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Butterfly - is just a sweet little Russian cartoon (with subtitles) (and foxes). I seem to get a little speck of something in my eyes when I watch it for some reason.
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at 10:43 AM on July 14, 2008
(30 comments)
Do a curly-haired person's curly hairs all (or nearly all) have the same chirality (i.e., left-handed coils or right-handed coils)? Does it vary from person to person?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog
at 6:32 AM on June 5, 2008
(10 comments)
Darker Projects
has a bunch of original audio dramas in the sci-fi, horror, and suspense vein. Think of it as your local community audio-only theatre, or not-actually-old-timey old-time radio.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 6:27 AM on June 1, 2008
(9 comments)
Gmail Redesigned
is a really slick CSS makeover for - you guessed - Gmail. It uses the
Stylish Firefox add-on. (So yes, this is something you would need a computer, firefox, and gmail to care about.)
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 1:45 PM on May 7, 2008
(64 comments)
The Making of The Pentultimate
- a beautifully obsessive documentation of modeling, casting, and assembling a "deep cut vertex turning icosahedron", or put another way, the path from 820 fiddly little bits to an elegant 32-piece mechanical puzzle.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 3:18 PM on May 5, 2008
(19 comments)
Cello Hero?
Have a go at bowing Saint-Saëns'
The Swan.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 7:18 AM on April 21, 2008
(20 comments)
Rocks 'n' Diamonds
for some Friday puzzle-game fun. Described as "in the tradition of" Boulderdash and Sokoban, it's actually a superset of both, and you can waste tons of time playing all the old familiar levels or
tons of others. (It's a quick download, for linux/os x/the other thing.)
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 9:05 AM on March 28, 2008
(12 comments)
Anyone good with GAP? I've defined a largish permutation group and would like to make a tally of elements by cycle type - how many of each cycle type occurs in the group. Possible? Trivial? Use something else instead? Oh, and where's the
right place to ask GAP questions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog
at 9:20 AM on March 9, 2008
(1 comment)
If you could use a great big free handbook of discrete math and algorithms, Jörg Arndt's
fxtbook wants to be your friend. Plain text
table of contents to whet your appetite.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 7:02 AM on March 5, 2008
(11 comments)
Physical Review Letters' 50th anniversary retrospective promises to be an interesting survey of the physics landscape for the past half-century.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 7:28 AM on February 27, 2008
(6 comments)
Another little
bass-and-
vocal 4-track oddity; just a common story that everyone's probably seen unfolding at some point.
posted to MeFi Music by Wolfdog
at 12:31 PM on February 13, 2008
(4 comments)
Loopy, mostly off-the-cuff, more-or-less-zero-production bass-and-vocal thing? Primusoidal TomWaitsishness with the slop cranked way up? Lyrics and vocals courtesy of
this guy over here.
posted to MeFi Music by Wolfdog
at 4:13 AM on February 12, 2008
(2 comments)
Skelewags
- drawings from a delightful Burtonish/Goreyesque world, including some skewed takes on Carroll's
Alice.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 5:48 AM on February 6, 2008
(13 comments)
Art Deliverance
- Alex Klochkov's gallery of abandonment from the Soviet Union. There's next to no explanation of the photos, unfortunately. Indirectly via
Retrospectacle's post about the
brain lab.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 7:08 AM on January 27, 2008
(13 comments)
I have a moderately-sized pile of papers (say, several dozen) in front of me. What's a quick way of getting them thoroughly shuffled by hand? I am familiar with lots of shuffling algorithms, but they don't work well by hand, and techniques like riffle shuffle that work well with small, stiff cards don't work well with standard sheets of paper.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog
at 6:54 AM on January 16, 2008
(12 comments)
FillCell
is a sort of graffiti wall of mini-posters drawn with very simple tools (to impressive effect, in some cases). Flash - drag the background to see more of the wall.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 7:05 AM on January 4, 2008
(1 comment)
Riff-heavy rock/metal, from a long long time ago. Lyrics inside.
posted to MeFi Music by Wolfdog
at 7:53 AM on December 31, 2007
(7 comments)
Lightning calculator and "mathemagician"
Art Benjamin goes through his paces in a 15 minute video.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 7:37 AM on December 19, 2007
(32 comments)
MetaFilter:
A small city in Albania? This is, to be perfectly clear, a link to a site designed primarily with the intent of getting people to link to it.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 7:04 AM on December 17, 2007
(41 comments)
Mostly acoustic strumming. Maybe the simplest song I've ever written - but I like it, for a' that.
posted to MeFi Music by Wolfdog
at 7:57 AM on December 11, 2007
(2 comments)
It think it's been asked before, but I'm asking again: may we please have a mechanism for dropping a thread from our
recent activity page? One comment, and you can be stuck with a thread for-seemingly-ever. And the longest-lived are often the ones you least want hanging around.
posted to MetaTalk by Wolfdog
at 12:46 PM on November 20, 2007
(59 comments)
Virtual hip replacement
and others (flash). Ostensibly aimed at school-agers, but I learned a few things. I also winced once or twice.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 5:08 AM on November 8, 2007
(18 comments)
Perhaps you were looking for some trance-y didjeridoo/jews harp/beatbox music today. If so,
you're in luck.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 12:39 PM on October 18, 2007
(20 comments)
