March 2008 Archives

Week 60 of mental_floss blogs

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on March 31, 2008 11:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Week 59 of mental_floss blogs

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on March 24, 2008 12:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Week 58 of mental_floss blogs

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on March 16, 2008 10:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Week 57 of mental_floss blogs

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on March 13, 2008 10:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Week 56 of mental_floss blogs

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on March 13, 2008 10:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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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