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Qaraami music is from Somalia. In qaraami style you sing and play an embellished melody on the oud, and maybe with some drums. The Somali diaspora have taken it everywhere. I just heard it for the first time in Shafeq's taxi in Wellington. With luck, it will flourish in its home again.
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 7:17 PM on August 31, 2007 (8 comments)

Isotown

Isotown might be just another isometric pixel art urban setting lovingly rendered in MS Paint, but it has its own civic history in comic strip form. via
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 2:06 AM on August 23, 2007 (8 comments)

Comrade Borodin is a very cultured person

In 1974 Alexander Lipson wrote an excellent Russian language textbook: scanned highlights, complete book. However, its value goes beyond the merely pedagogical. via our very own metafilter udarnik languagehat.
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 7:51 PM on October 11, 2006 (24 comments)

Teju Cole blogs from Nigeria

Teju Cole is a Nigerian who is returning home after years in the US. His writing is some of the best online prose I have ever read. Good photographs too.
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 6:13 PM on January 8, 2006 (12 comments)

The same procedure as last year

A German New Year's ritual entirely in Enligsh. Enlighs. English.
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 12:53 AM on January 1, 2006 (32 comments)

No, not the telegraph.

Not in fact about telegraphy. Those fine young people at b3ta have been exercising their imaginations in depictions of the Victorian Internet. (via boingboing).
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 2:48 PM on November 22, 2003 (15 comments)

Fawlty Towers of Video Game Stores?

The Gord is the Basil Fawlty-like proprietor of a video game store in Canada. He appears to be a real-life Comic Book Guy. More inside ...
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 3:14 AM on June 22, 2003 (25 comments)

Ted's Caving diary

Ted's Caving diary I strongly suggest reading this late at night and alone for full effect. The homebuilt look of the site adds to the frisson. (more inside...)
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 10:16 PM on November 24, 2002 (45 comments)

Omar Zabir's Portal

Omar Zabir's Portal. It's a DHTML/Javascript tour de force. But is it for real, or a subtle joke? (IE only, I'm afraid, but worth booting Windows for).
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 7:37 PM on November 12, 2002 (41 comments)

Recognition time for Bonzo? When I read The Ape...

Recognition time for Bonzo? When I read The Ape and The Sushi master, it shook me. And others feel the same [link 1] way[link 2]. But I was still taken aback by the language in this story.
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 5:01 PM on June 24, 2002 (7 comments)

My favourite parable. Not in fact about donkeys....

Kissing Hank's Ass. My favourite parable. Not in fact about donkeys.
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 2:42 AM on April 9, 2002 (12 comments)

Yup, Elvis Memphimus Rex Rocandrollus. He has his...

Elvis: a sign of the coming of the Messianic Age? Yup, Elvis Memphimus Rex Rocandrollus. He has his own shrine in Jerusalem. And now Schmelvis resurrects the King. (Not to be confused with Schelvis , though, a tasty treat of a different order).
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 6:03 PM on April 1, 2002 (11 comments)

The best illustration ever of why friends don't...

The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation The best illustration ever of why friends don't let friends use Powerpoint. Some blame a decline in oratory and rhetoric on the television. I blame the temptation to lean on decorative visual crutches.
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 11:30 PM on December 7, 2001 (25 comments)

Am I the only person who bangs random words into...

What you get when you type "something strange and different" into Google Am I the only person who bangs random words into Google to see what comes back? In this case I feel rewarded - bizarre patents from around the world. What's your favourite Google query string?
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 11:27 PM on October 26, 2001 (47 comments)

Quoting my cow-orker, who's going to see him speak...

The truth about what's really happening Quoting my cow-orker, who's going to see him speak next week, David Icke "used to be a professional footballer with Coventry City, until retiring with arthritis. Then he had a minor epiphany, and came to the realisation that the world is run by blood-drinking alien reptiles, who can disguise themselves as humans -- Queen Elizabeth and George W Bush are two such examples." Do all-encompassing conspiracy theories come any better than this?
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 6:39 PM on October 24, 2001 (21 comments)

Why, O why has the only worthwhile cultural...

Goodie goodie yum yum! Why, O why has the only worthwhile cultural product of the late 20th century been so cruelly ignored? The Goodies made a man out me. And they made a man out of my wife. They rule OK. What brain-warping TV is their equal now?
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 9:10 PM on October 14, 2001 (13 comments)

It's a worrying day for me when I agree with...

YA Guardian Opinion Piece It's a worrying day for me when I agree with Martin Amis. I particularly like the reference at the end to "species-conciousness". Do you have "species-consciousness"?
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 12:21 AM on September 19, 2001 (9 comments)

... and read another piece in vein of Seamus...

Take a deep breath, angry patriots ... and read another piece in vein of Seamus Milne's Guardian article. Think, breathe, think. (This one's from your fellow English-speakers in New Zealand).
posted to MetaFilter by i_am_joe's_spleen at 7:16 PM on September 13, 2001 (32 comments)