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Moving to Hong Kong for two years, and seeking advice on keeping the finances in order.
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at 3:05 AM on May 29, 2008
(4 comments)
"
SurveillanceSaver is an OS X screensaver that shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide." There is also a
Windows version. Or check out the
camera feeds without installing a screensaver (
here are the feeds from Axis network cameras, for example).
[Via.]
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at 9:49 AM on February 23, 2008
(31 comments)
Are you a fan of Channel 4's venerable game show
Countdown, but never had the chance to play? Check out
this well-made Flash version. It's just one of the classic British game shows made interactive at
wedigtv.com, which also features
The Price is Right,
Family Fortunes, and
Blockbusters.
Caution: Heavy Flash video, commercial breaks, and some of the UI takes a bit of practice. Via.
posted to MetaFilter by milquetoast
at 10:44 AM on July 1, 2007
(17 comments)
LDs, stage techs, pro musicians: what has been your experience with Chauvet lighting? Despite the goofy packaging, they have a couple of pretty innovative fixtures that I'm considering for a permanent install.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milquetoast
at 9:52 AM on June 21, 2007
M.U.G.E.N [
wikipedia] is a 2D fighting game engine, originally developed by Elecbyte and released in 1999. The engine is highly customizable;
characters,
backgrounds, and sound files -- whether from existing games or original works -- can be easily integrated. Some examples of the engine in action [youtube]:
Homer Simpson vs. Peter Griffin,
Ryu vs Popeye,
Green Power Ranger vs Osama Bin Laden,
Fat Albert vs Juggernaut,
Marvin the Martian vs. Duck Dodgers. Also, game crossovers:
Homer in NES Land,
Thunder Force III vs. Duck Hunt. [mi]
WARNING: some of the videos are very loud.
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at 11:34 AM on June 17, 2007
(10 comments)
Boisterous, jangly, synthy indie/ post-punk from
The Ghost of Mankind. This is a rehearsal recording with a couple of cringe-inducing moments. This track, along with the previous two (
1,
2), comprise an unreleased three-song EP tentatively titled
Elegiac, almost recorded in summer 2003.
posted to MeFi Music by milquetoast
at 7:48 PM on June 5, 2007
(4 comments)
We need multiple laptops to have identical computing environments, with the ability to have them updated en masse. What is the best way?
posted to Ask Metafilter by milquetoast
at 9:16 AM on November 28, 2006
(5 comments)
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the
1956 Hungarian Revolution. A key documentary artifact of the uprising is
Magyarország lángokban (Hungary in Flames) [embedded .wmv], partly composed of footage shot by two young film school students using whatever equipment they could find. Narrowly avoiding capture by the Communists, the duo smuggled 10,000 feet of film out of the country in spare tires and potato sacks; there's much more to the story, but better to hear Vilmos tell it
in his own words. [.rm] Eventually, they made their way to America, where
László Kovács, ASC (
Five Easy Pieces,
Ghost Busters,
more) and
Vilmos Zsigmund, ASC (
Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
Deliverance,
more) became two of the most prolific cinematographers in Hollywood history. [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by milquetoast
at 6:49 AM on August 8, 2006
(7 comments)
Another jangly new-wavey track from The Ghost of Mankind. Same session as the
last one.
posted to MeFi Music by milquetoast
at 11:45 AM on July 24, 2006
(4 comments)
Jangly post-punk (indie? rock? whatever.) from The Ghost of Mankind. Me on the drums, ridiculously hungover and half a beat behind. From an unreleased EP recorded in a warehouse in Greenpoint in 2003.
posted to MeFi Music by milquetoast
at 3:54 AM on July 7, 2006
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A short, loud, brutish protest song, with a jazzy intro for some reason. Recorded in a basement in Williamsburg sometime last century. Me and the bassist trading yowls. Man alive, that was a fun band.
posted to MeFi Music by milquetoast
at 1:03 PM on July 3, 2006
(1 comment)
Ten contestants. Ten days. They all grew up in shelters -- but one of them will claw his or her way to the top. It's the
Meow Mix House, where
ten cats will vie to become Meow Mix's Feline Vice President of Research and Development. (And, win or lose, they will all be adopted by families.)
The webcams.
[ article || via ]
posted to MetaFilter by milquetoast
at 4:23 PM on June 13, 2006
(28 comments)
Please help me identify a Coca-Cola product's country of origin.
posted to Ask Metafilter by milquetoast
at 9:29 AM on April 10, 2006
(12 comments)
The Border Film Project.
"For three months last summer, three filmmakers with ties to Arizona passed out hundreds of disposable cameras to two groups: [...] undocumented immigrants on the perilous journey to enter the United States and Minuteman volunteers determined to stop them."
[article] [previously]
posted to MetaFilter by milquetoast
at 11:44 AM on March 18, 2006
(20 comments)
Newsfilter: On Wednesday, the
South Dakota state Senate voted, 23 to 12, to
criminalize abortion. The new law makes it a felony for doctors to perform the procedure, except to save the life of a woman.
"'The momentum for a change in the national policy on abortion is going to come in the not-too-distant future,' said Rep. Roger W. Hunt, a Republican who sponsored the bill. To his delight, abortion opponents succeeded in defeating all amendments designed to mitigate the ban, including exceptions in the case of rape or incest or the health of the woman. Hunt said that such "special circumstances" would have diluted the bill and its impact on the national scene."
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at 3:02 AM on February 23, 2006
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"On the day
Memoirs of a Geisha premiers in London, a flashback to January 1974 when
Donald Rumsfeld, then President Gerald Ford's Chief of Staff, entertained a geisha during an official visit to Kyoto." More
candid shots of the occasion courtesy of Pulitzer Prize winning photographer
David Hume Kennerly.
posted to MetaFilter by milquetoast
at 6:35 PM on January 11, 2006
(26 comments)
FebruaryTravelFilter: Costa Blanca or Costa Brava?
posted to Ask Metafilter by milquetoast
at 3:38 AM on January 11, 2006
(5 comments)
[NewsFilter]
Lipstadt: Let Irving Go. Infamous "historian" David Irving was
arrested in mid-November in Austria for Holocaust denial, violating section 3g of the
Verbotsgesetz [in german].
Deborah Lipstadt, whom Irving once
sued for libel, argues,
"I don't find these laws efficacious. I think they turn Holocaust denial into forbidden fruit, and make it more attractive to people who want to toy with the system or challenge the system." Perhaps Irving hasn't had time to update his
dossier on Lipstadt -- who is, in turn, keeping up with events on her
blog.
posted to MetaFilter by milquetoast
at 9:47 AM on January 4, 2006
(74 comments)
Back in April, Carmel Andrews and Charles F. Gray
claimed that Commodore reverse-engineered Atari's 8-bit hardware. Bob Yannes (creator of the
SID chip and co-founder of
Ensoniq)
responds. What results is a brief, informative history on the concept of "sprites" and the idea of reverse-engineering. More drama, reviews, and retro computing at
The Atari Times. (See also
this collection of links at atari.org.
Happy holidays.)
posted to MetaFilter by milquetoast
at 4:55 AM on December 14, 2005
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