Dhar's Blog: May 2005

Time Magazine's: Top 100 Movies

Time magazine on Monday published its list of 100 all-time favorite movies. For those who enjoy lists, here are two more: The IMDB Top 250 and The AFI Top 100. Together, these lists cover most of the top movies of our times.

PS: Check out a Japanese Anime series called Naruto. Pretty well made and damn addictive.

Collection of Puzzles

For those who are looking for Puzzle books, forget it. William Wu's site is one of the best puzzle sites on the net. He has made a comprehensive archive of riddles that are very challenging and loads of fun. Also useful for interview preparation. PC, you won't feel the need for a puzzle book after browsing his puzzles page.

PS: Do you know any good site with challenging puzzles/riddles? Do use to comments section to let me know.

Move Mount Fuji?

I am currently reading "How Would You Move Mt. Fuji" and came across a nice puzzle in that book. The puzzle has two solutions, one being pretty obvious. See if you can crack both the solutions:

You are given a rectangular cake with a rectangular portion cut off. The cut off rectangular portion can be of any size/orientation and can be located anywhere on the cake.

How will you divide such a cake into two equal halves with just one slice of a knife.

Free eBooks

Planet PDF has some excellent eBooks available for download. The books have a decent layout, tags to aid navigation and reasonable typography. I am a big fan of eBooks and these well produced PDFs are certainly readable on a laptop. Unlike other sites, I believe, Planet PDF's copies are all legal.

Get your copies from the Planet PDF site.