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The World's Smallest Snowman
is 10 µm across, 1/5th the width of a human hair. The snowman was made from two tin beads used to calibrate electron microscope astigmatism. The eyes and smile were milled using a focused ion beam, and the nose, which is under 1 µm wide (or 0.001 mm), is ion beam deposited platinum.
posted to MetaFilter by netbros
at 8:05 PM on December 19, 2009
(35 comments)
Alt-Printscreen, load photo software, paste, crop, navigate browser to image host, browse for file, upload. Yeesh, so much work. Want free and "seriously instant" screen-grabbing or screen-casting? Then you'll be glad to know two pieces of software have recently
cropped up to streamline the whole process: (
open-sourced)
Gyazo for instantly hosted screen-grabs, or (
free)
Jing, likewise, for
screen-grabs and screen-casts.
posted to MetaFilter by tybeet
at 8:45 AM on December 1, 2009
(17 comments)
How will we be prepped for war with Iran?
Winter/Spring - The clone army of foreign policy "experts" from conservative foreign policy outfits nobody ever heard of before suddenly appear on all the cable news programs all the time, frowning furiously and expressing concerns about the "grave threat" that Iran poses. Never before heard of Iranian exile group members start appearing regularly, talking about their role in the nuclear program and talking up Iran's human rights violations....
posted to MetaFilter by kgasmart
at 12:30 PM on January 14, 2006
(271 comments)
This is how an American soldier is made. A fascinating photo essay that details 27 months in the life of new US Army recruit Ian Fisher. It chronicles his recruitment, induction, training, deployment and finally, his return from combat.
posted to MetaFilter by Effigy2000
at 2:29 PM on November 3, 2009
(65 comments)
iNudge
Is a software music toy that lets you create and share short snippets of music.
posted to MetaFilter by empath
at 12:33 AM on September 25, 2009
(21 comments)
Tomorrow,
Monopoly City Streets begins,
introducing a
world-wide game combining google maps and the classic family fight-starter. Buy any street in the world, build houses, hotels and more. Remember, property always goes up, and your siblings always cheat.
posted to MetaFilter by pompomtom
at 10:01 PM on September 7, 2009
(25 comments)
Fancy Fast Food.
Fast food reconstructed into (something that looks like) fine cuisine. Recipes included, for those who dare.
posted to MetaFilter by Silune
at 1:30 PM on July 14, 2009
(67 comments)
Everyone has been in bad family photos, but sometimes a photo goes beyond bad and becomes
awkward.
posted to MetaFilter by WinnipegDragon
at 10:30 AM on May 8, 2009
(77 comments)
On March 7, 2009,
TornadoVideos.net (TVN) launched the beta version of their
Live Streaming system. It's an interactive map that tracks each member of the TVN team as they criss-cross the country chasing storms, complete with live video. You can
sign up (main page, top left: "Chase notifications") to be alerted when a chase is in progress.
posted to MetaFilter by nitsuj
at 1:22 PM on March 25, 2009
(8 comments)
Kutiman, the masterful Israeli funk musician and producer, outdoes himself by creating
Thru-You: Multiple YouTube clips (mostly instructional and performance videos) edited into slick mega-mashups. They're not just patchwork assemblages, they're sample-based original creations that coud hold their own on anyone's album... Plus they're 100% audiovisual! It's a work of next-level genius.
(
sorry for the hyperbole, but my mind has just been blown)
More Kutiman
here. Music video
here. And for you Pitchfork aficionados,
here.
posted to MetaFilter by Silky Slim
at 12:58 AM on March 4, 2009
(171 comments)
Message :
my friend show me, i show metafilter. why no?
posted to MetaTalk by pita
at 7:38 PM on February 11, 2009
(8 comments)
For comedic purposes, I need some of that breezy music you often hear in the background of 50's educational films, usually strings. Youtube is probably not an option because I need the 'pure' version without talking, sound effects, etc. already dubbed over it. I'm thinking it might be somewhere in the Henry Mancini realm but not sure. Any thoughts you have would be just
swell.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 2:44 PM on December 25, 2008
(14 comments)
DOOM is a 3D adventure game with arcade-style elements. It was programmed for computers running
DOS Flash 10. Here's the plot: your character is a Space Marine on the planet Mars, who uses guns his fist, and even a chainsaw to kill monsters from another dimension.
posted to MetaFilter by Smart Dalek
at 5:30 AM on December 4, 2008
(85 comments)
I've been browsing through a website whose pages are set up to be viewed as indexes/directories with no HTML. Many of the files listed are image files, and I'd like to be able to see them without having to click on each one individually. Is there some kind of add-on or plugin that will automatically show thumbnails of all the images on the page or am I stuck clicking on each one?
posted to Ask Metafilter by elfgirl
at 9:49 PM on November 23, 2008
(6 comments)
In the years after leaving MST, Joel Hodgson of Mystery Science Theater, and his "smarter brother" Jim Hodgson, worked on a new movie-repurposing concept for USA Networks. The introduction for the test clip read:
"
The Jolly Filter segment is a proof of concept test for a new film process. You will first view 2 minutes of the original film 'Rollercoaster' and then the same 2 minutes utilizing the JollyFilter technique.
