Another xkcd gem.
Somewhat related: Find your phone number in consecutive digits of pi.
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by David J. Littleboy on June 25th, 2012 at 01:48
This one’s almost on the level of MIT AI Lab’s Memo 239 (aka Hakmem).
http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/hakmem/hakmem.html