HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: paul@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Paul Dworkin)
Subject: Songs containing states
Organization: Media Labs, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:10:56 GMT

A listing game:

I'm interested songs which mention states in the US.
I'd like to have a list of at least one for each.

Could people send me ideas for various states?
I've included a list below and some example.


 Alabama			I'm Alabama bound
 Alaska
 Arizona
 Arkansas
 California			California here I come
 Carolina, North/South		Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina
 Colorado
 Connecticut
 Dakota, North/South
 Delaware
 Florida
 Georgia			Georgia on my mind
 Hawaii
 Idaho
 Illinois
 Indiana
 Iowa
 Kansas
 Kentucky
 Louisiana
 Maine
 Maryland
 Massachusetts
 Michigan
 Minnesota
 Mississippi
 Missouri			I'm bound away, cross the wide Missouri
 Montana
 Nebraska
 Nevada
 New Hampshire
 New Jersey
 New Mexico
 New York			I'm in a New York state of mind
 Ohio
 Oklahoma			Oklahoma
 Oregon
 Pennsylvania
 Rhode Island
 Tennessee
 Texas
 Utah
 Vermont
 Virginia, West
 Washington
 Wisconsin
 Wyoming
 District of Columbia


Especially helpful are the obscure ones.
I despair of finding anything for, say, Wyoming...
--
	    -Paul Dworkin	paul@media-lab.media.mit.edu  (617) 253-0664
				Media Lab, E15-325 M.I.T., Cambridge MA  02139
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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Subject: Re: the question is the answer ?!
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 06:47:35 GMT

In article <5419@daily-planet.concordia.ca>, smw@alcor.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff ) writes:
> In article <90TMS.92Nov9140045@tw212.eng.cam.ac.uk>, 90tms@eng.cam.ac.uk (T.M. Speight) writes:
>>   `Yields a falsehood when appended to its own quotation'
>>    Yields a falsehood when appended to its own quotation.
>> Anyone know who wrote this?
> Well, I've never seen *this* version before, but the very similar
>     `Yields falsehood when preceded by its own quotation'
>      Yields falsehood when preceded by its own quotation.
> appears in Douglas Hofstadter's "Goedel, Escher, Bach".

To be picky, that's not quite right, at least not according to my copy.
It's at the very beginning of the "Air on G's String"...

Achilles: You don't mind if I change the subject, do you?
Tortise: Be my guest.
A: Very well, then.  It concerns an obscene phone call I received a few
  days ago.
T: Sounds interesting.
A: Yes.  Well---the problem was that the caller was incoherent, at
  least as far as I could tell.  He shouted something over the line and
  then hung up---or rather, now that I think of it, he shouted
  something, shouted it again, and then hung up.
T: Did you catch what that thing was?
A: Well, the whole call went like this:
	Myself: Hello?
	Caller (shouting wildly): Yields falsehood when preceded by its
	  quotation!  Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation!
	(Click.)

In my copy, this is all on page 431.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
From: ss8c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Simon Szykman)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: the question is the answer
Date: 13 Nov 92 02:49:07 GMT
Organization: Doctoral student, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


On 12-Nov-92 in Re: the question is the ans..
user Doug Gerecht 806@kbsw1.u writes:
>>>>dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz) writes:
>>>>>thomas@sees.bangor.ac.uk (Thomas Varsamidis) writes:
>>
>>>>>>This is somewhat different, but the idea is the same:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Q: How many letters are there in the answer?
>>>>>>A: Four
>>>>>A: 0
>>>>A: Eleven plus two
>>>A: Seventeen plus zero
>> A1: I
>> A2: II
>> A3: III
>> A4: Uh, seven?
>A: This one has eighteen

A1: One plus two plus three + four + five + six + seven + ...
A2: There are six squared letters in the answer
From: kubo@zariski.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Cliff Puzzle 17: Weird Recursive Sequence
Date: 7 Nov 92 23:03:08 GMT


In article <Nov.7.13.56.08.1992.7781@remus.rutgers.edu>
clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes: 
>In article <1992Nov06.160358.101157@watson.ibm.com>, Cliff Pickover writes:
>
>> John Conway offered $10,000 to the person to find the s-m-a-l-l-e-s-t
>> such N. A month after Conway made the offer, Colin Mallows of AT&T
>> solved the $10,000 question:  N = 3,173,375,556.
>
>I recall reading somewhere that there was some question as to the
>validity of Mallows's proof.  Has it finally been accepted as correct?

