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Roger Ebert reflects on "Siskel & Ebert", its origins, and his departed friend and enemy, on the occasion of his show's ending (after many permutations and forms). And they're taking the thumbs with them.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 9:55 AM on July 24, 2008
(86 comments)
Butch Cassidy wanted to call his gang The Train Robber's Syndicate, but the name never stuck. The gang's core members - most notable among them
The Sundance Kid - and a revolving cast of supporting outlaws were most commonly called The
Hole-in-the-Wall Gang and
The Wild Bunch, and their goal was to be the most successful train robbers in history. The
Butch and Sundance site is a comprehensive collection of "the hundreds, if not thousands, of theories, legends and folk tales" surrounding the gang, including an exhaustive
list of biographies of the members, their associates, the lawmen who pursued them and the women who loved them, an
archive of transcribed news articles dating from the 1880s (including a
letter to the editor from Sundance himself), a
picture gallery and more.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 11:39 PM on July 22, 2008
(26 comments)
I started following hundredpushups.com today. I'd like an exercise plan along those lines to follow on the off days to work my abs. Is there a hundredsit-ups-type plan? Are sit-ups even the best way to strengthen my abs? I'm only looking for exercises that I can do at home without equipment and without much space.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cheerwine
at 7:03 PM on July 13, 2008
(12 comments)
I Met the Walrus
In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. This is the whimsically animated film that Jerry has produced about the interview.
posted to MetaFilter by milestogo
at 2:31 PM on July 6, 2008
(26 comments)
Are you, like many others this summer, considering avoiding the costs & hassles of pricey foreign or domestic travel by having a "
staycation" at home? Daily Show commenter John Hodgman (ably backed by Jonathan Coulton on the strings)
enumerates the benefits of a "Holistay" (much better name) to help you make your choice.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson
at 9:37 AM on June 12, 2008
(41 comments)
Why would I pay an accountant £300 for UK limited company formation when there are services out there that do it for a tenth of the price? Help me cross the i's and dot the t's.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nthdegx
at 12:34 AM on June 3, 2008
(5 comments)
A very, very funny
Bill Murray guest stars on the first episode of Late Night with David Letterman -- 1982
posted to MetaFilter by vronsky
at 8:56 PM on May 16, 2008
(43 comments)
An extraordinary piece of magazine writing by Chris Jones.
Jones tells the story of how the body of Sergeant Joe Montgomery makes its way from a Baghdad suburb to its final resting place in a grave in Indiana. It's one of the finest pieces of journalism that I've read in years. It’s extremely moving without being saccharine or twee. It’s a military story, but utterly without jingoism or indictment. And it’s wonderfully observed. If I taught a first-year creative writing course, I'd make this required reading.
posted to MetaFilter by dbarefoot
at 9:57 PM on April 30, 2008
(87 comments)
Hey, there, London. I'll be visiting from May 16 through the 26th and would like to drink with you.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet
at 12:09 PM on April 28, 2008
(81 comments)
Is it worth spending a few extra dollars on a high quality propane bbq, or do they all just peter out after a few years?
posted to Ask Metafilter by gesamtkunstwerk
at 5:39 PM on April 19, 2008
(20 comments)
Stephen King has described The Dark Tower as his
"Jupiter." The epic series, inspired in part by Robert Browning's poem,
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", has spanned 22 years, 7 books and nearly 4000 pages. The first book in the series,
The Gunslinger, begins with a simple, memorable declaration, "The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
posted to MetaFilter by kbanas
at 8:56 AM on April 18, 2008
(160 comments)
I need jokes that take more than one minute to tell, but no longer than two-and-a-half minutes.
posted to Ask Metafilter by exlotuseater
at 3:03 PM on August 24, 2007
(27 comments)
The End Of The World As We Know It.
If you want to imagine the catastrophe - how you would cope, what would you do to save yourself and your family - where do you turn for advice?... The idea of dying together, all of us, in some ways seems less appalling than the thought of going alone.
Via.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 11:32 PM on April 1, 2008
(29 comments)
Chinese MC Hammer.
Move for move nearly perfect redo of the original Hammer video. In someone's living room. While mom knits on the couch. It's a thousand kinds of awesome.
via blort
posted to MetaFilter by mathowie
at 10:35 PM on March 29, 2008
(75 comments)
WithoutWalls
"This video, filmed in April 1994, records the final public words of the genius behind such films as Brimstone and Treacle, Pennies from Heaven, and Dreamchild. It's the last record of a man facing--with dignity, intelligence, and surprisingly good humor--death from cancer. Recorded as a television special by Britain's Channel Four, the documentary can be unsettling. Potter's inflamed hands can barely hold his ever-present cigarette (which he refers to as a "little tube of delight"), and he alternately sips champagne and swigs liquid morphine from an antique hip flask. But for those who have enjoyed Potter's wildly creative work--or those simply interested in the creative process itself--it's a fascinatingly funny glimpse into the mind of a master." (amazon)
posted to MetaFilter by vronsky
at 7:18 PM on March 27, 2008
(17 comments)
Team Fortress 2 Weekend Match (and info for new players): Saturday December 1st.
posted to MetaTalk by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 8:45 PM on November 29, 2007
(219 comments)
Controlled Safety Test Fireworks Videos :
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posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris
at 8:11 PM on March 20, 2008
(35 comments)
ElfQuest for free...gradually.
The complete ElfQuest comic oeuvre (about 6000 pages) is being released online in batches every friday. The first five issues (a complete 150 page arc in itself), along with some other EQ series's first issues, are already up.
posted to MetaFilter by Sparx
at 10:11 AM on March 20, 2008
(54 comments)
Obama's Gettysburg Address.
Today we saw and heard a preview of our brightest possible American future in Senator Barack Obama's glorious speech. This, then, is what it means to be presidential. To be moral. To have a real center. To speak honestly, from the heart, for the benefit of all. If there was any doubt about what we have missed in the anti-intellectual, ruthlessly incurious Bush years, and even the slippery Clinton ones (the years of "what is is"), those doubts were laid to rest by Barack Obama's magisterial speech today. A speech in which he distanced himself from a flawed father figure, Reverend Wright, and did so with almost Shakespearian dignity and honor. One of the most important speeches on race in decades if not longer. (
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posted to MetaFilter by caddis
at 9:31 PM on March 18, 2008
(1141 comments)
London --- cold, windy, wet! This calls for some human warmth...
posted to MetaTalk by heartofglass
at 3:29 PM on February 2, 2008
(106 comments)
Sound Comparisons
is a database of different accents in English from all over the world. It provides soundfiles and
IPA transcriptions of 110 words in 110 separate dialects and Germanic languages closely related to English. Most dialects and languages are current but there are also reconstructions of older stages of English, Scots and Germanic. That makes for 12100 soundfiles that load directly into your browser. The site can be navigated either by dialect or individual word and there's also a
handy Google map of all the different dialects and languages. If you've ever wondered what the difference was between a Somerset and a Norwich accent, New Zealand and Australian, Canadian and American or Indian and Glaswegian,
Sound Comparisons is the site to go to.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 7:16 AM on March 5, 2008
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