October 2009 Archives

Week 132 of mental_floss blogs

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on October 19, 2009 10:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Ultra Slo-Mo Video of Bullet Impacts - 11 comments, front page of Digg, second most popular story of the week
Stop-Motion Art Project in an Abandoned Space - 6 comments
The Impossible Has Happened: Polaroid Is Back - 10 comments and my original post on Livingston made another round on the interwebs
The Late Movies: 5 Full Episodes of NOVA - no comments
The Story of Pi - 9 comments
Tweets of Old - 3 comments but very widely retweeted and has led to a trebling of this guy's audience so far

Week 131 of mental_floss blogs

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on October 19, 2009 10:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Strobe Lights & Water Drops - 5 comments
Mr. Rogers: The Crayon Factory - 20 comments, widely linked, and video has been taken down
PhotoSketch: Make the Internet Create Photos for You - 10 comments and a top story for the week
The Late Movies: 9 Low-Budget "Classic Alternative" Music Videos - 10 comments
How to Not Kill Yourself and Still Be a Writer - only 3 comments, but still worth it
Vintage Reading Rainbow: BEES - 3 comments

Week 130 of mental_floss blogs

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on October 19, 2009 10:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Creepiest Thing Ever: L'Inconnue de la Seine - 11 comments and a top story of the week
The Moon Disaster That Never Happened (repost) - 9 comments
Robot Pancake Sorting Machine Operates With Deadly Speed, Accuracy - 5 comments
The Late Movies: "Video Songs" by Pomplamoose - 7 comments
Special Frontline Preview: "Obama's War" - 8 comments
Hammer and Feather Drop on the Moon - 6 comments

Week 129 of mental_floss blogs

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on October 19, 2009 10:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Attention, People of Earth - 10 comments
Vonnegut Reads "Breakfast of Champions," 3 Years Before Publication - 3 comments
We See With the Eyes, But We See With the Brain as Well... - 3 comments
The Late Movies: Jonah Reviews Movies - no comments
No Signal: When Movies Use Cell Phone Signal Loss to Heighten Drama - 5 comments
"Cosmos" Documentary, Auto-Tuned Vocals by Carl Sagan, ft. Stephen Hawking (Seriously) - 14 comments, and truly meaningful to me

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