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The story of a cab ride.

The cab ride I'll never forget.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 4:41 PM on September 28, 2008 (199 comments)

Playing 20 questions with the world.

We ask the world 20 Questions and publish our favorites every weekday.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 7:23 AM on September 19, 2008 (44 comments)

John Travolta's custom built home with runway

"I moved here, primarily, to have the bigger, stronger, runway," Travolta explains, "then built a taxiway to the house that would endure the weight of the 707."
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 10:56 AM on September 11, 2008 (87 comments)

Life as an asexual couple

Despite not being physically attracted to other people, Paul Cox, 24, explains how he and his wife found love and happiness as an asexual couple.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 8:12 AM on September 9, 2008 (191 comments)

Small collection of National Geographic photos

Nothing but a few pretty pictures.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 5:17 PM on August 22, 2008 (29 comments)

Olympic logos from 1896 to present

Olympic logos from 1896 to present. Tons of trivia too.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 4:24 AM on August 21, 2008 (98 comments)

Take a look at the Nigerian film industry

Pieter Hugo photographs the Nigerian film industry, where a digital camera, 2 lights, nine days and $20k translates into a feature film. NSFW.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 10:08 AM on August 12, 2008 (20 comments)

Don't you wish your drugs were hot like Oxytocin?

"Tests have shown that oxytocin reduces anxiety levels in users. It is a hormone that facilitates social contact between people."
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 6:50 AM on June 24, 2008 (56 comments)

Skin raised and red

Ariana Page Russell: My own skin frequently blushes and swells. I have dermatographia, a condition in which one’s immune system exhibits hypersensitivity, via skin, that releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when the skin’s surface is lightly scratched. This allows me to painlessly draw patterns and words on my skin, which I then photograph. Images (click skin one or skin two). Interview.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 4:45 PM on June 10, 2008 (33 comments)

iPhone 2.0

Those new, cheap iPhones? Read the fine print. Those new features? Might be just industry changing.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 2:04 PM on June 9, 2008 (248 comments)

Meet Adam Chodikoff, that guy who makes The Daily Show shine.

Meet Adam Chodikoff. He's the guy that finds those before and after videos, where politicians contradict themselves, for The Daily Show.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 8:54 AM on June 7, 2008 (33 comments)

Being Black in Utah

Being Black in Utah. The Washington Post chronicles some amusing stories (and some not) of racial interactions in the Beehive State. Yet despite their small numbers black people have been in Utah from the beginning.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 3:33 PM on May 31, 2008 (28 comments)

How to land at the Martian north pole.

Seven minutes of terror. A short video on describing how the Phoenix probe will land at the North Pole of Mars on May 25th. Follow updates to the mission via Twitter and the blog. Previously
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 6:22 PM on May 14, 2008 (38 comments)

Animal Kingdom Odd couples

Animal Kingdom Odd couples . Evidently, altruism is everywhere.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 3:33 PM on May 7, 2008 (26 comments)

Smashing Magazine celebrates Pixel Art

Smashing Magazine has gone pixel mad with a celebration of the art form.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 5:28 PM on May 5, 2008 (21 comments)

Living life after death

The Rule of Death. A comic about Pete Colby, a man who decides he doesn't want to be dead. Other episodes in the table of contents.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 8:39 PM on May 3, 2008 (9 comments)

Following Gutenberg and rebuilding his original printing press

The BBC's Stephen Fry follows the trail of Johannes Gutenberg to France and Germany, and attempts to reconstruct a working replica of Gutenburg’s first press. (YouTube version)
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 7:27 AM on April 21, 2008 (27 comments)

Neat flash animation

Nothing but short Flash animations, all with the most awesome or annoying techno/8bit soundtracks ever. Crazy techno monster , fingers from craters , sometimes it doesn't pay to get up , not quite an oomp lompaa , furies need exercise too , happy at my day job, all downhill from here, lunch with my little brother , looking for tps reports , cardboardobots transform!, more fingers in crators , dive into happy hell , mario, wtf?!, hey kitty , dance with me you big bear and finally, something to calm you down Found via this AskMe question.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 6:13 AM on April 8, 2008 (18 comments)

Technology and Education

Three columns on technology and eduction by Robert Cringely: the clash between those who grew up with computers and those who didn't in War of the Worlds, Amish Paradise looks for learning models in unexpected places and Ozzy knows best talks about how important digital games, not video games, could be to education.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 5:53 PM on April 4, 2008 (7 comments)

The Cowboy Junkies revist their most popular album

Back in 1987, the Canadian band Cowboy Junkies recorded The Trinity Session (which featured their one big hit, Sweet Jane), ). To celebrate the album's 20th anniversary they brought a few fellow musicians to the church where the album was originally recorded to see what 20 years experience would do to the same set of songs. Here's a video from the session, with Natalie Merchant on backing vocals.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 9:10 PM on March 14, 2008 (35 comments)

Negotiation stories

Do you have a good negotiating story? Tell us about it. 37signals asks for, and gets, some interesting stories.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 4:30 PM on February 27, 2008 (20 comments)

Paul Graham on trolls

I've thought a lot over the last couple years about the problem of trolls. It's an old one, as old as forums, but we're still just learning what the causes are and how to address them.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 12:21 AM on February 19, 2008 (77 comments)

Video and photos of spacewalks

The environment does terrible things to the human body and it smells. Many people go for that walk anyway.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 10:31 AM on February 10, 2008 (32 comments)

Rhapsody of Steel

Scans from a storybook adaptation of John Sutherland's 1959 animated film Rhapsody of Steel.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 9:09 AM on January 15, 2008 (7 comments)

How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

"(Steve) Jobs, a notorious control freak himself, wasn't about to let a group of suits — whom he would later call "orifices" — tell him how to design his phone."
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 11:00 AM on January 10, 2008 (204 comments)

Seven sex offenders, one house.

