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Sudoku Combat.
Sudoku, head to head style. The stress mounts as your challenger's board blinks and fills. Bring it on.
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at 9:36 AM on July 8, 2006
(20 comments)
WeblogsInc Contract for Bloggers.
If you have ever been curious what the writers for
Weblogs Inc are held to, and get paid. I imagine that there are contract tweaks here and there for more in-demand talent, but it breaks down to $500 for 125 posts a month.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 7:04 AM on August 25, 2005
(44 comments)
Coral: The NYU Distribution Network
"Are you tired of clicking on some link from a web portal, only to find that the website is temporarily off-line because thousands or millions of other users are also trying to access it? Does your network have a really low-bandwidth connection, such that everyone, even accessing the same web pages, suffers from slow downloads? Have you ever run a website, only to find that suddenly you get hit with a spike of thousands of requests, overloading your server and possibly causing high monthly bills? If so, Coral might be your free solution for these problems!"
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 9:26 PM on September 6, 2004
(4 comments)
Weboggle.
It's that dice based word search game, but online.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 9:38 AM on August 13, 2004
(27 comments)
cin-o-matic,
it's a tool to help people decide what movies to go see or rent. The interface is simple and is growing on me, the url is hard to share by word of mouth, and it integrates with netfilx. [by and via
dack]
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 8:00 AM on August 9, 2004
(20 comments)
DOWN FOR THE COUNT
At around 8:50, Soubirous’s campaign manager, Brian Floyd, received a call from an election observer in Temecula informing him that the vote count had been stopped – apparently by Registrar Mischelle Townsend herself. The reason was not made clear. So Floyd and another Soubirous campaigner named Art Cassel jumped into a car and drove to Townsend’s office to investigate. Sure enough, the counting area appeared to be near-deserted. But then they noticed two men huddled at one of the vote tabulation computers.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 7:40 PM on July 27, 2004
(53 comments)
Done Deal: Script and Pitch Sales.
Find out which scripts are being scooped up these days. Read the site and anxiosly await
Krakatoa:
During the 1883 volcanic explosion off the coast of Java, social, political and cultural orders were also in major turmoil. But during all this turbulence, a romance is able to develop.
It's like
Pearl Harbor and
Volcanon, but with a
twist!
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 1:01 PM on April 9, 2004
(18 comments)
Snakes.
An animated film based on a woodcut by M.C. Escher. Slow to load, beautiful to watch (and listen to).
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 1:18 PM on January 28, 2004
(16 comments)
Photobucket.com
A free place to dump pictures you want to hotlink from sites like eBay, Craigslist, or even your personal site. There is a 100MB limit, but
even that isn't absolute. This seems like a too good to be true service, how long can something like this last?
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 7:55 AM on January 26, 2004
(22 comments)
Why I hate Personal Weblogs
While the Introduction to this psuedo-research paper is a bit rough and profane, I couldn't help but agree with much of the content, although I generally don't hate personal weblogs. I particularly enjoyed
Chapter 2 - Why Do They Do It, as well as the the final snippet which asserts:
I, in an effort to separate the wheat from the chaff of weblog authors, propose that all weblog authors create a Statement of Audience once per month (or, every two weeks if possible) to facilitate understanding of their place in the universe and the importance of their writings.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 8:30 AM on January 7, 2004
(41 comments)
The launch page for Super Sticky Post It Notes
has a creepy staged picture of a mom handing her daughter a post-it laden lunch box. Besides the creepy look on mom's face and the reminder post-it stuck to the
outside of the front door, I also like how the writing on each post it is
horizontal, regardless of the orientation of the post it. It's like one of those "can you pick out the 12 things wrong with this picture" games. I love advertising.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 8:51 AM on August 13, 2003
(34 comments)
Hulking out.
I don't know what is more overwhelming, the sheer number of products tied in with the new Hulk movie, or the amount of detail
kokogiak collected on the subject. I'm trying to remember another movie that had this variety of marketing tie ins (
Slim Jim? Shot glasses? Jello?)
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 9:24 AM on June 17, 2003
(48 comments)
Blogger moxie.nu acuses another blogger of identity theft
. The other blogger,
moxiepop.com, fires back,
saying she got harassed by moxie.nu's readers and that
she had never seen moxie.nu's site before. Another blogger
goes on the offensive and accuses moxiepop of imitating moxie.nu. Comments start flying on moxie.nu and are ultimately closed by the host. Some other blogs step in, supporting moxiepop (
1,
2,
3) and supporting moxie.nu (
1,
2,
3).
Tim Blair chimes in,
Andrea Harris has a few words,
Jim Treacher calls for some Moxie Boxing, and
Kevin Parrott adds Rockem Sockem Moxies. A delightful train wreck for all to see.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 8:21 AM on June 12, 2003
(46 comments)
An American Visits the DMZ.
