Last Week's Most Popular Stories

Image credit: 

In case you weren't obsessively refreshing mentalfloss.com all week, here's what you missed:

1. When His Project Was Canceled, an Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job, by Julia Dahl
*
2. How All 50 States Got Their Names, by Matt Soniak
*
3. 15 Offbeat Holidays You Can Celebrate This Month, by Laura Turner Garrison
*
4. 14 Finer Points of the U.S. Flag Code, by Jamie Spatola
*
5. For Your Inspiration: 11 Imagination-Jarring Tips From Creative Geniuses, by Adrienne Crezo
*
6. How Steven Spielberg’s Malfunctioning Sharks Transformed the Movie Business, by Bill DeMain
*
7. Complicated Concepts Explained Using Kitchen Items, by Adam Raymond
*
8. A Crudely Drawn Penis Almost Derailed Huckleberry Finn, by Matt Soniak
*
9. 10 Famous Musical Duos and How They First Met, by Adrienne Crezo
*
10. 15 Wonderfully Geeky Sand Sculptures, by Jill Harness

July 7, 2012 - 10:36am
webby
submit to reddit
http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31127/last-weeks-most-popular-stories
www.mentalfloss.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2014-15
87871
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:YFCWGICT5SUF47EIF72VFORW5MZ56VZT
<urn:uuid:c1b6a726-f3e8-439e-ae48-1dbf8f8907f1>
2014-04-21T07:11:18Z
75.126.26.244
sha1:C2WAZBNXLPFCDQXPWJFQNWUH7JTC4HWA
<urn:uuid:69837450-96d0-4dfc-a3b3-2a38ef5467b2>
http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31127/last-weeks-most-popular-stories
response
<urn:uuid:8c1aa2a6-f2e0-40ee-8e45-7d7ef21bab82>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-15
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for April 2014
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf