Many Good Friday Linky

this week: has been busy and while I’ve had things worth saying i haven’t had time to do them justice. Ah well. At least there are always linky:
Cool knitted stuff, including a bunny the size of a hotel, and cephalapods
Back in 1982, one of the first of those “clues to a real treasure” books was released in the US: The Secret: A Treasure Hunt contained verse and paintings pointing to the location of 12 treasure casks buried by the author. More than 25 years on, only two have been found, one in 1984, the other in 2004. The hunt continues over at The Secret wiki! (Curious side fact: the treasure from the most famous of these books, the UK’s Masquerade from 1979, was found not by a puzzle-solver but by a guy who had inside info from the writer’s ex-girflriend. Wikipedia has the scoop and the solution.)
hix over at multi-dimensional has been running a series of posts on long-range thinking, and why we’re all so crap at it. He’s going somewhere interesting with this, and it ties in to something I’d never heard of, Superstruct, an internet game set in 2019 in which the world’s players respond to major global threats. Keen!
If you’ve ever played one of those classic text adventures (Eat Cake, Take Note, Go North, etc) then you’ll dig this: MS Paint Adventures has a cartoonist draw a scene and then receive “commands” from the internet audience, and then draw the next scene, and so you progress through a very strange adventure indeed. Like a lot of these things, takes a little while to get into its rhythm but is addictive once it hits stride.
An episode of Kamikaze Cookery, a twenty-minute cooking show in which a normal person tries to cook a recipe from one of those glossy recipe books fronted by Jamie Oliver. Cue much insulting of Jamie Oliver and a very entertaining show. Give it a try – I was tipped off that this was coming by esteemed sheep-hater Johnnie, and its good to see an episode out. (There’s also another episode in which they cook a steak with a blowtorch and a vacuum cleaner.)

And finally, a daily three-panel gag strip about the eagle eternally devouring the liver of bound Prometheus! Like Garfield only with a bird eating this dude’s liver in every strip.