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Drunk Ron Swanson That is all.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 1:14 AM on January 20, 2012
(79 comments)
gif.tv is just what you might expect.
It made me giggle a bit.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 4:23 AM on August 29, 2011
(41 comments)
Why I Quit My Job Kai Nagata on why he just quit his job as CTV's Quebec City bureau chief at age 24: a critique of Canadian government and media.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 8:05 PM on July 8, 2011
(68 comments)
Having trouble explaining to non-technical folks why net neutrality is important, or wondering about it yourself?
This simple and appealing single serving site is a 2-minute primer on the idea, and should help!
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 3:59 PM on December 23, 2010
(29 comments)
Go Superego is pretty funny. [Warning: bad words and adult concepts. Warning: no guarantee is made that you will personally find this funny. Warning: it's a podcast.]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 5:42 PM on February 4, 2010
(19 comments)
Paprika Mars and other Strange Worlds by Matthew Albanese.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 5:33 AM on January 9, 2010
(18 comments)
Three frames. And then three frames again.
And repeat.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 4:57 AM on June 14, 2009
(39 comments)
It's that meta-time again:
Metafilter's own rex's still-growing Fimoculous
List of Lists for 2008.
Previously on Metafilter: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 11:54 PM on December 14, 2008
(24 comments)
New York Magazine? Popular Science?
The Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists?
Ebony? Every issue, every page, back into the mists of history.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 9:15 PM on December 9, 2008
(46 comments)
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]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 1:20 AM on July 2, 2008
(9 comments)
You Look Nice Today | A Journal of Emotional Hygiene is one of those podcasts all the kids are talking about these days. It's just a few guys, you know, talking, but it's newish, amusing, and one of the guys is Metafilter's Very Own™
MerlinMann.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 1:58 AM on May 29, 2008
(41 comments)
Tag Galaxy is pretty cool. [Flickr, tags, photos, fun for all]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 6:26 AM on May 22, 2008
(13 comments)
The Next Bubble: Priming the markets for tomorrow's big crash. A layman's primer on the genesis and future of today's economic troubles, at Harper's Magazine.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 8:28 PM on March 13, 2008
(79 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!
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
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)
Lost Places in Japan
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 5:31 AM on November 12, 2007
(27 comments)
Lastgraph takes your username at
Last.fm and generates a beautiful chart of your musical listening habits. [
via]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 2:18 AM on September 20, 2007
(27 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)
Nanoreisen. "A virtual discovery journey into the worlds of micro- and nano-cosmos."
[flash] A kind of thematic
followup to this.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 11:43 PM on July 30, 2007
(6 comments)
Universe is the newest project from
Jonathan Harris, who was also behind the
amazing WeFeelFine, and the
Yahoo Time Capsule.
Here's a talk he gave about his projects at
TED 2007.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 2:23 AM on July 25, 2007
(20 comments)
LP Cover Lover The world's greatest LP album covers. Groovy, man.
[some nudity, some total insanity]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 5:35 AM on July 18, 2007
(29 comments)
Endless Zombie Rampage [flash] [coda]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 9:20 AM on May 22, 2007
(25 comments)
Six Billion Others. [flash] Everyone has a story.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 8:50 AM on May 19, 2007
(16 comments)
Russia in photos: 1941-1945.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 8:52 PM on May 11, 2007
(32 comments)
The universe [flash]. I know, it's on a corporate site, and you have to sit through some pretentious Japanglish while it loads, but being able to use your mousewheel to scroll from femtometers up to the 100 billion lightyear scale is
dazzling.
I love cosmic zooms. Remember to pray that there's intelligent life in space,
because there's bugger-all down here on Earth, except for folks like Metafilter's own
kokogiak, who shows us everything in the solar system
bigger than 200 miles in diameter.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 5:02 AM on March 30, 2007
(29 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)
Screenvader.
Media and algorithms and home made music.
[flash]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 1:07 AM on March 5, 2007
(9 comments)
Flurb! Issue 2 of the Webzine of Astonishing Tales -- edited by
Rudy Rucker, featuring 'demented and counter-cultural' stories from luminaries of the cyberypunkery like
Charles Stross,
John Shirley,
Mark Laidlaw (who also
wrote the story for Half Life 2),
Richard Kadrey, one of
MeFi's favorite snark-targets,
Cory Doctorow and others besides -- is out.
[found via the RU SIRIUS podcast] [Previously: Issue #1]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 12:18 AM on February 12, 2007
(13 comments)
In Korea, you use Windows and IE, or you're out of luck. MeFi's own
Gen Kanai writes about the
Microsoft lock-in in South Korea. It is also a
monoculture in other ways, of course, but in a country of 48 million where internet usage has risen from 9 million in 1999 to
35 million today, that
leads the world in broadband penetration, some lessons for the rest of the world about the dangers of monopoly might be learned.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 8:06 PM on February 1, 2007
(30 comments)
2007 Independent Games Festival Finalists. Most have downloadable demo and full versions
(on the PC, anyway). Share and enjoy.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 11:40 PM on January 29, 2007
(3 comments)
A Year in Pyongyang.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 11:01 PM on January 20, 2007
(24 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)
We recently saw people playing at being zombies, which is fun and all, but wouldn't you rather
kill zombies than be one? I sure as hell would, so there's [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 6:54 AM on August 24, 2006
(27 comments)
The World:
processed,
metered,
distorted,
littered with icons, or
just floating there in front of you.
[java, flash, all that jazz]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 2:21 AM on July 17, 2006
(16 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)
A talk given by Matt Webb on fictional futures, and a whole lot besides. Just some text and some pictures, but he takes you on a most excellent brain adventure, from
Italo Calvino to
a map of all the biochemical reactions on Earth to
Vannevar Bush’s machine, the Memex with dozens of stops in between. One of my favorite parts -- and the coolest use of RSS I've ever seen -- is a tool to subscribe to your
personal lightcone. [
via]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 11:37 PM on May 7, 2006
(18 comments)
Watch news events happen in realtime as they get pumped into RSS-space™. In the grand if not lengthy tradition of
newsquakes,
vanishing point, and
newsmap. Plugins and stuff required.
[Visualize the hell out of the news, come here, post it, then get hauled into Metatalk for your trouble!]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 8:25 PM on February 13, 2006
(26 comments)
Ning is a very cool thing. '
Sign up. Build new social apps. Use new social apps.'
[via Torrez]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 6:16 AM on October 4, 2005
(25 comments)
Buzztracker : world news, mapped. That's pretty cool.
[via]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 11:13 PM on May 17, 2005
(24 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)
The Quiet American:
one minute vacations.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 3:57 AM on July 31, 2004
(10 comments)
Explorations of
computation: the world is numbers, and the divine
a mathematician. Maybe.
[Flash, Javascript]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 3:06 AM on July 30, 2004
(5 comments)
Math that makes you go wow: A multi-disciplinary exploration of non-orientable surfaces.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 2:36 AM on July 29, 2004
(12 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)
