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Br. Cesare Bonizzi, "the
heavy metal friar"(watch out for the volume on that last link), says he was inspired by the energy of Metallica and that he is not trying to convert anyone to Christianity, but rather to "convert [listeners] to life" and get them to live their lives "full stop."
posted to MetaFilter by homelystar
at 9:12 PM on July 18, 2008
(15 comments)
Anybody know some nice places to write in downtown DC? My qualifiers are electrical outlets, air-conditioning, metro-accessible, space to spread out, and a view. If I have to pay $10 for food or whatever, that could be worth it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by metajc
at 8:22 AM on July 18, 2008
(17 comments)
I don't have any real life friends. What should I do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 5:57 AM on June 23, 2008
(34 comments)
School me on the classics of classical music. What are the top ten recordings that someone who knows nothing about classical music should own?
posted to Ask Metafilter by gnutron
at 4:27 PM on June 16, 2008
(42 comments)
I'm strugging to come to terms with the fact that I've read such a seemingly extraordinary number of books yet seem to remember so very little. The obvious answer is to apply oneself more rigidly, in future, to study; to take notes and review them, etc. However, I really don't feel like writing extensive plot summaries every time I read a book, neither does this help me deal with the very distressing realisation that I don't know as much as I should do.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Zé Pequeno
at 11:05 AM on June 5, 2008
(22 comments)
Read at Work.
How to read at work without being busted, and not in a "guide to" kind of way...
posted to MetaFilter by jonathanstrange
at 8:38 PM on May 28, 2008
(49 comments)
"This might be a weird request, but I just want to cuddle,"
Nevada Sagebrush columnist Jordan Butler decided to do something for his last column (before graduating college) that he hadn't done before. He decided to solicit a brothel. Here's the catch: he wasn't interested in paying for sex. He just wanted something to write about for his last column. The result is half after school special and half Twilight Zone episode, but it's all funny.
posted to MetaFilter by ZachsMind
at 8:52 PM on May 23, 2008
(55 comments)
The rapid growth of electronic trading
since 1976 has benefited equity market participants by improving competition, reducing cost and increasing liquidity while insuring better pricing.
One unexpected side effect has been the recent emergence of
"dark pools of liquidity", or the secret stock market.
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant
at 10:14 AM on May 20, 2008
(21 comments)
I would like to be the bright kid again, but I've just turned 30. What should I do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dcrocha
at 8:18 PM on May 17, 2008
(34 comments)
Exercising your brain makes you smarter, and there is no better gym for it than the
MentatWiki.
posted to MetaFilter by splice
at 11:47 AM on May 17, 2008
(16 comments)
I'm looking for a Peace Corps that doesn't suck. Does it exist?
posted to Ask Metafilter by loquacious
at 5:39 PM on May 3, 2008
(24 comments)
The F117A Swan Song, the Fall of the Belgrade Embassy...and China Rising
China Matters blog offers a fascinating take on "the role that the Belgrade bombing seems to play as the creation myth of the birth of the 21st Chinese strategic military doctrine, founded on the assumption that the U.S. will unscrupulously use its military, diplomatic, and propaganda advantages not only to contain China but even to attack it when need, desire, and circumstances permit."
posted to MetaFilter by Abiezer
at 7:42 PM on April 29, 2008
(41 comments)
What are some interesting, uncommon "vocabulary" words that you use regularly or semi-regularly?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Metroid Baby
at 1:24 PM on April 22, 2008
(90 comments)
MITOpenCourseWare offers
an online high-school course on
Douglas Hofstadter's much-loved 1980 Pulitzer-winning exploration of maths, patterns, music, art, recursion, and computability,
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Previously, some here had indicated
an interest in such a course.
posted to MetaFilter by orthogonality
at 3:00 AM on April 12, 2008
(28 comments)
Learn (or teach) fundamentals of computer science,
without a computer. Provided as hands-on exercises suitable for children, or even CS-illiterate adults. (If this is too basic for you,
go here.)
