"Here Comes Another Bubble" a very 2.0-savvy song parody with a 'catch all the in-jokes' video.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 10:01 PM on December 4, 2007 (19 comments)

Afrigator. An Africa Aggregator.
posted to MetaFilter by chunking express at 8:09 AM on December 4, 2007 (42 comments)

Train runs through bangkok market. (via)
posted to MetaFilter by phrontist at 5:43 AM on December 1, 2007 (35 comments)

A great quick read from the NYTimes. Why making mistakes is sometimes the best thing for us, and why we avoid it anyway.
posted to MetaFilter by SeizeTheDay at 7:20 PM on November 29, 2007 (26 comments)

The official mascots of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics were unveiled today. There are three: a sasquatch, a mythical sea-bear, and a thunderbird-bear spirit, all first-nations inspired. Here's the design firm's website. Previous olympic mascots: Beijing 2008, others.
posted to MetaFilter by PercussivePaul at 1:48 PM on November 27, 2007 (86 comments)

Emma Clarke the voice of the London Underground has just been fired for recording and posting some spoofs on her own website. "Mind the gap" no more. (To spare Emma's server and in case she is forced to remove the files for some reason: External linkage to streaming mp3's of these spoofs are below)
posted to MetaFilter by Webbster at 10:17 AM on November 26, 2007 (91 comments)

For whatever reason, this girl has uploaded over a hundred and fifty videos of Disney songs dubbed in Icelandic (as well as a few other languages). I just can't wait to be king, Strange Things, the Siamese cat song.
posted to MetaFilter by borkingchikapa at 7:42 PM on November 25, 2007 (17 comments)

Dear torrent seeder: I am the producer of a motion picture. This is not a case-and-desist order. I am writing to thank you. Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth succeeds through sharing.
posted to MetaFilter by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 3:35 PM on November 24, 2007 (31 comments)

During the 70s and 80s a new phenomenon appeared. Television Hijacking. It started in 1977 when a man in England hijacked the sound broadcast of a newscast. In 1986, a hijacker known as Captain Midnight hijacked HBO in response to their scrambling of television signals. The year after (20 years ago as of today), a character disguised as Max Headroom (a television character) infiltrated two Chicago television studios in one night. First the man infiltrated Channel 9 (WGN) for a few seconds with no sound, and then moved on to attack another Chicago station, this time with sound. After the Max Headroom incident, television hacking incidents were rare in the United States except for this one in Wyoming.
posted to MetaFilter by ooklala at 6:05 PM on November 22, 2007 (38 comments)

Can you tell this photo was taken at 4:52pm, on either May 5^th or August 10^th? Forensic Genealogy uses historical records and small clues in pictures learn as much as they can about old photographs of unknown provenance. Want to try it yourself? Check out their weekly quiz. via GAMES
posted to MetaFilter by Upton O'Good at 9:10 PM on November 20, 2007 (44 comments)

Recoil free "automatic shotgun" fires 300 rounds per minute.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 3:45 PM on November 19, 2007 (121 comments)

Reading Tea Leaves and Campaign Logos , a design critique of the 2008 presidential campaign logos. Via Daring Fireball
posted to MetaFilter by nathan_teske at 8:35 PM on November 18, 2007 (18 comments)

Show #19 of the podcast features an interview with mothershock (Andi Buchanan) and recaps from MetaFilter sites. It was recorded on November 16, 2007 and runs about 50 minutes long.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 9:54 PM on November 16, 2007 (22 comments)

Wu-Tang Clan's RZA Breaks Down His Kung Fu Samples by Film and Song. Kung-fu's influence on hip hop has been around since the '70s, when B-boys busted Bruce Lee moves while break-dancing. But in 1993, gritty rap supergroup the Wu-Tang Clan released Enter the Wu-Tang (36-Chambers), the first chart-topping album to kick up raw rhymes with dialog sampled from underground Hong Kong flicks.
posted to MetaFilter by psmealey at 4:34 AM on November 17, 2007 (56 comments)

An arborist in a helicopter Arborist Todd Irvine gets a ride in a news chopper, photographing and annotating Toronto’s tree canopy – still largely in place and vibrantly colourful due to winter’s late arrival.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 1:36 PM on November 16, 2007 (23 comments)

The guys get shirts (NSFW).
posted to MetaFilter by sy at 5:07 PM on November 10, 2007 (52 comments)

Rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs.
posted to MetaFilter by 31d1 at 5:52 PM on November 9, 2007 (66 comments)

It's 1994, there's a bomb in Los Angeles, and THERE'S NO TIME! Will Jack Bauer save the world with AOL 3.0?
posted to MetaFilter by dhammond at 9:56 PM on November 8, 2007 (45 comments)

