Brain Candy is a series of columns I'm writing for the East Central Ohio Mensa monthly newsletter, The Brægen. Since I'm going to the trouble for them, I figured that I'd give it to the rest of the world, too. Does the rest of the world want it? Probably not, but if you're here, I invite you to take a look.
The basic idea is to present interesting (= fun to a Mensan) sites for thinking people. Most (but certainly not all :-) ) folks browsing the Web are what I would call "thinkers". So this stuff may well be of interest to you. Enjoy!
By the way, Mensans aren't all brain. We've got at least one porno star who has a really interesting web site of her own. Not a marginal star; a major star. She's got a -ahem- very interesting site. It's cerebral, too. But this is a family web page, so no more of that. On to the brain candy!
Brain Candy #1 - Learn2.com - tutorials galore (July, 1997?).
Brain Candy #2 - The Internet Movie Database (August, 1997?).
Brain Candy #3 - DejaNews - the search engine for the Usenet (September, 1997?).
Brain Candy #4 - The One Book List (October, 1997?).
Brain Candy #5 - Live Sites (John Schmid, guest columnist) (November, 1997?).
Brain Candy #6 - Interactive Fun Sites (December, 1997?).
Brain Candy #7 - Metasearch Engines (March, 1998).
Brain Candy #8 - DIY with HTML (April, 1998).
Brain Candy #9 - A Packet of Lies - Falsehoods on the Internet (May, 1998).
Brain Candy #10 - Mensa Resources (June, 1998).
Brain Candy #11 - Odds and Ends (July, 1998).
Brain Candy #12 - Designing A Web Site (August, 1998).
Brain Candy #13 - Critiquing A Web Site (September, 1998).
Brain Candy #14 - New Capabilities (October, 1998).
Brain Candy #15 - More Sounds (November, 1998).
Brain Candy #16 - Iridium Satellite Spotting (December, 1998). (one of my favorites)
Brain Candy #17 - More Megasearch Engines, Etc. (Brent Dix, guest columnist) (January, 1999).
Brain Candy #18 - Do-It-Yourself Personal Portal (February, 1999).
Brain Candy #19 - Odds and Ends Again (March, 1999).
Brain Candy #20 - Play, Mensan, Play - Games on the Internet (April, 1999).
Brain Candy #21 - Strictly Commercial (May, 1999).
Brain Candy #22 - News, Weather & Sports (June, 1999).
Brain Candy #23 - Dynamic Advertising, Threat or Menace (July, 1999).
Brain Candy #24 - Creating the Swiss Army Chain Saw (August, 1999).
Brain Candy #25 - "It Was A Dark and Stormy Night..." (September, 1999).
Brain Candy #26 - Whatever, Part I (October, 1999).
Brain Candy #27 - A Rabid Baseball Fan? (November, 1999). (one of my favorites)
Brain Candy #28 - Attractive Web Sites (December, 1999).
Brain Candy #29 - Reminiscing (January, 2000).
Brain Candy #30 - Music and Games (February, 2000).
Brain Candy #31 - Forbidden Fruit (March, 2000). (one of my favorites)
Brain Candy #32 - What Chemists Like (April, 2000).
Brain Candy #33 - What Chemists Like, Pt. 2 (May, 2000).
Brain Candy #34 - What Some Other Chemist Likes (June, 2000).
Brain Candy #35 - Puzzling Out the Web (July, 2000).
Brain Candy #36 - Web Tactics (August, 2000).
Brain Candy #37 - Whatever, Part 2 (September, 2000).
Brain Candy #38 - Another Unsolved Mystery (October, 2000). (one of my favorites)
Brain Candy #39 - New Capabilities Revisited (November, 2000).
Brain Candy #40 - Pen & Ink (December, 2000).
Brain Candy #41 - Online Solutions (January, 2001).
Brain Candy #42 - High Quality Weirdness (February, 2001).
Brain Candy #43 - What the Heck is "Quantum Bogodynamics"? (March, 2001).
Brain Candy #44 - The Napster Controversy (April, 2001).
Brain Candy #45 - Music on Demand Thanks to Napster (May, 2001).
Brain Candy #46 - The Long, Strange Trip Ahead (June, 2001).
Brain Candy #47 - Beaker Street (July, 2001).
Brain Candy #48 - "To the Everlasting Glory of the Infantry..." (August, 2001). (one of my favorites)
Brain Candy #49 - Food 'n Drink (September, 2001).
Brain Candy #50 - The Big House (October, 2001). (one of my favorites)
Brain Candy #51 - The Best Rainy Day Brain Candy Site Ever (November, 2001).
