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Hell Money "the Chinese believed Hell was the English term for the Afterlife. The word was incorporated and printed on the traditional
Chinese Afterlife Monetary Offerings, otherwise known as Hell Bank Notes."
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 2:26 AM on May 5, 2005
(21 comments)
The women's petition against coffee "the Excessive use of that Newfangled, Abominable, Heathenish
Liquor called COFFEE, which Riffling Nature
of her Choicest Treasures, and Drying up the Radical
Moisture, has so Eunucht our Husbands, and Crippled
our more kind Gallants, that they are become as Impotent,
as Age, and as unfruitful as those Desarts whence that
unhappy Berry is said to be brought." (
via)
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 7:23 PM on May 3, 2005
(43 comments)
Capturing the Unicorn : How two mathematicians helped the Met to digitally stitch together the
Unicorn Tapestry. (
via)
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 9:09 PM on April 28, 2005
(22 comments)
Diagram "we're interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labelling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories; in stories that disguise themselves as indices or obituaries." (
via)
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 2:56 AM on April 27, 2005
(5 comments)
The Amber Room : [flash]
Stolen by the Nazis in WWII from the
Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Amber Room remains one of the greatest missing treasures of Europe. The room has now been
reconstructed, and the
search for the original may have come to an
unhappy end.
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 8:26 PM on April 23, 2005
(15 comments)
No time for Idle Hands :25 original paintings and drawings commemorating 19th-Century Women of the Plains & Prairies. (
via)
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 5:11 AM on April 21, 2005
(2 comments)
Intolerable Beauty — Portraits of American Mass Consumption "these images take the viewer on a tour behind the façade of the American Dream into the underbelly of our consumer society, where the vast cumulative effects of our individual consumer choices are more visible."
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 2:54 AM on April 16, 2005
(56 comments)
The return of the Bnei menashe : Israel's Chief Rabbi has decided to recognize the members of India's
Bnei Menashe community as descendants of the
ancient Israelites. Previous
discussion.
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 9:49 PM on April 8, 2005
(5 comments)
The invention of the Hindu : "Hinduism is largely a fiction, formulated in the 18th and 19th centuries out of a multiplicity of sub-continental religions, and enthusiastically endorsed by Indian modernisers."
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 8:52 PM on April 2, 2005
(72 comments)
Hero stones are carved stones (found all over India) erected in the honor of a brave man or woman who perished while defending the interests of the village.
Image search.
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 11:01 PM on March 14, 2005
(6 comments)
Green roofs "are living, vegetative roofing alternatives designed in stark contrast to the many standard non-porous roof choices."
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 6:13 PM on March 12, 2005
(22 comments)
Taxi_onomy – classification and urban mapping from the purview of the taxi.
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 9:51 PM on March 9, 2005
(5 comments)
The Genomic Dub Collective "aim to create a new musical genre, Genomic Dub, that celebrates recent successes in the field of genomics and evolutionary biology."
Samples,
lyrics.
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 1:12 AM on March 3, 2005
(7 comments)
Desperate Houseflies : "In the backdrop of a picture-perfect neighborhood called Diphtheria Lane live six suburban houseflies whose lives are anything but perfect."
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 10:37 PM on February 24, 2005
(9 comments)
Insect sounds : "but have you heard a rice weevil larva eating inside a wheat kernel, a termite cutting a piece of wood, or a grub chewing on a root?"
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 9:39 PM on February 23, 2005
(10 comments)
The map of Madaba: The discovery in a
sixth century church, and the publication of the
mosaic Map of the biblical lands in 1896/7, brought Madaba, at the time a small dusty village in Jordan, to
international fame.
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 8:17 PM on February 20, 2005
(4 comments)
Mathematical Model :
Knot Divided at the Budweiser International Snow Sculpture
Championships 2005. Previous Mefi
discussion.
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 1:47 AM on February 17, 2005
(3 comments)
Snouters were a class of
animals that had evolved to use their noses for virtually every imaginable function.
Gallery. (Japanese geocities page)
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 10:15 PM on February 14, 2005
(10 comments)
The Barcode of life is a short DNA sequence, from a uniform locality on the genome, used for identifying species. This can revolutionize taxonomy, if more people join the
consortium and more species are added to the
database. This
device would be a biologist's Uber-pony. (via
World Changing)
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 8:14 PM on February 12, 2005
(3 comments)
Gliding ants have an uncanny ability to land on the tree's trunk and climb back to the very spot from which they'd fallen.
FAQ,
more videos. (via
boingboing)
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 12:13 AM on February 11, 2005
(14 comments)
Jack Hylton's career spanned the early 1920s and up until his death in 1965, he was a successful bandleader setting trends within
popular music of the time in the U.K. and expanding into the world of entertainment. Real Audio files
here. Earworm
here (ram).
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 11:20 PM on February 8, 2005
(2 comments)
The Future of time "Designers from more than 72 countries explored and visualized personal and portable timekeeping 150 years into the future" (via
Gravity Lens)
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 9:28 PM on January 30, 2005
(19 comments)
Natural phenomena named after Frank Zappa "This series of articles describes a variety of Natural Phenomena - marine, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial - which have been named in honour of
Frank Zappa, the smallest being a gene belonging to a bacterium, the largest being an entire planet."
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 7:48 PM on January 19, 2005
(13 comments)
The Cactus Project is a "transgenic artwork involving the fusion of human genetic material into the cactus genome resulting in the cactus expressing human hair." See also the
Artist links link for more transgenic art.
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 7:59 PM on January 17, 2005
(25 comments)
Theyyam, a corrupt form of daivum (god), is a popular ritual dance of North Kerala, India. As a living cult with centuries old traditions,
ritual and custom, it embraces almost all castes and classes of the Hindu religion in this region. A
performance (mpg) of a particular deity continues for 12 to 24 hours with intervals. The costumes differ based on the
character (mpg) of the theyyam.
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 1:14 AM on December 23, 2004
(13 comments)
Balance (8 min) is an Oscar award winning short animation piece by the
Lauenstein brothers. "Balance turns a black comedy into a meditation on human interdependence" [flash, click on last link at bottom of page]
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 5:14 PM on December 20, 2004
(9 comments)
Elimination Dance A quicktime movie based on Michael
Ondaatje's
poem. "The rules of the dance are simple: if the caller announces a circumstance that has occurred in the lifetime of you or your partner, you must leave the dance floor at once."
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 12:04 AM on December 15, 2004
(29 comments)
One Block Radius is a psychogeographi
c survey of a block in New York using a variety of tools and media. See also
Urban Songlines, and related MeFi
discussion.
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 12:45 AM on December 9, 2004
(6 comments)
