WOW. Not World of Warcraft

Found a TON of cool links for stuff.

I’m into cryptography.  Letter frequencies, word patterns, cryptograms, Scrabble (which I believe is the ultimate combination of math and English), sudoku (number logic puzzles), WWII era cipher machines – you name it, and I’m pretty much into it.  

I had a roundabout way of getting to www.elonka.com. I was doing searches for “The Beast” which was a online murder mystery the ran as an advertisement for “AI Artificial Intelligence”. That in turn led me to the new Mission Impossible 3 game that starts up on Monday.  And from there I decided to go to the Da Vinci Code movie website.  And from there I find out that Dan Brown (the author of “The Da Vinci Code”) put a reference the Kryptos cipher (located at the CIA) into the illustration on the dust cover of the hardcover books.  So I finally get to elonka.com, and I hit a virtual jackpot of cryptographic goodness.

Here are some fun links:

What nerdier than Nintendo? How About Acapella Nintendo
http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/138298/

Cool Optical Illusion
http://blogs.msdn.com/ianm/archive/2005/08/19/453737.aspx

RuneQuest
http://members.aol.com/scirealm/RuneQuest.html

Coolest Rube Goldberg Commercial… ever…
http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/581/