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Brain Candy Central by Brian Rock (mirror)
'Brain Candy' is a series of articles devoted to World Wide Web sites of
interest to Mensans. More specifically, the sites Brian focuses on will be
intellectually stimulating in one form or another. Since there is enormous
latitude in that concept, you can expect that the subjects of these sites will
vary accordingly.
Mensa member Brian Rock has written the series (over 120 columns) for ECOM's monthly
newsletter, the Bręgen. He has graciously agreed to share
them with the rest of the world, too.
The basic idea is to present interesting--'fun' to a
Mensan--web sites for thinking people. Brian believes that most,
but certainly not all, folks browsing the Web are 'thinkers'. So
this stuff may well be of interest to you.
What we have here more or less mirrors the contents of Brian's personal web site
which you can visit by
clicking
HERE.
Be advised that old columns contain old information. Many
sites that he has written about have disappeared or mutated, so
you might not find things as he has described them. But, half
the fun of these articles is seeing how various sites have
evolved since Brian's initial discovery.
Enjoy!
Jump to...
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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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
Brain Candy #49 - Food 'n Drink (September, 2001).
Brain Candy #50 - The Big House (October, 2001).
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).
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).
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).
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 (June, 2007)
Brain Candy #120 - Unsung Heroes: Edward Tufte (July, 2007)
Brain Candy #121 - Unsung Heroes #2 - Sun Ra (August, 2007)
Brain Candy #122 - Yet More Fun With Computers (November, 2007)
Brain Candy #123 - There, It Did It Again (January, 2008)
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