• Treasure Hunters Challenge: Week 6

    The sixth challenge starts in the game room, with no clue how to start. There isn't even a clue on the phone. You can see the table containing the pieces in the foreground, along with the globe, fireplace and other pieces. But what's next?…

  • Stupid is as Stupid Does

    When did people get so dependent that they actually expect to get pulled out of whatever mess that they've gotten themselves into? I realize that it makes me sound completely heartless, and perhaps I just am completely heartless, but come on. This family is in Lebanon and they're…

  • Kill the Penny

    A bill has been introduced to kill the penny, mostly because it actually costs more than a penny to produce a penny. That makes sense, and I'm all for it. It's not like you can do much with pennies these days anyway, so I say go for it….

  • Treasure Hunters Challenge: Week 5

    The fifth challenge provides a new clue from Laird on our phone: The Fulton Paddleboat was a key form of transportation up until the civil war. banks used them to transport gold to hiding places safe from military coffers. as Union forces advanced, soldiers became treasure hunters as…

  • Treasure Hunters Challenge: Week 4

    The fourth challenge takes place in two locations. Opening the phone provides the first clue from Laird: The photograph you are looking at is called a stereograph. This particular one is of a union navy patrol boat on the James River in Virginia. Stationed aboard was a young…

  • Scott Adams on Flag Burning

    I've always thought the idea of an amendment to ban the burning of flags was a bit idiotic, since you're actually supposed to burn flags in order to appropriately destroy them. But Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert, don't you know) stepped up to the plate recently to…

  • Treasure Hunters Challenge: Week 3

    The third week's challenge takes place at the Fort at West Point. General Kosciuszko, patriot and close friend of Jefferson, designed many of the fortifications that helped decide the revolution, most notably the one West Point that serves as the focus for this week's challenge. This particular stronghold…

  • Treasure Hunters Challenge: Week 2

    The second week's challenge involves Abraham Lincoln. At 22, he struck out on his own by canoeing down the Sangamon River and taking a flatboat job up and down the Illinois and Mississippi. Reportedly handy with an ax, he would later be nicknamed the "rail splitter". This leads…

  • Treasure Hunters Challenge: Week 1

    The first challenge takes you to the Inside Passage, a shipping lane from Washington to Alaska. During the revolution, the British explorers described mystic totem poles in the Land of the Golden Spruce. Your task is to find the Golden Spruce and find the puzzle piece that exists…

  • Treasure Hunters Challenge

    It looks like NBC is getting into the game with their new Treasure Hunters show. They have created a Treasure Hunters Challenge site that you can play to enhance the experience. While not as immense in scope as The Hanso Foundation, it's still not bad (and you may…

  • Lord Stanley comes to (North) Carolina

    Last night, the Carolina Hurricanes whipped up on the Edmonton Oilers in game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals to bring North Carolina its first major league trophy of any kind. Of course, there are those who would argue that hockey isn't really a major league sport, and…

  • The Death of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi

    Of course the world is abuzz with the talk of the death of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. Once again, I'm puzzled. I find that happens a lot lately. The first thing I find odd is that apparently there was a camera that took a picture of his head (hey,…