April 27, 2008
Week 64 of mental_floss blogs
And next week I'm taking my first week of blog-vacation since...uh...64 weeks ago. Woo.
- The Machine That Made Us - 5 comments
- Required Viewing: I Met the Walrus - 6 comments
- Movies You'd Erase Your Memory to See Again for the First Time - 115 comments, and a bunch of stuff added to my Netflix queue
- Gaming History: Discovering Deep Ms. Pac-Man Secrets - 5 comments
- On Turning 30 - 30 comments
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April 21, 2008
Tucson, AZ - Biosphere 2
The "beach" biome inside Biosphere 2.
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Week 63 of mental_floss blogs
- Amazingly Well-Researched Star Trek Trivia - 5 comments and 102 Diggs
- How Time Changes A Song: Billy Bragg's "A New England" - 4 comments
- Titlepage: Long Form Book Talk - no comments
- John Alvin's Movie Poster Art - 1 comment
- Don't Panic: The Infocom Drive Surfaces - 7 comments
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April 12, 2008
Tucson, AZ - Desert Plant
Not sure what this is, but it's some kind of plant.
(Surprise! It's maybe a photo-blog again!)
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April 11, 2008
Week 62 of mental_floss blogs
Some big posts, some little posts. Sunrise, sunset.
- What Books Can't You Put Down? - 145 comments
- The Most Heavily Annotated Flickr Photo - 1 comment
- Unexpected, Unwelcome Visitors - 64 comments
- NOVA: Cracking the Maya Code - 5 comments
- "The Wire": A Panel Discussion at Harvard - no comments yet
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April 8, 2008
Week 61 of mental_floss blogs
- Deal Breaker Books - 48 comments
- Stefan Sagmeister on Design and Happiness - 4 comments
- Ray Kurzweil's Pill Habit - 9 comments
- Video Interview With Ingmar Bergman - no comments
- The Mike Wallace Interview - 3 comments
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March 31, 2008
Week 60 of mental_floss blogs
- ELIZA: Free Compu-Therapy...Sort Of - 6 (funny) comments
- Columbia Journalism Review Interviews Errol Morris - no comments!
- The Great Penny Debate - 13 comments and linked at the bottom of an NYT blog post
- The Oldest Known Audio Recording - 4 comments
- How Electronic "20 Questions" Games Work - 5 comments
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March 24, 2008
Week 59 of mental_floss blogs
Yay, more hit posts!
- Apostrophe Atrophy - 10 comments, and possibly a little too hyper-specific for the room
- Hofstadter Docudrama: "Victim of the Brain" - 1 comment, but surprisingly widely linked (note: I seem to get picked up in Seed's Daily Zeitgeist a lot...)
- 5 Reasons We'll Miss Arthur C. Clarke - 11 comments and 832 Diggs
- McSweeney's Lists - 7 comments
- How to Use Toilet Paper - 32 comments and 1,554 Diggs
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March 16, 2008
Week 58 of mental_floss blogs
A big, big week. Full of bigness.
- Workplace Experiments - 20 comments
- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo - 36 comments and 2,703 Diggs (my second most popular post of all time!)
- The Hindu Milk Miracle - 10 comments
- Kelvin is Lord! - 3 comments
- What Makes Mathematics Hard to Learn? - 17 comments
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March 13, 2008
Week 57 of mental_floss blogs
A short week, because I did six the previous week.
- One For the Kids: Storyline Online - 19 comments
- Crazy Garfield Variants - 21 comments
- Interview: "Girls Rock!" Filmmakers Arne Johnson and Shane King - 3 comments
- Nerd History: Clarus the Dogcow - 3 comments
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Week 56 of mental_floss blogs
Yeah, so I forgot to post these lists for two weeks. Here goes!
- Fun With Signs: The Lowercase L - 23 comments
- Howard Rheingold on Cooperation and Competition - 3 comments
- Wikipedia's List of "Lost Work" - 7 comments
- How You Put Yourself To Sleep - 47 comments
- Kluster - Social Networking for Projects - 1 comment
- Photo Challenge #3: Show Us Your Junk - 9 comments
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