Can you recommend online resources for apartment/condo hunting for Richmond BC (or area, including Surrey and Vancouver). Or, Can you recommend an agent in the Vancouver/Richmond area that I can hire to do this for me?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tiamat at 10:37 AM on November 8, 2007 (5 comments)

City 7 is a Half-Life 2 mod of Toronto.
posted to MetaFilter by chunking express at 11:55 AM on November 6, 2007 (28 comments)

Is Jay-Z signaling a recession? There is something quite alarming on the recently released “Blue Magic” music video ... it wasn’t sex, drugs, violence or explicit language that shocked my conscience. It was the Euros. The Jay-Z video flashed large stacks of $500 Euros. When I start seeing rap stars flashing euros instead of U.S. dollars, I know our economy is in trouble.
posted to MetaFilter by azazello at 6:41 AM on November 5, 2007 (88 comments)

Goalie Masks of the NHL - A series of photos showing an amazing amount of personal self-expression and art on these professional athletes.
posted to MetaFilter by Argyle at 4:27 PM on November 4, 2007 (61 comments)

Ghetto Capitalists At once an outsider and a welcome participant in the ghetto economy, he found that he was suddenly part of “a vast, often invisible web” of economic exchange. That web supports the residents of Maquis Park and adds a strange sort of order to their existence, tempering chaos and adding predictability to the lives of Chicago’s poor. For the most part, the people he meets seem eager to trade. It’s just that much of what they’re trading isn’t going to meet with the approval of a law-and-order Republican or a bleeding-heart Great Society Democrat.
posted to MetaFilter by jason's_planet at 6:36 PM on September 14, 2007 (29 comments)

Politifact is brought to you by the St. Pete Times and the Congressional Quarterly (excellent domain name, btw!) to help you sift through all the bullshit that comes out of politicians' mouths.
posted to MetaFilter by taumeson at 8:34 AM on November 1, 2007 (15 comments)

RC Model Crashes [youtube] B-52, P-51, RC Model crash filmed with an on-board camera, Monoplane crash, Thunderbolt crash, Dogfight and mid-air collision
posted to MetaFilter by KokuRyu at 12:12 PM on October 25, 2007 (16 comments)

Looking for science-fiction that attempts to accurately depict the process of science.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tdismukes at 7:51 PM on October 23, 2007 (36 comments)

Voodoo Funk - 11 African funk mixes from a vinyl archaeologist in Guinea
posted to MetaFilter by algreer at 1:01 PM on October 17, 2007 (23 comments)

Where are people going now that Oink is gone? Is there anything that compares?
posted to Ask Metafilter by hazyspring at 5:14 AM on October 23, 2007 (29 comments)

The worst sounding thing ever? Van Halen, on a show of their reunion tour in North Carolina, attempting to match up their pre-recorded background synths for "Jump" with their live instruments & vocals. The pre-recorded material is accidentally being played back at a higher pitch, approximately 1.5 semitones sharp of the key from the guitar/vocals.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 9:57 AM on October 22, 2007 (148 comments)

Why is the new NYC taxi logo so ugly? The bumpy design process probably had a lot to do with it. The Times invited eight designers to try improving on it. Perhaps you can do better? (Ob. soundtrack)
posted to MetaFilter by Armitage Shanks at 10:03 AM on October 22, 2007 (57 comments)

I hate cooking. I hate cooking. I really, really, really hate cooking. I need to learn how to love it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike at 9:58 PM on October 20, 2007 (87 comments)

Why is Lithos is so pervasive on the covers of books by African American authors? What does Hot Tamale, or Bagel, or Faux Chinese imply? Rob Giampietro and Jessica Helfand share ruminations on stereotypography.[3quarksdaily] [Design Observer] [Giampietro+Smith]
posted to MetaFilter by litfit at 10:50 AM on October 21, 2007 (54 comments)

Margaret Talbot's wonderful profile of David Simon, the creator of "The Wire." Simon said, he and his colleagues had “ripped off the Greeks: Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides. Not funny boy—not Aristophanes. We’ve basically taken the idea of Greek tragedy and applied it to the modern city-state.” He went on, “What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason—instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it’s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods.”
posted to MetaFilter by geoff. at 10:50 AM on October 15, 2007 (34 comments)

In Vancouver, BC, the avenues are numbered sequentially, except the street that should be 9th Ave is called Broadway. I thought nothing of this until noticing that the same is true in Eugene, OR. Is that a bizarre coincidence or is there more to it? I thought maybe it was the same in NYC but it doesn't look like it. What gives?
posted to Ask Metafilter by PercussivePaul at 7:30 PM on October 20, 2007 (13 comments)

2007 is the year of Weezy. In just 10 months, Lil Wayne has recorded more tracks than many artists will in a lifetime; beat Radiohead to the punch by giving away not only the best rap album of the year, but some runners up as well; found a spot on MTV's "Hottest Rappers" list and become the darling of street-heads, hipster fanboys and even highbrow cultural pundits across the nation.
posted to MetaFilter by dead_ at 1:06 PM on October 19, 2007 (85 comments)

