(Not fun.) It is with great sadness that I report Martin Gardner died today. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/05/22/martin-gardner-191... When I visited him last October in Norman, OK, he was sharp, alert, and happy to offer a list of great ideas he thought would be good for the Museum of Mathematics. He demonstrated some card tricks, calculator tricks, and a rope illusion. He told a number of interesting stories about his life and said he was starting to work on his autobiography --- a book project which he predicted would take three years to complete. I thought that it took enormous vision to start a three-year project at the age of 95 and am sad that it will never be finished. George Hart http://momath.org http://georgehart.com