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Week 92 of mental_floss blogs

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:05:55 -0800

Mythbusters: World's Biggest Paintball Gun - 3 comments
Thanksgiving 2.0: TurkeyTracker.com - 5 comments
What's in Your Car? - no comments yet

Week 91 of mental_floss blogs

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:04:23 -0800

so_many_a_second - 2 comments
Sweetest Song Ever: "Tonight You Belong to Me" - 12 comments, and picked up by Hodgman himself
Inside a Giant Ant Colony - 7 comments
Google's Ginormous Life Magazine Photo Archive - 3 comments
John Francis: Silent All These Years - 5 comments

Week 90 of mental_floss blogs

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:01:18 -0800

A short week.

RIP, Mars Phoenix Lander - 7 comments
Designing for Space: NASA's Industrial Designers - 1 snarky comment
Inside NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab - 1 comment
Conway's Game of Life - 1 comment

Week 89 of mental_floss blogs

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:54:06 -0800

Early Bird Gets the Internet Worm - 2 comments
Jared Diamond on Why Societies Collapse - 4 comments
How CNN's Hologram Interview System Works - 12 comments
Parsing the Red and Blue Map - 6 comments
The Anasazi Mystery - 6 comments

Week 88 of mental_floss blogs

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:56:56 -0800

Wikipedia for Schools - 3 comments
Another Immense Time-Waster: MTV Music Posts Tons of Videos - 12 comments
How To Stop Unwanted Phone Books - 14 comments
What's Your Halloween Giveaway Strategy? - 141 comments (repost from last year)
A Collection of Creepy Headstones - 8 comments

Week 87 of mental_floss blogs

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:50:22 -0800

Molecular Gastronomy for 4-Year-Olds - 6 comments
The Panic of 1873 - 1 comment
Explaining the "Dark Labyrinth" of Particle Physicals - 2 comments
Inside a Term Paper Mill - 29 comments
My Sleep Apnea: CPAP - 15 comments

Week 86 of mental_floss blogs

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:56:50 -0800

Eighty-six weeks. That's a lotta weeks.

Evolving New Ways to Walk - 5 comments
How the Obama Campaign Makes "Two Minute Volunteers - 8 comments
On the Typography of "Mad Men" - 5 comments
Let Public Radio Talk You Through the Financial Crisis - 7 comments
John Markoff on Front-Page Stories That Weren't - no comments

Week 85 of mental_floss blogs

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:31:38 -0800

How Criterion is Going Hi-Def - 1 comment
How "Tom's Diner" Tuned the MP3 - 3 comments
Search Google From January 2001 - 7 comments
Rodney Brooks Shows Off Awesome Robots - no comments
My Sleep Apnea: The Sleep Study - 13 comments

Week 84 of mental_floss blogs

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:10:20 -0800

4 Reasons You Must Watch HBO's "John Adams" - no comments (they were turned off that day)
Crowd-Sourced Audio Transcription - no comments (they were turned ON that day...)
Marvin Minsky on Emotion - 2 comments
Students + LittleBigPlanet + 24 Hours = Amazing - 1 comment
My Sleep Apnea: The Beginning - 20 comments

Week 83 of mental_floss blogs

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:06:45 -0800

On Salmon, Trout, and Chat - 9 comments
Every Photoshop Filter - 3 comments
Incredible Deep-Sea Creatures - 3 comments
Retro Video: How Crayons Are Made - 31 comments
Neal Stephenson Calls "Bullshytt" - 99 comments

Week 82 of mental_floss blogs

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:51:45 -0800

A short week, and now I'm taking a week off!

One Mythbuster's Obsession With the Maltese Falcon - 3 comments
The Quirkbook: What's Your Quirk? - 133 comments
A Profile of a Profile of Charlie Kaufman - 3 comments
Roz Savage: First Woman to Row Solo From California to Hawaii - 7 comments

Week 81 of mental_floss blogs

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:05:17 -0800

Fictional Sports Invade the Real World - 23 comments and 658 Diggs (surprisingly nonsnarky, even)
Photography: Manufactured Landscapes - no comments
How To Cook Eggs - 7 comments
Dog-Friendly Dog Training - 2 comments
How Statistics Fool Juries - 6 comments

Week 80 of mental_floss blogs

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:03:32 -0800

An Environmental Argument for Boxed Wine - 13 comments
The Arecibo Message - 5 comments
In-Depth With the King of Kong - 7 comments
How One Man Solved a "Baroque" Mystery - 3 comments
What's Neal Stephenson Building Down There? - no comments

Week 79 of mental_floss blogs

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:49:07 -0800

Two front-page Digg stories this week!

7 Reasons "Clone Wars" Will Be Worth Seeing - 31 comments, 1046 Diggs, and a lot of Nerd Rage
The Web's Next 5,000 Days - 3 comments and 174 Diggs (no home page, sigh)
The Orwell Diaries - 3 comments
George Orwell: Politics and the English Language - 2 comments
Wacky Sci-Fi "Laws" - 17 comments and 582 Diggs

Week 78 of mental_floss blogs

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:05:53 -0800

Why Do We Capitalize the Word "I"? - 6 very amusing comments
Documentaries I Like: "Hoop Dreams" - 6 comments
Wacky (Okay, Classic) Book Ads - 1 lonely comment
How Buildings Learn - no comments! And this is actually an awesome thing! Oh well.
The Incredible World of Navel Fluff - 7 comments