Inscribed in the living tile: Type in the Toronto subway by Joe Clark
posted to MetaFilter by chunking express at 7:39 PM on September 16, 2007 (62 comments)

Barring nose plugs and closing windows, is there a way to eliminate the ambient skunk stench that's wafting into the house?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by CKmtl at 5:37 PM on September 16, 2007 (9 comments)

I badly bungled my Political Science undergrad program, graduating with a GPA in the low 3's and a non-honours degree. I want to go to grad school in the same field. What are my options? (I'm in Canada).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pcameron at 10:23 AM on September 16, 2007 (20 comments)

DHTML Arkanoid One of my favorite arcade classics, and one of the slickest applications of DHTML I've ever seen.
posted to MetaFilter by Artifice_Eternity at 9:57 PM on September 15, 2007 (25 comments)

Don't call it hip hop. "The Rappist" by Schaffer the Darklord.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrogin at 4:30 AM on September 15, 2007 (43 comments)

Rowan Atkinson Multiple link YouTube post Some of Atkinson's greatest hits over the years: Amazing Jesus, Welcome to Hell, Conservative Conference, Smut, With Friends Like These, Fatal Beatings, a day in the life of the invisible man, Beekeeping (w/ John Cleese), Blackadder explains how the first Wold War started, Blackadder explains the Russian Revolution, Blackadder on a secret mission and a serious interview with Michael Parkinson.
posted to MetaFilter by psmealey at 7:54 AM on September 15, 2007 (66 comments)

Why do men pee standing up? To summarize, the author thinks there's too much messy splatter when you stand up. He makes this point by starting with an Adam and Eve story, then clarifies that he too used to pee standing up, then discusses possible reasons, then shares a messy personal story, then writes another paragraph, then another, then another ...
posted to MetaFilter by jragon at 11:38 AM on September 15, 2007 (105 comments)

I have one year (actually about 11 months and 20 days) to learn German from almost scratch. Help!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by barrakuda at 8:01 AM on September 10, 2007 (30 comments)

T.R.A.N.S.I.T. is, by a wide margin, my favorite animated short ever produced. Set in the art deco Europe of the 1920's and (and released in 1997) it tells the story of a journey throughout several major vacation destinations of a wealthy tycoon, his young wife with wandering eyes, and a murderous turn of events. The story is told in reverse, from the final stage of the "vacation" back through each prior stop, and the artwork for each segment is painted in the style of the luggage travel sticker for that stop.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 2:35 PM on September 2, 2007 (14 comments)

What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by limon at 5:40 PM on September 8, 2007 (237 comments)

The Untitled Project is a series of photographs of urban settings accompanied by a graphical text layout. The photographs have been digitally stripped of all traces of textual information. The text pieces show the removed text in the approximate location and font as it was found in the photograph.
posted to MetaFilter by Ljubljana at 6:45 AM on March 30, 2004 (28 comments)

Where can I buy Icelandic dried fish jerky (Harðfiskur) in the US or Canada? And, if I like fish jerky, what other yummy but unusual preserved foods should I try?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Forktine at 10:40 AM on September 6, 2007 (12 comments)

Magnolia or Delicious?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by gtr at 9:49 AM on September 6, 2007 (15 comments)

A.D. (After The Deluge) is a serialized webcomic about what it was like in the days leading up to, during & immediately after the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans. The story is true, all dialogue taken from direct quotes. An ongoing project with updates monthly (scheduled to run from Dec 06 - Dec 07), the most recent chapter takes place right at the end of the storm, prior to the collapse of the levees, but to get the full effect, read from the very beginning. For those who want to know more about the project, there's an FAQ.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 5:25 PM on September 5, 2007 (20 comments)

We're drowning in quirk. It is the ruling sensibility of today’s Gen-X indie culture, defined territorially by the gentle ministrations of public radio’s This American Life; the strenuously odd (and now canceled) TV sitcom Arrested Development; the movies of Wes Anderson; Dave Eggers’s McSweeney’s Web site; the performance art, music, and writing of Miranda July; and the just-too-wacky-to-be-fully-believable memoirs of Augusten Burroughs. It’s been 20 years of beneficent, wide-eyed gazing upon the oddities of our fellow man. David Byrne probably birthed contemporary quirk around 1985— halfway between his “Psycho Killer” beginnings with the Talking Heads and his move to global pop—when he sang the song “Stay Up Late”: “Cute, cute, little baby / Little pee-pee, little toes.” (As it happens, Byrne appeared on July’s recent book tour.) Jon Cryer’s “Duckie” Dale in Pretty in Pink came a year later, and quirk was on its way.
posted to MetaFilter by psmealey at 12:33 PM on September 5, 2007 (173 comments)

Have there been any modern sex scandals with female politicians at the forefront?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by BlackRose at 12:33 PM on September 5, 2007 (16 comments)

