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The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing
"I've documented the journey of Billy, a young, happy lad who believes he's going off to have fantastic adventures at summer camp... This is a literal and practically contextual account of what happens to poor bastards sent to Animal Crossing."
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 1:38 PM on December 10, 2007
(28 comments)
Say No to Grandpa Joe.
Exposing the "dark underbelly" of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: finally, in one place, a body of categorised analysis and evidence, footnoted and attributed, proving conclusively that Grandpa Joe is a "
ratbag industrial spy bastard".
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 5:10 AM on November 18, 2007
(35 comments)
Church Locking: shattering the myth that "all churches are locked". With the aim of visiting every church in England and recording whether it is kept locked or unlocked, this ten-year-old 'side project' now has statistics by county and diocese, county maps, and a
map of the country showing their progress.
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 12:27 PM on May 16, 2007
(29 comments)
Twatter
- A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: Who are you doing?
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 10:58 AM on May 14, 2007
(33 comments)
Doxory.
Often in life we are faced with a choice of 2.0 possible courses of action. Should I do X or Y? Now you can harness the wisdom of the web crowds to resolve those painful dilemmas for you!
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 5:15 AM on March 18, 2007
(27 comments)
Nothing To See Here
A guide to "some of the world's lesser-signposted places to go - attractions that may not be all that attractive; coastal towns they forgot to close down; high streets that haven't been homogenised; oddities and one-offs."
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 1:36 PM on March 11, 2007
(31 comments)
Royal Shrovetide Football
is a traditional ball game played each year in Ashbourne, Derbyshire on a 'pitch' three miles long, lasting the two days of Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday. It's been going since at least 1683 and likely much earlier.
After a ceremonial rendition of
Auld Lang Syne and
God Save The Queen, the cork-filled ball is thrown from the starting plinth into the crowd, and then it's the Up'ards versus the Down'ards, forming giant scrums (or 'hugs') of people moving up and down the River Henmore, with the aim of 'goaling the ball' at their
respective goal post.
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 4:22 AM on February 20, 2007
(15 comments)
The Ten Word Review
Review anything you like, but in ten words or less. For example:
A Scanner Darkly: Rotoscoping gives Keanu a soul. Shame he opens his mouth.
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 8:01 AM on January 17, 2007
(35 comments)
One Day in History
is a national blogging event organised by the
History Matters campaign in the UK. They want UK citizens (or anyone with UK ties) to blog a diary entry about their day today (17 October). The entries will be archived at the British Library, creating a snapshot of everyday life in 2006 for the bemusement of future generations.
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 1:33 AM on October 17, 2006
(7 comments)
Muppet Wiki.
It's like Wikipedia, except, y'know, about the Muppets.
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 7:22 AM on August 1, 2006
(24 comments)
The Single Man's Guide to TV Dinners
Teetering on the fine line between parody and sincerity, Ray guides us through the perilous world of TV dinners.
The box cover boasts "Extra Helpings of Beef Enchilada..". As I mentioned earlier, the dinner only contains one beef enchilada. What is an "Extra Helping"?The cheese-to-meat-to-vegetable ratio is appropriate. After eating a few slices, you won't be left with a strange aftertaste.
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 8:12 AM on March 31, 2005
(33 comments)
Identifont
is an amazing, free, font identification tool. Ever seen some nice text in print or on the web, wanted to use it yourself, but couldn't work out what font they used? By answering a series of simple questions (Does the 'Q' tail cross the circle? What shape is the 'g'?), all presented with handy example pictures, Identifont can quickly identify the name of the font you're looking for.
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 10:54 AM on April 7, 2004
(13 comments)
Earth Viewer
compiles satellite imagery on the fly to produce a photo-realistic, spinnable, zoomable model of the entire Earth, right on your computer. And I mean zoomable -- one slider takes you smoothly from seeing the entire globe down to seeing individual people queuing to get into the Louvre...
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 5:59 PM on May 31, 2002
(11 comments)
'Cambridge Students Beaten by Israeli Army'
Three of my fellow students spent their Easter vacation on the West Bank as unofficial international observers. In the course of accompanying Palestinian medics to a refugee camp, with medical supplies and food, they were allegedly stopped and beaten by Israeli troops.
While their actions are undoubtedly noble and brave ("we are doing the job the UN should be doing"), the Israeli embassy suggests that "whilst the intentions were geniune, (their) actions have been misguided."
I can't decide what to think. (more inside)
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 7:03 AM on April 27, 2002
(25 comments)
