November 27
November 26
Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated Aboriginal Australian dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land. The themes of these stories tell tales of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law. Each story comes with descriptions on its history, what the story means and the text of the original story as told by local story tellers. Be sure to check out the
downloads section for free desktop wallpapers and
MP3 bonus tracks.
posted by Effigy2000 at 10:23 PM - 7 comments
Basic Sounds is a blog of art and technology blending. Lots of enhanced photos, art installations, modern sculpture, and A/V performance. Modern, abstract, hi-tech, and surreal. Lots of shiny pretty things to look at while you digest. Monthly archives go back to 2003. Nothing NSFW on the main link but I did come across a smattering of NSFW images in the archives.
posted by Babblesort at 4:50 PM - 5 comments
Things stuffed inside other things: You've heard of
turducken, but what if that isn't enough for you? The largest stuffed dish in terms of sheer bulk may be this
recipe for stuffed camel, a dish so decadently large that Snopes had to
verify its existence. But if the stuffed camel isn't enough layers for you, the most nested dish of all time may be the
Roti Sans Pareil ("Roast without Equal"), a 19th century French dish requiring 17 birds that are now mostly endangered. Thanks to Google Books, we can now peruse some 19th century recipes of the dish (
1,
2,
3) or, if you prefer, you can read the
original French.
posted by jonp72 at 9:48 AM - 22 comments Happy Thanksgiving, MetaFilter! If you have friends from different parts of the U.S., you might have wondered why they consider certain dishes to be an essential part of a Thanksgiving feast, when you've never even thought of them as remotely Thanksgiving-related. Now you can see what dishes were popular searches on
allrecipes.com in various states thanks to
a series of infographics in the
New York Times.
posted by grouse at 8:53 AM - 56 comments Transcending The same year Jackie Robinson started playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers,
Wat Misaka became the first "person of color" to play in the NBA. Though he only played three games with the New York Knicks.
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posted by drezdn at 5:27 AM - 5 comments
November 25
"Meanwhile, down in Vaginaland, Mr Condom's beginning to feel a bit iffy. He's overheating. For some reason, the shagging seems to be twice as fast this evening, and he grimaces as he gets flung willy-nilly in and out of the pink tunnel. He starts getting friction burns, hanging onto Bobby's stiff penis for dear life, headbutting Georgie's cervix at 180 beats per minute. 'Help me!' he yells in the darkness, feeling himself melting."
This year's worst sex. [NSFW or post-turkey family reading] [more inside]
posted by iamkimiam at 11:40 PM - 43 comments
Black Friday is almost upon us and in less then a month it'll be Christmastime, and you're still wondering if you'll get your jetpack, hoverboard, or time machine? Well you're in luck, because you can get started with
a new old DeLorean! It's
the return of the DeLorean The
DeLorean DMC-12 was the creation of
John DeLorean:
John DeLorean never cared to fit the mold of a typical Detroit auto executive. He was a young, free-spirited maverick that revolutionized the auto industry as the major force behind America’s first muscle car– the Pontiac GTO.... As the young DeLorean’s star rose, he supposedly walked away from his $650,000 salary at GM and decided to go it on his own.
Although nowadays his car may be considered a
modern marvel unfortunately his motor company was a huge
failure. Delorean
died in March of 2005 (
prev) but not before he started
plans for a new car.
Also, you may need to
ask some questions and keep up on all the
news after you buy your
24k Gold DeLorean.
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posted by P.o.B. at 10:21 PM - 32 comments Feast Images of food—and the preparation of food—invariably have that effect on people. They unite viewers who might otherwise have nothing in common; they plug directly into the primal craving for transitory pleasure, the desire not just to admire and then consume inventively prepared food, but also to serve (and be served by) people who love us.
posted by device55 at 6:44 PM - 3 comments
A software engineer blogs about the
inept and insecure way in which a bank asks customers to file a claim when they're the victim of fraudulent transactions. Dozens of customers chime in with similar experiences, over the course of months. The bank in question contributes nothing to the conversation, and the system remains both
insecure and broken today [that last link is probably blocked by your browser or operating system, but don't worry - the form on the page doesn't work anyway].
posted by subpixel at 6:33 PM - 28 comments Centralia Pennsylvania : Since 1962 Centralia has stood on top of a coal mine fire, the origin of which was likely a trash fire started by firemen in an effort to clean up the local landfill. In 1962 over 1000 people lived there, in 2007 there where nine. Most residents accepted Pennsylvania's buyout and relocation offer initiated in 1985 and funded to the tune of
$42 million dollars by the US Congress. Houses where bulldozed and today fields,
cemeteries and new growth forrest are primarily what is left, a temporary bypass to
Route 61 was made permanent when giant mounds of dirt where used to block either end from entering or leaving Centralia. It is estimated that these fires will burn for over 250 more years, although some speculate that it may spread and burn a lot longer eventually encompassing several more towns (such as
Byrnesville, Pennsylvania already a casualty).
Globally there are
thousands of underground coal fires, some man made, some (
Burning Mountain in Australia going for 5500 years) natural.
posted by edgeways at 2:52 PM - 27 comments
Populist
Etymology: Latin
populus the people
Date: 1892
1 : a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people;
especially often capitalized : a member of a United States political party formed in 1891 primarily to represent agrarian interests and to advocate the free coinage of silver and government control of monopolies
2 : a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people
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posted by lysdexic at 1:36 PM - 27 comments
Fotomat 's tiny drive-up huts with the yellow roof were an icon of the 1970s suburban experience, with 4000 of them throughout the U.S. You drove up, gave your film to the girl inside, and got prints a couple of days later. But stores began
closing en masse in the 1980s with the
boom of in-store "prints in an hour". Most Fotomats have been torn down or are crumbling away (
cool slideshow), a few being used for
coffee or
cigarettes. Former alumni are out there and share some memories
stories on Facebook. Fotomat unbelievably is around and has a
website but this September they threw in the towel on their Snapfish-like business model.
posted by crapmatic at 12:53 AM - 35 comments
November 24
Although it's commonplace nowadays to assume that J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was the primary source of inspiration for Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax when they created the world's first tabletop roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons, a careful examination of the game suggests otherwise... James Maliszewski on
The Books That Founded D&D. Some
disagreement.
posted by Artw at 4:13 PM - 88 comments
"This week we will be confronting a fact that, by definition, haunts the average online dater: no matter how much time you spend polishing your profile, honing your IM banter, and perfecting your message introductions,
it’s your picture that matters most."
(Previously 1 2 3)
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