How do I learn to balance on my bike while standing still?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jeffbarr at 10:36 PM on September 2, 2007 (9 comments)

Two stunning minutes of MTV Though, you'll only see it in South America.
posted to MetaFilter by parmanparman at 6:59 AM on September 2, 2007 (52 comments)

I'm throwing a party tonight -- but not just any party. I'm throwing a Trapped in the Closet viewing party. The question is this: what should my signature drink be? A cool cocktail? A faux-cool cocktail? What would R. Kelly do?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by rex at 1:21 PM on August 31, 2007 (29 comments)

The proper way to deal with a KKK march (Do not click link while drinking liquids) With all the doom and gloom in the news these days, I was beginning to think there was nothing to be done to make things better. I was proven wrong. By clowns.
posted to MetaFilter by Enron Hubbard at 8:18 AM on August 30, 2007 (89 comments)

The Mensch of Malden Mills There's supposedly an exception to every rule. If CEO greed is a rule, the exception is Aaron Feuerstein. When his Malden Mills burned to the ground in December, 1995, he took a $300,000,000 insurance payment and used much of it to pay his 3,000 workers ther wages and benefits while he began to rebuild the factory. [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by Kirth Gerson at 8:00 AM on August 30, 2007 (54 comments)

Hot Chicks With Douchebags [possibly nsfw] [via #mefi]
posted to MetaFilter by Stynxno at 7:13 AM on August 23, 2007 (160 comments)

Sexy girls moaning your IP address. (probably NSFW)
posted to MetaFilter by mr_crash_davis at 6:10 PM on August 22, 2007 (35 comments)

Toronto transit filter: What does "299 St. Clair West" mean?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jamesonandwater at 9:54 AM on August 23, 2007 (12 comments)

Can anyone tell me why the North Pacific high is so far south this year?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by salishsea at 10:43 AM on August 20, 2007 (5 comments)

Is it a taxi? Is it a train? Actually it is a bit of both. Technically speaking it is a personal rapid transport system, a new hybrid form of transport that some have already taken to calling the podcar. Similar systems have been proposed before and failed to make it into development, despite some less-personal versions built in the 1970s in the US. But with the current desire for low-carbon transit as keen as ever, has the time finally arrived for this kind of low-emission people mover?
posted to MetaFilter by MrMerlot at 11:20 AM on August 19, 2007 (44 comments)

Is there a significant benefit to using a ficticious name when incorporating?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by photoslob at 8:13 AM on August 15, 2007 (12 comments)

Not About Cookies: What the opposite of an "oreo"?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by chudmonkey at 9:33 AM on August 16, 2007 (46 comments)

Has anyone taken an extended (one month+) trip to Iceland? What was your budget and what did you do?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jacob at 4:54 PM on August 14, 2007 (7 comments)

Quickie road trip! How long does it take to drive from L.A. to Seattle? And how long to drive from downtown Seattle to downtown Vancouver, BC? And how long from Seattle to L.A.? How would you budget your time in each city? We're leaving on Sunday evening and we have to get back by Friday night. We might skip Vancouver if the timetable gets too tight.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by oldlies at 8:21 PM on August 11, 2007 (20 comments)

White! White! White!

Hyperwhite?

White?!
posted to MetaFilter by nilihm at 5:01 PM on July 29, 2007 (74 comments)

Help me find melodic(?) hip hop.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by slimepuppy at 6:17 AM on August 9, 2007 (34 comments)

The Icelandic coastline. A gallery of photos of the rugged, cold, and beautiful coast of Iceland.
posted to MetaFilter by Gamblor at 8:40 PM on August 7, 2007 (30 comments)

Was tech blogger Nick Starr Twitter's first suicide?
posted to MetaFilter by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:58 PM on August 6, 2007 (122 comments)

I have a (self-described) Republican, Bush-loving friend whom I've known for about 13 years now, who's willingly signed up for the Marines and wants to be stationed in Iraq. He leaves for basic training next weekend.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by revmitcz at 5:27 PM on August 1, 2007 (42 comments)

How to uncrush with grace? What would you do now?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by MiffyCLB at 9:58 AM on August 1, 2007 (25 comments)

What do all capital letters in legal documents signify? Many legal documents contain stretches of normal text alternating with stretches that are in all-caps. Is there a legal meaning to it? What would be the ramifications of printing the all-caps portion in normal capitalization - i.e., could that render the document ineffective?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dmd at 7:06 AM on November 22, 2006 (8 comments)

One day someone will write a post worthy of The Wire. In the mean time, here's an article about and an interview with Felicia Pearson. Apparently there are a similarities between her and "Snoop", her character on the show.
posted to MetaFilter by Alex404 at 8:11 PM on July 29, 2007 (78 comments)