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You know
Dasher and
Dancer and
Prancer and
Vixen,
Comet and
Cupid and
Donner and
Blitzen. But do you recall
the most famous animated GIF reindeer of all?
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 3:50 PM on December 18, 2011
(22 comments)
Going to Venice next June. When is the best time to buy plane tickets?
posted to Ask Metafilter by brownpau
at 2:41 PM on September 9, 2011
(6 comments)
My son's pet California King snake is acting very odd. Does anybody have an experience with this behavior in snakes? The snake is about 6-7 years old, bred in captivity. We've had him since he was a little less than a year old. He is 4 feet long and eats 1 adult mouse (frozen) a week at this time of year. Google turns up a handful of snake forum posts describing this same behavior, but no real answers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by brownpau
at 7:00 AM on August 18, 2010
(8 comments)
May I be the first on The Gray to congratulate
Stynxno and
ThePinkSuperhero on their fresh hot marriage? The wedding today was wonderful.
posted to MetaTalk by brownpau
at 9:45 PM on April 10, 2010
(135 comments)
The First Virtual Museum of MetaFilter In-Jokes in Second Life is now back, after a few
false starts and some land-skipping. (Some lengthy, rather SL-wonkish commentary inside.)
posted to MetaTalk by brownpau
at 9:23 PM on April 1, 2010
(66 comments)
I noticed from
Projects that we have at least a few Second Life-savvy MeFites, but no real MetaFilter-focused presence in SL, so I went ahead and made us a
MetaFilter SL group. Come join, message me in-world if you have any questions, and if you're nice I might even give you a teleport to a sneak peek at a little virtual MeFi anniversary surprise I'm working on. (Just search for my handle, same as on here plus an "Oh.") The group's also open to members of other MeFi-related communities, for which I will even make custom group tags on request. (
Monkeys,
Bunnies, and IRC lurkers join in!) If anyone here isn't an SL resident but wants to be, I'm sure the group will be happy to give you a welcoming walkabout. Or at least I will.
posted to MetaTalk by brownpau
at 3:08 PM on June 11, 2009
(32 comments)
posted to MeFi Jobs by brownpau
at 12:21 PM on May 27, 2009
Exploding Blog! Collection of awesome explosion videos from around the internet. Maybe one or two new videos posted per day. That is all.
posted to Projects by brownpau
at 2:13 PM on February 17, 2009
posted to MeFi Jobs by brownpau
at 1:03 PM on December 15, 2008
LHC Webcams. There's been a lot of LHC news lately but a less-publicized series of
Compact Muon Solenoid proton collision tests is scheduled for today, and CERN has been kind enough to set up a
live streaming webcam to watch the CMS in action. (There's also a view of the parking lot but I think that's more so underground-bunkered LHC staff can see the weather.) It's fairly dull viewing but if you're interested in the science of it all, it's great nerdy fun. Maybe you'll even see a black hole or two. ;)
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 11:44 AM on September 11, 2008
(22 comments)
Coal. Cheap, Abundant, Clean.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 3:51 PM on July 25, 2008
(44 comments)
He wanted his espresso iced, but the coffee shop wouldn't let him. "Hey man. What you're about to do … that’s really, really Not Okay."
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 11:47 AM on July 14, 2008
(339 comments)
Giant Twittering Typewriter in Second Life. Type
here (SLURL) and press the carriage return and it posts to
here. Yay.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 9:36 PM on May 1, 2008
(42 comments)
The Daily [
Batman /
Superman /
Wolverine]
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 11:23 AM on April 11, 2008
(34 comments)
Spock (nsfw) -- titled "Planet New Hampshire," part of
Superhero Lonely, a 2005 exhibition of paintings by
John Jacobsmeyer.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 8:28 AM on March 31, 2008
(19 comments)
Light Reflection: a brilliant fan of cryogenics venting from a relief valve on STS-122 Atlantis' ET (external tank) post-separation. Also see
this handheld video of the ET, with money shots at 2:15 and 3:55.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 8:42 AM on February 21, 2008
(13 comments)
Calculated to amaze.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 5:25 AM on February 8, 2008
(88 comments)
THX for the eyes.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 9:06 PM on January 29, 2008
(53 comments)
Railway TV. Live video from the front of a train in Japan.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 1:28 PM on December 10, 2007
(14 comments)
Does anyone remember a short comic parody of objectivism using an archetypal 1950s character in the style of "Vault Boy" from Fallout?
posted to Ask Metafilter by brownpau
at 12:21 PM on November 26, 2007
(4 comments)
A quick formatting request for the contacts lists: "links to" and "linked by" as vertical lists side by side rather than as blocks of inline text. Also, a little icon to indicate mutual contacts, and a little plus sign to add new non-mutual contacts from the "linked by" list. I have the del.icio.us contacts list in mind.