Brain Candy #52 - Bookmarklets (December, 2001).
Brain Candy #53 - "We Want...Information" (January, 2002).
Brain Candy #54 - A Powerful Freebie (February, 2002).
Brain Candy #55 - Fun With Lists, Part I (March, 2002).
Brain Candy #56 - Fun With Lists, Part II (April, 2002).
Brain Candy #57 - Fun With Mike (May, 2002).
Brain Candy #58 - The State of the Web (June, 2002).
Brain Candy #59 - The SL-1 Accident (July, 2002). (one of my favorites)
Brain Candy #60 - New Clear Science (August, 2002).
Brain Candy #61 - Deja Brain Candy (September, 2002).
Brain Candy #62 - Seek and Ye Shall Find (October, 2002).
Brain Candy #63 - Obscure Flying Objects (November, 2002). (one of my favorites)
Brain Candy #64 - Cheap Games and Puzzles (December, 2002).
Brain Candy #65 - Despair for Fun and Profit (January, 2003).
Brain Candy #66 - "Uncle Tungsten" (February, 2003).
Brain Candy #67 - "Welcome to Xenon!" (March, 2003). (one of my favorites)
Brain Candy #68 - Fun at Random (April, 2003).
Brain Candy #69 - Seeing the World As It Is (May, 2003).
Brain Candy #70 - Spirits (June, 2003).
Brain Candy #71 - A Science Fiction Summer Reading/Viewing List (July, 2003).
Brain Candy #72 - A Quick Look at ze's page (August, 2003).
Brain Candy #73 - What if? (September, 2003).
Brain Candy #74 - How's the Weather on the Web? - Part 1 (October, 2003).
Brain Candy #75 - How's the Weather on the Web? - Part 2 (November, 2003).
Brain Candy #76 - Greatest Hits (December, 2003).
Brain Candy #77 - Wikis and Blogs (January, 2004).
Brain Candy #78 - The City of New Orleans (February, 2004).
Brain Candy #79 - Looking for Neutrality (March, 2004).
Brain Candy #80 - Wikiauthor (April, 2004).
Brain Candy #81 - Everything You Know Is Wrong (May, 2004).
Brain Candy #82 - DIY with HTML (rewrite of April, 1998 column) (June, 2004).
Brain Candy #83 - All Things Wiki (July, 2004).
Brain Candy #84 - Show Me Memories (August, 2004).
Brain Candy #85 - Roll Your Own (September, 2004).
Brain Candy #86 - A Quick One (October, 2004).
Brain Candy #87 - Considering the English Language (November, 2004).
Brain Candy #88 - Brain Hacks (December, 2004).
Brain Candy #89 - Yankee.Hotel.Foxtrot (January, 2005).
Brain Candy #90 - Risk Analysis (February, 2005).
Brain Candy #91 - Cooking as a Science (March, 2005).
Brain Candy #92 - The Nomi Song (April, 2005).
Brain Candy #93 - Let There Be Lighting (May, 2005).
Brain Candy #94 - A Penny Here, A Penny There (June, 2005).
Brain Candy #95 - "If You Could Teach the World Just One Thing..." (July, 2005).
Brain Candy #96 - Where Are We? (August, 2005).
Brain Candy #97 - GPS and Wine (September, 2005).
Brain Candy #98 - Things Not to Touch in the Backyard (October, 2005).
Brain Candy #99 - The Web Today (November, 2005).
Brain Candy #100 - The Copyright Fiasco (December, 2005).
Brain Candy #101 - Who's Afraid of the Cosmic Needle Men? (January, 2006).
Brain Candy #102 - The Reluctant Genealogist (February, 2006).
Brain Candy #103 - PseudoWeekend (March, 2006).
Brain Candy #104 - Field of Numbers (April, 2006).
Brain Candy #105 - Take Me Out to the Bookstore (May, 2006).
Brain Candy #106 - Fixing Things Requires You Know What's Broken (June, 2006).
Brain Candy #107 - Wiki Warnings (July, 2006).
Brain Candy #108 - Adventures in RG Programming (August, 2006).
Brain Candy #109 - Newer Isn't Always Better (September, 2006).
Brain Candy #110 - A Cautionary Tale (October, 2006).
Brain Candy #111 - Arrrrgh! (November, 2006).
Brain Candy #112 - Fun Things On My Mind (December, 2006).
Brain Candy #113 - More Fun With Cameras (January, 2007).
Brain Candy #114 - They Come Home to Roost (February, 2007).
Brain Candy #115 - Roll Your Own - Round 2 (or maybe not) (March, 2007).
