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Different, that's how.

How do things look to colorblind people? Colour Lovers (Prev: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - all more useful to those who aren't colorblind) offers some popular websites and iconic art, As Seen By The Color Blind. Luckily humans are smart and have created technology like the Color Blind Web Page Filter. Prev. Wiki.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 5:11 AM on July 25, 2008 (31 comments)

George, you old dog, you...

Meet Lonesome George. George is the last known remaining Pinta Island Tortoise. That's pretty lonely. He's also, according to some, the most famous reptile in the world. via. But there's good news: George might be a dad!
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 1:50 PM on July 23, 2008 (25 comments)

Yes, I'll take the full insurance coverages please.

Rental Car Rally. (From the guys who brought Street Wars to NYC). That is all.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 6:56 AM on July 8, 2008 (29 comments)

Ted introduces its Top Ten List

Too busy to watch all of the great videos over at Ted (or, for that matter, read all the posts about TED here on the blue?)? Ted has you covered: Ted Top Ten.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 2:42 AM on June 27, 2008 (22 comments)

A people too scared to vote.

Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Withdraws MDC From 'Sham' Poll. Apparently he agrees with Mugabe's claim that only God can remove him from office. Prev Zim.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 2:43 AM on June 23, 2008 (65 comments)

Are your peers making more than you are?

Glassdoor: an inside look at companies from those who know them best.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 1:04 PM on June 16, 2008 (25 comments)

TSA gets Xray goggles. No, seriously.

Scanners that see through clothing installed in US airports. Good news! No more testing. Time to roll these puppies out. It's OK though, seriously guys. See we're gonna blur the faces when we look at their sexual organs, so everything's cool. K? Prev.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 1:27 PM on June 13, 2008 (185 comments)

She's a robo-babe. In Latin she would be called "babia majora".

Philips brings us the future of shaving.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 10:36 AM on June 11, 2008 (113 comments)

How to destroy 4,700 new cars?

Remember the FAIL boat (also prev)? Now Mazda's in the midst of trying to efficiently dispose of approximately $100 million worth of factory-new automobiles.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 9:31 AM on April 29, 2008 (87 comments)

I wish my commute was this fun...

Happy birthday, firehouse pole.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 6:59 AM on April 21, 2008 (24 comments)

BUBBLES

Downtown Miami seems like a lot more fun when its filled with foam. That is all.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 4:12 AM on April 20, 2008 (30 comments)

Gasoline for that fire?

April 18, 1980: Rhodesia is renamed Zimbabwe after it is granted black majority rule.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 5:23 AM on April 18, 2008 (60 comments)

Stop and smell the roses. While you still can.

Flowers are losing their smell. The discovery could be one of several factors in the "colony collapse disorder" that is wiping out honey bees around the world. Even a brief glance at the titles of the news articles on Wiki reads a bit frighteningly, as do the previous mentions here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 1:33 AM on April 17, 2008 (22 comments)

And the wheels start coming off again.

"It's ethnic cleansing happening." Fully ten days after elections that most are speculating were indeed won by the opposition party (Movement for Democratic Change), Robert Mugabe still clings to power in Zimbabwe. The voting results have still not been released, and 5 election officials have been arrested, "accused of tampering with the vote to the detriment of Mugabe's tally." Its been a tense time for Zim, and now the violence and land seizures have started again.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 12:30 AM on April 9, 2008 (68 comments)

Gotta light?

Protestor grabs the Olympic torch in London. (SLYTP)
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 6:08 AM on April 7, 2008 (109 comments)

More help where its most needed.

No-small-news-filter: House Votes to Continue and Expand President's Global Effort Against AIDS.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 10:56 PM on April 2, 2008 (14 comments)

A Video Movie Could Improve Your Life

Who needs a movie? (SLYTP)
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 3:43 AM on March 12, 2008 (83 comments)

Swimming upstream.

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism is a book released last month by Tim Keller. Its faired reasonably well (NYT, login req'd), which is interesting, considering the wide success of books preaching the opposite message, as of late (Dawkins, et. al.).
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 3:47 AM on March 5, 2008 (155 comments)

when they pry it from my cold, dead hands

Net Neutrality Update: Comcast admits to paying people to stack the room in their favor at a public hearing with FCC commissioners in Boston. Via savetheinternet. Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 12:34 AM on February 27, 2008 (20 comments)

Say it with small cheeseburgers.

