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Semi-moving images

Reaching: Joshua Heineman animates old photos from the NY Public Library collections.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 9:30 AM on July 22, 2008 (35 comments)

Mouton Rothschild artist labels

Since 1945, one of the great wineries of the world, Château Mouton Rothschild, has commissioned great painters, sculptors, and artists to illustrate their wine labels.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 11:04 AM on June 27, 2008 (13 comments)

Greening the DNC

This summer in Denver, at the 2008 Democratic National Convention fried foods will be forbidden at the committee's 22 or so events, as is liquid served in individual plastic containers. Plates must be reusable, like china, recyclable or compostable. The food should be local, organic or both. It's all part of Greening 2008 Convention.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 9:01 AM on May 19, 2008 (73 comments)

Users of Covers and Cozies, Ready-Made Souls in Platic Bags, Negligible Generalities

Vladimir Nabokov discusses Lolita with Lionel Trilling.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 10:03 AM on April 3, 2008 (23 comments)

The new It-boy?

Who's the new darling of the literary world? Charles Bock. Although, some are asking, how the hell did a guy like him get all this high-profile coverage? [Bock previously on MeFi]
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 8:13 AM on February 5, 2008 (81 comments)

Pasta Printer

The Fabaroni is a 3D printing machine that constructs 3D models with pasta dough. You've also got the 3D chocolate printer made out of lego. And Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 2:04 PM on January 15, 2008 (11 comments)

Academic "Job Talk" advice

Advice on Academic Job Talk Visits by Siva Vaidhyanathan.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 2:31 PM on January 10, 2008 (33 comments)

Tax in the Age of Amazon

New York State goes after Amazon "affiliates." So if you, as a New Yorker, link to your book on Amazon, you are now an independent contractor and shall be taxed accordingly (PDF).
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 9:28 AM on November 13, 2007 (32 comments)

You deserve a break today

It's Wednesday--take a chill pill.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 8:19 AM on July 25, 2007 (26 comments)

Malaria: The Buzz of Death

This year, 500 million people will get malaria and about a million of them will die from it. Some scientists believe that one out of every two people who have ever lived have died of malaria. Here are some reports from Sierra Leone on efforts to control this deadly disease.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 12:58 PM on July 18, 2007 (43 comments)

Interviews with the Writer

Writers on Writing: Interviews with Paul Bowles, David Markson, and Harry Mathews.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 11:56 AM on July 2, 2007 (11 comments)

Writers in Italy: Le Conversazioni

Le Conversazioni: Last summer a group of writers including David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen, and Jeffrey Eugenides gathered on the Isle of Capri to discuss language and identity. This year's lineup includes Ethan Coen, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Claire Messud, and Chuck Palahniuk.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 7:53 AM on May 31, 2007 (8 comments)

Browser Art

Art for your browser. (previously)
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 12:58 PM on May 18, 2007 (6 comments)

Napsterizing the Baggy Old Book Business

The Caravan Project: "Imagine you're a customer looking for a book you don't find on the shelf. As you would now, you'll likely ask a bookseller to check the store computer for it. As is not yet possible, the bookseller will say: "We can order you a print copy or we can sell it to you in other formats, some of which could be ready for downloading by the time you get home. How would you like it?"
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 9:30 AM on March 19, 2007 (60 comments)

Monologues galore

Monologues: tons of great monolgoues here including Coffee's for Closers, How To Fake Like You are Nice and Caring, a 12 inch proboscis, Winocki kept his word, and many others.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 10:08 AM on March 5, 2007 (12 comments)

June Porter Speaks

Interview with Lee Harvey Oswald's daughter, June. (not recent, but fascinating)
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 12:02 PM on February 6, 2007 (11 comments)

Have you seen the staff photos??

Remember Ted Haggard? In addition to a Denver pastor recently stepping down amid gay sex allegations, now a colleague of Haggard's at New Life Church has been dismissed for "one instance of consensual sexual contact with another unmarried adult several years ago." Whatever that means.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 7:55 AM on December 19, 2006 (316 comments)

Radioactive Isotopes for sale

"If you really wanted to poison someone, you would of course have to come up with a way to remove the invisible amount of material from the exempt sources - which is just about physically impossible and combine them together. Of course you would also need that 15,000 exempt sources." You can buy the radioactive material, Polonium-210, that killed a former Russian spy for only $69--but you'd need a lot of it to take down an enemy or two.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 10:38 AM on November 30, 2006 (28 comments)

Robert Altman Dies

Robert Altman, RIP. The Director of Nashville, Mash, and A Prarie Home Companion has passed on.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 9:00 AM on November 21, 2006 (130 comments)

Berkeley Videos

Courses from UC Berkeley on Google Video - including a guest lecture by Sergey Brin and poems by Mary Karr. Perhaps they are now moving towards competing with YouTube's College section.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 8:37 AM on September 29, 2006 (4 comments)

A mixed bag

Nurse Fiction and Pineapples.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 11:55 AM on September 22, 2006 (15 comments)

Iraq War Deserters

Since 2000, at least 40,000 soldiers have deserted the Army--most of them as a result of the Iraq War. 50,000 deserted during Vietnam. How do we compare their statements of moral outrage with those of Siegfried Sassoon? (related)
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 1:46 PM on September 7, 2006 (73 comments)

LMS patent

Can you patent learning? Blackboard Inc. is granted a wide-ranging patent for its learning management system and immediately sues their rival, Desire2Learn. Opponents and documentarians have taken to creating this Wikipedia entry on the history of virtual learning environments.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 2:00 PM on August 31, 2006 (28 comments)

Dirty Car Art

Dirty Car Art
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 11:57 AM on August 22, 2006 (28 comments)

Military History links

Whether you are looking for Soviet War Photos or some free monographs, this incredible collection of military history links should be your first stop.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 3:32 PM on August 7, 2006 (23 comments)

eBads

Looking for the Loch Ness monster, a new husband, Uranium, or bed sores? eBay can help (or so their adwords think).
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 9:34 AM on August 2, 2006 (14 comments)

Grandmaster Capablanca

The year is 1909, the man is Jose Raul Capablanca of Cuba, and the result is a whitewash: 28 wins in as many games. The exhibition was part of a tour in which Capablanca won 168 games in a row.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 12:46 PM on July 26, 2006 (6 comments)

World eBook Fair

World eBook Fair - Project Gutenberg opens the door to even more books online for free (through Aug 4). Not just public domain stuff, but copyrighted works like Ulysses (PDF), T.S. Eliot (500 pp. PDF), and Neal Stephenson (PDF). Over 300,000 additional works online.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 8:43 AM on July 10, 2006 (51 comments)

Hail Cannons.

Hail Cannons look awesome. They've apparently been around for along time, but they occasionally annoy the neighbors. Can we wipe out hail in our lifetimes?
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 3:56 PM on June 15, 2006 (20 comments)

"It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock"

Othello - shot entirely in World of Warcraft.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 11:17 AM on June 6, 2006 (13 comments)

And the Book says we may be through with the past...

Photos from the production of Paul Thomas Anderson's next film, There Will Be Blood. Based on the Upton Sinclair novel Oil!, Anderson's film is being shot near Marfa, Texas.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 7:27 AM on May 31, 2006 (23 comments)

Sorrentino, adieu

One of our greatest living writers died yesterday, and no one seems to care. I can't find a damn news story about it. A revolutionary teacher, thinker and critic, Sorrentino will be remembered as a "a reckless heir to Borges, Barthelme and Groucho Marx." Never read him? Start here.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 1:52 PM on May 19, 2006 (43 comments)