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Peekaboom!
It's not Friday -- then again this isn't flash -- but it sure is fun. Partner with another anonymous player to identify pictures by gradually revealing them. The kicker is that as we play, the system gets smarter -- the goal is to teach computers how to identify photos the same way we can.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 11:50 AM on August 4, 2005
(14 comments)
justcurio.us
AskMeFi for the curious masses. Not nearly as helpful, but can be amusing.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 9:22 AM on July 19, 2005
(20 comments)
Shakeskin.com
— An international gallery of faces in motion.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 7:48 AM on October 22, 2004
(2 comments)
Bobby Fischer found,
trying to travel from Tokyo to the Phillipines. He has been detained and is awaiting deportation to the states for attending a 1992 chess match in Yugoslavia in violation of international sanctions.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 6:56 AM on July 16, 2004
(46 comments)
Ben's Game.
A young cancer patient, Ben Duskin, designed a video game, a LucasArts developer built it for him. The game follows a young protagonist as he searches for protection from the debilitating side effects of chemotherapy.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 11:01 AM on July 1, 2004
(19 comments)
Gmail is too Creepy
"Dear Gmail user: Due to privacy considerations, we cannot respond unless you resend your email from a different account."
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 1:36 PM on June 10, 2004
(53 comments)
“Hybrid Humans”
Very early on in the womb, two fertilized eggs that would have normally created fraternal twins will occasionally fuse to form one embryo, producing a "chimera": one person with two sets of DNA. The link goes to a Nature article,
here is an NPR piece.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 12:35 PM on September 24, 2003
(15 comments)
Cool watches through history.
A series of profiles on important watches in the history of the electronic watch. From one regulated by a tuning fork, to the once-omnipresent Swatch.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 10:53 AM on August 27, 2003
(13 comments)
Bitpass.com: A micropayment service for content providers.
Many many worthy sites have been lost because they could not afford to continue,
even though users would have been happy to pay for their service. Unfortunately, a system has not been in place to service the small transactions (paying fifty cents for a ten cent transaction is the opposite of making money). Enter Bitpass. Facilitating transactions as little as one cent, maybe online artists, cartoonists, pundits, humorists, etc, can start making money.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 7:56 PM on July 1, 2003
(23 comments)
The Bacteria Whisperer
“Bonnie Bassler discovered a secret about microbes that the science world has missed for centuries. The bugs are talking to each other. And plotting against us.”
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 8:44 AM on March 21, 2003
(13 comments)
A quick HIV test is about to hit the US market.
An HIV test that is easy to administer and provides results in 20 minutes has just been approved by the FDA. This is a big deal partly because almost 250,000 Americans are infected and don't know it. The ease of this fast-response test will help identify some of them.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 10:04 AM on November 8, 2002
(30 comments)
Christopher Reeve is gaining ground in his fight against paralysis.
I was prepared for the article to be a typical "celebrity's struggle gets public attention" piece, until I read this:
"No one who has suffered an injury as severe as Chris', and failed to have any initial recovery, has regained the amount of motor and sensory function he has."
Hope is coming for many.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 1:17 PM on September 10, 2002
(25 comments)
The Grey Goo guys gain ground.
"The controversy involves the potential perils of making molecule-size objects and devices - a field known as nanotechnology ... The ultimate nightmare was the so-called Gray Goo catastrophe, in which self-replicating microscopic robots the size of bacteria fill the world and wipe out humanity."
While 'gain ground' may not be wholly accurate (it was alliterative), the theory is being given lots of play in scientific circles as nano-devices approach practical status.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 11:49 AM on August 19, 2002
(26 comments)
Arafat ready to accept Clinton's 2000 peace plan.
"Clinton's plan had offered Palestinians control of most, but not all of the territory taken by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, and called for Palestinians to scale back their demand for the right of return of refugees, a move Palestinian officials said earlier this week they were willing to make."
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 7:57 AM on June 21, 2002
(22 comments)
All Small:
"A mini-comic that maintains it is all small stuff." I'm enjoying his High Horse series of humorous rants. Waste my Friday away!
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 8:48 AM on May 10, 2002
(12 comments)
Turn any flat surface into a speaker.