Where did you read that?   I believe I am the only person who ever
looked at the details of Mallows' method for determining the answer
to Conway's question (they were not included in his published article).
Therefore, I would be surprised if someone had claimed in print that
Mallows' results were dubious, without bothering to check.  In fact,
his results are correct.

Mallows' numerical results are as follows: the last  n  for which
|a(n)/n - 1/2| > epsilon, is n=1489  for  epsilon=1/20, and
n = 6083008742 for epsilon=1/40.  These values are reported in his
article in the American Mathematical Monthly, January 1991, p. 5.
His method of obtaining them is, strictly speaking, not a rigorous proof,
since it relies on some assumptions about the behavior of the ratio
a(n)/n.  Also, he did not formalize his method into an algorithm; he only
used it to find the above numbers.  As a result of some work Ravi Vakil and
I did on Conway's sequence, we have a simple and rapid algorithm to answer
Conway's question for any given epsilon.  (See the table of values in my
previous posting on this thread).  In particular, we can confirm Mallows'
results.


-Tal Kubo  kubo@math.harvard.edu
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From: gg@iok.unit.no (Gus Gassmann)
Subject: Re: Billion-year survivability
Organization: University of Trondheim
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 11:47:03 GMT

In article <10920011@pollux.svale.hp.com>, ryoung@pollux.svale.hp.com (Roderick Young) writes:
|> If I wanted to send information to a society that will inhabit the earth
|> one billion years in the future, how would I do it?  If I engraved the
|> message on a bunch of diamonds, then buried the diamonds in a secure place,
|> would that do it?  There must be a better way.

Try sending messages to a society that will inhabit the earth 10,000 years 
from now. Some UN agency is really worried about this (with regard to
toxic waste deposits). The main problem is that people in the future
probably will not understand the language the message is written in,
even if you got the problem of the medium solved...
From: shamrake@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Danil Suits)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: the question is the answer ?!
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:28:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX



Q: How many letters are in the answer?

A: seventeen less one.

A: III.

A: X squared when x equals root thirty-two.
-- 
-- The Shamrake --    Zansellquasure  Flamarion
@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu          Bridge Club
From: imcc@cs.strath.ac.uk (Iain McCord)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Balls in the urn puzzle (LONG explanat
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:36:43 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland.


 
If the problem is stated as follows then the source of the paradox may be 
clear.

Start with M*N balls in urn A, 0 in B, 0 in C.
At each time t ( t >= 1 )
 Move balls  (t-1)*M+1 to t*M from A to B, ( if available )
 Then move ball P*t from B to C. (if available )

The number of balls in B is then
 (M-1) * t for t <= N
 M*N - t for  N<t <= N*M/P
 (M-M/P) * N for  N*M/P <t

For M=10,P=1
 (10-1) * t for t <= N
 10*N - t for  N<t <= N*10
 0 for  N*10 <=t

As N*10 rises to infinity  0 * N rises to a limit of 0 


A graph of the no. of balls in B shows a rise to a peak, a fall and
a final static state.  Comparing this with a graph of the no. of balls
in A shows that the peak is when at t=N, i.e. when there are no balls
left in A.  The paradox seems to depend on emptying an urn containing
an infinite number of balls.  If A can be emptied then so can B.



