Solving Sudoku With dpkg (Slashdot)

Reader Otter points out in his journal a very neat use for the logic contained in Debian's package dependency resolver: solving sudoku puzzles. To me at least, this is much more interesting than the sudoku puzzles themselves. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

A Plague Of Crossword Puzzles (Arts Journal)

"Somehow crossword types think that their addiction to this sad form of mental self-abuse somehow makes them "literary." Sorry: Doing puzzles reflects not an elevated literary sensibility but a degraded letter-ary sensibility, one that demonstrates an inability to find pleasure in reading.

Placenta products, lip synch, history for sale, puzzles (GMA News)

Award winning journalist Jessica Soho brings you an interesting mix of stories this Saturday: learn more about products made of placenta, meet the ghost singers behind famous stars, visit our national heroes' monuments and get in on the latest puzzle crazes like Rubiks and Sudoku. (Airing on August 23, 2008)

A Plague Of Crossword Puzzles (Arts Journal)

"Somehow crossword types think that their addiction to this sad form of mental self-abuse somehow makes them "literary." Sorry: Doing puzzles reflects not an elevated literary sensibility but a degraded letter-ary sensibility, one that demonstrates an inability to find pleasure in reading.

Placenta products, lip synch, history for sale, puzzles (GMA News)

Award winning journalist Jessica Soho brings you an interesting mix of stories this Saturday: learn more about products made of placenta, meet the ghost singers behind famous stars, visit our national heroes' monuments and get in on the latest puzzle crazes like Rubiks and Sudoku. (Airing on August 23, 2008)

'Burn Notice': The Novel (Los Angeles Times)

Does a real writer accept a gig doing books spun off from films or TV shows? A real writer found the answer to his own question.

Developer Praises Complexity of Time-Based Puzzles In "Braid" (Slashdot)

Raven Software game developer Manveer Heir takes a look at the design mechanics of Braid, a recently released puzzle game for Xbox Live Arcade (a review is available at Gamespot). Heir commends Braid's focus on taking an interesting mechanic and exploring it fully through level design, rather than generating complexity with the interaction of many different mechanics. "One of my favorite worlds …

Lance Bass: Christina Applegate 'Fully Recovering' (People Magazine)

"I was at the hospital holding her hand and getting her through it," he tells PEOPLE

Calling Venus, Calling Mars (Forbes)

No one may know you're a dog on the Internet. But does your mobile phone signal you're a girl?

I.O.U.S.A. (PG) *** | Horror films don't get much scarier than this (Miami Herald)

Documentarian Patrick Creadon, whose last film Wordplay made the topic of crossword puzzles as scintillating as it could possibly get, tackles another potentially mind-numbing subject in I.O.U.S.A. And he does a nice job of making the daunting math and economic theories associated with our national debt accessible.

Paperback Trade Fiction (New York Times)

1. THE SHACK, by William P. Young 2. BAREFOOT, by Elin Hilderbrand 3. THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho 4. THE KITE RUNNER, by Khaled Hosseini 5. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen

A Plague Of Crossword Puzzles (Arts Journal)

"Somehow crossword types think that their addiction to this sad form of mental self-abuse somehow makes them "literary." Sorry: Doing puzzles reflects not an elevated literary sensibility but a degraded letter-ary sensibility, one that demonstrates an inability to find pleasure in reading.

Placenta products, lip synch, history for sale, puzzles (GMA News)

Award winning journalist Jessica Soho brings you an interesting mix of stories this Saturday: learn more about products made of placenta, meet the ghost singers behind famous stars, visit our national heroes' monuments and get in on the latest puzzle crazes like Rubiks and Sudoku. (Airing on August 23, 2008)

Developer Praises Complexity of Time-Based Puzzles In "Braid" (Slashdot)

Raven Software game developer Manveer Heir takes a look at the design mechanics of Braid, a recently released puzzle game for Xbox Live Arcade (a review is available at Gamespot). Heir commends Braid's focus on taking an interesting mechanic and exploring it fully through level design, rather than generating complexity with the interaction of many different mechanics. "One of my favorite worlds …

Lance Bass: Christina Applegate 'Fully Recovering' (People Magazine)

"I was at the hospital holding her hand and getting her through it," he tells PEOPLE

Calling Venus, Calling Mars (Forbes)

No one may know you're a dog on the Internet. But does your mobile phone signal you're a girl?

