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Google has quietly improved their stock info page.
I'm not a huge fan of posting every new Google feature, but this is by far the best UI for stock price tracking, history, etc I've seen. Think google-maps-good. Until recently they were just linking to a Yahoo! Finance version.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 5:32 PM on March 22, 2006
(24 comments)
Are you in your early 40s? Do you resemble the God Apollo yet feel a certain dissastisfaction (like a splinter in your mind) toward photos of yourself? You are not alone:
"I have enclosed below a series of pictures to show how the US government starting around 1994 went back in time with remote sensing and holographic radiation longitudinal emf and sound wave holographic energy beams as shown in the movie time tunnel to place different computer generated holographic archetypes of different Nordic, Celtic, and Aryan faces and other attributes around my body as if I were a microcosm of the center of the universe, Adam, and God, to change the genetic attributes, facial form, eye color, hair color, voice sound, and many other body attributes throughout my life year by year from my birth (1962, Jan 23 Midnight) to the present representing correlation's between the years in my life and the ages of evolution and history from the beginning of time to the present." [
via Waxy]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 5:41 PM on December 1, 2005
(55 comments)
Significance of numbers.
Not to be confused with the concept of "significant figures," this page lists the significance of numbers 0 through 1000.
See! "2 is the only even prime."
Hear! "24 is the largest number divisible by all numbers less than its square root."
Thrill! "3367 is the smallest number which can be written as the difference of 2 cubes in 3 ways." Whoa!
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 2:09 PM on November 11, 2005
(43 comments)
ScoreHer.com
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Dating advice for men from women. With a name like that how can you not prick up your ears? With promises like: "
I'll post an article in the next few weeks on how to convert a friendship on fourth down and make it to her end zone," how can you not bookmark it? And with features like
Women Only Want Tall Men vs. Men Only Want Big Boobs, a "what she says/what she means"
Chicktionary, and
5 Cardinal Rules for Internet Dating, how can the men and women of MeFi not immediately turn this thread into 101 separate flamewars about romance, love, dating & genitalia? Here's a momentary distraction to divert the guys' attention long enough for the women to take the high ground: on the off-chance that it's not just link spam,
squadmember Jennifer P., 29, is tall, blonde, smart, turned on by guys in briefs, and
looking.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 5:29 PM on September 25, 2005
(51 comments)
Synergy
is a fantastic little bit of open source software that allows two or more networked computers (Mac, Windows, Linux, or any combination) to share a mouse and keyboard (and clipboard!). It's perfect for the iBook you've got next to your Dell Box, or the Win/Linux duo you've got at work. The mouse cursor simply slides from one screen to the other. Neat! Free!
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 11:53 PM on May 10, 2005
(23 comments)
"...this effort
has examined devices that can be built into a shoe, (where excess energy is readily harvested) and used for generating electrical power "parasitically" while walking."
Regenerative braking in a shoe for powering small personal electronics, courtesy of MIT's Media Lab. With
video. [
via Hack A Day]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 4:44 PM on April 12, 2005
(13 comments)
Balance
is an animated short made in West Germany in 1989. I saw it at an animation festival years ago and am now pleased to see that
Milk & Cookies has posted a link to a
Flash version of it. I hope you enjoy. [7 mins, Flash]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 9:01 PM on February 27, 2005
(18 comments)
Global dimming.