posted to MetaFilter by orthogonality
at 12:12 AM on April 10, 2008
(13 comments)
Commonly misused phrases or expressions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cosmic osmo
at 6:41 PM on April 2, 2008
(166 comments)
I have a “career” right now and I’m sick of it and the industry. I want to go back to having a “job” that pays me enough to live. But I don’t think I’ve truly reconciled things in my head. How do I reconcile within myself that I’m not a failure if I give up on my career and chosen industry and go get a job doing…something?
posted to Ask Metafilter by misanthropicsarah
at 5:11 PM on April 1, 2008
(34 comments)
Let's say that I'm a college student that would like to expand my general knowledge about what's going on in the world, and let's say that I'd like to start subscribing to a weekly news magazine, and let's say that I generally have no knowledge of the differences between news magazines. Which one should I subscribe to, and why?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Quidam
at 2:03 PM on March 31, 2008
(70 comments)
I have Tourette Syndrome, and I can't stop jumping up and down. Help me rewire my defective brain to channel this activity into something less destructive.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Juliet Banana
at 3:05 PM on March 31, 2008
(36 comments)
[Math filter] What fascinatingly cool mathematical topics do you wish you knew about in high school?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomcochrane
at 7:33 AM on March 27, 2008
(102 comments)
Why is it so hard for me to do the things I need to do to make my life better? How can I motivate myself to get my shit together?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 2:21 PM on June 28, 2007
(29 comments)
Controlled Safety Test Fireworks Videos :
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris
at 8:11 PM on March 20, 2008
(35 comments)
Polyglot
Michel Thomas came to prominence through his work for the French resistance and the
successful interrogation of Nazis (who had formerly imprisoned him). After the war he started to develop (and eventually
patent) a method for teaching languages that eschewed notes, books, writing, memorisation and homework. Instead, words and phrases would be built up in lego-like constructions to provide “confidence in hours not years”. He gave private lessons to
a long list of A-list celebrities including Woody Allen, Natasha Kinsky, Tony Curtis and Grace Kelly. A BBC documentary from 1997 told his story and tested him out with the less exalted audience of 16 year old London school kids pre-selected to be “incapable of learning a foreign language” by their teachers [YT pt
1,
2,
3,
4]. He was secretive about how his methods worked until the end of his life when he finally made his
courses available as audiobooks.
posted to MetaFilter by rongorongo
at 7:00 AM on March 20, 2008
(24 comments)
Lofi is showing a cold fusion error if you are not logged in.
posted to MetaTalk by Jim Jones
at 11:19 PM on February 13, 2005
(15 comments)
Celemony are a bunch of crazy German software engineers known best for making Melodyne, a family of top of the line pitch correction tools. Apparently they've recently figured out how to do what they do with polyphonic audio.
I can't begin to explain how cool this is. Just
watch the video.
posted to MetaFilter by stenseng
at 4:10 PM on March 13, 2008
(122 comments)
How to encourage myself to put forth the effort to actually
live a life?
posted to Ask Metafilter by droplet
at 10:54 AM on March 12, 2008
(21 comments)
I have pretty much watched all of the videos on TED.com and I am looking for another source to waste time online - but at least feel smarter at the end.;) I am not looking so much for online classes/courses (MIT and other), but more "bit size" hour long or so talks/lectures. Thanks for your help!
posted to Ask Metafilter by aggienfo
at 10:17 PM on February 24, 2008
(24 comments)
"You want to do WHAT?" said the British Army – or as their oh-so-polite upper crust officers probably put it: "Sorry, ol’ chap, but we don’t seem to have an urgent need for magicians right at this very moment." But
Jasper Maskelyne proved to be very useful. Tales of his service are a mixture of
fact and legend.
First link via.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 7:35 PM on March 1, 2008
(15 comments)
What French literature is relatively easy to read?
posted to Ask Metafilter by creasy boy
at 7:16 AM on February 20, 2008
(32 comments)
Meditation - what is the point exactly?
posted to Ask Metafilter by stenoboy
at 3:15 AM on February 5, 2008
(38 comments)
What are the best weblogs?
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love
at 12:42 PM on January 29, 2008
(33 comments)
I need friends...
posted to Ask Metafilter by sephira
at 5:52 AM on January 9, 2008
(48 comments)
