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by donohoe 5185 days ago
I created a simple search for The New York Times crossword puzzle.

http://donohoe.io/projects/crossword/

It ranges form Dec 31st 2011 back to Oct 1996. Its nothing special (I don't actually love or do crosswords) but when you search for some terms (mostly as Answers) it provides fascinating Questions.

  FACEBOOK : Alternative to Friendster or MySpace

  NYTIMES : Popular news site, with ".com"

  HACKER : Cyber-nuisance

  BACON : Strips for breakfast
Example: http://donohoe.io/projects/crossword/#/bacon
1 comments

That's really cool! UNIX was an answer eight times, but Linux didn't come up at all.