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We Made Young Liberals And Young Labor Date Each Other Vice Australia: "Who are those students who join political clubs at university? They wear suits, push flyers, and disagree by default, but what makes them tick? To find out we paired them up with the people they disagree with most—students from opposing parties—and made them go on dates with each other."
posted by cendawanita at 8:32 PM PST - 52 comments

Eleven, a music video by Hitchhiker [more inside]
posted by ardgedee at 6:39 PM PST - 21 comments

TedEd gets it wrong when they talk about the history of tattooing. Good thing the Tattoo Historian is here to set the record straight with a concise list of errors. [more inside]
posted by geek anachronism at 6:23 PM PST - 27 comments

Stuff in Old Books, from Brisbane's Bent Books. Bonus: Things Found in Books
posted by turbid dahlia at 5:57 PM PST - 28 comments

"Watching a tattoo needle in slow motion reveals the physics of getting inked"

Previously: Ink Punching
posted by davidstandaford at 5:38 PM PST - 14 comments

Remarkable time-lapse video of artist Marcello Barenghi creating a hyperrealistic drawing of a vodka bottle.
(N.B. All videos contain highly annoying music tracks. Mute button recommended.) [more inside]
posted by Atom Eyes at 3:42 PM PST - 27 comments

"Many Marines I talk to are skeptical of the aims used to justify the war - fighting terrorism, getting weapons of mass destruction (which they never see). Quite a few accept that this war was probably fought for oil." 'The Killer Elite', Evan Wright's coverage of a US Marine Corps Battalion in the 2003 Iraq War (later developed into the book and TV series Generation Kill). [more inside]
posted by paleyellowwithorange at 3:38 PM PST - 71 comments

Stressed out? Does the fast-paced world of today have your head spinning? Sit back and relax with the Finnish educational TV show "Hello, Hello, Hello," and the terrifyingly slow adventures of Stan and Dud. Clip most likely to cause childhood trauma : "I'm Cecil. She's Cissy." Most likely to mark you as a Finn who learned English from watching this show: "The cat's in the moon." [more inside]
posted by The corpse in the library at 2:44 PM PST - 13 comments

An interview with the man who banned in Boston, circa 1930. The New Republic is republishing a haul of classics from its archives in celebration of its 100th anniversary. In honor of banned books week, today's selection is a brief interview/profile of one of the U.S. Customs officials in charge of clearing books for circulation circa 1930. [more inside]
posted by Diablevert at 2:09 PM PST - 5 comments

This is the story of Greece's Robin Hood.
posted by michaelh at 1:41 PM PST - 10 comments

Life in Timbuktu: how the ancient city of gold is slowly turning to dust
(a long-form article from the Guardian with an accompanying photo gallery)

posted by tykky at 12:56 PM PST - 14 comments

Underviewed brings low-viewcount YouTube videos to the surface by searching for default filenames (such as IMG_003.MOV) in the title.
posted by me3dia at 12:45 PM PST - 41 comments

A Collection Of Disorientation Guides From Colleges Across North America. Unsanctioned student guides offer advice on the real college experience [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 12:26 PM PST - 24 comments

How to Read Hilda (with apologies to Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart)
posted by MartinWisse at 12:18 PM PST - 3 comments

S.F. inventor hopes to dress for success with 1-piece suit

Local developer Jesse Herzog has solved a problem most of us didn’t know we had. It’s kind of a trend with him. Simply put, Herzog has created an alternative to the tired old hoodie-and-jeans look that permeates the lofts and startups of San Francisco techie culture. It is — wait for it — the "suitsy." The suitsy is a pair of dress pants, a nice white shirt and jacket ... all sewn together. You step into it like a pair of mechanic’s coveralls, zip up the hidden zipper, and voila — you’re dressed for success.

