Chris Ware animates a segment of an episode of the new This American Life television show. [previously: Chris Ware, This American Life on TV, Chris Ware on This American Life’s radio program]
posted to MetaFilter by ijoshua at 12:23 PM on March 20, 2007 (32 comments)

Tap Project. What if every glass of water you drank quenched someone else's thirst? Looks like its only official in NYC restaurants this Thursday, but hopefully it will expand to other cities.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 8:56 AM on March 20, 2007 (20 comments)

Can't sleep, Turkish Star Wars will eat me [IMDb, previously]
posted to MetaFilter by thirteenkiller at 9:24 AM on March 19, 2007 (49 comments)

WTFCNN?
posted to MetaFilter by chunking express at 7:10 AM on March 19, 2007 (73 comments)

Hey, on your way to work tomorrow, instead of sitting around with your finger up your a$$, look around. There's a union out there called AFSCME and they're busting their balls for you doing all the sh*t work you take for granted.
posted to MetaFilter by milarepa at 9:16 PM on March 18, 2007 (50 comments)

A three part biography of skateboarder Rodney Mullen. He invented more than 30 tricks, including the flatground ollie, the kickflip, and the heelflip. Despite being voted the most legendary "extreme sports" athlete of all time, the only extreme thing about him is his reclusive, geeky, devotion to practice.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 6:56 AM on March 11, 2007 (27 comments)

I'm thinking about taking some time off between jobs to travel around the U.S., and I'd like to see some robots.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by logicpunk at 8:40 AM on March 13, 2007 (9 comments)

"I've often been asked what when through my mind when I first realized that I had stumbled across the greatest accumulation of Golden Age comics ever discovered. Frankly, even after 25 years have gone by, it still gives me chills to think about staring at that huge closet stacked to the rafters with mint Golden Age comics. " In 1977, a 21 year old comic book dealer in Colorado named Chuck Rozanski got a phone call from a realtor who wanted to dispose of a "large" number of comic books in the basement of a house that was about to be sold. The owners of the house were eager to get rid of them, and Rozanski purchased the "greatest comic collection ever found" , consisting of over 18,000 mint condition Golden Age comic books collected by artist Edgar Church, for a bargain price (rumored to be as low as $1,800). Recently, just one comic book from the collection sold for $273,125. Rozanski used the proceeds to build Mile High Comics, now the largest comic book retailer in the industry. Amazing as the Mile High discovery was, Rozanski still believes that his "Mile High II" find was his best.
posted to MetaFilter by banishedimmortal at 6:19 AM on March 9, 2007 (84 comments)

Sea Squirt Regrows Entire Body from One Blood Vessel. Most famous as the creature that settles down and eats its own brain (though that is not exactly correct), it appears the humble sea squirt has spectacular regenerative abilities as well, thanks to regeneration niches packed with stem cells. All glory to the sea squirt!
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus at 9:58 PM on March 6, 2007 (19 comments)

Lancelot the Living Unicorn (actually a white angora goat whose horn buds were grafted onto the center of its skull by mystic Oberon Zell-Ravenheart), a popular attraction of the Marin County Renaissance Faire, Marine World Africa USA and Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, continues to elicit fond memories in spite of being exhibited by a horrific murderer.
posted to MetaFilter by Chinese Jet Pilot at 12:29 PM on March 5, 2007 (28 comments)

The second song from the new 23rd Century album. This one is written by The Platypus.
posted to MeFi Music by tcobretti at 5:12 AM on November 17, 2006 (5 comments)

A second pretty much complete song for the RPM Challenge. Fancy ears will be able to pick out my attempt at learning to play the Cuatro that was hand-delivered to my front door from the awesome and amazing Micayetoca in Venezuela.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat at 2:28 PM on February 23, 2007 (42 comments)

TMI question about cat behavior: Has anybody ever had a cat whose behavior seems to change with certain, um, phases in your (or your female partner's) menstrual cycle? (more inside)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 10:39 AM on March 5, 2007 (14 comments)

Christel Assante carves eggshells into extraordinary pieces of art. SculptorRon Cheruka , who goes by the nickname "the egg man," also works in the medium of eggshell, but he is not quite as talented in my opinion, a Salieri to Assante's Mozart.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 10:36 PM on March 4, 2007 (17 comments)

Tragic news from one of our own. May I be the first to suggest we get a best answer for this question and make donations as a group? I don't know what else to do. Ideas?
posted to MetaTalk by Ambrosia Voyeur at 4:20 PM on March 3, 2007 (25 comments)

How do I expose my 2 1/2 year old son to people who have handicaps, or chronic illnesses like CP or MS?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by MrMulan at 10:14 AM on March 2, 2007 (32 comments)

