Does one of these links tell me that Portal is going to be on the Wii? Portal 2?

If no, then a-boo-boo-hoo on making me think it with your wry post.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 6:10 PM on July 16, 2008

damn.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 7:30 PM on June 21, 2008

Anyone know where to find these in Chicago?
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 4:24 PM on May 29, 2008

I don't mean to sound like an anal nerd, but I'm an anal nerd:

This is grand theft auto six in terms of the big, main games for consoles. This is the fourth of the 3D GTAs, and Rockstar just regard GTA3 as the first GTA.

So, IV, VI, it's all fair in my book.

(Or, in other words, I'm just cranky because it won't be out for PC for at least six more months).
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 11:18 AM on May 4, 2008

Visually, here is how the map matches up with locations from The Wire.

(the first link is kind of a self link -- screen capture hosted on my own page...sorry).
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 8:58 PM on February 6, 2008

These are great, many of them remind me of Winogrand's images.

A like so.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 9:59 PM on November 22, 2007

Awesome opossum.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 8:39 AM on November 16, 2007

They lost me at recommending Apocalypto.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 8:39 AM on October 28, 2007

I just want to say that A Day at the Fair is set in my gorgeous, exciting, home town of Indianapolis.

Thank you, ever so much, for this post.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 5:13 PM on October 24, 2007

delmoi, most of the photographers there shot either with digital backs on medium format cameras, or scanned 4x5 negatives. What's so wrong with utilizing every tool you have to make images that wouldn't otherwise be possible?

It is different, I'll agree with bonaldi, but it's not like these guys are using photoshop to skip a few steps or avoid difficult lighting situations, they're taking photography in new directions.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 6:29 PM on August 3, 2007

There's something about The Thin Blue Line not winning an oscar because it couldn't even be considered because it was used in a court case instrumental to freeing an innocent man that's just plain awesome.

Unlike my sentence structure.

The Thin Blue Line is probably one of my favorite documentaries, right up there with Bus 174.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 6:41 AM on July 2, 2007

YTMND is so great at finding the essence of something, the thisness, the haecceity.

Like LazyTown.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 6:42 PM on July 1, 2007

And this seems like a good chance to post this great list compiled by our own yankeefog.

(disclaimer: in response to my own ask question last year)

(can there be intramefi self link violations?)
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 9:35 PM on June 21, 2007

brundlefly, you've seen IMDB's top 100, surely? Their list, since it is based on user votes, is very heavily weight towards the kind of guy (or gal) that likes movies like The Thing. Or anything Tarantino. Or recent.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 10:02 PM on June 21, 2007

Wait, what?
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 9:01 PM on June 14, 2007

What imperium said.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 2:17 AM on May 31, 2007

How is this different than any large corporation blocking social networking sites?
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 2:09 PM on May 14, 2007

Is this on par with Deadwood, then?
(mp3, and oh god NSFW)
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 10:33 AM on May 4, 2007

A youtube search for Dear Sister sorted by date yields tons more.

Just a few:
Seinfeld
Scrubs
President Truman to Japan
Deer Hunter
Grape Stomping
300
House
Pulp... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 12:40 PM on April 28, 2007

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posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 10:41 AM on April 16, 2007

Campus map

It looks like the first building was right in the center of campus and the second was across the large field and in the lower right (ish) corner of this map.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 10:47 AM on April 16, 2007

I remember when I managed to get some kind of horrible pop up virus that made ______finder sites pop up night and day. Man, they have everything. Asian friend finder. Jewish. Christian. Black. Adult.

Everything. There's something wonderfully ironic about the same company pandering to Christians looking to get married as 50 year olds looking to fuck. Although, I guess, those groups aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

Anyway.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 10:02 PM on April 12, 2007

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posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 7:53 PM on April 12, 2007

Damn you mefites, all saying what I want to say better than I can and before I have the free time to do so.

Meaning, of course, the Ebert is awesome and I hope he can start writing soon. How else will I know what to think about the movies?
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 10:37 PM on April 5, 2007

I wish I had seen that write up about Rockstar from Wired, as it would have been a great link to add to the post.

