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Cartoon fables with strange reversals

Holy hotdogs, Spanish surrealist illustrator Joan Cornellà, just what the heck is going on?
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 3:36 PM on April 28, 2013 (14 comments)

Jumping never felt so deliberate

Take the twitch out of platforming with Bump, a delightful new little turn-based randomly-generated roguelikelike by clever game dev and creative fellow Aaron Steed. Jump at or on or over things! Collect diamonds with head-bumping! Avoid and/or destroy spikes and bad guys! Try not to die! Die anyway! It's a good time.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 10:57 AM on March 17, 2013 (12 comments)

Out of ammo, nearly dead, monsters outside. But! I have a can of meat.

If Doom and Nethack lived in Estonia and had a baby, it'd be named Teleglitch, a recently released pixelated action roguelike that will completely murder you if you're not very careful about how you explore its procedurally-generated corridors, fighting off former coworkers, crafting spare parts into new stuff and hunting for ammo and food and clues as to what the hell went so terribly wrong at the Militech R&D facility on Medusa 1-C. The game has a 4-level demo (Windows and Linux, Mac too apparently) which will probably kick your ass plenty all by itself.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 1:47 PM on February 26, 2013 (56 comments)

Campers? Stupid. Counselors? Heroes. Slasher killers? Slashing, killing.

The 80s horror film genre called, and then you got a beep and turn-based squad tactics video games were on the other line, and it was a pretty confusing phone call basically but in the end you got the message that someone wanted Camp Keepalive back. Because it is awesome. And it runs on Windows and OSX and you should download the demo right now.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 10:49 AM on February 23, 2013 (39 comments)

putting the high in high fantasy

FYI: Chivalry is now a game about knights in low gravity, screaming and screaming and screaming.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 10:05 AM on February 15, 2013 (22 comments)

the inside of my Trapper Keeper except British actors instead of horses

Behold, terrible drawings of British actors. (Note: the blog was originally called Terrible Drawings of John Finnemore, but there weren't enough pictures of John Finnemore on the internet, and, so, yes.)
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 11:26 AM on February 8, 2013 (21 comments)

hot sauce + drum stick

Things fit into other things perfectly on things​fitting​perfectly​into​things​.tumblr​.com.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 11:14 AM on February 6, 2013 (42 comments)

like, it's FROM a bird, but then there's a bird IN it, i don't even--

Cut feather shadowboxes: feather art by Chris Maynard.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 3:28 PM on January 29, 2013 (12 comments)

Advance to blue triple circle!

Take a copy of Monopoly, cover it in lye for a few days, boil from off the bones whatever flesh remains, and give the clean white skeleton a tasteful, minimalist paintjob, and you end up with ONOPO, an extreme reduction of the original boardgame by Metafilter's own Matthew Hollett, aka oulipian. Via mefi projects, hat tip to fastcodesign c/o Rock Paper Shotgun's always-lovely Sunday Papers feature.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 10:40 AM on January 20, 2013 (56 comments)

shrim++p

Shrinp.com is a site that does very little and does it well. Stick anything after the domain name (shrinp.com/shrimp! shrinp.com/puggle! shrinp.com/metafilter!) and you'll get a helpfully labeled image of maybe that thing, or maybe not so much that thing, who can tell? The internet, it's very mysterious. Built by our very own 31d1. Approximately as NSFW as you try to make it.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 3:24 PM on August 13, 2012 (264 comments)

Time To Corner The Market On Passenger Jet Wing Assemblies!

Economies of Scale is a free, web-based multiplayer business/commerce simulation game under development by Scott Rubyton (aka Ratan Joyce). Players use starting capital to build production/wholesale/retail businesses from the ground up in a basic economic model, competing for market share while collaborating through business-to-business trading of goods and materials. It's more fun than getting an MBA! Also much less expensive.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 11:07 AM on April 3, 2012 (60 comments)

Oregon Trail meets Fallout meets Nethack

NEO Scavenger is a hex-based, turn-based scavenging/survival/mystery RPG. Dig through abandoned buildings! Punch a looter to death! Get eaten by a Dogman! Contract cholera! Die of cholera! Flash-based browser game, under active development; the current demo lets you explore the landscape and play with the game's mechanics at length.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 4:25 PM on March 19, 2012 (23 comments)

No fate; no fate but what we make. My Father told her this.

The Bible & Terminator 2: Heteroglossic discourse and poetic authority.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 12:26 PM on February 28, 2012 (21 comments)

Come up to my loft, I'll show you my cartographs.

Maps! Maps are great. And Cartophile is a pretty great blog about maps, courtesy our own desjardins, via mefi projects.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 2:35 PM on January 24, 2012 (20 comments)

"You...are my number one...GUY."