posted to MetaTalk by brownpau
at 6:44 AM on November 7, 2007
(8 comments)
When
Ron Paul email spam started hitting inboxes in late October,
UAB Computer Forensics Directory Gary Warner published findings on the
spam's textual patterns and the
illicit botnet used to spread it -- findings which were picked up by media outlets and tech websites like
Salon,
Ars Technica, and
Wired Magazine's "Threat Level" blog, the latter in a set of followup posts by writer Sarah Stirland:
1,
2,
3.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 2:16 PM on November 5, 2007
(306 comments)
A tour around Discovery STS-120 and the International Space Station with
Paolo Nespoli and
Dr. Scott Parazynski. Tomorrow, Parazynski will be perched at the end of a
robot arm and sensor boom assembly, stitching up a damaged solar array in what might be one of the
riskiest EVAs since
Skylab 2.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 8:15 PM on November 2, 2007
(29 comments)
Space Get! Sputnik 1's 50th anniversary seemed like a good day to announce this:
Space Get, "a sticky ball for spaceflight images, videos, and other space media." I often entertain my inner frustrated astronaut by seeking out popular and obscure historical rocket launch and spaceflight media from the heyday of the Space Age, and I found myself wishing that someone would collect and tag links to this stuff in one spot so that people like me could find specific mission media from a single source. Then I realized -- that someone could be me, with a simple Blogspot site and a bit of perseverance. In the four days I've been doing this it's just been a few space videos, an image, and a WAV file, but I intend to post links to stuff from missions in Sputnik, Vostok, Voshkod, Soyuz, Salyut, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, STS, ISS, Orion, JPL, LPL, GSFC, MSFC, SpaceshipOne, SpaceshipTwo, Space-X, Bigelow, and other programs as I go along. Fittingly,
the first post goes "beep."
posted to Projects by brownpau
at 2:36 PM on October 4, 2007
I'm posting this on behalf of a teacher friend of mine who wants your ideas:
A university is developing an initiative in which pairs of professors, across disciplines, will meet up with small groups of first year students during their second semester to discuss themes of interest and promote intellectual engagement. These informal meetings will occur at least four times over a couple of months and can take place anywhere: in seminar rooms, in a dorm lounge, at a restaurant, at a professor's home, at an art gallery. So, what do we call these?
posted to Ask Metafilter by brownpau
at 7:45 PM on October 3, 2007
(23 comments)
Dipnote. Official weblog of the
U.S. State Department.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 11:33 AM on September 26, 2007
(24 comments)
Playboy. Cowboy. Mandom. The late Charles Bronson and his perfect chest, in one of his finest early pre-Death-Wish roles. And look out for Percy Helton.
Here's a shorter version with more horse. Via
here.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 1:58 PM on September 20, 2007
(63 comments)
"He's a human. And all you Democrats want to do is knock him down
."
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 9:09 PM on September 14, 2007
(41 comments)
I post this on behalf of a friend in need of passport help. Here he is: I need a U.S. passport in less than a week's time. I have been summoned to a foreign country on short notice, and it's crucial that I'm there when needed. I need to leave no later than September 17th.
posted to Ask Metafilter by brownpau
at 12:32 PM on September 8, 2007
(18 comments)
Happy birthday to the
lifeguard of our hearts.
posted to MetaTalk by brownpau
at 9:40 AM on September 5, 2007
(150 comments)
onoes! teenz on teh pr0n webs! It's been a year since I posted about
Stickam, and in that time, one would be naïve to think that a community of unmoderated videos broadcast live from the private and semi-anonymous bedrooms of the world would not result in
epic lulz (nsfw). To no one's surprise, disgruntled Stickam ex-VP Alex Becker says
Stickam shares office space, staff, and equipment with live pornographic video providers -- this via
NYT tech writer Brad Stone. Cue the
"think of the CHILDRUNZ!" moral
panic. But popular websites being related to or backed up by prurient interest are nothing new: Wikipeda predecessor
Bomis was once accused of having
"softore porn" in its "Babes" section, and of course everyone knows
porn drives technology. What do you think the internet is
for? But if you use Stickam and this bothers you, the burgeoning field of live embeddable Flash-based webcam video streaming is rife with alternatives:
uStream.tv,
Justin.tv,
BlogTV,
Mogulus, and
Operator11, just to name some -- but there'll be naked girls on those too. I guarantee it.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 7:18 AM on August 6, 2007
(41 comments)
It's All Because. Have you ever had those days where you're wondering just why everything about your life is feeling like it's going down the toilet bowl?
Oded Gross knows, and he will tell you all about it. In a
song.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 6:54 PM on July 26, 2007
(17 comments)
Newlyweds in DC planning a quick weekend honeymoon up in
Harper's Ferry, WV. Difficulty: carless.
posted to Ask Metafilter by brownpau
at 2:49 PM on June 22, 2007
(7 comments)
Dachshund in Kiddie Pool. Also see
Rusty.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 11:49 AM on June 12, 2007
(72 comments)
Tvashtar in Motion. Awesome five-frame GIF of fountaining sulfuric lava on Io courtesy
New Horizons as it swung by Jupiter
earlier this year. Found via
Planetary Society Blog (Thank you, Emily).