It's official. Particulate pollution in the air has decreased the amount of sunlight reaching the earth. How much? A fraction of a percent? Try 10% globally over the past 50 years. Worse yet, global dimming is thought to be counteracting CO2 and its greenhouse effect, lessening the worldwide temperature increase called global warming. Why's that bad? Because, in the coming decades, particulate pollution is expected to level off, while CO2 emissions are expected to rise strongly, multiplying the effects of global warming as we know it. "
That means a temperature rise of 10 degrees Celsius by 2100 could be on the cards, giving the UK a climate like that of North Africa, and rendering many parts of the world uninhabitable." Holy fucking shit! [via kottke]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 7:18 PM on January 14, 2005
(74 comments)
Robo-Dump
A device which simulates that guy over in the Sales cubes who usually doesn't drink coffee but had 3 cups over lunch.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 11:45 PM on November 14, 2004
(14 comments)
Lost Boys of Sudan
is an amazing documentary about refugees from Sudan's
Darfur conflict finding haven in the US. It's premiering on PBS tomorrow. Their website has local PBS listings as well as locations and times of upcoming screenings in the US. From sleeping on the ground in a UN refugee camp to working at WalMart in Dallas, the men in the film undertake an enormously difficult, but ultimately life-saving journey.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 1:58 PM on September 27, 2004
(8 comments)
Those of us following the daily heart attack that is
electoral-vote.com will notice a new site feature today. If you've ever wondered how the popular vote can be so evenly split when the red state / blue state breakdown glares so overwhelmingly crimson, now you can see a
map of the US with states inflated/shrunk according to the proportions of their electoral votes. Presumably, this map will be updated, along with the standard one, with new polling data daily. [thanks to EB for originally pointing me to the site]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 12:08 PM on September 14, 2004
(95 comments)
The only thing that masks the pain is sleep, but even that's hard to come by.
I've occasionally checked in with 17 y.o. Markelle's blog for a year or two now. While I don't know her personally, I'd consider it unlikely that she's making this up. I'd guess it's more likely that her dad actually did commit suicide. "Best of the web?" Honestly, I don't know. Perhaps it's just a glimpse at a life that might benefit from your good thoughts.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 11:53 PM on August 1, 2004
(56 comments)
Bill Gates May Blog.
Always
ahead of the curve, the astute visionary's groundbreaking foray into the virginal internet territory, known by computer hackers as "web logging,"
won't be all business, either. He's expected to share personal details such as tidbits from recent vacations. I for one am trembling on the edge of my seat.
1.0 lacks that special something.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 12:48 AM on June 26, 2004
(18 comments)
What can you do to combat pedophiles who lurk online? Fire up your AIM and
cocktease them to death [SFW - just chat logs, nothing graphic].
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 12:35 AM on June 23, 2004
(20 comments)
This postcard
(possible NSFW), likens Israel to a small penis in a speedo. If it's small on your monitor, there is a larger
PDF version. Confused yet? It turns out blueStarPR produces
several other curious pro-Israel postcards, including
this one, featuring Ray Charles (who knew?). I have to give them props for being funny and slick. Some of their material is pretty extreme, though,
such as this one, which likens the Jews to the Navajo, with the punchline: "Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism." Then there's
this one, about Israel's liberal gays-in-the-military policy (I think they actually have to serve, don't they?). An interesting mix of humor, media, and politics. [warning: propaganda]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 2:24 AM on June 18, 2004
(14 comments)
FanPants
To provide padding in the form of an oversized buttocks positioned in the seat of the pants. Talk about over-serving your target market... yeesh.
[SFW - some flash - via Milk and Cookies]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 10:48 AM on April 15, 2004
(3 comments)
Buying Up the Right to Pollute.
"Power companies that release more SO
2 than their permits allow must attempt to buy more allowances at the auctions, or purchase them at a premium from companies that have allowances to spare. Those that can't gather enough allowances or that go beyond certain emissions limits in a given year face strict fines from the EPA."
(from a 4/7 Wired article) You may have heard of these "allowances" before, but the
Acid Rain Retirement Fund, a non-profit, is doing something about them: *buying* them and simply letting them expire. Search
NetworkForGood for "ARRF" to make a donation. [via our own
CTP's
Recursive Irony]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 7:54 PM on April 13, 2004
(12 comments)
Last night I saw
Brent Mendenhall on an Asian-language television channel, doing a sometimes-uncanny George W. Bush impersonation. Being able to understand his mock-Texan ramblings but not the host interviewing him was a surreal experience. Upon
cursory investigation, I was shocked to find that some
suspect Dubya of using a look-alike for particularly dangerous speaking engagements, and that others are
available for hire.
Saddam, too!
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 1:22 PM on October 3, 2003
(3 comments)
This new film
[25MB, QuickTime] documents the 3rd annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel race, in which a bunch of crazed fools raced headlong down San Francisco's
Lombard Street (aka: the crookedest street in the world) on Big Wheels. Good drunk fun! Here are some
pics for the bandwidth-challenged.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 11:12 AM on September 30, 2003
(22 comments)
27 Israeli Pilots
have been grounded by the military after refusing to take part in airstrikes carried out in the occupied territories. Some active, some retired, they were accused of "making cynical use of the Israeli air force to express a civilian view," but in a joint letter to their command, they spoke out against "
air force attacks in civilian population centers." Either way, Edward Said may be
resting a little easier, at least tonight.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 8:02 PM on September 25, 2003
(10 comments)
Montana Goes Nuts!
