Moneygami. Money folded to look like people wearing hats. (Via.)
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 2:07 PM on December 16, 2007 (21 comments)

Photographs taken on the set of Twin Peaks by Richard Beymer (who played Benjamin Horne).
posted to MetaFilter by Prospero at 11:05 AM on December 6, 2007 (61 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)

The American Sign Museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and documenting historic and vintage signs from the American landscape.
posted to MetaFilter by fandango_matt at 10:26 AM on November 29, 2007 (13 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)

I have a couple of different .avi files I want to play… and for the life of me I cannot get them to work.
posted to Ask Metafilter by t0astie at 4:45 AM on November 19, 2007 (13 comments)

The website of ethnomusicologist Robert Garfias is a treasure trove of mp3 sound recordings and short realplayer film clips of traditional music from all over the world, including Japan, India, Mexico, Turkey, Albania, Okinawa, Spain, Burma, Alaska, Sudan, Venezuela, Spain and many more. Garfias' field recordings are illustrated with his photographs.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 11:26 PM on November 17, 2007 (14 comments)

I belong to a New Wave forum in which someone asked for help IDing this song (YouTube). Four years later, after exhaustive searching, it's still a mystery.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kimdog at 7:04 PM on November 4, 2007 (25 comments)

During its run, Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffed on over 50 short films. Almost all of them are now on YouTube or Google Video. See the list (shamelessly cribbed from here) inside for links.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 12:38 PM on October 24, 2007 (148 comments)

*M*I*R*R*O*R* *W*O*R*L*D* Photographs Of Unknown Origin [NSFW]
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian at 5:46 PM on October 12, 2007 (86 comments)

Crime and punishment - a curiously compelling and quirky collection of historic crime photos, including unusual mugshots, corpses & crime scenes. A few favorite characters: idle and disorderly persons; "something amazing" about Harry; a cocky quartet; an illicit drug trader who "drives his own motor car and dresses well"; a subject who refused to open his eyes; charged with conspiring to procure a miscarriage; and guilty of unlawfully possessing cocaine.
This is just one of many marvelous vintage image sets from a historical consultant from Amsterdam - a mammoth treasure trove!
posted to MetaFilter by madamjujujive at 5:50 AM on October 3, 2007 (39 comments)

Dick "Two Ton" Baker is a Chicago legend who had a long career in radio, records, and children's television. He was a child prodigy, a beloved radio host, and looked upon with favor by none other than Duke Ellington. He also made some really terrifically funny music. Check out mp3 versions of "I Like Stinky Cheese," "Civilization" (a hit for Danny Kaye), the classic "I'm a Little Weenie," and many others, all sung in Two Ton's terrifically expressive baritone. Go easy on this site's bandwidth, though. Check out also the collection of press clippings and articles about Two Ton, a lovingly compiled discography (.PDF), and then, because you know you want 'em, buy some CDs of the great man's music. Oh, and did I mention that it's Two Ton's voice you hear on the classic piece of Cold War "let's make nuclear annihilation palatable to the kiddies!" Americana "Duck and Cover"? Well, it is!
posted to MetaFilter by Dr. Wu at 8:25 PM on May 17, 2005 (7 comments)

A song about bringing the soldiers home from Iraq. Defies commentary. YouTubers don't seem to get the joke. The Garance has background details.
posted to MetaFilter by commander_cool at 11:43 PM on April 14, 2007 (41 comments)

How to convert a Blogger blog to a printed book?
posted to Ask Metafilter by papercake at 8:29 AM on August 15, 2007 (3 comments)

Hey all, long time listener, first time caller. So... um. Yea. Yesterday while at work I leaned back in my chair and stuck my foot up in the corner of the underside of my desk. I felt something funny and leaned down to check it out.... somebody installed a webcam pointed at my crotch. Yay.
posted to Ask Metafilter by hatchetjack at 8:20 AM on July 31, 2007 (61 comments)

Ideas for photographing the Perseid meteor shower next month? Bonus points for a good place to watch in South Louisiana.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ultraultraboomerang at 1:57 PM on July 26, 2007 (8 comments)

A fitness question re: gaining muscle mass. [more inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Gyan at 10:02 AM on May 18, 2004 (16 comments)

I want to be stronger and more physically fit. So I've heard weight training is the way to go. As a complete n00b, where/how do I start?
posted to Ask Metafilter by zippity at 8:32 PM on November 12, 2006 (23 comments)

What do you do with all your photos? I have years of printed photos (pre-digital camera) that I'm slowly getting into albums, and a year or more of digital photos that are dumped on my computer but not organized.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bibbit at 9:51 AM on September 2, 2005 (14 comments)

Looking for good, clean comedians.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mrs. Smith at 5:49 AM on June 4, 2007 (35 comments)

Chinese crime stories, staged, and photographed. (NSFW)
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 2:15 PM on May 21, 2007 (16 comments)

