If you like doing Sudoku puzzles, you will like this variant of the puzzle by Scientific American known as “Sci-doku”. It uses letters instead of numbers. As with normal sudoku, each row, column, and nine-cell grid must contain one and only one of the nine letters. You can not just use any nine letters, you have to use the letters that are already shown on the grid.
Here are the full rules.
Spell checkers are great. They help find lots of spelling mistake. But it’s funny how many other mistakes it can not find as demonstrated by the poem linked here.
This is such a beautiful song — not just in the music but in the words as well. It is often played in high school graduations.
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Maz Jobrani was born in Iran and emigrated to the United States when he was six. He was part of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour whose DVD is out. He also do solo touring and has been on the Tonight Show as well.
He has some middle eastern comedy acts in his skits, but they are all done in good taste. In fact, he wants to dispel some of the Middle Eastern stereo-types. He says, just once he wants to see an Middle Easterner on TV doing regular things (like baking a cookie).
On NPR interview with Terry Gross, Maz talked about his acting career and how he was on the hit TV show “24”. Maz Jobrani attended University of California at Berkeley and even enrolled in the PhD program in UCLA. His mother had wanted him to become a doctor, lawyer — okay, or say car mechanic (instead of acting).
Maz is well-known enough to be on Wikipedia. More about Maz Jobrani and his tour schedule on his website.
The acclaimed movie Slumdog Millionaire depicts life in India as two orphan brothers (Jamal and Salim) grows up in the slum of Mumbai. Through a series of adventures in search for his love Latika, the protagonist Jamal ends up working at a call center and then ended up on the India’s version of the show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” — which he wins since he happens to know all the answers to through his previous adventures.
The other brother Salim was not so lucky as he got involved with gangsters — a by-product of the crime-ridden neighbor in which they grew up.
Slumdog Millionaire was winner of the 2009 Oscars for Best Picture, best Directing, best Music Song, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Cinematography, and Writing Adaptive Screenplay.
Director Danny Boyle talks about the film here.
Also hear interview of Danny Boyle on Fresh Air.
Funny song about how he could have been rich if he had just bought Apple, Google, and Gold stocks instead of listening to his broker.
Ellen DeGeneres is funny and in this video she give insightful and humorous comments (jokes) about procrastination.
You may also like this other video about procrastination by “Tales of a Mere Existence”.
Joshua Allen Harris creates street art creatures out of plastic and trash bags in New York City. The one of the white bear is quite cute.
The YouTube video is titled “Guy Walks Across America”. But he didn’t actually walked across America. The movie was a stop-motion video created by Peter Cote and his crew as they took 2700 individual shots of various points across America from New York to San Francisco.
You can also watch the behind-the-scenes process in this video.
This mug defines the word “Advice” as “What we ask for when we already know the answer, but we wish we didn’t”.
For another funny mug, see the one that says “I hate coffee, it keeps me awake at work“.