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mefi
Slovenian compositions,
mainly performed by solo singers (with piano or orchestra accompaniment) and by different orchestras and smaller vocal groups. The tracks are listed
here. Might I suggest you start with
Vinko Vodopivec and see if this the sort of thing you like?
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at 12:34 AM on July 11, 2008
(6 comments)
Here
for your delectation are the Web Flash Festival 2008
finalists and winners. I know we are supposed to post the best of the web. I know we are not supposed to editorialise. But… but… CRIKEY! Even the best is execrable. What's going on in the Flash world?
[requires flash]
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 7:44 AM on June 24, 2008
(22 comments)
Subivor -
People should have more protection than a necktie, their shirt or paper towel to cover their mouth, nose and eyes. They need Moist Towelettes too.
[via]
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 11:05 PM on June 9, 2008
(41 comments)
Masseiana
- Containing the three major works of
Gerald Massey and his minor work commonly titled:
The Lectures. Published here in their entirety, fully revised and amended, with additional material by the editor.
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 6:52 PM on May 13, 2008
(3 comments)
Viktor Schreckengost
who died last year at the grand age of 101, was regarded by some as the father of industrial design. Every adult in America has ridden in, ridden on, drunk out of, stored their things in, eaten off of, been costumed in, etc… and there is no going past his gorgeous
pedal cars. Some of his work can also be seen online at
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 5:02 PM on April 28, 2008
(9 comments)
Iwase Yoshiyuki
"In the late 1920s, young Yoshiyuki received an early Kodak camera as a gift. Since the main livelihood of the town came from the sea, he gravitated there, and soon found a passion for "the simple, even primitive beauty" of
ama – girls and women who harvested seaweed, turban shells and abalone from beneath the coastal waters." "By the late 1960s, they had disappeared. This body of work stands as the final, most comprehensive visual document of the life and work of these divers."
[NSFW]
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 10:45 PM on March 27, 2008
(48 comments)
Corsets
- a
very comprehensive collection of information about foundation garments. The site is generously illustrated, so it may be NSFW.
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at 8:17 PM on March 10, 2008
(16 comments)
Master of the 'didge'
- after veins burst in his throat some years ago while he was playing the didgeridoo, doctors warned that continued playing would threaten his life. Admitted to hospital last week with bleeding on the brain, he died on Sunday from a brain haemorrhage. He was 40.
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 7:42 AM on February 28, 2008
(21 comments)
Canal Zone Images
is a collection of stories and images about the Panama Canal Zone. Did you know that the construction workers were paid in
gold and silver ('spiggoty' dollars)?
"Paper money was not used on the pay car at all. In the first place, there was always a danger of its blowing away, and in the second place paper money in the hands of negro workmen soon assumed a most unsanitary condition."
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at 7:02 PM on February 25, 2008
(12 comments)
Kiuchi Nobuo
- a Japanese airman in World War II, was captured and sent to a prison camp in the Ukraine. He tells his story with drawings.
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 7:54 PM on February 5, 2008
(23 comments)
Where's my Gphone?
"Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we're not announcing a Gphone. However…"
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 10:04 PM on November 5, 2007
(48 comments)
Thanatorama
[flash] You died this morning. Are you interested in what comes next? Webdocumentaire.
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 7:33 PM on November 1, 2007
(25 comments)
In October 1947, the directors of
J. Lyons & Co (think - teashops, nippies, bakeries, ice-creams, steakhouses, hotels, Wimpy Bars and Dunkin' Donuts), decided to take an active role in promoting the commercial development of computers.
In 1951 the
LEO I computer was operational and ran the world's first regular routine office computer job.
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 8:53 PM on October 1, 2007
(13 comments)
Brad Laidman
critiques the findings from the Centre For Public Health at Liverpool John Moore University
report [pdf] 'Elvis to Eminem: quantifying the price of fame through early mortality of European and North American rock and pop stars.'
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 8:32 AM on September 14, 2007
(25 comments)
meta-markets
Online stock market for trading socially networked creative products.
