Shorts

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Sony Walkman, the BBC gave one to a 13-year-old kid for a week. Read his review here. "It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape."

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Thanks to Mental Floss's 10 Ways to Learn Stuff While Procrastinating Online I learned:

What's special about every number from 0 to 9999 here.

That the guy who runs this website has “hyperthymesia”.

How to write my name in elvish.

Here's at least one way of doing it:



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Here's a yummy recipe for a raspberry lassi that I will have to make someday.

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My former classmate at GW, Yinka Dare, got a mention in Mental Floss's 5 Streaks of Futility (And How They Finally Ended) for going 77 games over 3 seasons before recording his first assist of his NBA career. I did not realize he died in 2004. Sad. I remember seeing him often at the cafeteria freshman year. He was impossible to miss, really, he was so tall.