DOH. Its Valentine's Day and you forgot to make a reservation, and now everyone's all booked up. Except White Castle.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 3:22 AM on February 14, 2008 (60 comments)

Reconciliation of church and state?

I think its time that we joined a serious debate about how to reconcile faith with our modern pluralistic society. Obama on religion and politics. (SLnonYTP)
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 4:42 AM on February 10, 2008 (142 comments)

Yeah...but where are all the chicks?

These webcams were found automatically through a variety of clever search techniques and update several times a day. Their owners may or may not have intended for them to be public, but they obviously are. Via Opentopia.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 9:35 AM on January 16, 2008 (36 comments)

Tis the season for stuff.

...you cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely. The story of stuff.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 2:19 AM on December 5, 2007 (61 comments)

unite against human rights abuse in the war on terror.

unsubscribe-me.org is not what you might first think it is from the name. (SL-non-YTP)
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 5:37 AM on November 23, 2007 (51 comments)

Beats flipping a coin.

Glassbooth connects you to the presidential candidate that represents your beliefs the best. Too busy/lazy/etc. to research the candidates on your own? Let web 2.0 tell you who to vote for.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 1:35 AM on November 2, 2007 (83 comments)

Too much Pirates of the Caribbean?

Is the world flat? The great minds of The View explore the age old question. As we've recently and painfully learned, the children of America need maps.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 12:58 AM on September 19, 2007 (95 comments)

Getting behind the virtual velvet rope.

Invite Share. I've seen some invite sharing on MeTa, but this is another cool way to perhaps bump up your chances of getting an early invite to the latest exclusive, invite-only website a little sooner than later.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 4:35 AM on August 29, 2007 (24 comments)

Rawr.

Tiger Attack. Forget snakes on a plane. Tigers on an elephant is what you need to worry about.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 1:22 AM on August 28, 2007 (45 comments)

Goldmining in the hereafter...

Bill Walsh, 11/30/1931-7/30/2007. Walsh, former coach of the San Francisco 49er's (cool tribute up on their site, currently), lost his fight with Leukemia yesterday. His career included an impressive 6 division titles and 3 super bowl wins, and his inventions included many tactics and devices still being used by many teams today, including the West Coast Offense and those laminated play cards you see many coaches using. He was also the creator of the Minority Coaching Fellowship program, helping minority coaches get a foothold in a previously white-dominated profession. RIP, Bill.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 8:49 AM on July 31, 2007 (19 comments)

There's water in them there tanks...

"The business is definitely an art, the men are craftsmen..."(YT) NYC's rooftop water tanks are a unique and often overlooked part of the city. Watch as one goes up (its worth the 10 minutes for the money shot at the end): "New York, is water tanks, yes."(YT) "New York, which has thousands of cylindrical wooden rooftop water tanks with conical roofs, couldn't exist without them." Its the only city with its own section under Wiki's water tower page.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 9:12 AM on June 22, 2007 (44 comments)

It really is like Minority Report!

Photosynth. Blaise Aguera y Arcas (second one down) does a live demo (with some subtle humor) of the product we've discussed previously. Via the wonderful Ted (mentioned a few times).
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 7:34 PM on June 6, 2007 (24 comments)

Assault on Reason

Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason Time Magazine publishes an excerpt to further whet appetites. Releases on the 22nd.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 8:01 AM on May 18, 2007 (94 comments)

Limited edition coolness

20ltd.com is a new and unique online shop. They have 20 limited edition items for sale at any time, and each item is a limited edition made exclusively for 20ltd.com. And they have a jukebox with some great tunes on to shop by.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 2:50 AM on April 30, 2007 (49 comments)

To Write Love On Her Arms

To Write Love On Her Arms is a story and the response to a story. I first saw the shirt on Switchfoot's Jon Foreman and thought "Hey that's a cool shirt." Months later I saw an ad and went to look them up. That's when I found the story. As their MySpace page points out, they are not a 24-hour helpline, nor are they trained professionals, but they do "hope to serve as a bridge to help." Its a small organization right now, using a unique method of achieving recognition and exposure, but it is an important "movement of love, a commitment to begin answering these needs and offering hope to the many who struggle with depression, addiction, suicide, self injury." (from the FAQ)
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 11:09 AM on March 23, 2007 (14 comments)

"Clean tap water is something you take for granted."

Tap Project. What if every glass of water you drank quenched someone else's thirst? Looks like its only official in NYC restaurants this Thursday, but hopefully it will expand to other cities.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 8:56 AM on March 20, 2007 (20 comments)

Seeing the doctor, old school.

