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Behold, the first coin-operated video game. 1971.

I was at a job interview and the interviewer gave me two logic puzzles. I'll repeat them:

1. You are on a boat in a lake. You have, in the boat with you, a rock. You throw the rock into the water, it sinks. What happens to the water level on the shore?
2. The classic "Let's Make a Deal" paradox: Suppose you're on a game show and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

Any takers? Assuming you haven't seen them already, of course.

A relative of mine is running a series of posts describing some of the roads he took in his latest adventure: driving to Alaska, and back.

No, it's not a Jared Diamond book, it's the story of a guy who takes pictures of flying insects with a home-made laser-activated, multi-flash, external-shuttered, computer-controled flash setup for his Nikon D100.

After ten pages describing all the work he went through to build his device, there are eight pages of images - some of the are spectacular.

Halibut heads and backbone.

Note:

Halibut-heads are not food for the morning, for they are too fat. They only eat them at noon and in the evening, because they are very fat; that is the reason why they are afraid to eat them, that it makes one sleepy.

Boing Boing issues a challenge

We are willing to pay any individual *$250,000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.