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In the First Person
"is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records."
(Description from website.) You can also browse by
repository,
collection,
subject and several other ways.
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at 9:01 AM on August 7, 2008
(8 comments)
WFMU's Free Music Archive,
"an online digital library of music that will allow music fans, webcasters and podcasters to listen, download, and stream for free, with no restrictions, registration or fees. And it will all be legal." Still pre-launch, but there's already
quite a bit of music available on the site, including a
sampler CD.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 6:56 AM on July 15, 2008
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"Food Party
is a (would-be) TV cooking show with a spicy saigon kitchen-witch as your hostess, a cast of unruly puppets as culinary advisors, and a cavalcade of hip-hop/sports world celebrities as surprise dinner guests. Shot on location in a technicolor cardboard kitchen, each episode will instruct you on how to prepare wild gourmet multi-course meals with ingredients you probably have on hand in your kitchen already, such as pretzel rods, cheese puffs, eggs, sugar, secret ingredients, and pizza. After all, you never know who might show up for dinner."
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at 6:21 AM on July 1, 2008
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The Mediocre Samaritan
is a bittersweetly funny film fictionalization of an event that took place in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin on February 21, 2007. Produced by J. Elvis Weinstein of MST3K, Stinkburger Inc. and Cinematic Titanic fame.
(Event detailed previously on Metafilter. Also, NSFW for a couple seconds of pasty, naked male butt and tactfully censored footage of Casa de Culo.)
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 9:08 AM on May 7, 2008
(14 comments)
Best Story Ever
is a series of clips featuring various celebrities --
Henry Rollins,
Lewis Black,
Dee Snider,
Chuck D,
Ron Jeremy,
Bret "The Hitman" Hart, and many more -- telling their best stories. Some are lame, some are funny. But hey, what's your best story ever?
(It can't be lamer than Alan Thicke's, can it?)
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at 7:58 AM on March 31, 2008
(64 comments)
Cliffhangers "In Focus"
is an entertaining, well-written overview of the rise and decline of action serial movies of the 1930s and 40s. It also includes rundowns of many major serial films of the time. Several of these serials are now available online. Links to them are inside.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 7:29 PM on March 26, 2008
(4 comments)
Hungry for some retro and slightly offbeat music? Visit
Thrift Store DJ (owned and operated by Metafilter member
Otis) and download or listen to streams of albums from many different genres such as Bossa Nova, Caribbean, Exotica, Flamenco, General Fruitiness, Greek, Hawaiian, Latin, Mambo, and Polka.
Via (in a roundabout way)
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 9:29 AM on February 13, 2008
(14 comments)
Since its inception in 1961, over 190,000 volunteers have served overseas with the
US
Peace Corps. In 2007, the Peace Corps had over 8,000 volunteers serving in 74 countries (
2007
annual report (PDF)). Some volunteers have taken to blogging their activities and experiences.
Peace Corps
Journals maintains a directory of most of them, organized by region and nation. Every nation's page has
Wikipedia,
CIA
Factbook,
PC
proper,
PC staff listings and
PC
Wiki links;
link(s)
to site(s) pertaining to RPCVs that served in that nation (if any); and some even link to the nation's informative Peace Corps-published
Welcome
Book (PDF). Below those elements are the links to the various blogs. While you're perusing the journals, also check out flickr's
Peace Corps photo pool
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 6:22 PM on January 23, 2008
(18 comments)
"In June of 1977, Jim, John, and Gary saw Star Wars at White City Cinema in Worcester, Massachusetts. They were impressed. In the months after seeing the movie, so many costumes and models were made that they decided to
remake a few scenes on super 8 film. The project grew into a fifty minute film."
(Text from the Google Video description of the 15 minute version.) The remake's website includes
stills,
a downloadable "bloopers reel", an extensive
"making of" photoessay and a
brief photoessay on the construction of the R2 unit used in the remake.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 8:43 AM on January 4, 2008
(19 comments)
Freethought Multimedia
contains dozens of interviews, conversations and lectures on a variety of topics with/by several contemporary skeptics and freethinkers, including Michael Shermer, James Randi, Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins.
(There's a great links section at the bottom of the page, as well. Particularly good are the University Lectures section and the Lectures Archive.)
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 10:57 AM on November 16, 2007
(21 comments)
During its run, Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffed on over 50 short films. Almost all of them are now on YouTube or Google Video. See the list (shamelessly cribbed from
here) inside for links.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 12:38 PM on October 24, 2007
(148 comments)
The Library Of Unified Information Sources (LOUIS)
is a beta-release project of the
previously mentioned Sunlight Foundation, the goal of which is "to create a comprehensive, completely indexed and cross-referenced depository of federal documents from the executive and legislative branches of government." LOUIS currently contains searchable full text documents of Congressional Reports, the Congressional Record, Congressional Hearings, Presidential Documents, the Federal Register, GAO Reports and Bills & Resolutions, going back to 2001. Other interesting Sunlight Foundation projects include
Visualizing Earmarks,
3 (non-satirical) Modest Proposals,
The Congressional Family Business Project, and
Congresspedia.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 12:01 PM on June 20, 2007
(2 comments)
Soon you may find yourself in the company of mushrooms.
If you're curious about them,
Mykoweb,
Tom Volk's Fungi (especially his FOTM section),
Fungal Jungal,
David Fischer's American Mushrooms,
MushroomExpert.com,
BCERN's Matchmaker and the
recently mentioned Roger's Mushrooms are remarkably handy, replete with descriptions and keys for reading up and identifying whether something growing in your yard is
heavenly or
hellish. The North American Mycological Association maintains a
list of affiliated clubs, too, if you want to enlist help in identifying something.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 10:55 AM on February 21, 2007
(18 comments)
"The USDA PLANTS database
provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories." Among the highlights are a
list of culturally significant plants and a
searchable image gallery you can submit photos to.
Forestry Images is a similar USDA-supported site dedicated to silviculture.
If that isn't enough for you, click on over to the
Germplasm Resources Information Network. There, you'll find a smorgasbord of information on virtually all the food varieties commercially raised in the US:
where the germplasm is held,
lists of species at each site,
detailed descriptions of individual accessions (e.g., cultivars), even
who owns the Red Silk Radish.
If it grows and you can
eat,
drink,
smoke or
inject it, the USDA probably has it cataloged. And if they don't, search
one of these.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 8:08 PM on December 6, 2006
(7 comments)
Well over 100 universities
around the world have set up searchable digital repositories to make available journal articles, datasets, theses and other academic materials using the DSpace repository system.
DSpace at MIT alone hosts over 11,000 theses. Also, the
software running the sites is freely available and open source.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 9:04 AM on February 22, 2006
(12 comments)
The UCLA Folkmed Database
A searchable database of over 200,000 distinct folk medicine remedies for ailments of all kinds. The entries are pretty barebones, but --
oh,
oh ick.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 11:39 AM on February 14, 2006
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