Brain Candy #116 - Hostile Vistas? (April, 2007).
Brain Candy #117 - The Power of Music (May, 2007).
Brain Candy #118 - GeoBabel (June, 2007).
Brain Candy #119 - Watershed Events of the 20th Century (July, 2007).
Brain Candy #120 - Unsung Heroes #1 - Edward Tufte (October, 2007).
Brain Candy #121 - Unsung Heroes #2 - Sun Ra (November, 2007).
Brain Candy #122 - Yet More Fun With Computers (December, 2007).
Brain Candy #123 - There, It Did It Again (January, 2008).
Brain Candy #124 - Fun with Lists, Pt. 3 (February, 2008).
Brain Candy #125 - TV Time Traveling (March, 2008).
Brain Candy #126 - Unsung Heroes #3 - Oliver Sacks (April, 2008).
Brain Candy #127 - Nothing's Cheaper Than Free (July/August, 2008).
Brain Candy #128 - Unsung Heroes #4 - Louis Jordan (September, 2008).
Brain Candy #129 - Unsung Heroes #5 - Billy Strayhorn (October, 2008).
Brain Candy #130 - A Walking Tour of Great Britain, Part I - London (November, 2008).
Brain Candy #131 - A Walking Tour of Great Britain, Part II - Ludlow (December, 2008).
Brain Candy #132 - A Walking Tour of Great Britain, Part III - Salisbury (January, 2009).
Brain Candy #133 - A Walking Tour of Great Britain, Part IV - Falmouth, London, and Home (February, 2009).
Brain Candy #134 - Do You Arduino? (March, 2009).
Brain Candy #135 - You Think You've Got Problems? (April, 2009).
Brain Candy #136 - Is Fluxx a Metaphor for Life, or is Life a Metaphor for Fluxx? (May, 2009).
Brain Candy #137 - Unsung Heroes #6 - Olaf Stapledon (June, 2009).
Brain Candy #138 - A Walking Tour of New Orleans (July, 2009).
Brain Candy #139 - Finding Your Way (August, 2009).
Brain Candy #140 - Mead and the Wonders of Honey, Part I (September, 2009).
Brain Candy #141 - Mead and the Wonders of Honey - Part II (October, 2009).
Brain Candy #142 - The Return of Urgh! (November, 2009).
Brain Candy #143 - The Joys of the Silver Ball (December, 2009).
Brain Candy #144 - Recapping... (January, 2010).
Brain Candy #145 - Life in Conway's Universe (February, 2010).
Brain Candy #146 - Growing Your Own (March, 2010).
Brain Candy #147 - The Next China, in the Next Room (April, 2010).
Brain Candy #148 - Dominion - Fluxx on Steroids (May, 2010).
Brain Candy #149 - Unsung Heroes #7 - Henrietta Lacks (June, 2010).
Brain Candy #150 - What Do You Have For Beer In These Parts? (July, 2010).
Brain Candy #151 - Computational Linguistics (August, 2010).
Brain Candy #152 - Computational Linguistics Revisited - I Write Like (September, 2010).
Brain Candy #153 - These Are the Droids I'm Looking For (October, 2010).
Brain Candy #154 - Unsung Heroes #8 - Augusta Ada King - Countess of Lovelace, Part I - The Bride of Science - Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter (November, 2010).
Brain Candy #155 - Unsung Heroes #8 - Augusta Ada King - Countess of Lovelace, Part II - Ada - A Life and a Legacy (December, 2010).
Brain Candy #156 - Still Krazy After All These Years (January, 2011).
Brain Candy #157 - DIY Computers, 2011 Edition (February, 2011).
Brain Candy #158 - Recapping (March, 2011).
Brain Candy #159 - Solving the World's Problems from a Soapbox (April, 2011).
Brain Candy #160 - The Making of Yorick (May, 2011).
Brain Candy #161 - Who is an Unsung Hero? (June, 2011).
Brain Candy #162 - Unsung Heroes #9 - Admiral Grace Murray Hopper - "Amazing Grace" (July, 2011).
Brain Candy #163 - Midyear Ramblings (2011) (August, 2011).
Brain Candy #164 - Quirky Movies You Might Enjoy (September, 2011).
Brain Candy #165 - The Last Long Hot Summer (October, 2011).
Brain Candy #166 - Eat 'Em Up, Yum (November, 2011).
Brain Candy #167 - Unsung Heroes #10 and 11 - Dennis Richie and John McCarthy (December, 2011).
Brain Candy #168 - Unsung Heroes #12 - Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. (January, 2012).
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CATBAR - Brain Candy Central / Brian Rock / December 19 2011
