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From Amazing Stories to Weird Tales: Covering Pulp Fiction

The William Benton Museum of Art is displaying pulp illustrations from the collection of Robert Lesser. They have also posted close to 500 pictures to Photobucket. Would that they were larger! Via io9.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 2:13 PM on February 9, 2010 (4 comments)

What's the worst that can happen?

'As part of its budget for the next year [pdf], DARPA is investing $6 million into a project called BioDesign, with the goal of eliminating "the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement."' Via Futurismic
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 2:03 PM on February 8, 2010 (35 comments)

Ballardian/Savoy Microfiction competition

Last November, Ballardian.com [previously] announced a Microfiction Competition in order to promote a series of interviews concerning Savoy Books. They have now announced the winners.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:31 PM on February 3, 2010 (5 comments)

Michael Paul Smith's Model Photography

"What started out as an exercise in model building and photography, ended up as a dream-like reconstruction of the town I grew up in."
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:42 AM on February 2, 2010 (37 comments)

Fetid Fish Revise Understanding of Fossil Formation

"These data revealed a surprisingly consistent pattern of decomposition throughout time. This pattern shows that as these modern fish decayed, their most recently evolved features -- those characters that are most informative because they distinguish closely related animals within the same lineage -- rotted first. The last features to disappear were more ancient; those that are shared by all vertebrates, such the notochord."
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:37 AM on February 1, 2010 (11 comments)

The Apple Core

Artists Johnny Kelly and Jethro Haynes used 3D printing to create this title sequence for the Dutch TV show Het Klokhuis. [via]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 5:38 PM on January 29, 2010 (17 comments)

Confessions of a Book Pirate

Confessions of a Book Pirate
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:44 PM on January 26, 2010 (114 comments)

Pterosaur.net

Conceived at the 2007 Flugsaurier pterosaur research meeting in Munich, pterosaur.net is devoted to the titular prehistoric reptiles.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 7:24 PM on January 10, 2010 (6 comments)

JSBlog

JSblog: on varied topics inspired by working in a secondhand bookshop.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 6:42 PM on December 29, 2009 (9 comments)

Every Day The Same Dream

"Every Day The Same Dream," via the Experimental Gameplay Project
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 7:30 PM on December 21, 2009 (38 comments)

"Do not be alarmed. We are here to protect you."

ATTACKAZOIDS! ATTACKAZOIDS, DEPLOY!!
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 10:06 AM on December 20, 2009 (13 comments)

There is no evidence that Quetzalcoatlus could see dinosaur pee with its ultraviolet vision, or that a herd of hadrosaurs could knock over a predator with their concentrated infrasound blasts.

Paleontologist Matt Wedel was a talking head in the Discovery Channel's Clash of the Dinosaurs, but was not very happy with the final product. The production company, Dangerous, responds. Finally, the Discovery Channel steps up.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 4:45 PM on December 17, 2009 (61 comments)

BoarCroc! DogCroc! DuckCroc! Pancake Croc! RatCroc!

"A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck’s bill, have been discovered in the Sahara."
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:49 PM on December 14, 2009 (53 comments)

Oceansize

Oceansize is a short monster movie created by four animation students. Here's a version with English subtitles (although it's hardly necessary). [via]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 5:42 PM on December 10, 2009 (11 comments)

Famous Monsters of Filmland

Famous Monsters of Filmland, the legendary genre magazine edited by the late Forrest J Ackerman (previously), will be resurrected by comic publisher IDW.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 5:22 PM on December 9, 2009 (19 comments)

The Fortsas Bibliohoax

In 1840, book collectors from around Europe flocked to the Belgian town of Binche hoping to buy at auction the late Jean Nepomucene Auguste Pichauld, Comte de Fortsas's collection of one-of-a-kind books. Unfortunately for them, neither the man nor his collection ever existed. More recently, librarian and bibliophile Jeremy Dibbell posted the contents of the Fortras Catalogue to LibraryThing with English translation as well as an introduction to the collection. Scans of the original catalogue can be found on Google Books.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:04 AM on December 8, 2009 (10 comments)

Effect Games

Effect Games provides free, online tools for building, sharing and playing your own browser based games.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 10:37 AM on December 7, 2009 (7 comments)

"Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright."

In order to promote their upcoming remake of The Wolf Man, Universal has launched Universal Monster Legacy (Flash with auto-playing audio), featuring music, posters, video clips and still galleries from the classic Universal Monster films. (via)
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:48 PM on December 2, 2009 (20 comments)

EyeWriter Initiative

"The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies."
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 2:32 PM on November 13, 2009 (5 comments)

Efficient Mondrian

"Efficient Mondrian is a tongue-in-cheek art installation which generates HTML table compositions in the style of Piet Mondrian's Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red from the text of The Principles of Scientific Management by FW Taylor. It does this every two minutes, posting the results to twitter." [via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:09 PM on November 6, 2009 (18 comments)

Anatomy of Japanese folk monsters

Yōkai Daizukai is an illustrated guide to yōkai authored by manga artist Shigeru Mizuki.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 5:12 PM on October 25, 2009 (15 comments)

Machinarium

Machinarium: a new game from the creators of Samorost 1 & 2.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 4:32 PM on October 17, 2009 (33 comments)

'I ask you to keep the images and albums with the numerous drawings and models that I created for you humans.'

