The German Army has called up a dead dog for national service. Helga Koehlke, 53, of Rostock, received an official army letter demanding that her pet Pekingese Tommy Jakob, who died almost blind in 2002, report for a military medical examination with his ID card and a pair of swimming shorts.
As reported today in The Age (thanks KJ) the world's hardest Sudoku has been uploaded to a players' forum on sudoku.com.
The puzzle -- known as "AI Escargot" or "AI Etana (Snail)" -- was created by Arto Inkala and it looks a little something like this:
Enjoy!
The buying-of-next-year's-diary time is once again upon us and, as some of you may know, I usually go through much anguish as I review how this last year's diary has performed and as I try to predict which -- if any -- of my diary-based needs will change in the year to come.
No real anguish this year. I'm still happy with the Collins Sterling week-to-an-opening (A5) that has been my companion for two years running.
If you still have time to waste after perusing the pussies, you may want to accept the hand-eye coordination challenge posed by this simple but highly addictive game (Click on the Union Jack in the lower left corner to see the instructions in English). Be warned: if you are someone who spends hours playing Solitaire or Minesweeper, Double Jeu is pretty much guaranteed to wipe out out whole chunks of your day, even though most games won't last longer than 20 seconds.
At first.
