Wolfram Alpha word puzzle tools
A page full of examples of Wolfram Alpha tools, many that I didn’t know existed: Cryptogram solver; "Find words found within a specified set of letters"; the venerable Scrabble, anagrams, and word patterns tools; even rhymes. No celebrity initials solvers, I’m afraid.

dCode Word Search Solver
I’ve had the opportunity to look over some word search puzzle content recently. The most tedious part of researching a word search is methodically checking every grouping of letters that shows any possibility of being an accidental word. And this Word Search Solver eliminates that problem. NOW the most tedious part is running every word that this tool finds through the dictionary to be sure it doesn’t meet the criteria that make the intended answers correct. It doesn’t do any good for titles of works and other proper nouns, but it’s progress.

los angeles — George Townley
I love Townley’s illustration, and I feel weird about it. It’s aggressively iconic—doesn’t bother itself with anything in LA that isn’t already on a poster somewhere—and so insistent on a golden hour color scheme that you can’t look at it without feeling manipulated. But just because it’s baldly calculated doesn’t mean it’s soulless, and maybe that (plus the golden hour thing) is why it is a good look for Los Angeles.