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mental_floss Blog - Oct 10, 2008
John Markoff is best known for his reportage at The New York Times, as well as a series of books on popular technology (Cyberpunk and Takedown are both great). Markoff has been a print journalist riding the wave of …
Also tagged: blogs, current events
mental_floss Blog - Oct 6, 2008
Darwin@Home is a computer program created by Gerald de Jong to model evolution. While it aspires to be a general-purpose evolution platform, at the moment it does something pretty remarkable: it takes virtual creatures …
Also tagged: blogs, mathematics, science, computers, math
mental_floss Blog - Oct 1, 2008
In honor of Google’s tenth birthday*, the search engine has posted a version of itself as it appeared in January 2001 (the earliest available index). It was a simpler time: only 1,326,920,000 web pages were in the …
mental_floss Blog - Sep 30, 2008
Suzanne Vega’s catchy tune has made her “Mother of the MP3″ — though it took a while. Vega wrote “Tom’s Diner” as an a cappella song way back in 1982. By 1984 it has been released on an obscure folk compilation, and …
mental_floss Blog - Sep 29, 2008
The Criterion Collection is known for excellence. The Criterion folks assemble “important classic and contemporary films” and releases them on DVD (formerly Laserdisc), often restoring the film from original negatives …
mental_floss Blog - Sep 23, 2008
Journalist/programmer Andy Baio had a problem: he had recorded a half-hour telephone interview, but didn’t want to spend hours transcribing it to text so he could post it on his blog. If you’ve ever transcribed audio …
mental_floss Blog - Sep 16, 2008
Early on, Segways developed a reputation for being useless and nerdy, but in the last few years people have found plenty of things you can do with, or on, a segway. The personal transporters are becoming more popular …
Also tagged: blogs, miss cellania
mental_floss Blog - Sep 15, 2008
Several friends of mine have reported strange chat sessions over the past few months. The chats are a form of mediated communication between strangers that seems either like a prank or an art project (or perhaps both) …
Also tagged: blogs, humor, computers, bizarro, psychology
mental_floss Blog - Sep 5, 2008
Early on the morning of September 1, Roz Savage became the first woman to row, alone, from California to Hawaii. The voyage of 2,600 miles took her 99 days, 8 hours and 55 minutes. During the trip she was in …
Also tagged: blogs, current events, around the world, planes trains and automobiles, armchair field trip, super secret deal
mental_floss Blog - Aug 22, 2008
I’m a huge Neal Stephenson fan. There, I said it. Yesterday I pointed to an article on how one fan solved a mystery related to Stephenson’s book Quicksilver, last month I pointed to his best essay ever, and today I’m …