The Leonardo of Wermsdorf: technical illustrations by Karl Hans (Joachim) Janke
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:35 PM on October 11, 2009 (7 comments)

Scientists Catch Giant Squid Off Louisiana Coast

Scientists have captured a 19.5-foot, 103-pound giant squid off the coast of Louisiana, only the second known giant squid caught in the Gulf of Mexico since 1954. Previously & previously.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:34 PM on September 21, 2009 (52 comments)

Darwin's Evolving Thoughts

The Preservation of Favoured Traces: a visualization of Charles Darwin's edits and additions to On the Origin of Species over the course of six editions. (via)
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 10:37 PM on September 5, 2009 (6 comments)

Figure 3. Basic model outbreak scenario. Susceptibles are quickly eradicated and zombies take over, infecting everyone.

When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection [pdf] (via)
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:03 PM on August 13, 2009 (65 comments)

References: Conway, J., 2009. Personal inspection of a real live dead Rhamphorhynchus, really!

"My cat dragged in what appeared to be an odd-looking bird. Imagine my excitement when on closer inspection, it proved to be a real live dead Rhamphorhynchus! I had to dissect it immediately! Unfortunately, my camera jammed, so I had to paint the whole process." - John Conway's Paleontography
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 10:36 AM on March 28, 2009 (22 comments)

This post is a series of tubes

This site is about capsule pipelines.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 6:04 PM on November 20, 2008 (36 comments)

From beautiful downtown Gondwanaland!

Gary Owens (previously) and Eric Boardman on dinosaurs: "More Dinosaurs," 1, 2, 3. "Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs," 1, 2, 3. "Son of Dinosaurs," (featuring Jimmy Stewart) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Not dinosaurs, but still cool: "Prehistoric World," 1, 2, 3.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 6:57 PM on September 13, 2008 (5 comments)

screamyGuy

screamyGuy: Random Acts of Programming [created using Processing]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 4:39 PM on June 22, 2008 (8 comments)

The Graveyard

The Graveyard: Walk through the graveyard. Sit for a spell. Walk back out again. [via Jay Is Games]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 6:06 PM on March 22, 2008 (15 comments)

Pixar's papers on computer graphics

1982-2007 Pixar's papers on computer graphics
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 9:39 PM on January 25, 2008 (21 comments)

Moon Shot (on HD)

HD video of the moon (from relatively close!) [via]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 5:58 PM on November 8, 2007 (18 comments)

You can’t trade with balls of frozen methane.

Geoff Ryman on mundane science fiction. [previously, via]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:01 PM on September 22, 2007 (82 comments)

We live in a wonderfully insane universe.

NASA Astronomers Find Bizarre Planet-Mass Object Orbiting Neutron Star [via]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:18 AM on September 13, 2007 (45 comments)

"I will rip the living flesh off your bones!"

"A group of teenagers, en route to attend a rock concert, lose their way when their car runs out of fuel in the dead of night. They find themselves in an unfamiliar rural backwater where they are confronted by flesh-eating zombies and a psychotic cannibalistic killer dressed in a sheet. It could be the plot to a thousand Hollywood horror films but while these teenagers may dress, talk and smoke dope like young Americans they are in fact young Pakistanis, and the film - Zibahkhana or Hell's Ground - is the first modern horror film to be filmed in Pakistan."
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:51 PM on August 15, 2007 (12 comments)

Did somebody say "lox?"

Night of the Living Jews: Exactly what it sounds like. The trailer is NSFW.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:25 AM on August 4, 2007 (22 comments)

PepsiBoo!

Buuuuuy snaaaack fooooood...! Ooooooooooooooooooooo! *rattles chains* [via]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 3:20 PM on June 20, 2007 (16 comments)

"If nobody shoots me, I'll be pretty upset."

The Totally Awesome, Highly Ridiculous World of Scenario Paintball. [previously]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 9:31 AM on May 23, 2007 (46 comments)

Script Frenzy

You may know that November is NaNoWriMo, but did you know that this June is the first annual Script Frenzy?
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 8:51 AM on May 15, 2007 (20 comments)

No, not hand protection for Objectivists.

Atlas Gloves: A DIY hand gesture interface for Google Earth.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 2:04 PM on April 21, 2007 (18 comments)

Grow a world from network traffic

Packet Garden observes how you use the internet, then takes that info and generates a 3d world based on it. [via]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:41 PM on February 26, 2007 (13 comments)

"It's like Mother Nature: It's going to find a way to express itself."

Philip Martin Chavez is paralyzed, so he creates art using DragonDictate and Paint.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:36 PM on February 15, 2007 (16 comments)

"Mere production of these videos or pictures may also result in psychological trauma to the teenagers involved."


Woo hoo!

Tim Fort's Kinetic Art
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 6:52 PM on February 2, 2007 (11 comments)

Where do I sign up?

Stacey Finley convinced 22 friends, neighbors and relatives that she could have satellites scan their bodies for disease, then have CIA agents administer secret medicines to them while they slept. [via]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:30 PM on January 24, 2007 (22 comments)

ho ho ho beard

Santa'd: Flickr's new holiday Easter egg.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 6:32 PM on December 13, 2006 (36 comments)

breveCreatures

breveCreatures is a screensaver (created using the open source simulation environment breve) that simulates the evolution of locomotion.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 9:19 PM on December 11, 2006 (27 comments)

The Library of Oz

The Oz Library: a (almost) complete readable online library of OZ magazines [previously]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:27 PM on September 18, 2006 (8 comments)

Ah! But it has intrinsic worth!

Multi-link YouTube Post: Communist China vs. Nationalist China, Satan is Real, Recycling 2 (actually submitted as a school project about recycling), Absurdlutely [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 3:36 PM on September 8, 2006 (18 comments)

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