Chris Sims is a former comic book store employee. David Uzumeri is a computer scientist. Together, they fight crime review the shit out of Batman film canon in an 18-part series they call Cinematic Batmanology, covering all the major theatrical releases from Tim Burton's franchise-reviving 1989 film (start there) up through Christopher Nolan's recent The Dark Knight, with a couple of odd tangents along the way.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 10:26 AM on October 3, 2011 (34 comments)

Crisis on Infinite Blogs

One response to all the hubbub about DC Comics' unfolding "New 52" re-launch of the DC Universe comics: a pile of independent cartoonists creating cover art for the book launches/relaunches they'd like to see, at DC Fifty-Two. Some of it is straight-faced, some of it is...less so. BIFF! The Justice League as a western! POW! The Geek vs. Hell's Nixons! BLAM! Classical art references!
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 8:15 AM on September 2, 2011 (28 comments)

The pop culture art of Phil Noto

Phil Noto illustrates the hell out of comics, TV, pulp fiction, music, and being a six year old artist at his blog, Your Nice New Outfit. Oh shit it's the Master Blaster!
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 8:12 AM on August 19, 2011 (19 comments)

This is what you get / This is what you get / This is what you get / When you mess with jazz

Jazz group The Bad Plus play an appropriately discordant Karma Police, a slow-burn We Are The Champions, an tearfulfeariffic Everybody Wants To Rule The World, and also sort of smell like teen spirit.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 3:42 PM on August 2, 2011 (42 comments)

Took a fish wheel out to see a movie / Didn't have to pay to get it in

Right around 1879, the fishwheel (historical images, McCord replica) came to the Columbia River. A clever application of mill-like thinking to traditional net fishing techniques, the fishwheel's river-powered automation of upstream harvesting revolutionized canning in Oregon and Washington, drawing both commercial attention and critical concern [NYT 1881, PDF]. Two men, Thornton Williams and William Rankin McCord, each filed patents for fishwheel designs in 1881 (#245251) and 1882 (#257960) respectively; Williams brought an infringement suit against McCord which was dismissed on the grounds that the invention was not new, being based directly on the publicly documented work of one Samuel Wilson in 1879. Fishwheels were fair game.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 1:34 PM on June 28, 2011 (15 comments)

Little Ellen dies of the croup because her mother has neglected to get her shoe repaired.

Many hate her, but she is alive in every fandom. She fences with Methos and Duncan MacLeod; she saves the Enterprise, the Voyager, or the fabric of time and space; she fights with Jim Ellison in defense of Cascade; she battles evil in Sunnydale alongside Buffy Sommers. 150 Years of Mary Sue, by Pat Pflieger, exploring vanity fanfic back to the 19th century. Bonus blackhole of content: TVTropes on Mary Sue.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 1:32 PM on June 5, 2011 (155 comments)

The Halle Berry movie never happened. Shut your bat mouth.

What's Catwoman's deal, anyway? dr_von_fangirl has a fantastic, exhaustive answer, cobbling a coherent, newbie-friendly origin story together from a variety of comic sources.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 11:27 AM on June 3, 2011 (48 comments)

The Discrete Charm of the 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ...

Do you like integer sequences? Do you like poking around in the The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences? Do you think, whoa, wait, okay, actually I like integer sequences but the OEIS is a goddam intractable maze of numbers? Do you think, man, what I wish is that someone would make an accessible blog that discusses some of the interesting entries in the OEIS for the casual fan of integer sequences? Well, that's an amazing coincidence; you should take a look at The On-Line Blog of Integer Sequences, by our very own Plutor.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 10:18 AM on May 5, 2011 (26 comments)

HULLLLOOOOO *WHAM*

Muzzle Man: I have no idea how these horse men got these trays smacked into their muzzles, or why. Tram. Kitchen. Tram II. Flea Market.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 6:51 PM on February 18, 2011 (45 comments)

On Karma and building web reputation systems

On Karma: Top-line Lessons on User Reputation Design is an excellent overview of reputation system design concepts from the excellent-in-general blog of Randy Farmer and Bryce Glass, authors of the recently-released O'Reilly book Building Web Reputation Systems.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 11:47 AM on March 23, 2010 (17 comments)

Cheap Talk - Econ and game theory from Jeff Ely and Sandeep Baliga

On pinball's downfall; draft Scrabble; strategies for choosing a seat; visiting our old friend, swoopo.com; and meatball theory: various and sundry economical, game theoretical, and miscellaneous morsels from the folks at Cheap Talk.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 4:33 PM on November 18, 2009 (53 comments)

"a story of great potential overwhelmed by a genius for acts of pointless economic self-destruction"

People with a keen strategic sense maintain a well-diversified hoard of coins and painstakingly build alliances with local shopkeepers or bank tellers, conspicuously proffering coins for one purchase or deposit in the hopes of being indulged when they're short of change at some point in the future. Argentina's coinage problem.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 12:32 PM on December 3, 2008 (19 comments)

US Bailout bill, TARP, and economists' and journalists' reactions

Following the recent preciptious downturn in the US banking sector, a compromise draft bill is going to a vote in Congress today. The text of the bill [110-page pdf]; The Wall Street Journal's summary of the bill; an open-for-comments public analysis of the bill at publicmarkup.org. Some questions answered and unhappy acceptance from economist and NYT columnist Paul Krugman; a strenuous rejection from Nouriel Roubini; via same, an IMF study of 42 banking crises from 1970 through 2007; further criticism from Nomi Prins for Mother Jones.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 11:00 AM on September 29, 2008 (654 comments)

Chris Harrison's gorgeous visualizations

Word Spectrum; SearchClock; Digg Rings; Bible Cross-references: the gorgeous analytical vizualizations of Chris Harrison.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 2:54 PM on September 18, 2008 (17 comments)

Dead Funnies

The Comic Bardo Thodol, or: Everything you ever wanted to know about the Tibetan Book of the Dead but were afraid to not read in a streamlined comic context. [via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 6:34 AM on July 23, 2008 (23 comments)

This is the title of this post.