With the rising tensions on the Korean border, it seems like a good time to get a first hand account on the situation. Insightful observations like,
so I went into North Korea. It was a lot like South Korea, maybe colder. And there were more fat Canadians than I expected, especially just after a famine. While you're at his site, don't miss
Tim Hoo is a Genius and
Ask not for whom The Bell™ tolls.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 9:13 AM on March 4, 2003
(24 comments)
Moleskine notebooks
I picked up my first Moleskine a few months ago and have been carrying it around everywhere, jotting down notes to myself, more stream of conscious than a journal. The pocket notebooks come in a
variety of styles, including a Japanese Pocket Album that is one 60 page long continuous fold out sheet for making timelines, long drawings or photo albums. Even my plain notebook has a small pocket in the back cover to stick keepsakes (
ticket stubs maybe?) as well as a built in bookmark and elastic strap to keep the book closed. Other
bloggers also love their Moleskines. Not to be a product ad, but the combination of design simplicity and utility really make these notebooks a functional piece of art. It also helps to have a nice, small pen to carry with the journal.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 9:36 AM on January 16, 2003
(79 comments)
Game Neverending.
There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play. The game is in alpha right now, but it has managed to take over my free time. There is not a clear goal or purpose in the game, other than to keep experiencing and making. I can't figure out what has hooked me in.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 8:33 AM on October 24, 2002
(35 comments)
pickupyourowndamnsocks.com.
What would you do if you found out that your significant other was keeping an anonymous, but very public, journal of things about you that drive them crazy?
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at 1:31 PM on October 7, 2002
(151 comments)
A course that uses LEGO beams,
plates, gears, motors, a 68HC11 microcontroller board programmed in C, and various sensors to construct autonomous (i.e., self-contained, no direct human control) robots to hunt down and retrieve eggs. How come I never got to make
things like this when I got my engineering degree? There's
video too. Other cool projects are a
walking machine, a
human powered sub, or a
future truck. I wish the real world of engineering was as fun and creative as college.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 9:39 AM on September 27, 2002
(8 comments)
Bumfights.com producers arrested
and charged with "conspiracy, solicitation of a felony crime and illegally paying people to fight". The site itself was
discussed here a few months ago. At that time, there was disagreement as to the legality of the tapes. The producer
defended his legal footing saying that the participants signed releases. Looks like that wasn't enough, hearing to start Oct 10th.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 1:26 PM on September 25, 2002
(60 comments)
KCRW's
morning radio show,
Morning Becomes Eclectic has some of the best live in studio performances from a broad range of excellent musicians. And better yet, all of the performances are archived and streamed online. Recently they have had
Flaming Lips,
Morcheeba and
Cousteau. Some of my favorites from the past are the
Coldplay show (as well as a solo appearance by singer
Chris Martin),
Starsailor and
DJ Shadow. I know there are plenty of other resources similar to this, but I think it's hard to find a better collection than this for live recordings. (Search the archives
here)
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 8:49 AM on August 16, 2002
(33 comments)
Bumfights.com
. There's been alot of talk about this site in the news the last couple of days. To me, it makes me a little sick to my stomach seeing some of this stuff, could this really be legal? It seems almost like kidnapping to me.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 8:29 AM on May 9, 2002
(68 comments)
Delete, Baby, Delete.
I really enjoyed this short article from this month's
Atlantic Monthly about the misunderstandings of document/records destruction. Some of the events discussed are the Iranian reconstuction of documents shredded at the U.S. emabassy and printed under the title
Documents From the U.S. Espionage Den, the destruction of the
Library at Alexandria and of course the Enron/Andersen document destruction.
It got me to thinking about cached web pages and the fact that you have to make sure
Google doesn't cache your page if you don't want a permanent record there. It seems like no matter what you do on the web, odds are it's saved somewhere, wether it's google, the wayback machine or any other projects that I don't know about. If you wanted to entirely erase something you did last year on the web, what would you do?
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 2:50 PM on May 6, 2002
(20 comments)
Notmilk.com hacked?
A growing feud between the notmilk man Robert Cohen, who wrote
Milk: The Deadly Poison and
VegSource.com who hosted his site leads to VegSource removing all content from the notmilk.com site. Cohen sends out a newsletter saying that his site had been hacked, VegSource
responds and calls Cohen a
"big fat liar". Is this an abuse of VegSource's discretion? Is this just petty name calling? Whose extreme views will reign supreme here in Vegan Stadium!?
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 12:37 PM on February 6, 2002
(8 comments)
Candystand.com
It's Friday, ain't got s--t to do!
Whiffle ball is probably my favorite,
homerun rally is also a good time killer, and since the Super Bowl is upon us, the
armchair quarterback section may be appropriate. (candystand.com is heavy with Nabisco ads, but has some shockwave fun mixed in)
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 1:52 PM on February 1, 2002
(7 comments)
Putin taking questions on from American call ins and emails on NPR.
It's 5:05pm on the west coast and Putin is on his way from
Ground Zero to the New York studios of NPR. Switch on your local NPR station; Putin is supposedly very good at answering candid questions. I can only imagine Bush entertaining call in questions in Russia (or the US for that matter). Comments after the interview?
posted to MetaFilter by jonah
at 5:08 PM on November 15, 2001
(6 comments)
