Where can I go online for custom vinyl decals?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Jimmie at 5:48 PM on August 25, 2007 (11 comments)

A song I wrote a couple of years ago as a tribute to my great uncle Bernard, who went down in a Halifax III during WWII. Oh hell. Just listen to the song to get the story.
posted to MeFi Music by LN at 5:03 PM on August 17, 2007 (17 comments)

SouthAfricaFilter: Do you / have you lived in ZA? I've recently moved here and I have questions. Also, general questions on cell phone usage across the continent...
posted to Ask MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 1:18 AM on August 23, 2007 (5 comments)

Is there someplace I can find some creative commons licensed adult photos?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 10:10 AM on August 22, 2007 (8 comments)

Camp Okutta: give your child a summer to remember!
posted to MetaFilter by generichuman at 9:34 AM on August 22, 2007 (34 comments)

What are the best free online resources for bicycle maintenance?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by kingtaj at 11:11 AM on August 22, 2007 (7 comments)

Make a DVD to play at 1 frame per minute?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bystander at 12:46 AM on August 22, 2007 (17 comments)

A beautifully-composed blog of wedding Photographer James Christianson
posted to MetaFilter by growabrain at 6:41 PM on August 21, 2007 (29 comments)

Content Aware Image Resizing. Every year SIGGRAPH rolls around I get a reminder of how smart everyone else is, especially people who do computer graphics research. From Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. The algorithm resizes images non-uniformly and, well, somewhat magically.
posted to MetaFilter by GuyZero at 7:29 PM on August 21, 2007 (94 comments)

How do I deep clean my stainless steel BBQ grill without causing damage to the surface?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by The Gooch at 4:57 PM on August 20, 2007 (9 comments)

After reading a few comments, I've decided to make the soundtrack to a video game that doesn't exist.
posted to MeFi Music by tehloki at 8:10 PM on August 12, 2007 (8 comments)

The Bender Brewer Project. Inspired by an episode of Futurama in which boozy robot Bender is used to brew beer, Star Wars ASCII animator Simon Janson decided to build his own Bender to use to brew his own beer. Among the many careful details that went into this project was to actually build the robot's brain out of a 6502 processor, as specified in the show, and to build a remote detonator to operate his brain.
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 10:29 PM on August 12, 2007 (24 comments)

What if someone broke into your house and killed your fish?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by fcummins at 4:31 PM on August 11, 2007 (43 comments)

Nazi Pop Twins is an eerie documentary that debuted this year on BBC's Channel Four about the neo-Nazi teen folk musicians, Prussian Blue. The girls are managed by a neo-Nazi stage mom from hell, and the girls already seem to be more interested in shopping at the mall than singing white power lyrics. One of the creepiest scenes includes the twin girls on a phone call with their prison "pen pal," David Lane, the Neo-Nazi convicted of the murder of radio talk show host, Alan Berg. Lane refers to the twin girls as his "fantasy sweethearts," raising issues about whether an obsession with genetic "purity" leads to pedophilia on the Racist Right. Watch the documentary on YouTube (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) (Warning: may be exposed to YouTube comments from racist asshats.)
posted to MetaFilter by jonp72 at 10:43 AM on August 11, 2007 (162 comments)

Amusing notes on the requirements for a doctoral thesis in theology at Fordham University This is actually from the Graduate Student Handbook.
posted to MetaFilter by zorro astor at 7:50 AM on August 10, 2007 (42 comments)

Anti-War Songs of the Vietnam Era
Alice's Restaurant [1] Ball of Confusion [2] Billy Don't Be a Hero [3] Blowin' in the Wind [4] Eve of Destruction [5] For What It's Worth [6] Fortunate Son [7] Give Peace a Chance [8] I Ain't Marching Anymore [9] I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixing-To-Die Rag [10] Imagine [11] Machine Gun [12] Masters of War [13] Ohio [14] One Tin Soldier [15] Stoned Love [16] The Unknown Soldier [17] War [18] War Pigs [19] What's Going On [20] Us and Them [21] Volunteers [22] With God On Our Side [23]
posted to MetaFilter by Poolio at 4:52 AM on August 8, 2007 (119 comments)

She's a mighty pretty woman. She's a funky dancer. She has hijinks with famous people and Orkans. She sings. She uses soap. She can bond with Janis Joplin and outswim a speargun (but not a boat). She fights. She has problems with buttons (and accents). She likes wigs. She's even a poker hand. And she looks dang good for 66.
posted to MetaFilter by miss lynnster at 12:56 AM on August 6, 2007 (43 comments)

John Lee Hooker performs Gloria and It Serves Me Right to Suffer with Van Morrison; I'm in the Mood with Bonnie Raitt; The Healer with Santana; Boogie Chilluns with the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton; and Roadhouse Blues with Jim Morrison & the Doors (audio only). [Also, Muddy Waters, Etta James and more blues legends & rock combos inside]
posted to MetaFilter by madamjujujive at 6:19 PM on August 5, 2007 (25 comments)

