The Most Wanted Song - Finally, thanks to Ubuweb, Komar & Melamid's Most Wanted and Most Unwanted Songs (recorded in 1997) are now available online! Komar & Melamid have been featured on Metafilter before for The Most and Least Wanted Paintings. Thanks WMFU!
posted to MetaFilter by clockwork at 6:14 PM on December 15, 2007 (54 comments)

Build your own ramjet for under $60.
posted to MetaFilter by clockwork at 5:25 PM on October 1, 2004 (8 comments)

Uber-dictionary! If you're a student and get your access through a university, there's a fairly good chance the university subscribes to the Oxford English Dictionary online. Which means you get the OED too! regardless, it's 100x the dictionary m-w is.
posted to MetaFilter by clockwork at 10:30 PM on October 18, 2001 (23 comments)

Aurora Borealis... in Santa Fe, NM i'm up late writing a paper and chanced to look out the window, only to see red gaseous-looking clouds in the sky... I know it seems absurd to see the northern lights in the southwest, but this map almost makes it appear possible, probably because of the altitude... if i see four horsemen though, i'm running like hell.
posted to MetaFilter by clockwork at 10:59 PM on March 30, 2001 (12 comments)

Senegal's Elections make for an intresting comparison to this one, don't you think?
posted to MetaFilter by clockwork at 12:02 AM on November 9, 2000