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The Mike Wallace Interview(s)

"My name is Mike Wallace. The cigarette is Philip Morris." Before there was 60 Minutes, there was The Mike Wallace Interview. Thirty minutes with Steve Allen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Kirk Douglas, Pearl Buck, and Salvador Dali, to name just a few.
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 1:27 PM on April 4, 2008 (16 comments)

First World War Draft Cards

Famous, infamous, and interesting World War I draft cards, including The Bambino, Groucho, Moe, Satchmo, Scarface, and Sergeant York.
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 6:57 AM on February 12, 2008 (20 comments)

Bourne on the Bayeux.

The Bayeux Tapestry, animated (YouTube). Or, if you prefer, the tapestry served as old school, Web 1.0 embedded images, scene-by-scene with explanatory text (official site), and as a QuickTime VR panorama. (Previously, the Historic Tale Construction Kit.)
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 5:57 PM on April 12, 2007 (12 comments)

Book contest ideas?

What sort of online contest should I hold to give away a book of poetry?
posted to Ask Metafilter by steef at 11:15 AM on February 4, 2007 (9 comments)

We Have a T-Rex!

Behind-the-scenes at the dinosaur factory. Creations for "Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience," saurian puppetry (and animatronics) on a 1:1 scale. Who needs CGI? Check out Torosaur vs. Utahraptor.
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 12:24 PM on January 10, 2007 (16 comments)

BBC Programme Catalogue

The BBC Programme Catalogue: an index of 946,614 radio and television broadcasts, dating back 75 years. (Via BB.)
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 4:20 PM on April 26, 2006 (14 comments)

The Kingdom of Redonda

The Kingdom of Redonda. In 1865, a Caribbean trader laid claim to a small island near Antigua, and declared himself king. His son, M.P. Shiel, was an author of fantasy fiction. When Shiel died in 1947, he left the island to a young poet, John Gawsworth, King Juan I of Redonda.
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 6:18 AM on March 24, 2006 (7 comments)

What's the word for items left in books?

Is there a specific word for the varied detritus people leave between the pages of a book?
posted to Ask Metafilter by steef at 1:50 PM on January 20, 2006 (26 comments)

What's in the trunk?

DriveTime. Live in Boston? Need a ride to (or from) work? You could be a guest on Ravi Jain's weekly video blog/talk show/commute. Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, (QT .mov)
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 10:29 AM on November 20, 2005 (5 comments)

Unburied treasure

Finds. The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a voluntary effort to record archeological objects found by the U.K. public. Searchable database of finds from the Paleolithic, through Roman times, up to the 18th-century. With images, and an accompanying website for kids.
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 10:55 AM on November 18, 2005 (3 comments)

Do not speak of secret matters in a field full of little hills.

"I am still / The black swan of trespass on alien waters." Ernest Lalor Malley (1918-1943). With the posthumous publication of such poems as "Dürer: Innsbruck, 1495" and "Petit Testament" in the journal Angry Penguins, Ern Malley was championed as the new voice of modern Australian poetry. The resulting scandal and obscenity trial would change poetry and literary theory forever. Plus, the ABC's documentary, The Ern Malley Story (listen).
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 1:11 PM on August 1, 2005 (6 comments)

Fore-edge painted books

fore-edge painting. Books that, when fanned, reveal paintings on their edges. Hot, fore-edge action! (QuickTime.)
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 8:13 AM on March 9, 2005 (34 comments)

Stone Age art rocks!

Northumberland Rock Art. An archive of Neolithic and early Bronze Age rock carvings from north east England. I'm browsing by motif, but you can make your own!
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 8:07 AM on January 16, 2005 (4 comments)

Googlespeak

Speegle: search results read aloud. News, too! [Via.]
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 7:38 AM on November 7, 2004 (5 comments)

Hawthorne Interactive

The Spectator, a family newspaper conceived and edited by 16-year-old Nathaniel Hawthorne, is the portal to this Flash exhibit commemorating the bicentennial of the author's birth.
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 7:18 AM on October 22, 2004 (2 comments)

Rockfish: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

A fishing story. (Large QuickTime short from Blur Studio. Slightly smaller.)
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 7:27 AM on May 8, 2004 (10 comments)

Cinema Redux

Cinema Redux creates a single, complete image of a film, second by second, minute for minute, producing a "fingerprint" or a "sort of movie DNA showing the colour hues as well as the rhythm of the editing process."
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 8:12 AM on March 21, 2004 (14 comments)

A pleasant excreting experience

The joys of being free from constipation. Cartoon maggots singing and dancing around yummy piles of human excrement. [In Korean. Flash.]
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 7:24 AM on March 7, 2004 (20 comments)

The art of Ray Troll

Fin art. Weird science. The fishy art of Ray Troll, including his Sharkabet.
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 6:15 AM on March 10, 2003 (4 comments)

margaret muller

Margaret Muller was stabbed to death early last month, while jogging in London's Victoria Park. An American studying at the Slade School of Fine Art, her murder launched the largest crime scene reconstruction in the Metropolitan Police's history.
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 11:04 AM on March 4, 2003 (7 comments)

talking dogs with scottish accents

Giving lip. Put your words in the mouths of talking heads. Or dogs, with Scottish accents. Brought to you by the good folks at Bud. Weis. Er. Excellent pronunciation!
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 5:01 PM on February 20, 2003 (24 comments)

model warship combat

Damn the torpedoes! The Australian Battle Group is a R/C model warship combat club, with emphasis on combat. Great care and devotion is given to design and historical accuracy, and then they shoot holes in each other with working cannon.
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 4:34 PM on February 10, 2003 (13 comments)

Ancient Egyptian Wisdom

Ancient Egyptian Wisdom for the Internet by Anna Mancini.
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 11:43 AM on January 29, 2003 (29 comments)

Out of Africa

The Tsavo lions were made famous by the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness. The stuffed trophies were donated to the Chicago Field Museum, where you can still see them today, in all their maneless glory. Facinated by stranger-than-fiction stories out of Africa, like the lost tusks of Malima Temboz, the Mountain that Walks.
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 6:58 PM on January 16, 2003 (4 comments)