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Pigpen Cipher
Also known as: The Freemason's Cipher. A substitution cipher that has particularly distinctive looking characters. The encryption/decryption key can be quickly re-created by hand, once you know the basic idea. Give anyone twenty seconds with a pencil and paper, and they can r…
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Dylan's About Face
27 May 1963 - Dylan released "the Free wheelin' Bob Dylan" featuring these absolutely hard-hitting protest folk songs: - Blowin' in the Wind - Masters of War - Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall Aug-Oct 1963 - Dylan records "The Times They Are a-Changin'" album featuring these even more h…
Classic Articles of Computer Science
- A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (James Iry) - Always Bet On Text (graydon2) - Cool Uris Don't Change (Tim Berners-Lee) - Dongly Things (Douglas Adams) - Go To Statement Considered Harmful (Edsger W. Dijkstra) - How To Be A Programmer: A Sh…
A Simple Puzzle
A group of Explorers are traversing a system of Caves when they find a Treasure. In accordance with an agreement that they signed before entering the cave, the Treasure must be divided fairly between them, in such a way that they are each satisfied that they will derive equivalen…
Henry Porter
The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter is that his name wasn't Henry Porter — Bob Dylan and Sam Sheppard, Brownsville Girl LOAD FACT: "Henry Porter" was not the “real name” of writer “O. Henry” Understood. LOAD FACT: "William Sydney Porter" was not the "real name"…
ADHD Products/Ideas to Help
Here are some interesting products/ideas I've seen that are popular with ADHD people. I've put them into categories like this: - Keeping Track of Time - Keeping Track of Things Other than Time - Keeping Track of Thoughts - Commitment Devices - Distraction Reduction - Fidget toys…
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