"When copies are free, you need to sell things which cannot be copied." Kevin Kelly (previously) describes eight "generative" values that increase in value as the price tag on making copies goes down. He also has some advice for creators who want to make money off the long tail. Via
posted to MetaFilter by ErWenn at 12:51 PM on March 5, 2008 (20 comments)

Elegant and simple way to create nice-looking graphs/charts from raw data?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jbickers at 2:28 PM on December 13, 2007 (10 comments)

Straight No Chaser (Indiana University men's acapella group) performs this hilarious rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Want to perform it with your own acapella chorus? You're in luck. The sheet music is available as an inexpensive digital download.
posted to MetaFilter by CrunchyFrog at 9:11 AM on December 12, 2007 (38 comments)

"If you have any creature in the house with a head bigger than a walnut (including boyfriends), you need a Kitty Wig™."
posted to MetaFilter by hermitosis at 12:33 PM on December 10, 2007 (34 comments)

Carl Rankin builds awesome RC planes out of straws, plastic wrap, tape, and foam take-out boxes. (via)
posted to MetaFilter by MrMoonPie at 5:19 AM on December 11, 2007 (12 comments)

Can I trust PayPal's seller protection? If not, what can go wrong?
posted to Ask Metafilter by procrastination at 10:53 AM on December 2, 2007 (22 comments)

Nowhere-neat tilings are actually pretty neat. We all know you can't "square the circle", but do you know the story of squaring the square? (And by the way, even if you can't construct π with a ruler and compass, you can come awfully close without too much work.)
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 4:41 AM on December 4, 2007 (10 comments)

Rough arrangement of Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" for the steel-string guitar. I put this together about a month ago, after the SNL "Dear Sister" sketch introduced me to the song.
posted to MeFi Music by The White Hat at 12:47 AM on May 15, 2007 (27 comments)

An Eye for the World. "Shotaro Shimomura XXI (1883-1944) was Chairman of The Daimaru Inc., a department store chain... He took these photographs on a subsequent trip around the world in 1934 and 1935." Just two pages of photos, but I find them irresistible—worth it for this one alone. (Via wood s lot.)
posted to MetaFilter by languagehat at 9:00 AM on December 30, 2006 (18 comments)