-- 

		~~~~~/\~~~~~
Iain McCord	~~~~/()\~~~~	Tue Nov 10 19:36:19 WET 1992
		~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: kanad@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Kanad Chakraborty)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: the question is the answer ?!
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:07:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: zip.1992Nov11.190755.17075
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor

In article <7ai=02.F2a0H01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> jpm10@cd.amdahl.com (Jim Millar) writes:
>In article <1992Nov9.215833.4380@zip.eecs.umich.edu>,
>dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov9.205312@sees.bangor.ac.uk> thomas@sees.bangor.ac.uk
>>(Thomas Varsamidis) writes:
>>>This is somewhat different, but the idea is the same:
>>>
>>>Q: How many letters are there in the answer?
>>>A: Four
>>>
>>A: 0
>>
>>  -Dan
>A: Eleven plus two
>
>Jim

A: Seventeen plus zero

Kanad
From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Billion-year survivability
Date: 11 Nov 1992 00:47:26 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Nov10.114703.26890@ugle.unit.no>, gg@iok.unit.no (Gus Gassmann) writes:
>In article <10920011@pollux.svale.hp.com>, ryoung@pollux.svale.hp.com (Roderick Young) writes:
>|> If I wanted to send information to a society that will inhabit the earth
>|> one billion years in the future, how would I do it?  If I engraved the
>|> message on a bunch of diamonds, then buried the diamonds in a secure place,
>|> would that do it?  There must be a better way.

Well, the way it's already been done (at least in theory) is:  Inscribe the
message on a copper disk, plate the disk with gold, then send it into
interstellar space.  Figuring a trajectory that will bring it back to Earth
after 1 gigayear is, of course, somewhat problematical.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL

Disclaimer:  Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS.  That's what I get paid for.  My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below).  So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
From: @ee.surrey.ac.uk (null)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Mess
Date: 10 Nov 92 09:24:46 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England

Keywords:

Maple tells me that the four possible values of cos (x) are

              1/2  1/2
1/2 + 1/600 %4    6    + 1/300

             1/2          1/3   1/2          1/3   1/2           1/2 1/2  1/2
    (14999 %4    - 7500 %3    %4    - 7500 %2    %4    - 750075 6   )    3
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------,
                                        1/4
                                      %4

              1/2  1/2
1/2 + 1/600 %4    6    - 1/300

             1/2          1/3   1/2          1/3   1/2           1/2 1/2  1/2
    (14999 %4    - 7500 %3    %4    - 7500 %2    %4    - 750075 6   )    3
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------,
                                        1/4
                                      %4

              1/2  1/2
1/2 - 1/600 %4    6    + 1/300

             1/2          1/3   1/2          1/3   1/2           1/2 1/2  1/2
    (14999 %4    - 7500 %3    %4    - 7500 %2    %4    + 750075 6   )    3
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------,
                                        1/4
                                      %4

              1/2  1/2
1/2 - 1/600 %4    6    - 1/300

             1/2          1/3   1/2          1/3   1/2           1/2 1/2  1/2
    (14999 %4    - 7500 %3    %4    - 7500 %2    %4    + 750075 6   )    3
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                        1/4
                                      %4

where

                                       1/2  1/2
%1 :=                        2700000001    3

                         5400000001
%2 :=                  -------------- - 1/450000000 %1
                       27000000000000

                         5400000001
%3 :=                  -------------- + 1/450000000 %1
                       27000000000000

                                      1/3           1/3
%4 :=                 14999 + 15000 %3    + 15000 %2


Closed form --- but not very revealing...

J.
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
From: nas_ps@jsc.nasa.gov (Pradip R. Shah)
Subject: Sum of Numbers
Reply-To: nas_ps@jsc.nasa.gov
Organization: G.E. Government Services
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:27:41 GMT

Given numbers from 1 to 16, arrange them on a square (4 by 4) such that when
summing in horizontally, vertically, and diagonally yields the same number.
               
        __________________________
       |  a  |  b   |   c  |  d   |
       |     |      |      |      |
        ---------------------------
       |   e |  f   |   g  |  h   |        a+b+c+d =e+f+g+h  so on
       |     |      |      |      |
        ---------------------------          a+e+i+m = b+f+j+n = a+b+c+d
       | i   |   j  |   k  |   l  |
       |     |      |      |      |           a+f+k+p =d+g+j+m etc.
       |---------------------------                