Grange Halls are common landmarks in America's rural communities. But what is a "Grange"? The Order of Patrons of Husbandry is a fraternal agricultural organization, but it's not just a social group for farmers; Grange lobbying fought railroad monopolies and led to Rural Free Delivery, the Farm Credit System, and other "progressive legislation that will benefit U.S. agriculture, rural America, and the nation in general". But after 140 years, the Grange is fading away.
posted to MetaFilter by litlnemo at 5:45 PM on July 30, 2007 (28 comments)

HONK! is a showcase and annual festival for a "new kind of street band": motley, theatrical, activist protest groups working within the marching band tradition. From this central site, link to video and audio from twenty bands currently playing in the "honk" genre, from New York's Rude Mechanical Orchestra to to Atlanta's Seed and Feed Marching Abominables to Portsmouth, NH's Leftist Marching Band. Heavy on the brass and percussion, rousing, raucous, and fun, these bands form part of a worldwide musical phenomenon.
posted to MetaFilter by Miko at 12:00 PM on July 30, 2007 (19 comments)

The best times to buy anything. The best places to do everything. The best seasons to eat everything. The best months to go anywhere or to go anywhere cheap. The best times of day to do anything. Also, the worst day to dine in New York, click delete without looking, fly, get arrested, and give birth.
posted to MetaFilter by blahblahblah at 11:53 PM on July 29, 2007 (12 comments)

Melissa May and I featuring our friends DJ Sku and Approach.
posted to MeFi Music by sleepy pete at 8:28 PM on July 20, 2007 (5 comments)

Made up especially for the current challenge. If you listen, it should be pretty clear how it fits into the theme.
posted to MeFi Music by snofoam at 5:03 PM on July 10, 2007 (8 comments)

Vinokourov. Rasmussen. Luke Bream?
Looks like he'll make it! [via]
posted to MetaFilter by Chuckles at 9:02 AM on July 26, 2007 (57 comments)

I'm looking for alternatives to some of the mass-market baby products. For example: using cloth table napkins as "burp cloths." And, can you buy decent disposable diapers in Canada?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by kmennie at 10:54 AM on July 23, 2007 (37 comments)

In the year 1982, Michael Jackson releases Thriller, which according to the Guinness Book of World Records[wikipedia], is the greatest selling album of all time. The 14 minute music video [youtube] was the longest/most expensive at the time, and was directed by filmmaker John Landis.[imdb] Details of the video here[wikipedia] Now onto the show. [all youtube links] Thriller with Legos. At a wedding. The tv show Good Morning America on the wedding version. At walmart. At another wedding. In Final Fantasy. More animatics. Professional dancers. More dancers. And More. Yup, more here. Even more dancers. Sigh. Even more dancers. And it's not just for 2 year olds. College students too. Penn State's Blue Band. The Bollywood Version. They even do it in Prison.
posted to MetaFilter by filmgeek at 6:11 AM on July 20, 2007 (28 comments)

A dangerously sappy populist paean to the great blue pylon where we like to have our pile-ons. Here's to eight more, you crazy website.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 3:29 PM on July 14, 2007 (14 comments)

Our own fandango_matt, of Metafilter design contest and multiple pissing elephant fame, has come up with his own Boy Scout inspired Metafilter safety guide.
posted to MetaTalk by Krrrlson at 10:25 AM on July 16, 2007 (184 comments)

"Terry had THC in her system-" THOCK! Some context to the bone-crunching event. Snopes confirms it.
posted to MetaFilter by Second Account For Making Jokey Comments at 10:04 PM on July 12, 2007 (63 comments)

What's the link between:
1) the quickly-growing number of American homeowners becoming unable to pay their mortgages after their ARM's reset (a trend nicknamed "ARMageddon" -- applicable in the UK too), which is translating into soaring foreclosure rates, and in turn forcing at least 60 US semi-shady mortgage brokers to go belly-up in the past year (i.e. the "subprime meltdown"), and...
2) the recent implosion and impending financial bailout -- which may become the biggest since the Long Term Capital Management fiasco of 1998 -- of two Bear Stearns hedge funds which dealt in mortgage securities? [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by Asparagirl at 5:13 PM on July 11, 2007 (122 comments)

Rob Rummel-Hudson is a likeable smartass, who's been blogging forever. He and Julie have a cute daughter, Schuyler. One day, she was diagnosed with a rare, serious neurological condition: Bilateral Perisylvian Polymicrogyria or, as they have come to call it, Schuyler's Monster. Rob continued his candid, passionate diary - at one point stirring the growing group of loyals to raise more than $10,000 dollars (in less than a month!), endowing Schuyler with a speech device (a.k.a. Big Box of Words). Slated for publication in 2008, as blogs-become-books go, this father/daughter story deserves a closer look.
posted to MetaFilter by progosk at 12:18 PM on July 11, 2007 (17 comments)