My problem, see, is that I play all these games on the PC. So I'm looking at, what? Maybe 2009 for the game.

But San Andreas at 1600x1200 is dandy, let me tell you. And you can modify the statistics for every vehicle. Want a 10 ton bike that can turn on a dime and go 500 mph? Just modify a file...

I won't... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 5:02 PM on April 1, 2007

notmydesk: It'll eventually come out on PC, but the graphics will still suck compared to whatever is out for PC by then.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 5:21 PM on April 1, 2007

Unintended consequences are exactly what the GTA games are all about for me, as well.

In San Andreas one day I was flying around in the jetpack and noticed that if anyone rear ended a cop car, the cop would get out and shoot the offending driver. So I would fly around in the jetpack, land in front of cop cars. They'd stop, get rear ended, get out, and shoot the driver behind them. Slightly amusing, yes, but one time the pedestrian killed the cop, so the cop's partner... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 1:02 PM on April 2, 2007

"It could make creators of us all"

Isn't that what Spore is going to do?
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 1:04 PM on April 2, 2007

Thanks for the post!
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 1:32 PM on March 22, 2007

More about these images from the photographer himself on Magnum's always interesting blog.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 8:50 AM on March 22, 2007

Metafilter: a handy synecdoche much like Gulag.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 11:45 AM on March 22, 2007

My fiancé, Julie, curates the exhibit for which that map was created. Right now it, along with many other maps, is in the New York Hall of Science.

Lots more at their website.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 11:46 AM on March 20, 2007

My fiancé wrote to me in an e-mail:

oOOo, we're on metafilter.

I work in the department at Indiana University who has worked in collaboration with these scientists and artists to create and display these Maps of Science. I co-curate this exhibit: http://scimaps.org/ which displays earlier versions of the Map of Science both as a wall mounted map and as an Illuminated Diagram display.

Speug had it right-- this... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 3:43 PM on March 20, 2007

Great post.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 10:41 PM on March 12, 2007

This reminds me of krispy kreme wedding cakes, which make me sad.

So sad.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 9:18 PM on March 9, 2007

These are all great, but Fargo is my personal favorite.

Thanks for the post.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 8:30 PM on March 8, 2007

I keeping getting tripped up by random cities in Russia. That, and Africa. There are a shit ton of countries on the western coast.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 12:24 PM on February 28, 2007

I haven't seen any, but judging by a trailer for one of his movies, they're similarly beautiful.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 12:24 PM on February 26, 2007

These are great, thanks for posting the link.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 4:01 PM on February 24, 2007

Wendell?
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 3:39 PM on February 24, 2007

Thanks for sharing this.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 9:46 AM on February 17, 2007

:(
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 1:56 PM on February 11, 2007

couldn't someone have done some photoshopping of the people rather than just superimposing the versions on top of each other?

Shots of lightning (and fireworks, for that matter) are usually 15 to 30 second exposures. While I'm sure that some of the crowd's blurriness is stitching things together, most of it comes from movement over the course of the exposure. Particularly blurry things, like people moving, barely show up and give you the feeling of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 7:39 AM on February 5, 2007

To avoid any pepsiblueness, down in here I'll mention that she wrote a book about her experience.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 5:09 PM on January 28, 2007

Thanks for your personal stories. They're much more amazing than my original post.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 5:29 PM on January 29, 2007

W
T
F
Ferrofluid
?

Seriously, my brain hurts. What would happen if I poked it?
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 10:16 PM on January 3, 2007

The scary thing about dihydrogen monoxide is that we need it, but too much of it can kill you. And, because of technicological "progress" every household in America has easy access to it, in spite of how dangerous it is.

In all seriousness, how do people not immediately die whenever their airbags go off?
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 1:32 AM on December 1, 2006

.

(I'm also coming out in defense of A Prairie Home Companion, but I'm from the midwest so it's my kind of humor to begin with).
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 10:00 AM on November 21, 2006

Saved me so much time on a paper due today that I made this post instead. Or, at least, that's how I'm rationalizing this as not being procrastination.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 4:20 AM on November 21, 2006

It was cloudy for me, so I didn't see jack squat.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis at 8:17 AM on November 19, 2006