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 12:19 AM on September 3, 2007
(20 comments)
This map
displays county-to-county migration data for 2000-2005 from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. In, out, staying put, median household income.
[via]
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at 10:58 PM on August 16, 2007
(19 comments)
Thomas Graz
has a collection of glasses with pictures on them. Mainly from the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the German Empire, but including some other countries too. A novel way to navigate history, architecture, people and landscape. Oh! and he
needs help with some of them too.
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 8:06 PM on August 5, 2007
(6 comments)
21-87
is a short film from Arthur Lipsett that has been discussed
before.
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at 11:41 PM on August 2, 2007
(12 comments)
australianscreen
launched today. You can view clips from Australian feature films, documentaries, TV programs, shorts, home movies, newsreels, advertisements, other historical footage, and sponsored films produced over the last 100 years, with curators’ notes and other information about each title.
[via Margaret and David]
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 8:17 AM on July 18, 2007
(8 comments)
Toto
are marketing the
Washlet in America. A nicely designed site without any scatological references. Possibly NSFW intro.
[flash]
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 5:39 PM on July 12, 2007
(50 comments)
This fellow
reads up on electricity generating machines in old books and then
builds them.
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 6:31 PM on June 25, 2007
(14 comments)
Australia is home to the biggest worm in the world, the Giant Gippsland Earthworm -
Megascolides australis. The next biggest is the Giant Palouse Earthworm -
Driloleirus americanus from Oregon.
Both
[Gippsland, Palouse] are only classed as vulnerable in the threatened category of the
IUCN Red List, simply because they are hard to count. This is despite the extreme measures taken to
save some and to try and just
find a
live specimen of others.
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at 6:57 PM on June 13, 2007
(25 comments)
Binlang Xi Shi
have become a part of Taiwan culture. From roadside booths they sell betelnut, cigarettes, and drinks to passing drivers. Competition between the booths drove the girls to wear skimpier outfits to attract more customers. A crackdown saw the introduction of a 3B's policy: no buttocks, no breasts and no belly-buttons.
[the 'Binlang Box' page is NSFW] [more inside]
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at 8:33 PM on June 4, 2007
(25 comments)
The Global Terrorism Database
is now available online. It includes information on more than 27,000 bombings, 13,000 assassinations, and 2,800 kidnappings. With 2D and 3D georeferences for some incidents. The interactive map isn't working for me though.
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at 6:29 PM on May 24, 2007
(18 comments)
Have you ever come across a plaque commemorating an historical event that seemed well… just a little strange? Maybe it was the
Krblin Jihn Kabin (KHS #1) in pCalifornia, Notgeon. Maybe it was the
Noizomi in nMichigan, Raalberdus? Welcome to
Kymaerica.
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at 8:11 PM on May 9, 2007
(26 comments)
Being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer
- An utterly charming picture of life in
Scotland's Outer Hebrides in 1896.
St Kilda - "Many theories have been advanced as to the origin of the inhabitants of this lonely rock, and a curious tradition exists as to its acquisition by members of the outside world. The inhabitants of Harris and Uist agreed to make it the prize for a boat race, and accordingly set out to row across the intervening waste of waters. So equally matched were the crews in regard to pluck and endurance that they arrived at St Kilda almost at the same moment. The Uist men, however, led by a few strokes, and hopes of winning ran high amongst them when Colla MacLeod, the chief of the Harris gang, chopped his left hand off and flung it ashore over the heads of his competitors, and secured St Kilda and its satellites to himself and his descendants for all time."
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at 11:02 PM on April 29, 2007
(7 comments)
Do you want to look hard but can't stand the needle?
Detachable Tattoo Sleeves are the answer. Unfortunately, small is out of stock at the moment.
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 6:34 AM on April 18, 2007
(50 comments)
Dutch Submarines
has mystery pictures of submarines and/or their doings with some great answers. For example, there is the story of the use of submarines as
seaplane carriers yes, really.
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 7:16 PM on April 15, 2007
(27 comments)