Pilot's eye view of a three day trip [Youtube]. A pilot at American Airlines made this video of his three-day trip from Boston to Paris and back so his young daughter could see where he worked. It's all shot from the pilot's perspective so there's plenty of eye candy for the aviation and gadget geeks. On his day off, fly4fun catches a cruise on a Bateux-Mouches river boat, sees the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, and grabs a few pints in Parisian pubs (including the expat bar, Le Mazet, where the last official sighting of Jim Morrison took place). It's all edited with iMovie and set to U2's Vertigo. [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by junesix at 10:05 PM on February 9, 2006 (44 comments)

In Yeah, Right! Spike Jonze takes the skateboarding montage to a whole new level. Check out Living Board. Invisible Boards. Slow motion introduction. Owen Wilson.
posted to MetaFilter by phaedon at 11:06 PM on July 8, 2007 (22 comments)

Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu build faithful, 3D versions of Escher prints using LEGOs: Relativity, Ascending and Descending, Waterfall, and Belvedere. (Only one of those four images required any photo manipulation to create its "Escher effect" -- can you tell which one, without scrolling down to see the descriptions on each page?) Other people's LEGO adventures: a playable harpsichord, the Golden Gate Bridge, and a portrait of Catwoman.
posted to MetaFilter by allterrainbrain at 2:18 AM on July 8, 2007 (17 comments)

The true story of Yamamoto Otokichi (or John Matthew Ottoson, a transliteration of "Oto-san"): a Japanese seaman who in 1832 got caught in a storm off the coast of Japan and ended up floating all the way across the Pacific, becoming the first Japanese (documented, at least) in North America. And that's only the introduction to his story. To get back to Japan he traveled around the world, setting many firsts for a Japanese native, and played a part as the inspiration for Commodore Matthew Perry and his "Black Ships." Although barely a footnote in history, in 2005 half of his ashes were brought back to Japan to rest in home soil.
posted to MetaFilter by switchsonic at 11:17 PM on July 4, 2007 (20 comments)

Celebrating George W. Bush's birthday ironically - any ideas for party games, trivia questions or otherwise?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Ash3000 at 8:59 AM on July 6, 2007 (29 comments)

Single Link YouTube post of some amazing South Korean(?) coordination.
posted to MetaFilter by Totally Zanzibarin' Ya at 8:20 AM on July 6, 2007 (35 comments)

Walking is a crazy animation of a character walking around the walls of an art gallery, where each frame of the animation was painted on the walls & then wiped clean for the next frame. Via.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 8:43 AM on July 6, 2007 (30 comments)

Another Geese song. I wrote this for my wife, who was meeting her father for the first time at age 36. Hope you like it!
posted to MeFi Music by grubi at 2:13 PM on June 24, 2007 (7 comments)

A song about the rain—I seem to write a lot of those—and for the inaugural round of the Mefi Music Challenge.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 6:24 PM on June 28, 2007 (16 comments)

This is my contribution to the Music Challenge. I started off wanting to write a song about how water is the best beverage ever, which made me think of filtered water, which made me think of Meta-Filtered water, and so on...
posted to MeFi Music by lazaruslong at 4:43 PM on June 29, 2007 (5 comments)

A song about underwater caves and the strange things that live in them. Me and my wife recording as Tangemeenie. Sorry, it's not new, but I wanted to play, too. And I use my guitar to do an impression of water in this song, so it just seemed to fit.
posted to MeFi Music by saulgoodman at 12:27 PM on June 30, 2007 (6 comments)

This is a slightly older song, released in '06, but I thought it fit the challenge. I wrote it shortly after moving to L.A. when I was awakened by a thunderstorm, and fell back asleep to some strange dreams... -Leland
posted to MeFi Music by danandleland at 8:30 PM on July 1, 2007 (7 comments)

a soulful meditation on a future where both water and human kindness are in scant supply.
posted to MeFi Music by kimyo at 7:16 PM on July 2, 2007 (22 comments)

sorry, this isn't new, but it's probably new to you! the backing vocals are "water, water, water, water...WIIIIIIINE!"
posted to MeFi Music by snofoam at 5:20 PM on July 5, 2007 (7 comments)

A song by my band, the Notes and Scratches, kind of about Vivian Eliot and featuring a bunch of water. I sing and play the acoustic and the harmonium.
posted to MeFi Music by verysleeping at 6:53 PM on July 5, 2007 (14 comments)

Portland meetup party is less than two weeks away, and I need to do a head count. If you're attending the 8th anniversary party, please RSVP on this page. Thanks!
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 3:17 PM on July 2, 2007 (126 comments)

I fought the law and the wheat won
posted to MetaFilter by Stynxno at 8:31 PM on July 3, 2007 (21 comments)

Can you cut a hole in a 3x5 card that's large enough to crawl through? Topological trickery and some other classic science experiments.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 6:42 AM on July 2, 2007 (39 comments)

UpdateFilter: while I was waiting in line for an iPhone with my friend yesterday (for him not for me) I was catching up on a little work. I was showing my friend the MeFi admin interface and someone looked over my shoulder and said "is that MetaFilter?" I said yes, was he a member? He said no but a video that he had made got linked on MeFi last February and had catapulted him to mini-stardom for a few weeks. He gave me some backstory on the movie....
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 1:58 PM on June 30, 2007 (73 comments)