If Google was designed for Google.
posted to MetaFilter by armoured-ant at 3:55 PM on October 16, 2007 (36 comments)

A narrated bike-ride through NYC with David Byrne (requires Quicktime)
posted to MetaFilter by deern the headlice at 9:06 AM on October 15, 2007 (13 comments)

Seriously pissed? How about serious change? Decades from now, no one will accuse our generation of not protesting enough, but you'll probably be making excuses for how we did it. No offense to those who have protested this way- your heart's in the right place and you've probably given lots of time and money to doing the right thing- but what if you're not helping? What if hundreds of thousands of people turned out in their very best, most serious clothes, with no puppets, no "clever" home-made signs, and no instruments? It's worked before. As Matt Taibbi put it in AdBusters (previously on MeFi), "Next thing you know, you’ve got guys on stilts wearing mime makeup and Cat-in-the-Hat striped top-hats leading a half-million people at an anti-war rally. Why is that guy there? Because no one told him that war is a matter of life and death and that he should leave his fucking stilts at home." These things always start small, but who knows? This is serious- let's act like it. If you wouldn't bring it or wear it to your grandmother's funeral, leave it at home.
posted to MetaFilter by paul_smatatoes at 11:10 AM on September 30, 2007 (168 comments)

It’s easy to talk about Adrian Frutiger in the past tense, since his most influential fonts – Univers, Egyptienne, and the eponymous Frutiger – are all at least thirty years old. But he is still alive, and in the summer of 2006, as he was presented with the Society for Typographic Aficionados’ annual Typography Award, type designer Mark Simonson gave a presentation on how Frutiger [pdf, 18 MB] affected, and continues to affect, him and all others who benefit from good typography.
posted to MetaFilter by tepidmonkey at 10:27 PM on October 3, 2007 (14 comments)

Critical Thinking Skills - Apparently, I don't have any. What exactly entails "having" this skill and is it something I can develop?
posted to Ask Metafilter by zippity at 6:26 PM on September 22, 2007 (43 comments)

Why do US chat shows have the guest seating facing in the same direction as the host? This means the guest has to turn his or her head 90 degrees to look at the host, which looks totally unnatural to me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jontyjago at 10:41 AM on October 2, 2007 (9 comments)

Here's a seemingly simple physics problem: an airplane taxis in one direction on a moving conveyor belt going the opposite direction. Can the plane take off? The debate rages on and on and on....
posted to MetaFilter by zardoz at 9:47 PM on September 29, 2007 (248 comments)

What's the Pitchfork of the electronic music world?
posted to Ask Metafilter by c:\awesome at 12:57 PM on September 27, 2007 (15 comments)

[SeinfeldPlotSingleLinkVideoFilter]: Michigan wants its $50 million back.
posted to MetaFilter by beaucoupkevin at 7:57 PM on September 28, 2007 (47 comments)

The ugly side of student politics More than three-quarters of a million dollars in student funds was misspent, a forensic audit of Vancouver's Kwantlen University College student association finances has found. "It's been a pretty long process because the financial records from 2006 were 'lost.' " The audit also revealed that $140,000 was paid to former executive members, including former student association chair Aaron Takhar.
posted to MetaFilter by KokuRyu at 12:58 PM on September 29, 2007 (34 comments)

Bill MacEwen's laptop got stolen last week, but all might not be lost. Someone in possession of the laptop -- possibly the thief -- just posted a self-portrait to Flickr using the account stored in the laptop. If you know anything about the gentleman in the photo, please contact Bill through his blog. If you like to fantasize about committing "the perfect crime", add this boo-boo to your "DO NOT DO" list.
posted to MetaFilter by AccordionGuy at 11:29 AM on September 24, 2007 (80 comments)

On average, college students are having a medium amount of sex.
posted to MetaFilter by goodnewsfortheinsane at 3:07 PM on September 23, 2007 (59 comments)

In 1964, Mel Brooks won both the Oscar & BAFTA Best Short Film awards for The Critic. His first film, it revolves around an old man heckling abstract animation that he doesn't understand. Youtube (lower quality) | brettratner.com (higher quality)
posted to MetaFilter by miss lynnster at 1:29 PM on September 23, 2007 (37 comments)

What are some good rap/hip-hop songs based on classical music?
posted to Ask Metafilter by god particle at 4:45 PM on September 22, 2007 (18 comments)

The Mayor of San Diego has a change of heart. GOP Mayor Jerry Sanders of San Diego comes out in support of gay marriage.
posted to MetaFilter by fourcheesemac at 1:58 PM on September 22, 2007 (118 comments)