       |  m  |   n  |   o  |   p  |     
       |     |      |      |      |
        --------------------------

Can somone give a mathematical solution viz. solution from simultaneous equantions ?
Not by trial and error. But, let us have trial and error solution too.

Pradip Shah
From: jpm10@cd.amdahl.com (Jim Millar)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: the question is the answer ?!
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:42:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Nov9.215833.4380@zip.eecs.umich.edu>,
dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz) writes:
>In article <1992Nov9.205312@sees.bangor.ac.uk> thomas@sees.bangor.ac.uk
>(Thomas Varsamidis) writes:
>>This is somewhat different, but the idea is the same:
>>
>>Q: How many letters are there in the answer?
>>A: Four
>>
>A: 0
>
>  -Dan
A: Eleven plus two

Jim
From: radcliff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David G Radcliffe)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: Trigonometry (Partial spoiler)
Date: 8 Nov 1992 02:55:27 GMT
Organization: UW-Milwaukee Math Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

s290@brems.ii.uib.no ( Per Ivar Roervik) writes:
:   As an example of the inherent complexity of trigonometry, I
:   call for solutions to this simple looking eqn.:
:    
:              tan(x)-sin(x)=0.01
: 
:   Imaginary chocolate-bar awarded for closed form solutions!
: 
:   Tore Nordstrand   tore@maxwell.fi.uib.no  c/o  s290@brems.ii.uib.no

If u=sin(x), then tan(x) = +- u/sqrt(1-u^2).  Do this substitution,
simplify, and you get a fourth degree equation, which can be solved
by the quartic formula.  (Consult a mathematical handbook for this
formula.)  Take inverse sines, and discard the extraneous solutions.

Solving this problem by hand would be tedious in the extreme, and
not terribly rewarding.

--
David Radcliffe                                
radcliff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
From: kohonen@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Jukka Kohonen)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: a word almost its own antonym
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:44:07 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:
>There's a word, X, in the English language.  X can be an adverb.  Xly
>is an adverb.  There are two very similar sentences, one of which can
>be transformed into the other by removing X (which is an adverby in
>that sentence) and inserting Xly, which have (sort of) opposite
>meanings.

How about...

hard / hardly?

You might work hard - or you might hardly work (at all).

-- 
Jukka.Kohonen@helsinki.fi   ! "I didn't include the last paragraph because I
kohonen@kruuna.helsinki.fi  !  thought it made your case look stronger."
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From: acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng)
Subject: Re: the question is the answer ?!
Originator: acheng@shalom.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:40:01 GMT


In article <1992Nov5.213159.10826@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, kthiruma@engws3.ic.sunysb.edu () writes:
>Can the Reader's think of some more .

Who is on first?
What is the guy's name on Second?
I DON'T KNOW!  Third Base.
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
From: champion@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Alun)
Subject: Re: Formula for PI
Organization: Coventry University, Coventry, UK.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:20:05 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.132725.7333@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> nas_ps@jsc.nasa.gov writes:
~Whenver I need PI in my programming, I always define PI in this way:
~
~  PI = 4.0 * ATAN (1.0).
~
~Now, I do not know how to get to any number of digits - I guess that will
~depend on the machine capability.
~

If you work in rads try

PI = ACOS (-1.0)

    -Alun
    
-- 
A.Champion                |  That's an interesting point, in the sense of
(champion@uk.ac.cov.cck)  |    being very not interesting at all. - The Liar
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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Subject: Re: Another plurals puzzle
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 21:31:30 GMT

In article <1992Nov08.153848.24287@eng.umd.edu>, rabino@eng.umd.edu (Michael Rabinovitz) writes:

> What words, other than necropolis, have their plurals formed by
> dropping the final letter?

The third-person present of most verbs.  (eg, "[he] runs" -> "[they] run")

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
From: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Re: the question is the answer ?!
Date: 13 Nov 92 01:10:03 GMT
Reply-To: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Aurora Group

>>>>>> On 11 Nov 1992 14:44:30 -0500, berninge@cs.purdue.edu (James Berninger) said:

>>>>>>Q: How many letters are there in the answer?
>>>>>>A: Four

There are fifteen, plus fifteen more, plus fifteen more, . . .
-- 
Mark Isaak           "Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every
isaak@aurora.com      generation is humbled by nature." - Philip Lubin