I.O.U.S.A. (PG) *** | Horror films don't get much scarier than this (Miami Herald)

Documentarian Patrick Creadon, whose last film Wordplay made the topic of crossword puzzles as scintillating as it could possibly get, tackles another potentially mind-numbing subject in I.O.U.S.A. And he does a nice job of making the daunting math and economic theories associated with our national debt accessible.

Paperback Trade Fiction (New York Times)

1. THE SHACK, by William P. Young 2. BAREFOOT, by Elin Hilderbrand 3. THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho 4. THE KITE RUNNER, by Khaled Hosseini 5. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen

Paperback Nonfiction (New York Times)

1. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin 2. A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah 3. EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert 4. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max 5. BIG RUSS AND ME, by Tim Russert

Hardcover Fiction (New York Times)

1. SMOKE SCREEN, by Sandra Brown 2. THE BOURNE SANCTION, by Eric Van Lustbader 3. ACHERON, by Sherrilyn Kenyon 4. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows 5. MOSCOW RULES, by Daniel Silva

The Cleanest <b>Games</b> Ever

This year, I am watching the Olympic Games on television in the United States for the first time since the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. It has been my singular honor to have been selected to be an arbitrator on the ad hoc Division of the …

Sony launching two <b>games</b> in stores and on PSN simultaneously in Japan

Sony may be experimenting with a new retail strategy for their first-party titles, evidenced by two PSP games which will be released in stores and on the PSN simultaneously in Japan this October. Agoraphobic gamers will be pleased to …

Virtual &#39;Gold Farming&#39; Business Booming in Online <b>Games</b>

New research by the University of Manchester in England has shown that almost 500000 people in developing nations earn their living wage by making virtual goods in online games to sell to other players. Roughly 80-percent of the …

Beijing <b>Games</b>: picture of the day

The original caption reads: Former Argentine soccer player Diego Maradona kisses the hand of Ronaldinho of Brazil after the medal ceremony for men's soccer at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 23, 2008. REUTERS/Alfred Cheng Jin.

Fable 2 Pub <b>Games</b> receiving patch, killin&#39; the exploit

butt off in the Fable 2 Pub Games, the Fable 2 development blog states that a patch is incoming to remove the infamous exploit. That's fantastic, because for those of us with certain moral or ethical issues about cheating, …

Win a bunch of <b>games</b> from Freeverse

Big thanks to Freeverse for the prize package, which includes your choice of a Freeverse iPhone game (Wingnuts Moto Racer and Sudoku iPhone are currently available), plus the following games: Hordes of Orcs, Kill Monty, Neon Tango and …

A Plague Of Crossword Puzzles (Arts Journal)

"Somehow crossword types think that their addiction to this sad form of mental self-abuse somehow makes them "literary." Sorry: Doing puzzles reflects not an elevated literary sensibility but a degraded letter-ary sensibility, one that demonstrates an inability to find pleasure in reading.

Placenta products, lip synch, history for sale, puzzles (GMA News)

Award winning journalist Jessica Soho brings you an interesting mix of stories this Saturday: learn more about products made of placenta, meet the ghost singers behind famous stars, visit our national heroes' monuments and get in on the latest puzzle crazes like Rubiks and Sudoku. (Airing on August 23, 2008)

Developer Praises Complexity of Time-Based Puzzles In "Braid" (Slashdot)

Raven Software game developer Manveer Heir takes a look at the design mechanics of Braid, a recently released puzzle game for Xbox Live Arcade (a review is available at Gamespot). Heir commends Braid's focus on taking an interesting mechanic and exploring it fully through level design, rather than generating complexity with the interaction of many different mechanics. "One of my favorite worlds …

Calling Venus, Calling Mars (Forbes)

No one may know you're a dog on the Internet. But does your mobile phone signal you're a girl?

I.O.U.S.A. (PG) *** | Horror films don't get much scarier than this (Miami Herald)

Documentarian Patrick Creadon, whose last film Wordplay made the topic of crossword puzzles as scintillating as it could possibly get, tackles another potentially mind-numbing subject in I.O.U.S.A. And he does a nice job of making the daunting math and economic theories associated with our national debt accessible.

Paperback Trade Fiction (New York Times)

1. THE SHACK, by William P. Young 2. BAREFOOT, by Elin Hilderbrand 3. THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho 4. THE KITE RUNNER, by Khaled Hosseini 5. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen