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Star Wars: The Changes compares screen shots of the original movies with the special edition releases and the new DVD.
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at 2:21 PM on October 22, 2004
(40 comments)
America at 10 MPH: Josh Caldwell is riding a Segway from Seattle to Boston. He's already gone over 2800 miles.
[This project is independent of Segway.]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 12:55 PM on October 14, 2004
(30 comments)
3D Dubya: Impressive 3D animations synched with audio from Dubya's speeches.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 11:19 AM on October 13, 2004
(7 comments)
Iraq's WMD capability was essentially destroyed in 1991, according to the report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 12:30 PM on October 6, 2004
(28 comments)
The Path to Florida A long
Vanity Fair article (
part one and
part two, both PDFs) about the experiences and reactions of US Supreme Court clerks during the 2000 election and
Bush v. Gore [PDFs hosted at SCOTUSblog; via Intel Dump]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 7:37 PM on September 23, 2004
(11 comments)
We're not in Maryland Kansas Anymore Alan Keyes sings "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
[Windows Media link]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 2:45 PM on August 12, 2004
(18 comments)
I mean, who wants to transform themselves into an alien, you know? Joshua does.
With disturbing results.
Q: And his ears?
A: I cut them off. It was not hard.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 4:23 PM on August 3, 2004
(27 comments)
Oh, You Mean Those Records The Pentagon released "newly discovered payroll records from President Bush's 1972 service in the Alabama National Guard." The earlier statement that the records were inadvertently destroyed was an "inadvertent oversight."
[Previously discussed here and here.]
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at 4:18 PM on July 23, 2004
(39 comments)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Photos Pictures from Robert Pirsig's original 1968 trip, part of
a gallery of photo albums inspired by the trip, including
360° panoramas.
[via WikiPedia]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 3:00 PM on July 15, 2004
(13 comments)
Glen! Glen Glen Glen! [QuickTime]
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at 11:48 AM on July 2, 2004
(27 comments)
"The Atlanta Time Machine website is dedicated to examining the history of Atlanta, Georgia by comparing vintage photographs of Atlanta with much more contemporary images shot, more or less, from the same perspective of the original photographer."
[via kottke.org]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 10:54 AM on June 29, 2004
(12 comments)
America Is is the weblog of a "freelance photojournalist traveling across the US on a mission to hit all 48 contiguous states." Some nice photos.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 3:06 PM on June 23, 2004
(7 comments)
This is the war you haven't seen in the news. Michael Tucker spent a month in Iraq with the 2/3 Field Artillery (aka the "Gunner" Battalion), and
Gunner Palace is his forthcoming documentary. (Three soldiers from the unit were on the cover of
Time's
2003 Person of the Year issue.) There are two QuickTime trailers from the movie.
[via WarBlogging]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 8:50 AM on June 4, 2004
(14 comments)
Anti-Bush Online Adventure [4.7 MB Flash; parts NSFW] The Bush Administration discovers "the ultimate method of bringing about global domination for corporate America."
[via What Do I Know]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 9:31 AM on May 26, 2004
(17 comments)
Drunken Temple Boxing! You may have defeated my Southern Hook Palm technique, but can you defeat the 1000 styles of Rumsfeld?
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 9:01 AM on May 12, 2004
(2 comments)
George W. Bush Invigorating Ameria's Youth On Monday David Letterman aired
video footage [Real] of an "obviously bored silly" 14-year-old kid goofing off while standing on stage behind the president during a
speech.
[more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 2:17 PM on March 31, 2004
(38 comments)
100 Movies That Deserve More Love "we've rolled up our sleeves to retrieve some unloved and under-appreciated gems from the dustbin of history...You'll find great movies that you were sure only you knew about, and you'll find movies that you've never heard of."
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 9:08 AM on March 28, 2004
(74 comments)
Qveere Eye for thye Medieval Man "Earliest known evidence of a reality series found in medieval vault in eastern Great Britain."
[via Zeldman]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 9:56 PM on February 20, 2004
(8 comments)
Folklore.org "is a web site devoted to collective historical storytelling. It captures and presents sets of related stories that describe interesting events from multiple perspectives, allowing groups of people to recount their shared history in the form of interlinked anecdotes."
[via Daring Fireball]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 7:48 AM on January 26, 2004
(2 comments)
The Aerial Reconnaissance Archive is a new online archive of World War II reconnaissance photos, which will eventually include 5 million photos. The BBC has some
background information, including an interview with a former Photographic Reconnaissance Unit pilot.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 11:51 AM on January 23, 2004
(3 comments)
ZIP Code Visualizer A Java-based map of the continental US that progressively narrows down the area covered by a
ZIP Code as you type in the numbers one by one.
[Doesn't work so good in Mac IE 5. via xBlog]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 2:50 PM on December 22, 2003
(25 comments)
"They swept across Iraq and conquered it in 21 days. They stand guard on streets pot-holed with skepticism and rancor. They caught Saddam Hussein. They are the face of America, its might and good will, in a region unused to democracy. The U.S. G.I. is
Time's Person of the Year."
[more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 11:07 AM on December 21, 2003
(67 comments)
3D Sidewalk Paintings [via 37signals]
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at 3:52 PM on November 19, 2003
(17 comments)
A normal person wouldn't steal pituitaries, and other actual Hong Kong film subtitles.
T-shirts, too. How can you use my intestines as a gift?
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 6:20 AM on October 28, 2003
(5 comments)
The Greatest Stories Ever Told (in Esquire) The magazine picks six candidates to be the best story from its first 70 years. Gay Talese's
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" was their choice as the best.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 10:12 AM on October 11, 2003
(6 comments)
Is
this really the
most depressing book cover of the year? Because I kinda thought
this one was.
[via AntiPixel]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 10:09 AM on September 22, 2003
(94 comments)
"iTunes iSbogus, just a shiny new facade for the ugly, exploitative system that has managed music for the past 50 years." says
Downhill Battle's parody of Apple's web site.
[via MacNN]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 4:17 PM on August 26, 2003
(33 comments)
The World as a Blog Real time & updating display of weblog postings, around the world, using
GeoURL, RSS, and
Weblogs.com.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 1:08 PM on August 24, 2003
(6 comments)
Learning to Love PowerPoint Wired and the
New York Times feature David Byrne's DVD/book
Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information, which contains art he created with PowerPoint. The title's a reference to
Edward Tufte, who has
his own opinion of PowerPoint (which was
remixed by Aaron Swartz).
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 9:43 AM on August 20, 2003
(44 comments)
Images of Native Americans, from UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, is comprehensive online exhibit of over 400 years of text and images of Native American history.
[via a Berkleyan article that has sample images and more info]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 11:58 AM on August 18, 2003
(8 comments)
The 20 Worst Figures in American History, as selected by 39 right-wing bloggers selected by
Right Wing News. For balance, they also asked 36 left-wing bloggers for
their list.
[via Mark A. R. Kleiman, who has some interesting commentary; more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 11:53 AM on August 13, 2003
(82 comments)
Gary for Governor! The
East Bay Express helped put former
child actor/current online
advice columnist Gary Coleman on the ballot for the upcoming California gubernatorial recall election. Their extensive coverage includes
his platform,
compares him to the competition,
outlines his appeal to various constituents (including model train enthusiasts), and picks his
theme song (and it's not "Short People" or "Tiny Dancer").
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 12:55 PM on August 6, 2003
(11 comments)
Is Male Infidelity Hardwired? The
Washington Post reports on an
academic study by the International Sexuality Description Project that "found that men everywhere--whether single, married or gay--want more sexual partners than women do." Part of the research may have come from
this web site, which is run by
the author of the survey.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 8:50 PM on July 31, 2003
(42 comments)
Is President Bush a Homo? "Even our least vigilant Republican social commandos have noticed that Mr. Bush has been peppering his otherwise delightful litany of patriotic jingoism and pleasantly embroidered CIA-intelligence recaps with the effeminate mating call 'fabulous'--three giddy syllables that are tantamount to coyly cooing, 'Hello, sailor!'"
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 11:38 AM on July 30, 2003
(26 comments)
No Iraq link to al-Qaida "The report of the joint congressional inquiry into the suicide hijackings on Sept. 11, 2001, to be published Thursday, reveals U.S. intelligence had no evidence that the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein was involved in the attacks, or that it had supported al-Qaida, United Press International has learned."
[more inside]
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at 6:26 AM on July 24, 2003
(72 comments)
AOL Kills Netscape AOL "has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla in a mass firing and are dismantling what was left of Netscape (they’ve even pulled the logos off the buildings)." According to some
former Netscape employees, "everybody in
CPD is getting laid off." Meanwhile,
Mozilla goes on at the new
Mozilla Foundation.