You know how people say it’s a fine line between genius and crazy?

posted by Lexica at 12:17 PM PST - 208 comments

Feeding time for Calcifer.
posted by phunniemee at 11:40 AM PST - 12 comments

"One day I was hanging out with some SNL writers and cast members in the 17th-floor conference room. It was shortly after the writers had won an Emmy Award for the 1988-89 season. Phil Hartman, who had been a writer as well as a cast member for the winning season, marched in with an 8-by-10 photo of himself. It showed him cradling his Emmy Award in one arm and his newborn child in the other. He tossed the photo down in front of his good friend Jon Lovitz and said, "Check it out, Lovitz—two things you’ll never have." (SLSlate)
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 11:38 AM PST - 50 comments

All of Lanai's owners have sought, in one way or another, to refashion the island into a paradise on earth. Former Oracle CEO Larry Ellison hopes to transform it into the "first economically viable, 100% green community."
posted by ellieBOA at 11:32 AM PST - 17 comments

"That's my 'favourite' thing about music: encountering in the moment each artwork, however humble, already dignified by the sheer distinction of being incomparably human and thus, irreducibly, itself." 13 Reasons Why I Can't Pick My 13 Favourite Records, By Drew Daniel.
posted by naju at 11:23 AM PST - 27 comments

Insect photographer Alex Wild explains the effect of copyright infringement on his business; he has decided to give up commercial photography, partly due to the time he spends going after infringers. Alex Wild previously on MetaFilter.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 11:14 AM PST - 47 comments

KillBillreference is a YouTube account (apparently defunct) that curates clips of a handful of the movies that Quentin Tarantino has drawn reference from. Primarily these are references from Kill Bill, but other movies like Pulp Fiction sneak in as well. For example, Elle Driver's whistle song as it first appeared in Twisted Nerve, the music from O-Ren Ishii's origin story as it first appeared in I Lunghi Giorni Della Vendetta, an eye plucking scene from Five Fingers of Death, and Mia's square gesture from Pulp Fiction as originally performed by Betty Rubble. [more inside]
posted by codacorolla at 11:09 AM PST - 10 comments

This afternoon, the NAACP released "Born Suspect: Stop and Frisk Abuses & the Continued Fight to End Racial Profiling in America." (pdf) The report comes on the same day that Ferguson, MO Police Chief Thomas Jackson released this video, apologizing to the family of Michael Brown for the death of their son, and the day after South Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper Sean Groubert was arrested for opening fire on an unarmed Black man, Levar Jones, whom he had pulled over for a seat belt violation. [more inside]
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 10:41 AM PST - 100 comments

Ello is a new social network, currently in beta, that's quickly gotten a buzz in LBGTQ, activist and POC circles because of its privacy policy. In contrast to Facebook, real names are not required, and the site promises not to sell ads, or sell data about you to third parties. But to some activists, Ello, in its current state of development, is actually worse than what it aims to replace.
posted by monospace at 8:54 AM PST - 612 comments

Ray Rice Makeup Tutorial Learn all about how to cover up domestic violence just like the NFL and get a fresh face for fall. (DV trigger warnings).
posted by sweetkid at 8:53 AM PST - 15 comments

Exhibit B is a performance art piece by white South African Brett Bailey. The piece features black actors in still images depicting scenes of slavery and as asylum seekers in living installations that recall the human zoos (previously) of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. The piece has been highly controversial, it has attracted significant critical acclaim, being described by art critics as unbearable and essential and "hugely powerful, deeply unsettling, but vital viewing". [more inside]
posted by Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory at 8:44 AM PST - 21 comments

“Aspirational,” by Michael Frost for Vs. Magazine

"Vs. Magazine cover girl Kirsten Dunst stars in what is NOT your typical fashion film. Between late Ubers and selfie-obsessed fangirls, Kiki gives us a tongue-in-cheek look at celebrity culture and social media... Next time you take a selfie with your favorite star, think twice - unlike the girls in this film.

vsmagazinelive.com
posted by Fizz at 7:43 AM PST - 28 comments

Flotsam General Store: A Post-Structural Online Shopping Experience. A new thing by H. Jon Benjamin (previously) and Eugene Mirman (previously). Here's how it works: You send them money. They send you a sack with things in it. What things? Things they've made. No really what things? You'll have to order a sack to find out. [more inside]
posted by Cash4Lead at 7:37 AM PST - 66 comments

Dipdap is a children's BBC show for pre-schoolers. Completely wordless, it's a fairly delightful and surprisingly funny mixture of shape recognition, music and discovery (and lots of visual comedy), where "the line" draws a series of challenges and problems for Dipdap to solve. Here's every single episode of it.
posted by dng at 4:23 AM PST - 19 comments

KC Green, the cartoonist currently writing and drawing Gunshow and writing the pre-apocalyptic fantasy-western Back (with art from Nedroid's Anthony Clark) has embarked upon a third project: a chapter-by-chapter adaptation of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, currently up to the end of the book's first chapter. [more inside]
posted by BiggerJ at 3:00 AM PST - 6 comments