I found out about the story via Twitter. Someone I follow (cited in the original post here) mentioned it as an aside in a blog post of his.
I write a free daily email newsletter of interesting things I come across -- that's at http://dlewis.net/nik. The original post here is the issue from, I believe, Tuesday, but it's been a long week :)
I submitted the link to reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/dstpi/til_tha... -- please pardon my misuse of "reverse engineered") and it went over very well, hitting either the front page or the second page. So a lot of people noticed it. I'm not surprised there are other submissions. I've seen pickup across a number of sites.
The title and timing?
Well, the title was straightforward -- I just took the one that worked so well on reddit and whittled it down to 80 characters.
The timing was accidental. I was queuing up today's issue late last night my time, and I was crediting the guy behind http://hackernewsletter.com for tipping me off to the story. Then I had an "a ha" moment and figured, hey, this would be welcome on HN, too. So I submitted it.
I found out about the story via Twitter. Someone I follow (cited in the original post here) mentioned it as an aside in a blog post of his.
I write a free daily email newsletter of interesting things I come across -- that's at http://dlewis.net/nik. The original post here is the issue from, I believe, Tuesday, but it's been a long week :)
I submitted the link to reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/dstpi/til_tha... -- please pardon my misuse of "reverse engineered") and it went over very well, hitting either the front page or the second page. So a lot of people noticed it. I'm not surprised there are other submissions. I've seen pickup across a number of sites.
The title and timing?
Well, the title was straightforward -- I just took the one that worked so well on reddit and whittled it down to 80 characters.
The timing was accidental. I was queuing up today's issue late last night my time, and I was crediting the guy behind http://hackernewsletter.com for tipping me off to the story. Then I had an "a ha" moment and figured, hey, this would be welcome on HN, too. So I submitted it.