"The Soundbug can be plugged into the headphone socket of, for example, an MP3 player or a Walkman and then fixed by suction to the flat surface — effectively turning a desk or window into a speaker."
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 9:00 AM on March 15, 2002
(33 comments)
"Hold on, please..."
Please! Do this! If we all do it, we can change the world! A national No-Call list would be great, but that assumes that telemarketers will follow the law.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 3:11 PM on February 11, 2002
(45 comments)
"It just hit me... they won't be contributing any more money, will they?"
Abruptly changing his tone about a company that heavily contributed to his political campaigns, President George W. Bush now says that he was "outraged" that Enron Corp. misled its employees and investors, including his mother-in-law, who he said lost more than $8,000 when the energy firm's stock collapsed.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 11:54 AM on January 23, 2002
(20 comments)
Cyber gripers arise!
In response to the trend of big corporations successfully taking 'sucks' domains away from the owners (vivendiuniversalsucks.com is an example in the article), the
Free Speech Center will be offering 'sucks' domains for free for the taking (and presumably first amendment/article 19 exercising).
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 5:31 PM on January 21, 2002
(10 comments)
Job hunting?
Ample positions open in the adult industry...
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 10:45 AM on December 19, 2001
(4 comments)
"HIV is a metaphor for a lot of quasi-related phenomena,"
says Val Turner, an AIDS analyst and senior consultant in emergency medicine at the Royal Perth Hospital in Perth, Australia. "No one has ever proved its existence as a virus."
Does this movement/theory/philosophy have any power behind it? It's scary nonetheless.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 11:39 AM on December 1, 2001
(4 comments)
AirSnort.
The dangerous app with the unlikely name allows users to snatch data being passed over wireless networks, eventually capturing passwords to the network.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 9:27 AM on November 29, 2001
(7 comments)
pyRads
"Web advertising that doesn't suck." Never say that Pyra isn't one to
recognize a
bandwagon.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 9:34 AM on November 15, 2001
(8 comments)
Work out? Why bother?
Study shows that imaginary exercise builds muscles. Now if only imaginary friends worked the same way.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 12:49 PM on November 12, 2001
(22 comments)
I'll show you mine...
"DeskSwap is a multi-user screensaver that swaps images of the user's desktop with others using the screensaver."
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 12:12 PM on September 27, 2001
(9 comments)
Saintly blood makes scheduled liquid-form appearance.
The blood of Saint Gennaro usually turns to liquid twice a year — on September 19, the saint's feast day, and on the first Saturday in May. In the past, disaster has struck when the blood has remained dry.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 9:21 AM on September 20, 2001
(3 comments)
Blogger sets up special search page.
It displays posts mentioning "World Trade" or "terrorist." It's really something. It starts right at the very beginning. From the Blogger front page:
"'The need to connect is intense,' said Donna Hoffman, a professor who studies the Web and Web commerce at Vanderbilt University. 'While the network TV stations blather, the Internet carries the news and connects the masses in a true interactive sob.'" Indeed. Today was the most active posting day on Blogger ever—by over 22 percent.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 8:12 AM on September 12, 2001
(1 comment)
INTERIOR SHOT:
Stratford-upon-Avon; Study; William at desk
William:
To be or not to be...
William:
takes long toke from hash pipe on desk
William:
That is the question...
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 7:01 AM on September 5, 2001
(21 comments)
Mini cars making it big.
As an owner of a vintage scooter, I can appreciate the affection these folks have for their cars.
I also wanted to link this as a nice example of how MSNBC has been using flash presentations in their stories.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 12:55 PM on September 1, 2001
(8 comments)
Sometimes my faith in the world is restored.
Not that a girl playing NCAA Division I football is going to change the world, but at least life's not all bad. Check out her teammates in the photo, they look genuinely psyched.
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 4:19 PM on August 31, 2001
(13 comments)
got repetitive stress disorder?
no you don't.
could the Bush administration piss me off any more? (more inside)
via
Signal vs. Noise
posted to MetaFilter by o2b
at 7:57 AM on August 29, 2001
(31 comments)
