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Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap: an essay by Paul Graham on wealth, riches, poverty, and why income inequality might not be so bad.
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 4:51 AM on October 11, 2007 (139 comments)

Coping: A Survival Guide for People with Asperger Syndrome

Coping: A Survival Guide for People with Asperger Syndrome. A short, to-the-point guide to the unwritten rules of life.
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 6:27 AM on June 23, 2007 (47 comments)

The Carmageddon Comic

Those who remember the insane driving/smashing/killing game Carmageddon might enjoy the little-known but equally insane Carmageddon Comic. Others, less so.
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 12:46 PM on May 23, 2007 (34 comments)

Logarithmic timeline of the universe

From the Big Bang to Iraq: Jorn Barger's logarithmic timeline of the universe [Previous RobotWisdomFilter: 1, 2, 3, 4].
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 2:43 PM on May 19, 2007 (19 comments)

Working on water

Photorealistic CG water (and a little on how it's done).
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 10:00 AM on May 2, 2007 (41 comments)

Yet more Bullshit

There's been plenty of Bullshit! on MetaFilter before, and now there's more: Boy Scouts [1, 2, 3] ("Duty to God ahead of country, others, and self, is the credo of suicide bombers."); Wal-Mart Hatred ("Wal-Mart is one of the great anti-poverty programmes in the country."); Circumcision ("By the end of this programme, one of these three will drop their pants and show us the restored foreskin on their penis."); and The Best ("Stupid? How many of you are searching for it on the web right now?").
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 3:22 PM on April 27, 2007 (46 comments)

Chinese chemists will eat us all

Win £500 from the Royal Society of Chemistry (or a place on a Chinese science undergraduate course) if your math skills are up to it.
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 4:53 AM on April 25, 2007 (25 comments)

How To Talk To Girls At Parties

How To Talk To Girls At Parties by Neil Gaiman. Full text and reading by the author: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 3:48 AM on April 18, 2007 (39 comments)

Tony Blair can act

Tony Blair did a sketch for Comic Relief on Red Nose Day. (But Ricky Gervais visiting Kenya is better).
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 8:30 AM on March 18, 2007 (55 comments)

Open source classics

You've heard of ScummVM and MAME, but harvest time is approaching in the field of reverse-engineered open source re-implementations of other classic games too:
OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon), LinCity (Sim City), Advanced Strategic Command (Battle Isle), Freeciv (Civilization), Enigma (Oxyd), Widelands (Settlers), OpenArena (Quake 3), Spring (Total Annihilation), JJFFE (Frontier First Encounters), Vega Strike and Oolite (Elite), FreeOrion (Master of Orion), Pingus (Lemmings), Stratagus (Warcraft II et al.), CloneKeen (Commander Keen), Exult (Ultima VII), FreeCNC (Command & Conquer), REminiscence (Flashback), LGeneral (Panzer General), Pioneers (Settlers of Catan), and Freedoom (Doom).
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 3:27 PM on February 1, 2007 (43 comments)

Economics in One Lesson

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt, is available online for all to peruse, and makes sobering reading for anyone who's ever fretted over the United States' $8.7tn national debt. Or if you prefer action to theory, you can always help your fellow citizens out by making a check payable to the Bureau of the Public Debt.
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 3:49 PM on January 25, 2007 (39 comments)

Freedom really is on the march?

Economic Freedom of the World: 2006 Annual Report (Summary [PDF], full table [PDF, p.13]). Winners: Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the USA. Losers: Zimbabwe, Myanmar and the Congos. How free are you? And why does it matter anyway? (PDF, HTML)
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 6:34 AM on September 11, 2006 (18 comments)

Coming at you, under the radar! Jack into the matrix and start a cyberevolution!

A Practical Guide to Defeating The Radical Right, Cyberwar & Netwar, and non-facetious uses of the word matrix, courtesy of the Well's mythical gopherspace. (Firefox users check out what search used to look like; IE users try http).
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 10:04 AM on July 18, 2006 (22 comments)

Boris!

'The crowd was chanting "We want Boris" as he limbered up, waving his arms like a slightly rusty blond helicopter. The cheers grew and the cry of "Boris, Boris" became irresistible.': [text, video]. Boris Johnson, blogger. Boris Johnson, British MP for Henley-on-Thames. Boris Johnson, sozzled buffoon and proud of it. Boris Johnson, the man who made it cool to be Conservative?
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 9:49 AM on May 31, 2006 (26 comments)

Argh! Argh! Urgh! Argh! Argh! Argh! Urgh! Urgh! Argh!

Friday insanity: "We are no longer going to be the band that plays old game tunes. We are going to be the band that plays old game tunes on game controllers!" [23Mb DivX, explanation]. Witness Commodore 64 revival band Press Play On Tape playing Cannon Fodder using a bunch of game console controllers. War has never been so much fun.
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 10:13 AM on May 5, 2006 (9 comments)

NetHack porn

Time stands still while you view NetHack porn... The incubus seems to have enjoyed it more than you. NSFW.
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 2:43 PM on May 2, 2006 (48 comments)

Babies in prison

Babies in prison. "The Prison Service provides special accommodation as the children "are not prisoners and have committed no offence"."
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 7:21 AM on April 5, 2006 (17 comments)

Squirrel Holocaust

British government one step closer to Final Solution. The inferior race has taken over the great majority of our country, forcing out the decent natives, and must be exterminated. The £1 per confirmed kill bounty proved inadequate. Only through a mass poisoning campaign can our local boys gain deserved ascendance over the invaders. The plan has sterling supporters.
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 3:21 PM on March 31, 2006 (40 comments)

What hope hath man / who takes up arms / against h'brother / for space only?

Tabs vs Spaces or Tabs or Spaces? Why, Tabs and Spaces! No, Tabs! No, Spaces! No, no, no - Tabs Tabs Tabs! Nuh-uh, Spaces Spaces Spaces! Spaces, not Tabs. Tabs and Spaces! Tabs! Spaces! Tabs! Spaces! Tabs! Spaces! Tabs! Spaces! Tabs! Tabs! Modelines?
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 2:30 PM on March 18, 2006 (97 comments)

The Immortal Game

The Immortal Game between Anderssen and Kieseritzsky is, by some, "considered to be perhaps the most entertaining game of chess ever played". Now, 155 years later, you can enjoy the interactive version, the many many commentaries , and even buy the movie.
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 5:01 AM on February 21, 2006 (20 comments)

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

2 4 8 16 32 64... Storybytes, an ordered archive of nanofiction. It's been done before, by syllables (17), by the masters (Classic Short Stories), and by comedians (Book-a-Minute). But in a dense natural language, with a high meaning-per-word, perhaps bytes would value infodensity more objectively: 256b, 1k, 4Kb. But then again, isn't a spec as much of a cop out as a rigged dictionary? Perhaps the highest infodensities are achieved by works which will have no human readers.
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 12:35 PM on February 14, 2006 (8 comments)