Sickday. (for my NYC mefites) As I sit here in Chicago with a fresh case of bronchitis and unable to leave the office, I'm wishing I was back in NYC. Apparently they have plans to expand soon...
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 6:41 AM on March 5, 2007 (42 comments)

Going green. Somewhat hypocritically.

Awesome: Gore "emphasizing the nonpartisan nature of the climate change threat," and his movie, An Inconvenient Truth netting a Best Documentary Oscar. Not so awesome.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 4:47 PM on February 26, 2007 (154 comments)

Valentines Day is like herpes...

Be my Anti Valentine. A little late in the day, but you can't beat stuff like "One Day in February isn't special...you are. Happy VD everyone!
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 5:51 PM on February 14, 2007 (10 comments)

A storm brewing...

How much is too much? Here in Manhattan I can choose from exactly 197 Starbucks locations. Currently Starbucks continues to open 5 new stores a day. Its nice to have choices, but is anything sacred anymore? Hell, even National Slow Down Week (courtesy of Adbusters.org) has coffee in the picture.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 8:25 AM on January 19, 2007 (163 comments)

wikinifty

Wikiseek. A better way to search Wikipedia.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 12:52 PM on January 16, 2007 (39 comments)

I, for one, welcome our trendy mp3 player overlords

Happy birthday, iPod! Kinda hard to believe that only 5 years ago Mefites were speculating about what Apple's breakthrough device would be. And then we found out. And have been talking about it ever since. Love it or hate it, 5 years later it's "one of the most successful consumer electronics products ever."
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 10:14 AM on October 23, 2006 (64 comments)

If you can read this, you can help.

Tomorrow morning at 7:46am, the US Population Clock will hit 300 million. As the world population continues to grow at a similar rate to ours, perhaps its time to start asking some questions. After all, if you can read this post, chances are you don't live in Africa, where "more than 2,500 children are dying each day," simply for lack of access to fresh drinking water. Its so easy not to worry about when you're not the 1 in 5 who can't get a clean drink. But there's lots of ways you can help.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 9:03 AM on October 16, 2006 (39 comments)

Fun in the city.

Come out and play. Hits NYC this weekend. When its over, see Cityhunt for continued fun. Similar to the previously discussed games in the city. Not to mention the idiotarod(s). Or for that matter any Improv Everywhere event. I love this dirty town.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 8:09 AM on September 21, 2006 (10 comments)

I, for one, welcome our new robot cockroach overlords.

No one believes me when I told them that the swarms of robot cockroaches are out to get me.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 9:53 AM on September 14, 2006 (20 comments)

Who took the Ground Zero flag?

Remember this picture? Arguably the most famous flag raised since this one was, and apparently its now gone missing. And now the three firefighters who didn't know they were being photographed won't talk to the press about a flag appraised to be worth over $500K.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 7:12 AM on August 31, 2006 (49 comments)

Get these mother f&$*in snakes off my movie theater!

This was bound to happen.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 2:28 PM on August 22, 2006 (38 comments)

Best places to get coupled up.

Forbes' Best Cities for Singles 2006. Apparently you have better chances of meeting your mate at Sox game than at a Yankees' game. But as a New Yorker I still find it hard to believe my chances would be better were I a Rockies fan. Although, I might meet a good Christian woman.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 3:40 PM on August 9, 2006 (27 comments)

Snakes on a train. Apparently there is more to say.

Blasphemy on a train. We've talked all about the movie epic of our generation, Snakes on a Plane, before, but now that its within a month of opening, most of us can't even sleep at night. What to do? Placate your anxieties with the direct-to-DVD low budget rip-off from The Asylum. What better testament to capitalism than a company like this succeed riding on the coat-tails of real movies about codes, pirates, and gorillas.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 5:10 AM on July 28, 2006 (24 comments)

Power outlets in airports wiki

AirPower Wiki looks like its just getting off the ground, but if you travel much, you know the hassle of finding a power outlet in an airport. Hopefully it grows fast and furiously.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 12:25 AM on July 26, 2006 (8 comments)

Swarmthe.com

Swarm shows you what websites people are visiting, right now. Although they appear to be migrating servers at the moment. And, in order for it to work as thought out, you do have to share some amount of your browsing activity (anonymously).
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 3:20 PM on May 25, 2006 (16 comments)

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