More on Tvashtar.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 2:12 PM on May 15, 2007
(19 comments)
RIP Wally Schirra, 1923-2007. One of the original Mercury Seven "Right Stuff" astronauts (just
two left now), Schirra flew on
Sigma 7,
Gemini 7, and
Apollo 7.
From there on, it's stationkeeping.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 3:23 PM on May 3, 2007
(50 comments)
ESA's
Rosetta probe just flew by Mars en route to a deep space rendezvous with
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. During the 200 km close flyby, the Rosetta's Philae Lander camera got
this lovely view of the craft's solar panel backdropped by the Martian arc, plus an
animation of the moon Phobos' shadow on the Martian surface, and
more lovely Mars imagery.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 1:03 PM on February 27, 2007
(14 comments)
Jonson takes pictures of The Salton Sea, which is a
strange place, like some kind of huge, perpetual,
Burning Man, but by a
huge, salty, polluted, manmade lake with
distant shores,
dying fish,
has-been resort towns,
Salvation Mountain,
fundie dinos,
fountains of youth, and
nice churches.
[via mefi projects] [previously] [howdy]
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 10:13 AM on January 30, 2007
(36 comments)
Vader Dad. "I learned it by watching you
!"
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 5:16 PM on December 13, 2006
(21 comments)
Hundreds of hand-drawn turkeys. Teaching assistant for a Psych class is on copier duty: multiple-page midterm for a class of over 700. Appends "Draw a turkey" to the last page of the test.
Here are the results. Gobble.
[via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 9:46 AM on November 22, 2006
(61 comments)
Galactus is Coming! Galactus is coming to eat your planet, and nothing can be done to stop him! There is only one way to be saved!
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 8:42 AM on November 20, 2006
(28 comments)
A hoop, to draw the Earth's shadow: illustrating yesterday's
partial lunar eclipse with a hoop and some creative camera positioning.
Start here and work your way towards the
painter. Via
Spaceweather. More photos of the eclipse on
Flickr.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 9:22 AM on September 8, 2006
(4 comments)
Demote Pluto! Pluto is, at best, a large Kuiper Belt Object, along with its sister planetoid Charon. We cannot let this common speck of rock and ice be raised to the echelons of the majestic gas giants or the diverse terrestrial planets, nor can we allow bureaucratic wrangling to needlessly complicate the classification of what is clearly a simple planetoid among many in the outer solar system. Maybe once we thought of Pluto as a planet with an eccentric orbit, but today history and progress must march forward hand in hand, and they march towards this goal: the Demotion of Pluto!
posted to Projects by brownpau
at 11:56 AM on August 25, 2006
Stickam One might be tempted to dismiss it at first glance as just a video-enabled Myspace clone for
emo teens with webcams; but looking past that you'll find a
fairly robust and platform-independent Flash-based webcam broadcast and videoconferencing app. There's a profile page with an embedabble Flash viewer, a full screen personal conference popup with privacy options,
group video chat rooms, and hosted galleries for
photo,
video and audio content. Is this the advent of Cam
Whoring 2.0? (Oh, and see if you can catch the
Pissed-Off Caveman online. It's a webcam pointed at a decked-out
Robot Chimpanzee Head.)
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 10:46 AM on August 8, 2006
(16 comments)
Couple of issues here. I just accidentally marked a post as a favorite (stupid new mouse). Could the "favorited" confirmation page include a link to my favorites management list, or better yet, an undo? Also, from this
this favorited confirmation page, the "Return to post" link is broken.
posted to MetaTalk by brownpau
at 10:09 AM on July 18, 2006
(15 comments)
Thread on
Disney World deaths reveals a member's experience with Disney theme parks as
creative autism therapy for his son. Pretty cool.
More here.
posted to MetaTalk by brownpau
at 12:57 PM on June 30, 2006
(20 comments)
Pull out
a US $20 bill. Take a look at the picture of the White House. See that tree peeking in from the right, the 140 year old elm that's been there since Andrew Johnson? Well,
it's gone. Yup.
Fallen over, thanks to the
soaker summer storms which have been hammering the Mid-Atlantic in recent days.
Cleanup has started, but no word on whether the $20 bill will be needing another update.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 9:27 PM on June 26, 2006
(38 comments)
I post
link about wardriving comment spammer. Metafilter Snap Detective Collective examines link, and
concludes it is a hoax. Owner of site signs up, and
insists it is real and he is
not lying. Thread is
closed. Conclusion: Everyone lives happily ever after.
posted to MetaTalk by brownpau
at 3:48 PM on June 23, 2006
(33 comments)