- This is the Title of this Story
- Self-reference in 'Self-reference in...'
- This is Not the Title of this Essay
- How I explained infodumps and saved humanity
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 9:36 AM on January 24, 2008 (74 comments)

Howard Rheingold on cooperation, technology, and social dynamics

Technology of Cooperation (.gif map), from Howard Rheingold's Cooperation Commons project. Rheingold on Amish technology practices.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 1:19 PM on January 21, 2008 (6 comments)

Nomic is a game where modifying the game is the game.

Nomic, as introduced by inventor Peter Suber (homepage): a game of self-modification—every move is an attempt to alter the rules governing how the game is played. Further from wikipedia. [A great deal more within.]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 8:57 PM on August 27, 2007 (59 comments)

Is that a comically big thing in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Comically Large Things is a blog about things that are so dang big you could fit everything at Smallist [previously] in any given entry. For example: nose! [via Projects and our own jbickers]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 12:21 PM on August 10, 2007 (26 comments)

Where's An Egg, and other wonderful fake flash games.

Where's an egg? Psuedo-Russian noir wumpus action. Confused? Consider bidding on the only copy of the instructions in existence. Need a break? Check out some other fine titles from completely made up game company Videlectrix.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 9:37 PM on July 17, 2007 (41 comments)

Squigglebooth is a playground for videobloggers

SquiggleBooth : a charming collaborative videoblog, from our own Ajit AP. [via Projects]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 8:16 AM on May 25, 2007 (7 comments)

Math is congruent with fun!

You have spacial skills. Apply them in Building Houses 2, on mathsnet.net. Or freestyle in Building Houses 1. Or at night! Oh and also there's like a hundred more puzzles over there too. Some java required.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 11:51 AM on April 12, 2007 (66 comments)

Joyce in postcards

Joyce Images—postcards of Ulysses. [A little backstory.]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 6:12 PM on April 2, 2007 (26 comments)

Smallist: Better living through Smallistry

Better living through Smallistry at Smallist. Gadgets, spaces, beverages, fetishes: ultra-niche blogging at its finest. [via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 2:51 PM on March 24, 2007 (19 comments)

epsilon pachyderm perambulation

baby elephant walk
baby elephant walk
baby elephant walk
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 11:25 AM on October 8, 2006 (12 comments)

Snakes on Film

Snakes on Film — at last, a definitive resource for moving-picture snake identification and serpentine fact-checking! Care of our very own mcwetboy! [via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 4:37 PM on September 27, 2006 (9 comments)

A Man Outstanding In Garfield

Garfield, Deconstructed! An engaging, adoring daily analysis of Garfield—behold such a lens through which even Jim Davis' legacy starts to seem redeemable.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 11:49 AM on July 12, 2006 (61 comments)

An Embarassment of Musical Riches

You desire new music? How fortuitous! Look what your fellow mefites have been up to:

- The 23rd Century, addictive psychedelic pop from tcobretti (via Projects)
- Both Ends of a Gun, a shotgun-produced country album by Miko (via Projects)
- Congratulations to the Young Men of Nelson, creepy tortured music-toy electronica by nylon (via Projects)
- MAXX KLAXON, ass-bumping orwello-euro electropop by Artifice_Eternity (via Projects)
- Inter[mediate], an electronic EP by phylum sinter (via Projects)
- Vector Trio, atmospheric jazzers, and just one client of turtlegirl's Scully Sound production outfit (via Projects)
- Fractures EP, some lush electronic stuff by nthdegx (via Projects)
- The Earl Stoner Band, countrified tunes by xowie (via Projects)
- Red On Strike, XX-fronted punk rock by InfidelZombie (via Projects)
- The Scarring Party, foot-stomping old-timey tunes by drezdn (via Projects)
- Soplerflo Archives, sundry musical noises by soplerflo (via...wait for it...waaaaaait for iiiiit...Projects!)

Viva la Projects!
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 9:46 AM on April 15, 2006 (97 comments)

Local car dealership commercials that don't suck?

Local car dealership commercials that don't suck? Okay, so, yes, every major metro region has its own crop of idiosyncratic and usually-low-budget car dealership commercials -- god bless Kramer the Magical Donkey -- but Portland, OR has this wonderful sort of Cinderella story guy named Scott Thomason. (more inside)
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 6:46 PM on April 10, 2002 (14 comments)

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