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Constrained Writing

Liquid Metaphor - A short story using the "heteroliteral" constraint.
A Scrabble-Tile Poem - using one complete set of tiles per stanza.
Yes & No - A poem constrained by an item you use 'most every day.
The Hydra - William Blake's The Tyger + the Periodic Table = this.
Author + Antics = Ironic - A poem written entirely in alphametics.
Knotted Word Worms - A fiendishly difficult constraint.

Texts Based On The Digits Of π

Standard Pilish - An introduction to our favorite writing constraint.
Bemused - a 218-digit poem in Basic Pilish.
Poe, E.: Near A Raven - Poe's "The Raven" in Standard Pilish (740 digits).
Octopi - a 768-digit poem in Standard Pilish.
Cadaeic Cadenza - The world's longest English π mnemonic (3835 digits).

Anagrams

Anagrams Long and Short - An introduction to the form, with examples.
Raven-Two - Poe's "The Raven" rearranged, in 1999, into a Y2K-scare satire.
Anagram with an embedded portrait of Edgar Allan Poe.
Stars of the Seasons - Four anagrams with hidden images of the night sky.
Autumn Aubades - Five anagram poems with embedded cartoons.

Palindromes

A page of Original Palindromes - Poems, sentences, and more.
Edicide in Silopolis - A story about palindromy. Bonus: my favorite palindromes.

Other Literary Topics

James Branch Cabell - All about an awesome American author.

The Number π

Lady Pi - Take a look at the picture of a person hidden in the digits of π!
The π code - Read the digits of π as English text, and see the hidden messages.
Geometric Patterns of π's Digits - in which the 'Feynman point' plays a key role.

Special Numbers

Keith Numbers - They're all known up to 10²⁹. Can you find the next one?
Mari Numbers - A generalization of the above.
Maris-McGwire-Sosa Numbers - Learn what's special about the pair (61, 62).
666, the Number of the Beast - An large collection of mathematical facts about 666.
Repdigit Polygonal Numbers - My paper from the Journal of Integer Sequences.
All Numbers Are Interesting - A constructive demonstration.
Dottable Fractions - Expressions like 666/64676 = 6·6·6/6·46·76.
Wild Narcissistic Numbers - Numbers equal to strange functions of their digits.
Some Integer Conjectures - Become famous! Prove one of these!

Prime Numbers

Primeval Numbers - Integers containing many embedded primes.
Bowling for Primes - Yes, there is a connection!
Queens attacking primes on Knight's Tours - a math puzzle on the chessboard.

Math and Music

The Combinatorics of Musical Rhythm - See where Fibonacci comes into play.
Hear music composed by Conway's famous "Game of Life".
Hailstone music - Generated by sequences related to the Collatz Conjecture.

Other Math Topics

Alphametics - An extensive collection of original cryptarithms.
Calendar Curiosities - including the world's shortest day-of-week routine.