"Note: If you find yourself getting bored during the original 'Rollercoaster' footage, don't worry, this is normal."
(SLYT, but an awesome one.)
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris
at 7:17 PM on July 27, 2008
(50 comments)
Fun with Google: The FBI
released the name of the suspected midwest pipe bomber today: Luke Helder, Rochester, Minnesota. The Internet tells us Luke has a
rock and roll band too. The band's CD is titled, interestingly enough, "Sacks of People."
posted to MetaFilter by werty
at 9:38 AM on May 7, 2002
(51 comments)
2 July 1863, second day of
Gettysburg. Sickles has pulled his III Corps -- without orders -- off of Cemetery Ridge and positioned it a half mile in front of the rest of the Union lines. Longstreet smashes the hapless III Corps and its men are in full flight. Hancock rides back and forth inside the gaping hole left by Sickles. Below him, almost 2000 men of Wilcox's brigade are charging up the slope. They will gain a foothold on the ridge and be reinforced by Lee. As Longstreet pins down the Union left, Lee will roll up the center and right of the Northern army and chase them from the field. He will then march on and take Washington before turning north along the eastern seaboard. Lee will capture and burn Philadelphia and Boston in his March Along the Sea, chasing the Northern government from city to city until Lincoln finally sues for peace and the union is no more.
Suddenly, a line of blue-coated soldiers comes into Hancock's view. "My God, is this all the men here? Who are you?" "
1st Minnesota, sir." "See those colors?", says Hancock, pointing at the flags of the oncoming Confederates, "Take them."
posted to MetaFilter by forrest
at 5:45 AM on July 2, 2008
(82 comments)
Do you enjoy classic 2D platformers? Then boy, are you in luck! The
indie game community is thriving, and a good majority of its games are exactly that. I've spent many hours playing these unique, beautiful, and often exceptional projects, and there's quite a few - more than I can count on my fingers! - that could stand toe-to-toe with the finest contemporary games. Inside is a list of some of the greatest indie platformers, based on community recommendations and my own experience. Enjoy!
posted to MetaFilter by archagon
at 3:28 AM on June 24, 2008
(48 comments)
FridayFun: This
game is absolutely ridiculous, but you'll enjoy it anyway! (
Via)
posted to MetaFilter by P.o.B.
at 9:31 PM on June 19, 2008
(33 comments)
Flickr!
First launched during the week of no-metafilter, Flickr is a new kind of social software application (in the tradition of
Friendster or
Orkut) - but, after making friends and forming
groups, it actually gives you something to do! Created by a team led by Mefi's own
sylloge, Flickr is also a collaboration focused Flash-based application that allows you to share picture files with friends, comment on them and post them
directly to
your weblog. An exposed
set of services is also leading to a host of interesting
ideas.
posted to MetaFilter by vacapinta
at 9:47 AM on March 12, 2004
(16 comments)
Salary history questions: the job listing requests resume, cover letter and salary history. What is the most elegant/least awkward way to list the history? Also, I've been a freelance consultant for several years, what is the best way for the self-employed to list a salary?
posted to Ask Metafilter by birdlady
at 1:38 PM on May 15, 2008
(9 comments)
A woman walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a double entendre, so he gave it to her.
Ba-dum dum.
What's green and has wheels? Grass. I lied about the wheels.
Ba-dum dum. A baby seal walks into a club.
(pause) Ba-dum dum. How many kids with ADD does it take to change a lightbulb? LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
Ba-dum dum. A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What is this, some kind of joke?"
Ba-dum dum. Instant Rimshot. For all those times you need a big red Flash button that'll give you a well-timed rimshot.
(Jokes courtesy of Ask Mefi.)
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 7:10 PM on May 12, 2008
(249 comments)
The Times Machine allows easy browsing of every edition from 70 years (1851-1922) worth of New York Times in the original format. Very cool.
posted to MetaFilter by peacay
at 6:01 AM on February 25, 2008
(44 comments)
"
Square America is a site dedicated to preserving and displaying vintage snapshots from the first 3/4s of the 20th Century. Not only do these photographs contain a wealth of primary source information on how life was lived they also constitute a shadow history of photography, one too often ignored by museums and art galleries."
via
posted to MetaFilter by peacay
at 2:21 PM on July 19, 2005
(21 comments)
Plane crashes in to the word trade center.
Apologies for not linking to anything besides the main CNN page but there are no full stories on this yet. The plane crashed into the building about six minutes ago, from what the TV is saying. We are about sixty blocks north and we can see the smoke over the skyline.
posted to MetaFilter by karen
at 5:58 AM on September 11, 2001
(491 comments)
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