There are seven sex offenders living together in this house.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 5:00 AM on January 5, 2008 (141 comments)

Lifelike robot helps train doctors in delivering babies

Noelle can't stop giving birth.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 6:09 PM on January 3, 2008 (34 comments)

Kathe Kollwitz

Kathe Kollwitz, printmaker and sculptor, on The Peasants War (historical background, prints), war and death, mothers and children, herself and the death of her son Peter in WWI.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 9:29 AM on January 2, 2008 (12 comments)

A reading of "A Child's Christmas in Wales" by Dylan Thomas

Audio of Dylan Thomas reading his poem "A Child's Christmas in Wales". (real media and mp3)
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 12:24 AM on December 25, 2007 (7 comments)

Walldogs

"Wall Dogs" were sign painters that crafted ads directly on the walls of buildings (in time becoming Ghost Signs, previously posted on Mefi 1, 2, 3) and their craft is not dead.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 10:50 AM on December 23, 2007 (6 comments)

The experiments of Sergei Bryukhonenko

After inventing the autojector, the worlds first artifical heart-lung machine, Sergei Bryukhonenko began to experiment on keeping severed dog heads alive and bringing dogs back from the dead, as shown in the film Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (some links contain mildly ghoulish stills from film).
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 2:37 AM on December 21, 2007 (43 comments)

Cool art russian artists found on livejournal

The livejournal group ru_graphic has been showcasing great artists for years, such as soamo, desmonych, floksystar, malli-ly, olliwander, omie-yomie, zuza1, ya-ya, varka, solntsev-gleb, adul and names.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 6:07 PM on December 19, 2007 (12 comments)

So what is web design?

Jeffrey Zeldman on what web design is and isn't.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 7:41 AM on November 21, 2007 (40 comments)

Growing up and living with Crohn's disease

Tom Humberstone's 24hour comic about living with Crohn's disease
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 7:45 AM on October 25, 2007 (33 comments)

David Gildersleeve's art

David Gildersleeve is hell of artist, but it's his wordless "boy prints" that really stand out, despite the not so good web interface.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 6:24 PM on October 9, 2007 (12 comments)

Single link to a post a weird insects

A few weird and interesting insects
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 5:54 PM on October 8, 2007 (20 comments)

How to look back

December, 2007 marks the 10-year anniversary of my "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" format. Here's some random notes on the subject, in no particular order. Thoughts on cartooning from How to Be Creative author Hugh Macleod
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 4:49 PM on September 13, 2007 (8 comments)

Look at the Space Shuttle

Space World is a joint project between NASA, Microsoft Live Labs and MSNBC.com. It uses Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth to create 3D tours of the space shuttle Endeavour and NASA's Kennedy Space Center facilities.

(Tech preview, Windows XP SP2 and Vista RC 1, IE 6&7, Firefox 1.5 and 2 only, gotta install Photosynth plugin). Others can see a movie demo.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 10:03 AM on August 6, 2007 (45 comments)

Oooo, pretty

It's Friday, time to relax and look at pretty pictures [maybe nsfw in the banner ads]
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 5:19 AM on July 27, 2007 (20 comments)

Listening to the past

Before the iPhone there were devices known as telephones.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 1:16 PM on June 29, 2007 (60 comments)

Alternative forms of money

"I'm all outta dollars, you got any Berkshares?" Several Great Barrington, Massachusetts businesses have developed a local currency to promote local business.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 10:46 AM on June 21, 2007 (34 comments)

So, you like the brownie edge, eh?

Heck of an edge, brownie! The perfect tool for making sure all your brownies have edges.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 8:48 PM on June 8, 2007 (69 comments)

Staring at the sun

Staring at the sun. YouTube video of solar flares, made from images captured by the SOHO satellite. Yes, there is more.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 5:38 PM on April 16, 2007 (25 comments)

Bless you, Georgia O'Keefe

When you consume coconut meat, coconut milk or popcorn you are eating endosperm. The dark, unsettling world of plant sexuality.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 9:35 AM on April 8, 2007 (36 comments)

Pie chart of who owns the US debt.

Pie chart of who owns the US debt.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 8:51 PM on March 23, 2007 (46 comments)

Yes, Virgina some gay people have money

They Won’t Know What Hit Them. How a network of gay political donors is stealthily fighting sexual discrimination and reshaping American politics.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 3:51 AM on March 9, 2007 (32 comments)

Big Ass Ships for Big Ass Loads

They are capable of loading lifts from approximately 50 to as much as 45,000 tons.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 8:43 PM on February 9, 2007 (64 comments)

Cold Art

Cold art. Photos, sculpture and carvings done in ice and/or snow. Some real, some not.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 6:14 AM on February 1, 2007 (11 comments)

Recording history by whatever is handy

The white man brought disease, war and...accounting ledgers. The Plains Indian warrior switched from previous art materials and used the ledgers to create Ledger Art to record the glory of the hunt and battles between tribes and against whites. But as the Native American life deteriorated, Ledger Art recorded a vanishing way of life and the dramatic change in their culture. Some of that art has been lost or fallen apart, but The Plains Indians Ledger Art Website exists to preserve the images for the future.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 8:24 AM on December 31, 2006 (16 comments)

The Good Earth.

Christmas reading from Apollo 8. This is what they saw.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 6:59 AM on December 25, 2006 (30 comments)

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