Saturn is gorgeous. And humans have never seen it from this angle before. (Full sized version)
posted to MetaFilter by Steven C. Den Beste at 9:37 AM on March 2, 2007 (40 comments)

Steampunk Star Wars. An ongoing series of drawings by Eric Poulton of Star Wars characters redone in the style of Jules Verne era sci-fi. Sadly only three have been done, so far, but hopefully more to come. Via
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 1:24 PM on March 1, 2007 (46 comments)

"Inexplicably, a man in a Superman costume could be seen walking around the car, but he did not stop to help the driver or any of the victims."
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 9:59 AM on February 28, 2007 (47 comments)

In Part III What's Happening To The News of Frontline's four part series News War, there came, during one of several discussions of the impact of the internet upon the news, a montage of screenshots of various websites, weblogs and community weblogs. MetaFilter was one of them. I seen it! Now should that be a little Woot! worthy or what?
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl at 11:48 PM on February 27, 2007 (52 comments)

Jen Stark creates sculptures from construction paper.
posted to MetaFilter by solistrato at 7:28 PM on February 27, 2007 (31 comments)

What do you feel is the biggest case, or group of cases, concerning online censorship and a breach of first ammendment rights to happen in the past five years?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by fvox13 at 3:07 PM on February 26, 2007 (11 comments)

The 100 Worst Porn Movie Titles ! (NSFW, masturbating cartoon chihuahua)
posted to MetaFilter by granted at 9:52 PM on February 25, 2007 (62 comments)

In 1971 Delancey Street began with four residents, a thousand dollar loan, and a dream to develop a new model to turn around the lives of substance abusers, former felons, and others who have hit bottom by empowering the people with the problems to become their own solution. With no professionals, no government funding, and at no charge to the clients, Delancey Street Foundation has rehabilitated and provided job skills to thousands of former drug addicts and criminals. They have a successful moving company, a well loved (although not necessarily critically acclaimed) restaurant, a thriving Christmas tree business, and a partnership with the local state university. Founded in the heady radical days of the early 70s, they've had a few bumps along the way, (cofounder John Maher died of a drug overdose) but they are one of the most well respected models for rehabilitation in the world. In recent news, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom has been spending a lot of time there.
posted to MetaFilter by serazin at 11:37 AM on February 25, 2007 (24 comments)

Some Friday night entertainment:
• Baby Got Back - Gilbert and Sullivan Style (mp3) (youtube) (wmv) (via)
• George W Bush Role Playing: Screw America (youtube) NSFW
• Cancer Has Become the Number One Killer Disease (pdf) (youtube) (flash) (via)
posted to MetaFilter by sequential at 8:32 PM on February 23, 2007 (27 comments)

This is a thing i was inspired to make by an active desktop item that was floating around a long time ago. The idea is this is the online version of that giant wall that the bad guys in movies, evil scientists, mad doctors etc. stare at when they plot. It's got a sinister feel to it and I am adding new modules each week.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by joelf at 9:59 PM on February 6, 2007

Super Deluxe has recently launched. It offers the original comedic content up and coming comedians, animators and actors. Professor Brothers - Bible History by Brad Neely is just plain hilarious.
posted to MetaFilter by ssklyar at 8:00 AM on January 24, 2007 (11 comments)

What should we get Erich for his birthday? How about a desk set with a radio, a thermometer disguised as a TV mast, a clock topped with a tank, a calendar, and four ballpoint pens disguised as missiles. Iconographia socialistica from the GDR.
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian at 2:09 PM on February 21, 2007 (16 comments)

"That is an American salute?" "It will be." n July 1935 Heinz Spanknobel's Friends of New Germany (FONG) established Camp Siegfried in "Yip Yip" Yaphank, Long Island (postcard). The Camp Siegfried Special left Penn Station every Sunday at 8:00; tens of thousands of summer campers enjoyed Nazi salutes, Nazi rallies, and Nazi swimming. [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha at 12:32 PM on February 21, 2007 (48 comments)

Today is the centenary of W.H. Auden, one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Why not commemorate it by attending one of the many events honoring the man and marking the day? Auden wrote about anything and everything; his poems addressed such topics as the advent of World War II ("September 1, 1939", which gained new resonance after 9/11), grief ("Funeral Blues", used to great effect in Four Weddings and a Funeral), physics ("After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics"), commencement addresses ("Under Which Lyre: A Reactionary Tract for the Times") unrequited love ("The More Loving One"), and the way life goes on ("Musée des Beaux Arts"). [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by Vidiot at 10:57 PM on February 20, 2007 (36 comments)