The Rock Creek Lodge, outside Clinton, Montana, invites you for a four-day celebration of Pabst, prairie fries, and... well... pud: "Have a Ball at the Testicle Festival!"
[via Blowfish.com's newsletter, 1st page = SFW].
Anyone here been to a "hicks-gone-wild" type of event? I've heard of backwoods "show us your tits" type festivals before, and I would tend to generalize them as isolated outbursts of the repressed (and very sexist toward women). This one seems to have a slightly different... um... bent.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 5:39 PM on July 9, 2003
(16 comments)
The Clickz Weblog Business Strategies 2003 Conference & Expo
kicks off on June 9, with the highly-relevant keynote: "What Are Weblogs?" Also on the schedule: "
Business Blogs: Hype or Opportunity?"
Kathleen Goodwin (conference chair)
Blogs : "Someone wrote that they are offended that blogs, what used to be "an 'innocent' repository of ideas," are now becoming commercialized. Hello! Get with the program. It is the 21st century and every great idea gets commercialized in a nano second these days."
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 3:50 PM on May 29, 2003
(21 comments)
50 Reasons to Boycott the Matrix.
Lowbrow. Violent. Rascist. And with that Reloaded budget, they could have made millionaires out of every starving child in America. Shameful.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 8:16 PM on May 11, 2003
(54 comments)
Is there no spoon?
The
Warner Bros Matrix site is home to a series of scholarly essays inspired by the film (last updated 3/20/03). I mean, sure, the film offers some "whoa dude" moments regarding technology, perception, and vinyl pants, but I was surprised to find it an interesting launching point for discussions about
freedom,
heaven, and
Plato's Cave as well. Being a philosophy layman, I can't vouch for their quality with any authority, but if you know the movies inside and out, as I apparently do (god help me) you might find the essays interesting.*
*for the next 15 agonizing days, anyway
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 3:16 PM on April 30, 2003
(46 comments)
Stand up for sitting down!
Management at Indigo/Chapters (a Canadian bookstore mega-chain equivalent to Borders) is drastically reducing the amount of comfortable seating in their stores chain-wide. This committed
group of activists isn't taking the matter sitting down.
Show your support!
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 9:02 AM on February 13, 2002
(20 comments)
"Those breasts were lethal weapons,"
he told reporters. Greene's father, George, won't specify the amount they are suing for, but claims that it isn't about the money. 'Mind-boggling drama,' indeed! (via FC)
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 10:36 PM on January 27, 2002
(11 comments)
Search-indexing video footage?
Dremedia's software can analyze video footage -- either raw or edited -- and not only identify nearly every word spoken but also differentiate between speakers and even understand when a scene changes. And who said the gee-whiz startup was dead? Well, it is, but
Futureboy still has rent to pay, I s'pose.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 1:31 PM on January 4, 2002
(4 comments)
Egreetings lowers the portcullis.
No longer can you send that flishy-Flashy virtual birthday card for free. Now you've got to sign up as an Egreetings member to access all the cards ($12 per year). Luckily, many of their cards are still free, including the indispensable
farting section. Has anyone, so far, spent money on an internet service that was once free but
now costs something?
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 11:46 AM on December 6, 2001
(21 comments)
"X-men: speed mutation" is a rich and fun analysis
of issues of body, minority struggle, other-ness and the evolution of science fiction in the comic book and film idioms of the X-men. It may even argue that the X-men's overwhelming popularity is owed to something greater than stylized violence and skintight outfits: relevance as a cultural text.
"Immune systems are information systems. Biological space is pervaded and negotiated through exchanges of genetic data; biochemically, we are in a constant state of alienation from our "selves". ... The world of X-Men is inverted on its own processes and intertexts. Its gaze is focused on the technologies of the body and on the intersections between the body and the mind, the body and the self."
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic
at 8:55 AM on November 27, 2001
(1 comment)
