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Poolga:
iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers from a selection of designers and illustrators from around the world.
posted to MetaFilter by defenestration
at 8:35 PM on July 6, 2008
(12 comments)
Please share your favorite ramen-like instant noodle product and it's distinctive qualities.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mistsandrain
at 9:58 AM on June 5, 2008
(19 comments)
I'm looking for funeral chants, prayers and songs that are beautiful and mournful.
posted to Ask Metafilter by naju
at 9:32 PM on June 2, 2008
(25 comments)
Travelling +strangers is better than travelling alone right? Well, that's a dilemma my friend (I swear, it's a friend!) is in this summer as he has time off but none of his friends do. He would like to go to Europe but be a bit social about it. Everyone mentions
Contiki but I want to know if they might have any competitors that people feel are better. Do they?
posted to Ask Metafilter by skepticallypleased
at 12:54 PM on April 30, 2008
(15 comments)
What are some good things to do with one or two pre-teen boys? Besides play video games?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kerfuffled
at 10:42 AM on May 27, 2008
(22 comments)
I do a bit of drinking, and I'm looking for a new toast. "Panties: Not the best thing in the world, but right next to it." is what my friends use, but it's getting a little old. Any suggestions? (Witty and sublime both appreciated)
posted to Ask Metafilter by absalom
at 6:33 PM on January 12, 2005
(105 comments)
Last night, I spent an hour reading the crazy, hilarious stories
posted here. One hour was not enough. I need more davesecretaryatwork - or at least, more like him.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yeoja
at 9:49 AM on May 19, 2008
(23 comments)
Canadian-born New Yorkers Adam Gopnik and Malcolm Gladwell have
an eloquent conversation (MP3) about the nature of our eternally under-confident country. Gladwell quips early on that "those of you who are familiar with my writing will know that this practice of talking about X by discussing Y is my only rhetorical move."
Text (though not an exact transcript) is also available, as is
a report.
posted to MetaFilter by dbarefoot
at 2:08 PM on April 17, 2008
(27 comments)
As summer approaches, how about some nice suggestions for alternatives for cola/sodas? I want to save money, bottles, and empty calories.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Deathalicious
at 12:48 AM on April 2, 2008
(40 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. (
text)
posted to MetaFilter by caddis
at 9:31 PM on March 18, 2008
(1141 comments)
An ode to some of the more vibrant personas and memorable events in Metafilter history -- and an homage to the classic tune by The Nails. Lyrics with tremendous amounts of annotation inside.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 10:47 PM on February 14, 2007
(91 comments)
Wake up cat
(YT, animated, 1:29) cat owners will understand.
posted to MetaFilter by vronsky
at 3:02 PM on October 23, 2007
(93 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
(44 comments)
I would like to read books by more MeFi writers. I have therefore made a list of who they are and their books.
posted to MetaTalk by paduasoy
at 5:03 AM on February 23, 2008
(102 comments)
In the early twentieth century, photographer
Lewis Hine took
now-famous photographs of American child laborers. In the nearly hundred years since Hine took those photos, surely many viewers have wondered what became of the children he documented. Freelance historian Joe Manning has taken it upon himself to
find out.
posted to MetaFilter by craichead
at 6:55 PM on January 16, 2008
(20 comments)
Anyone know where a pair of clueless artists can find some free website design templates?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Bageena
at 9:05 AM on January 16, 2008
(9 comments)
Announcing the Metafilter Short Fiction Anthology! Previously
suggested by
Effigy2000, the Metafilter Short Fiction Anthology is a chance for all us writer-type or vaguely-writer-type Mefites to get together and write write write! We'll be taking a "
Thieves' World" approach to our writing with each story in the Anthology taking place in a setting
first posited by Mefi's Own
L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg and then
fleshed out by himself and members of the Mefi community. All who are interested are encouraged to join in!
posted to MetaTalk by robocop is bleeding
at 5:41 AM on January 7, 2008
(166 comments)
"I'm dead. That sucks, at least for me and my family and friends. But all the tears in the world aren't going to bring me back, so I would prefer that people remember the good things about me rather than mourning my loss. (If it turns out a specific number of tears will, in fact, bring me back to life, then by all means, break out the onions.)"
Blogger Andrew Olmsted was killed in Iraq yesterday. He had been guest-posting at Obsidian Wings as G'Kar. hilzoy of ObWi has cross-posted his final message
there as well.
posted to MetaFilter by maudlin
at 11:15 AM on January 4, 2008
(58 comments)
Happy Introvert Day
A Single-Link Op-Ed because... well, this link would just like to be alone, OK?
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 1:45 PM on January 2, 2008
(72 comments)
Cooking for one: I need some tasty, healthy single-serving recipe ideas!
posted to Ask Metafilter by logic vs love
at 1:24 PM on December 28, 2007
(27 comments)
Songs about thirty for a 30th birthday mix CD.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Huw
at 7:16 AM on December 13, 2007
(23 comments)
What is the single most valuable piece of advice you received when you were in the process of buying your first home?
posted to Ask Metafilter by hecho de la basura
at 7:20 AM on December 12, 2007
(67 comments)
Help me to find the perfect passive-aggressive gift for the holidays. Long story follows.
posted to Ask Metafilter by InnocentBystander
at 6:31 PM on December 8, 2007
(98 comments)
Life-altering experiences. Can you point to a single experience in your life, as a child, which you can define as having contributed to the person you are today? (+)
posted to Ask Metafilter by jeremias
at 4:41 AM on February 2, 2005
(216 comments)
The Muppet Show featuring performances: by
Johnny Cash (and
two more),
Steve Martin on banjo,
Elton John (and
two more),
Alice Cooper (also
some skits),
Debbie Harry (and
another), Liza Manelli
singing Copa Cabana,
REM,
Dizzy Gillespie,
Buddy Rich vs. Animal,
Rita Moreno vs. Animal,
Harry Belafonte (
vs. Animal),
Julie Andrews and
more,
Mac Davis,
Nureyev singing and tap dancing,
Sandy Duncan,
John Denver,
Paul Simon (on
lute!), and a somewhat freaky version of
The Gambler.
posted to MetaFilter by blahblahblah
at 11:56 PM on December 2, 2007
(49 comments)
Tis the season...to shop Mefi? In this
post, MadamJuJuJive posits an idea for us to have a Shop Mefi page for the holidays. I like the idea a lot, and not just because she pimped out my soap company. I would love to buy some of the art, music, photography and other goodies that fellow Mefites are making. So, how hard would it be to make a MeFi Mall?
posted to MetaTalk by dejah420
at 8:31 AM on November 26, 2007
(126 comments)
My face often betrays my thoughts, what to do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by furtive
at 8:32 AM on November 27, 2007
(24 comments)
A 68 year old. 145 lb. man with a neurological condition was
tasered by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers following a dispute over double parking. The man was picking up his wife, who was delivering newspapers. This happened less than a month after the RCMP tasered a Polish man who had spent 10 frustrating hours trying to find his mother in the Vancouver International Airport following 15 hours of travel.
He died on the scene.
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 9:11 AM on November 10, 2007
(320 comments)
