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What cool / fun / educational things can I email / forward to my nieces and nephews aged 0, 1, and 2?
posted to Ask Metafilter by localhuman
at 9:05 AM on February 22, 2008
(11 comments)
We've so much to discuss! [Minneapolis/Twin Cities]
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 10:43 AM on January 5, 2008
(90 comments)
Papervision3D 2.0 released
yesterday. Papervision3D is an open source 3D Engine for flash which provides a lightweight, browser friendly platform for rendering 3d content in your browser window. Papervision (some examples of PV3D in use:
1,
2,
3 (this third one might be awhile to load...), however, is only the tip of the iceberg which is a very committed and talented open source flash community.
posted to MetaFilter by localhuman
at 5:53 PM on December 5, 2007
(11 comments)
Antitechnologos
From the artist:
The majority of the materials that make up Antitechnologos jewelry have their intended use in a different industry: electronics, robotics, machinery, etc. The intrigue in using these sorts of materials is at once philosophical, aesthetic, and pragmatic.
I was lucky enough to get to make this site for a jewelry making friend of mine. Like the proximity to which her pieces bring a user to technological components, I tried to craft interaction that brings the user closer to the site's functionality. I hope the community enjoys!
posted to Projects by localhuman
at 8:04 PM on October 8, 2007
I'm interested in setting up a Flash Media Server. According to Adobe, you must be running Red Hat Enterprise 3 or 4 for this to work. Is it possible that you could run an FMS on
centOS?
posted to Ask Metafilter by localhuman
at 7:42 PM on April 17, 2007
(2 comments)
Flash Friday
tutorials. Want to know how to make a pre-loader? A cool image gallery, or sound driven animation? Learn how to do so here with some nice tutorials by Lee Brimelow, or visit his
flash blog.
posted to MetaFilter by localhuman
at 4:12 PM on February 2, 2007
(3 comments)
Tired of missing astrological events such as
comets,
eclipses, or
meteor showers? With
Spaceweatherphone's service, when auroras appear over your hometown, your phone will ring. When the space station is about to fly over your back yard, your phone will ring. When planets align ... you get the idea.
posted to MetaFilter by localhuman
at 5:30 PM on January 12, 2007
(16 comments)
I like stavros. I like copyright infringement. I like the kind of hard work that goes into a
FPP like this. But there's something about this Wii-winning post that doesn't sit well with me. Could you help me put my finger on it?
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 10:08 AM on December 29, 2006
(259 comments)
Has anyone here been able to run OSx on non-Macintosh parts (Thereby cutting the cost of a Mac in a third)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by localhuman
at 6:10 AM on December 28, 2006
(19 comments)
meditations on the naming of a sock puppet (wish there was a more inside for meta)
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 5:20 PM on December 17, 2006
(52 comments)
Prediction markets
trade uncertainty for collective wisdom, and
have been proven to be more accurate than other mechanisms for predicting outcomes such as polls. Many corporate entities (HP, Intel, Google, Yahoo, Siemens, etc.) are said to be using them internally. Several successful prediction markets already exist, such as
Hedgestreet,
NewsFutures, the
Iowa Electronic Markets, Hollywood Stock Exchange, and
Inkling Markets.
A spinoff of DARPA's
Policy Analysis Market, prediction markets might be to markets what open source was to software.
posted to MetaFilter by localhuman
at 8:17 AM on December 16, 2006
(18 comments)
i've got no problem with
users who like to hand out favorites like they mean nothing, but, really...
as an aspiring user of metafilter, i'm not quite sure how to grant these special little clicks (especially in light of
this). is there a proper ratio one might strive towards of posts i favorite versus posts of mine favorited by others? if not, is there some other measure which might guide me in my favoritism?
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 7:29 PM on December 2, 2006
(143 comments)
ever see personal comments in page source code?
posted to Ask Metafilter by localhuman
at 1:18 PM on December 2, 2006
(27 comments)
can i get more voices for my mac?
posted to Ask Metafilter by localhuman
at 5:21 PM on November 24, 2006
(11 comments)
i'm sick of metaYouTubefilter. what can we do to curb this phenomenon?
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 6:37 PM on November 12, 2006
(88 comments)
what happened to the family cat?
this is a flash production where i think about and discuss the mythology of the feline. it is incomplete. i need others (insert: you) to help me finish it. i need a plethora of cat pictures and videos in order to finish this. the visuals are currently really stupid and uncool. help me out if you wish. interested? if so send an email to (email in profile). cats are so cool!
posted to Projects by localhuman
at 2:38 PM on November 12, 2006
help me equip my bike with gps
posted to Ask Metafilter by localhuman
at 6:17 AM on November 9, 2006
(12 comments)
how about mefi personals?
(question asked partly in jest, partly in possible pursuit of a partner versed in the wonderful logic of mefi)
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 12:01 AM on October 31, 2006
(150 comments)
12 tone scale? bah!
Harry Partch: American composer, philosopher, publisher, teacher, satirist, instrument builder and designer, sculptor, theorist, experimentalist, adapted violist, conductor, author, retired hobo, seaman, sewer cleaner, vagrant, and graffitist. Until his death, Harry Partch had been doing his own thing for more than half a century. Partch's own thing began with his rejection of the European masters and the traditional bourgeois concert-hall performance.
partch created over 30 intruments to produce the sounds caught by the human ear not reproduced in concert halls. his life story is cool.
his thoughts (pdf) have influenced the path of contemporary experimental music.
one of the best of the bands influenced by him.
posted to MetaFilter by localhuman
at 9:20 PM on October 26, 2006
(20 comments)
how does this site load for you?
posted to Ask Metafilter by localhuman
at 5:21 PM on October 20, 2006
(19 comments)
What happened to 23rd Street?
posted to Ask Metafilter by localhuman
at 5:29 AM on October 10, 2006
(12 comments)
consider:
- manufacturing costs of very small and powerful memory storage and processing capabilities falling at a fast rate
- the convergence of many technologies (cellular, mobile music, cameras, internet, etc...) into devices with capabilities for each
-how when you go to a coffee shop and everyone in the whole room is on a laptop
could one infer from these premises (however truthful you find them to be) that the age of home computing is coming to an end? could one infer that desktops will fade out of use by the general public, preserved only by lonely programmers and developers that create the digital media landscape we consume?
posted to Ask Metafilter by localhuman
at 5:22 PM on October 2, 2006
(18 comments)
how possible/ difficult would it be to link two or more monitors to the same tower and be able to have different users working on the same system from different monitors? better asked, could you use some sort of log in system for windows xp which would enable multiple users to use the same system from different areas, having separate files, programs, etc.?
posted to Ask Metafilter by localhuman
at 5:00 AM on September 25, 2006
(14 comments)
