(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.) To see the final puzzle you need an SVG- or VML-enabled browser. S H O R T S T O P P H T T R ...
(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.) Number five is an old-style riddle. My first is an avatar, you are guardian of its soul. My second you must vanquish if you wish to reach your goal. My third you may injure if you slide too hard to third. My whole is a place where dead people can be heard. My friend said ...
(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.) A pretty straightforward puzzle. Answers to all puzzles will be posted tomorrow. Please do not post spoilers. Onward to Puzzle #5.
(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.) This was by far the hardest puzzle to make. It's also going to be the hardest to solve because a lot of the clues were originally inside jokes, and rewriting them for a general audience makes the answers much less obvious. Hint: Quotation is by Nancy Pearl. ...
(Note: Read the puzzles in order from 1 to 6 for them to make sense.) Upon arrival at the first puzzle location, she was handed the second puzzle: "Opghg'i xk ialp opfxw zi z ioaufy jagiofkx." Wk ok opg fxqkhvzofkx ygib fx Lgxogh Pkaig zxy zib fq opge pzmg zxe oflbgoi zmzfnzdng qkh opg Vzhfxghi wzvg. The following clues are not necessary for...
Today is a holiday in the United States, so I thought I'd go entirely non-technical. But that doesn't mean you get to rest your brain. One of my friends was accepted to the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We are of course very happy for her, but also sad that she will be leavi...
Professionals at work is the title of this series of unattributed pictures. (Via memepool Nov 26, 2004.) I think they speak for themselves. (I apologize in advance for the lowbrow advertisements on the page.)
Francesco ("Ces") Marciuliano is the author of the comic strip Sally Forth. In his blog, Drink at Work he expounds on whatever tickles his fancy. (Warning: Includes strong language, adult situations, and political views.) Sure, the stories on writing a cartoon are fun, especially when he responds to feedback from readers, and he also has a lon...
As if there aren't enough things in the world to worry about. Now you have to watch out for exploding knitting needles.
I arrived home yesterday to find a letter from the IRS in my mailbox. Dare I open it? The only other interaction with the IRS I'd had previously was several years ago where they told me I had overpaid my taxes and sent me a refund check of a few hundred dollars. I went back and reviewed my return and concluded that my original return was correct a...