[via Zeldman]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 3:58 PM on July 15, 2003
(58 comments)
"It was hard on the ear, and my dog hated it too." The Robot Rock Critic generates album reviews. "Type in an artist name. Pick from a list of ten music genres, from 'teenage pop' to 'frighteningly loud music.' Specify whether it's a band, a male solo artist, or a female solo artist. Then click 'review.'"
[via Easy Bay Express]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 9:57 AM on July 10, 2003
(14 comments)
Sept. 11, 2003: Photoblog your life "I've been thinking about September 11th. I've been thinking about the United States response - The Patriot Act. Invading Afganastan & Iraq. Death. Fear. Oppression.
It seems to me that this is NOT the America I want the world to know. So I propose a blogwide Photoblog your Life day on September 11th. Take your camera with you. Take pictures. Show the world your life. Show the world your daily delights. Show the world that we choose life, happiness and freedom."
[via Big Pink Cookie]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 11:22 AM on July 8, 2003
(60 comments)
DOJ Introduces New Threat Levels Citizens should be alert, but continue to go about their normal daily spending activities.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 8:28 AM on July 6, 2003
(12 comments)
"American Pie [the song] tells about the last decisive struggle between, Christian America and all the heathen armies of the world, who will be gathered on America's doorstep and according to the Bible, will invade America." "Could it be that "JESUS ACTUALLY FORETOLD THE ADVENT OF THE INTERNET?"
[Warning: cheesy MIDI music background]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 1:05 PM on June 30, 2003
(21 comments)
Power Genitalia? If only we could harness that power...
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at 4:57 PM on June 17, 2003
(28 comments)
Eyesore of the Month is a monthly look at architectural monstrosities.
Sample critique: "A total lack of skill meets a total rejection of history. The result: all the charm of a packing crate and none of the structural integrity."
[via Good Experience]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 10:04 AM on June 9, 2003
(30 comments)
3-D Maps of Nearby Space "The first detailed map of space within about 1,000 light years of Earth places the solar system in the middle of a large hole that pierces the plane of the galaxy...The new map, produced by University of California, Berkeley, and French astronomers, alters the reigning view of the solar neighborhood." (
one view|
another view|
links to bigger images)
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 12:36 PM on May 30, 2003
(5 comments)
Panoramic view from top of Everest (requires QuickTime)
[via kottke.org]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 2:02 PM on May 24, 2003
(16 comments)
William Ellsworth “Dummy” Hoy was the first deaf Major League baseball player. He
played in four major leagues,
hit the first grand slam in the American League, stole 82 bases in his rookie year, and was the first outfielder to
throw out three runners at home plate in one game. He's the reason for
umpires' hand signals. Gallaudet University
dedicated its baseball field to him. There's a
campaign to get him inducted in the Hall of Fame (here's his
stats.)
[via The Baseball Crank]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 12:57 PM on May 13, 2003
(7 comments)
The 25 greatest comic-book covers of all time, based on impact, readability, uniqueness/subject, and drawing/presentation. And
the 12 dumbest.
[via xBlog]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 9:43 AM on May 9, 2003
(51 comments)
Bush Regime Playing Cards, with Ari Fleischer as the King of Hearts.
[via Daily Kos]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 8:05 AM on April 28, 2003
(25 comments)
City Size Comparison lets you, well, compare the relative sizes of various US cities side-by-side. The site also lets you
compare US cities to Baghdad, which "may be useful if you are trying to envision driving through, searching or invading Baghdad, but you've never actually been there."
[via xblog]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 10:22 AM on April 24, 2003
(14 comments)
Invoice Past Due "Obviously, a book about a corporatized future names a lot of names. Since I didn't want to give companies free advertising, I invoiced them for product placement." The follow-up letters and responses are amusing.
[via a reader comment at kottke.org]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 3:55 PM on April 21, 2003
(6 comments)
Her name is Trisha Meili. She was
attacked in Central Park fourteen years ago. Now she's
written a book (
excerpt) telling her story.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 7:38 AM on April 14, 2003
(12 comments)
"This war's musical outcry is no different from those of the past, with one gleaming caveat. Whatever your feelings on folk music, most of the new protest songs concerning the war in Iraq -- how to put this maturely -- suck fetid donkey biscuits. This is the worst dreck ever to to be digitized 'n' downloaded."
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 3:21 PM on April 8, 2003
(36 comments)