I am looking for a Yeah Yeah Yeah's acoustic performance. MAPS. It has dissappeared off Youtube and I am dying. Its Karen Oh and the guitarist. Its like a sit down session, not a true live show. In the beginning of the video she holds her hair in front of her face like a mustache and says "its karen OOOOHHHH". Its deadly. Please help me find a link to the video somewhere.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cascando at 10:16 AM on February 20, 2007 (10 comments)

The 50 most underplayed and under-appreciated rap tracks according to ohword.com, all in one download. Some of my favorite hip-hop music blogs. For those who aren't hip-hop fans, an exhaustive list of MP3 blogs.
posted to MetaFilter by rollbiz at 6:34 PM on February 18, 2007 (26 comments)

The Design Disease "People with the disease will always choose books by their covers."
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva at 8:30 PM on February 18, 2007 (91 comments)

I absolutely love Firefox Smart Keyword Searches. Beyond just the default preinstalled ones, I also use custom ones for easynews, rottentomatoes, metafilter, etc. Here's my question: Is it possible to launch these from the command line in OS X? For example, ideally I would enter (into a bash prompt) rt apple to open a new tab in firefox with a search result for "Apple" in rotten tomatoes, like this.. Similarly, I would like to be able to enter easy creative commons to have it launch the keyword bookmark "easy" which searches easynews global for "creative commons". Is this possible to do, preferably without using Applescript or Automator?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by crazyray at 8:33 PM on February 19, 2007 (14 comments)

Thanks to two class cancellations due to ice storms in the Capital, I was able to arrange and record this Valentine's day treat. Imagine Huey Lewis, baritone, with a banjo.
posted to MeFi Music by The White Hat at 6:13 AM on February 14, 2007 (5 comments)

In The Air Tonight. Acapella R&B group Naturally 7 perform their version of the Phil Collins classic on a Paris Metro.
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 2:09 PM on February 17, 2007 (75 comments)

I need examples of bad design.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by quadog at 11:51 AM on February 15, 2007 (62 comments)

If I was on one of the jetBlue flights that sat on the tarmac for nine hours and I demanded to be let off the plane, isn't it against the law if they detain me?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by flyingcowofdoom at 9:25 AM on February 16, 2007 (73 comments)

One key to rule them all - As if the previous crack wasn't enough, now it's been discovered that there's a single key that can crack all HD-DVD and Blu-ray DVDs.
posted to MetaFilter by Steven C. Den Beste at 2:06 PM on February 15, 2007 (66 comments)

Seb Przd's photos specialising in delightful and mind-bending spherical panoramas and conformal mappings.
posted to MetaFilter by MetaMonkey at 6:21 AM on February 15, 2007 (10 comments)

An ode to some of the more vibrant personas and memorable events in Metafilter history -- and an homage to the classic tune by The Nails. Lyrics with tremendous amounts of annotation inside.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 10:47 PM on February 14, 2007 (93 comments)

What great advice, words of wisdom, and welcome would you give to new parents and their new baby.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Mom at 6:03 AM on May 2, 2005 (48 comments)

On the trappings of being a songwriter, and the fleeting nature of things. Ripping pages from the poets you admire.
posted to MeFi Music by goodnewsfortheinsane at 5:33 PM on February 11, 2007 (8 comments)

dlog is a new document visualization system that attempts to show writing not as a static document but a progression of frames over time. I find the suspense of the process mesmerising/delightful. I'm surprised it hasn't been trashed.
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian at 4:11 AM on February 13, 2007 (30 comments)

"You're really smart!" Psychologist Carol Dweck says that praising a child for being smart only teaches the kid to avoid any effort that might fail. "When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart, don't risk making mistakes." Malcolm Gladwell chimes in with his thoughts on the importance of being a smart kid, "What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement."
posted to MetaFilter by revgeorge at 7:15 AM on February 13, 2007 (216 comments)

Dude gives a homeless friend a camera. Months later, dude receives prints in the mail.
posted to MetaFilter by tylermoody at 4:20 PM on February 11, 2007 (63 comments)

Track aircraft visually or listen to live air traffic control.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse at 10:13 AM on February 11, 2007 (7 comments)

A rough structural demo of one of the songs I've written this month. Catchy, upbeat reflection on the simpler, softer times of my highschool musical upbringing. Imagine this with a dozen people clapping and singing along. And maybe an awesome guitar solo. I've still got three weeks, after all.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 8:00 AM on February 8, 2007 (35 comments)

The Gummy Bears pool on Flickr is more compelling than I first expected it to be.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 6:47 PM on February 7, 2007 (29 comments)

RONJA is an optical networking device that can be built by nearly everyone, using readily available components and using only free software.
posted to MetaFilter by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:45 AM on February 7, 2007 (22 comments)