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An Interactive Space Simulator
"Smash planets together, introduce rogue stars, and build new worlds from spinning discs of debris. Fire a moon into a planet or destroy everything you've created with a super massive black hole. You can simulate and interact with our solar system: the 8 planets,160+ moons, and hundereds of asteroids, the nearest 1000 stars to our Sun, and our local group of galaxies."
[31Mb, Windows only, sorry, but see inside for similar Mac and Linux apps]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 11:44 PM on July 11, 2008
(27 comments)
Viewzi is a kind of metasearch tool
built around 'views'. It's kind of the antiGoogle in that it's not so much for quick answers as for idle looking around, and it's all about the UI, but it's interesting and pretty and kind of fun. Beta, naturally, and fully buzzword compliant.
Flash haters will probably hate it. Usability people may have an aneurism. That's OK. [
via]
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at 1:20 AM on July 2, 2008
(9 comments)
Maximum Fun!
Interviews
with all sorts of interesting people.
John Hodgman and Henry Rollins,
Brendon Small and Peter Molyneux,
Terry Jones,
Jonathan Katz and Jonathan Goldstein,
Patton Oswalt,
Elmore Leonard,
They Might Be Giants,
Ira Glass, and many, many more, from all areas of the arts and sciences and stuff. Something for everyone!
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at 11:57 PM on December 9, 2007
(38 comments)
Trigger Happier
"Trigger Happy is a book about the aesthetics of videogames — what they share with cinema, the history of painting, or literature; and what makes them different, in terms of form, psychology and semiotics. It’s offered under a CC license, for a limited time only. I’m not sure how limited that time will be, so grab it while it’s hot."
[drm-free pdf]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 1:36 AM on November 22, 2007
(14 comments)
The author of this site
takes screen-shots from long-pan scenes of classic animation and puts them together to re-create the original larger background images. Much cooler than it sounds, honest.
[via MeFi's own kokogiak, sort of]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 3:58 AM on August 10, 2007
(47 comments)
Bruce Sterling's
talk at SXSW is described on the landing page as a 'rant'. It isn't. What it
is is a survey from 10,000 feet at what's happening in culture and technology and on the web, and I reckon it's worth spending the hour of your life it'll take to listen to it. I hope you agree.
[mp3, 59 minutes]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 1:06 AM on March 19, 2007
(52 comments)
Got some free time over the New Year's long weekend? Well, here's every episode (or damn near it) of
Aqua Teen Hunger Force,
Boondocks,
Clone High,
Metalocalypse,
Moral Orel,
Robot Chicken,
South Park (
alt),
Venture Brothers,
Futurama. Or over
here, there's
all those and more.
But
wait my friends, there's more, yes,
even more: for the same low price, I'll include the Ultimate Motherlode of Music Video
(11,500 of them, or your money back!), alphabetized for your viewing pleasure. Just free up some bandwidth, and step inside ...
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 3:30 AM on December 29, 2006
(156 comments)
The Peacock
: "We Challenge you to find a more Beautiful, Enlightening, and Inspiring Website on the Internet!! Please CLICK your Mouse HERE!"
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 8:58 PM on November 24, 2006
(58 comments)
Gutenkarte:
"Gutenkarte is a geographic text browser, intended to help readers explore the spatial component of classic works of literature. Gutenkarte downloads public domain texts from
Project Gutenberg, and then feeds them to
MetaCarta's GeoParser API, which extracts and returns all the geographic locations it can find."
[note: works in Firefox but not IE, for me.]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 9:18 PM on June 25, 2006
(16 comments)
Wikinews:
"Wikinews is a proposed project with the goal to collaboratively report and summarize news on all subjects from a neutral point of view." It looks like
MoJo lives, kind of, but we weren't the ones who ended up building it. Bummer.
[via]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 11:47 PM on October 25, 2004
(4 comments)
LastFM
"
is a personalised online radio station that plays the right music to the right people. Songs spread from listener to listener." Using data from the groovy
Audioscrobbler, this is pretty damn cool. But,
like #1 said, it can't possibly be legal...
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 11:03 PM on July 26, 2004
(22 comments)
Giga Society:
the world's most exclusive high IQ society, where an IQ of 196 or higher (one in a billion) is required to join. Not quite as cranially-advantaged? Well, there's always the
Oath society, which'll take you if you're only one in a thousand (a mere 150 IQ or higher). Big brains and design skills (or
language ones, for that matter) don't mix well, though, it would seem.
[more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 7:22 PM on July 24, 2004
(86 comments)
Gift hub - Connecting Funders, Active Citizens, and Advisors.
Phil Cubeta, who is known to many as the weblog world's
Happy Tutor (et al.), wants to stop just
talking about philanthropy and actually do something. Now this a Corporate Guy that I actually respect. He's recently decided to 'go from satire to sermon, from noting problems to working for solutions,' and
brought together some other
smart and influential people to talk about
philanthropy, activism, volunteerism, charity, social movements, civil society, and emerging democracy, and is one of the people organizing an
Open Space for Giving Conference in
Chicago.
Can a webby philanthropic bridge be built between the chaotic, emergent ferment in the wired world and the
world of corporate wealth? I don't know, but I wish him luck.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 11:01 PM on April 13, 2004
(2 comments)
