April 2008 Archives

Week 64 of mental_floss blogs

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on April 27, 2008 8:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Tucson, AZ - Biosphere 2

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on April 21, 2008 9:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

The "beach" biome inside Biosphere 2.

Week 63 of mental_floss blogs

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on April 21, 2008 6:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Tucson, AZ - Desert Plant

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on April 12, 2008 3:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Not sure what this is, but it's some kind of plant.

(Surprise! It's maybe a photo-blog again!)

Week 62 of mental_floss blogs

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on April 11, 2008 6:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Week 61 of mental_floss blogs

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on April 8, 2008 11:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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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I'm a writer based in Portland, Oregon. I mostly write for Mental Floss magazine (and their website), though I just had a story on This American Life, and had a cover story a few weeks back in The Portland Mercury. You can follow me on Twitter for occasional jokes and complaints about the weather.

I'm also an iPhone developer. Working with Night & Day Studios, I helped create Peekaboo Barn, Peekaboo Wild, Big Fat Lies, Life in Short, Cocktail Compass, Nick Jr.'s A-Z With Moose and Zee, Quibble, Savage Love, and a bunch of other apps.

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