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From: tobac@ub-tky.UBSPD.CO.JP (Bach Frederic)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles,soc.culture.asian.american,soc.culture.misc,misc.misc
Subject: Mah Jong
Keywords: Mah Jong, Tiles, Game, Info, Programme
Date: 6 Nov 92 05:20:27 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: UBS Phillips & Drew INT'L Ltd. TOKYO, JAPAN

Hi,

is there anybody out there who could give info on existing Mah Jong
programmes. Support (PC, Workstation, NEC, AT, XT, Nintendo Game Boy)
and rules (Chinese, Japanese, etc.) don't matter.

Any Mah Jong players out there?
-- 
    __  _    
** ||_ /_| **   Fred "I'll be" Bach               (tobac@ub-tky.UBSPD.CO.JP) 
** || /__| **   [Je suis athee, Dieu merci.]          Tel. 813-3597-1595

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From: james@crc.ricoh.com (James Allen)
Subject: Re: Logic Puzzle
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 23:40:34 GMT

In <721041158.AA07433@csource.oz.au>
	Tim.Epstein@f526.n635.z3.fidonet.org (Tim Epstein) writes
] Which of the following 5 sentences are true?
]  
] a) It is not the case that 2 consecutive sentences are both false. 
] b) There are fewer false than true sentences. 
] c) It is not the case that 3 consecutive sentences are all false.
] d) It is not the case that 2 consecutive sentences are both true. 
] e) There are exactly 3 false sentences. 

Let me rewrite this as

Given that Z is true, which of A-E are true?
  
 (Z) Statements A-E (which describe A-E) are each either true or false.

 (A) It is not the case that 2 consecutive sentences are both false. 
 (B) There are fewer false than true sentences. 
 (C) It is not the case that 3 consecutive sentences are all false.
 (D) It is not the case that 2 consecutive sentences are both true. 
 (E) There are exactly 3 false sentences. 

Making the assumption of Z explicit is not pedantic.  We also assume
a statement is not both true and false.  From Z we can derive:

 (1) D implies that C and E are each false.
     =

 (2) A implies D and/or E is true
     =

 (3) E implies that at most one of A,B,C are true.
     =

 (4) not D implies at least two of A,B,C are true.
         =

 (5) not D and not E together imply that A,B,C are all true.
         =         =

 (6) not C and D together imply that A and B are each false.
         =

To clarify the derivations of relationships (1)-(6) I have underlined
the statements which actually have to be read to establish them.
For example in (1) the truth of D would imply that the "adjacent"
statement C or E could not be true regardless of its contents.

Now (1)-(6)  have a unique solution:

 (I)	If E is true so is D (3,4) but that contradicts (1).  Thus from Z,
	E must be false.

 (II) 	If D is false then A is true (5) since E is false (I); but this
	contradicts (2).  Thus D must be true.

 (III)	Since D is true (II), C is false (1).

 (IV)	A and B are each false (II, III, 6).

Note that we never "had to read" statement B in this derivation.  The
exact same argument works regardless of B's "contents."  For example
B might have been "The sun will rise tomorrow." and we will have derived
a very disappointing conclusion.  The solution to this "paradox" is simple:
if B did enunciate a truth, we would have established that Z is false!

For similar puzzles read Smullyan -- What Was the Name of His Book, Anyway?
  
] Have fun,
] Tim

It was fun.

]  * Origin: I am serious ... and don't call me Shirley. (3:635/526)

This puzzle I didn't solve.

In <1992Nov6.160449.21495@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
	dcarroll@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Dana Carroll) writes:
] This puzzle is not solvable!  My reasoning is as follows:
] . . .
]             2.111 (c) false implies (d) true, but then (c) is true.
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
] . . .
] Did I do something wrong?

I think so -- I don't understand 2.111.

James
Date: Friday, 6 November 1992 21:56:19 PDT
X-Mailer: TMail version 1.06
From: "Anton Dovydaitis" <anton@anton.infoserv.com>
Organization: Ishi Press International
Subject: Re: Places to FIND PUZZLES
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Distribution: world

At one time, Ishi Press International was going to publish a
quarterly Puzzle World magazine, with Martin Gardner and
Nob Yoshigahara on the board (among others).  Unfortunately,
there is not enough demand to justify the investment, so
Puzzle World is being scaled down to an annual.  I don't yet
know when the first one will be out, but all current subscribers
will get one.  Nob at least used to have a puzzle newsletter
called PuzzleTopia, but I think Puzzle World absorbed it.
Maybe it'll come back to life.

There is also an annual International Puzzle Party.  The last one
was in Tokyo, and the previous year it was in Los Angeles.  Puzzle
manufacturers from around the world, and wall to wall puzzles.

OMNI magazine has a GAMES and PUZZLES column.

Jerry Slocum has written at least one recent book on Wooden Puzzles
and How to Build Them.

I'll post more details later as I find them.

Anton

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