Scary windows boot problem: why does it reboot in the middle of every boot cycle all of a sudden? How can I save my computer without tearing it apart first?
posted to Ask Metafilter by koeselitz at 12:06 AM on May 13, 2007 (10 comments)

Windows shutdown hangs doesnt close explorer.exe! Please help me get windows shutdown to behave properly.
posted to Ask Metafilter by LoopyG at 7:07 PM on April 25, 2007 (20 comments)

The star who never was. Part rock and roll history and part cautionary tale, the story of Marcus is too compelling to ignore. Well.... maybe not, but it's worth the read.
posted to MetaFilter by elwoodwiles at 3:12 PM on May 16, 2005 (11 comments)

A young mother and her son's losing battle with cancer in twenty photographs. Renee C. Byer of the Sacramento Bee is the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature and deservedly so. If you find these photgraphs as moving as I do, let me just go ahead and point you to the National Childhood Cancer Foundation and the Hospice Foundation of America.
posted to MetaFilter by Heminator at 4:11 PM on April 18, 2007 (82 comments)

I have found it impossible to grasp the concept of CSS. A friend taught me to hand code HTML, then I taught myself how to use Dreamweaver. I love HTML and design nice looking sites that are full of tables, repeated font tags, etc. I really want and need to move on. I want to learn CSS, but it just does not sink into my pea-brain. I've tried various online tutorials but just can't stay interested, mainly because I get lost pretty quickly into the tutorial. Certainly it can't be that difficult, what can I do to make this easier for me to absorb?
posted to Ask Metafilter by luckyshirl at 1:46 PM on March 27, 2007 (42 comments)

That ain't bad for two weeks work and 75,000 pounds. On this day in 1977, after being with the label for just six days, punk pioneers The Sex Pistols were fired from A&M Records due to pressure from other label artists and its Los Angeles head office. 25,000 copies of ‘God Save The Queen’ were pressed and the band made £75,000 ($127,500) from the deal, thus cementing the legend of the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle. Under pressure by Conservative MP Robert Adley among others due to their outrageous behavior - specifically, their notorious performance on ITV Today with Bill Grundy - EMI had dumped the band in January. Also appearing on television with Grundy and the Pistols that day were members of the Bromley Contingent: Siouxsie Sioux and Steve Severin, who later formed Siouxsie and the Banshees.
posted to MetaFilter by psmealey at 4:33 AM on March 16, 2007 (60 comments)

I'm looking for a new digital SLR that I can use with my existing lenses, which works well in general and low-light situations...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Rothko at 11:00 PM on June 22, 2005 (22 comments)

A poll that the GOP is actually winning Reagan?! What is happening to The Atlantic?
posted to MetaFilter by papoon at 5:56 AM on November 9, 2006 (85 comments)

metafilter parody. no comment from me, i'll leave that to everyone else.
posted to MetaFilter by will at 10:32 AM on August 24, 2001 (1729 comments)

I'm looking for the story beind an album cover for (i think) a death metal band. The picture on the cover was supposedly taken by one band member posing with another band member that had committed suicide.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bob sarabia at 1:12 AM on October 20, 2006 (5 comments)

KevinSkomsvold wins...
posted to MetaTalk by machaus at 6:29 AM on May 9, 2002 (38 comments)

This site was shown to me by my good friend Chris Capuozzo over at Funny Garbage. One of his students made it and that is all I knew to check. Now if I did not have to go and ink a sketch of a boombox carrying robot, I would make a few commix.
posted to MetaFilter by RubberHen at 8:54 PM on September 30, 2006 (29 comments)

I'm confused - I want to plan for my retirement and have got as far as applications for a 401k and a Roth IRA; but then it all goes hideously wrong....
posted to Ask Metafilter by forallmankind at 4:22 PM on August 13, 2006 (19 comments)

There's a funny short film or ad or viral video from a few years back that takes place in an office. It's in a board room or meeting...
posted to Ask Metafilter by wsg at 1:04 AM on August 9, 2006 (5 comments)

Photosynth is a new image processing technology from Microsoft that takes a collection of images (say, of a famous location), analyzes them for similarities & rebuilds the location in virtual space for the user to fly though, zooming in on details, panning around like a 3D Hockney piece. Video of how it works here.
posted to MetaFilter by lilbrudder at 10:02 AM on July 29, 2006 (83 comments)

Unabridged audio readings (by celebrities) of Dr Seuss stories: Yertle the Turtle (7min). Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (2min). One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (8min). I Can Read With My Eyes Shut (2min). I'm Not Going to Get Up Today (3min). Oh Say Can You Say? (8min). The Cat in the Hat (8min). Green Eggs and Ham (5min). Hop on Pop (5min). Fox in Socks (7min). Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are (8min). Dr. Seuss's ABC (5min). The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (9min). Clicking Sample is ample you see, the first 10 mins are free to you and me.
posted to MetaFilter by stbalbach at 11:39 AM on July 2, 2006 (24 comments)