slitherlink there, and hope to post more unique puzzles, in the future. I occasionally get emails from puzzle […]