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Marathon a day for 100 days

Running a marathon a day for the next 100 days, across Africa.
posted to MetaFilter by joelf at 11:47 AM on April 14, 2008 (22 comments)

missing: 3 right feet

Last summer two right feet washed up on shore within a week of each other on two separate tiny islands in British Columbia. Today a third right foot has just washed up.
posted to MetaFilter by joelf at 7:47 AM on February 15, 2008 (93 comments)

Squirrel song

There's the white squirrels of Exeter, and the black squirrels of London. Apparently they're both awesome if you like squirrels, or craft songs about them.
posted to MetaFilter by joelf at 1:22 PM on January 21, 2008 (31 comments)

Ken Steacy

Ken Steacy runs a print on demand publishing company, (he recently brought the book "As I See" back in print) and is a fantastic comic book illustrator. Last week he put 600 of his best drawings on flickr. (as seen on drawn.ca)
posted to MetaFilter by joelf at 12:28 AM on March 8, 2007 (7 comments)

It's Carving Day!

Please enjoy chainsaw carving, pencil carving, bone carving, turkey carving, ice carving, rice caving, rock carving, metal carving, ancient carving, airplane carving, tooth carving, microscopic carving horray!
posted to MetaFilter by joelf at 4:19 PM on January 8, 2007 (11 comments)

Smokin!

According to this site
  • More than 700 Trillion BEEDIES or BIRI are smoked annually
  • Indians smoke more than one trillion bidis every year.
  • An experienced worker can roll 2,000 a day.
Step inside and learn more about these unrealistic stats!
posted to MetaFilter by joelf at 9:20 PM on November 24, 2006 (63 comments)

Grand-Guignol

The Theatre du Grand-Guignol was a French theatre that was famous for one thing: bloody awful plays. The theatre produced gory plays that gauged its success by the amount of people that fainted in the audience. unfortunately due to the excessive amount of violence in their plays, they became a parody of themselves. People lost interest and the form of gore theatre was lost. until fairly recently.
posted to MetaFilter by joelf at 5:14 AM on December 15, 2004 (12 comments)

Name that song

Name that song! Plug in any composer, band, album genre, year or style into the address bar and get a little personalized quiz.
posted to MetaFilter by joelf at 11:25 PM on December 10, 2004 (10 comments)

The G-Cans Project

The G-Cans Project is a massive project, begun 12 years ago, to build infrastructure for preventing overflow of the major rivers and waterways spidering the city (A serious problem for Tokyo during rainy-season and typhoon season). The underground waterway is the largest in the world and sports five 32m diameter, 65m deep concrete containment silos which are connected by 64 kilometers of tunnel sitting 50 meters beneath the surface. The whole system is powered by 14000 horsepower turbines which can pump 200 tons of water a second into the large outlying edogawa river.
posted to MetaFilter by joelf at 12:48 AM on December 4, 2004 (24 comments)

EATSUSHI.COM

Learn to make sushi with online videos. Chef Hyday, professional sushi chef, & amateur tv personality will guide you through step by step. You will learn everything from how to prepare the raw fish, proper manners, different types of sushi, (win media links) and of course how to make rolled sushi. He covers it all, from the California roll to the complicated rainbow roll, he'll guide you through every step. I almost feel guilty watching it, it’s almost like revealing the secrets to a magic trick. An invaluable resource for anyone who might be interested in learning to roll their own sushi at home.
posted to MetaFilter by joelf at 11:31 PM on November 25, 2004 (13 comments)