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Name of rap song that imagines if other genres of music had beef like hip hop?
posted to Ask Metafilter by swiffa
at 3:56 AM on June 13, 2008
(2 comments)
Om nom nom nom!
NPR's
In Character interviews Cookie Monster. In addition to the video interview, there is are
articles (written and audio) about The Big C.
posted to MetaFilter by CrunchyFrog
at 11:46 AM on February 15, 2008
(40 comments)
Two men go skydiving with cameras on their helmets. For one of them, everything goes well. For the other... not so well: neither chute functions and he hits the ground at 80mph. Video footage and
post jump interview
here.
{via waxy}
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 3:45 PM on February 13, 2007
(70 comments)
How do you develop focus, drive, and personal discipline?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Saxon Kane
at 8:26 PM on May 11, 2008
(28 comments)
What should I read to learn about espionage and World War II/start of the Cold War?
posted to Ask Metafilter by BT
at 8:48 PM on February 27, 2008
(25 comments)
In Vestimentis Ursum.
Designer Matt Kirkland peels off the fur of mechanized stuffed animals to take a look at the robots lurking within.
posted to MetaFilter by hydrophonic
at 8:39 PM on April 24, 2008
(25 comments)
Eviction Slip
:"In the spring of 2003 about 8,000 tribal people and low-caste farmers living in the Kuno area of Madhya Pradesh, India, were summarily uprooted from the rich farmlands they had cultivated for generations and moved to 24 villages on scrub land outside the borders of a sanctuary created for a pride of six imported Asiatic lions."[
via]
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 5:46 PM on April 16, 2008
(4 comments)
Who said anything about a recession?
Sometime between the government bailout of Bear Stearns and the Bureau of Labor Statistics report that America lost 80,000 jobs in March, Lee Tachman,
a Wall Street banker, spent roughly $50,000 last month on a four-day jaunt to Miami for himself and three close friends.
“It was just all out — it was insane,” said Mr. Tachman. “I’m not afraid to spend money like that.”
posted to MetaFilter by The Jesse Helms
at 7:37 AM on April 14, 2008
(269 comments)
Grapes in milk... now what?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Rinku
at 4:57 PM on April 2, 2008
(180 comments)
Please help me identify the...nature of
this t-shirt I bought at a thrift store in LA about 20 years ago.
posted to Ask Metafilter by geoscott
at 10:52 PM on April 6, 2008
(7 comments)
The Wikipedia List of Unusual Articles.
Including popular favorites such as
Raining Animals,
Penis Panic,
The Utah Teapot,
The Jesus Nut,
The Mexican Perforation, and
The Liver-Eating Johnson. But wait, there's more!
Sweater Curse! Turtles All The Way Down! Acoustic Kitty! (Seriously, WTF CIA?) The
Ding Hai Effect.
Blue Peacock, the Chicken Powered Nuclear Bomb. Chess-Related Deaths,
ETAOIN SHRDLU,
Alien Hand Syndrome,
Colors of Noise,
Drake's Plate of Brass, and
Mole Day. Click now and they'll also include
List of Songs in English Labled the Worst Ever and the
List of Songs Whose Title Constitutes The Entire Lyrics free of charge!! Had enough? Succumb to the
Flynn Effect but watch out for
Exploding Head Syndrome!
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious
at 11:50 PM on January 29, 2007
(49 comments)
What are some activities that are like 'going to the gym' for your profession?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mullingitover
at 11:26 PM on March 27, 2008
(90 comments)
How can I infuse bacon flavor into vodka? The product doesn't need to be vegan or kosher or anything special---just want to go into a kitchen and whip up some bacon-flavored vodka.
posted to Ask Metafilter by d. z. wang
at 8:54 PM on March 29, 2008
(22 comments)
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posted to MetaFilter by Upton O'Good
at 12:00 AM on March 27, 2008
(39 comments)
Any good books to help develop an analytic mind?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lilithim
at 10:24 AM on March 23, 2008
(13 comments)
Looking for people who have experienced forward head posture problems.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yorick
at 5:35 AM on September 3, 2006
(13 comments)
Questionaut
is a charming flash application from the very talented
Amanita.
Kotaku jokingly calls it a 'Juvenile Timewaster', but how juvenile is it?
posted to MetaFilter by Frasermoo
at 7:45 PM on March 16, 2008
(43 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)
Where no economist had gone before
. Paul Krugman posts a type-written paper on interstellar trade which he wrote as "an oppressed assistant professor" in the '70s.
I do not propose to develop a theory which is universally valid, but it may at least have some galactic relevance. [
pdf link]
posted to MetaFilter by grobstein
at 12:38 PM on March 11, 2008
(25 comments)
Bacon Cups
are sure to make your next party a hit.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson
at 2:50 PM on February 28, 2008
(82 comments)
Garfield minus Garfield: "Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?"
posted to MetaFilter by SpacemanStix
at 1:36 PM on February 26, 2008
(127 comments)
Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, "prolong capture shock," disorient detainees during interrogations—and also drown out screams. Based on a leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees,
here are some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose.
posted to MetaFilter by monospace
at 1:09 PM on February 26, 2008
(76 comments)
You know how the exomorphs in
Alien had a second jaw that reached out and bit you
while they were biting you with their regular jaws? Moray eels have that. Just thought you should know.
posted to MetaFilter by agentofselection
at 7:22 PM on February 22, 2008
(97 comments)
Hide an image in html
... a neat CSS trick. Highlight the block of text at the bottom of the page as if you were going to cut & paste it.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris
at 8:55 PM on February 7, 2008
(35 comments)
The man who runs
xkcd
has created the
LimerickDB.
Though often quite dirty
There are more that are nerdy;
If you check out
the best ones, you'll see.
posted to MetaFilter by kyleg
at 7:27 AM on February 5, 2008
(88 comments)
I'd like some direction for a nice briefcase bag / satchel.
posted to Ask Metafilter by four panels
at 11:38 AM on August 9, 2007
(19 comments)
Help me meet geeks in Vancouver!
posted to Ask Metafilter by MaxK
at 4:58 PM on January 10, 2008
(6 comments)
Sibel Edmonds, the FBI whistleblower under a
gag order, recently spilled
part of the beans to the Sunday Times. Considering the seriousness of the allegations: moles have infiltrated top US nuclear research facilities; the moles have sold US nuclear secrets to foreign governments; all of this behavior has been aided and abetted by top government US officials in exchange for bribes;
you might think a
US media outlet would be interested in the story.
You'd be wrong. Now it seems she has
named names.
posted to MetaFilter by ryoshu
at 12:21 PM on January 8, 2008
(60 comments)
Today at CES,
Taser International unveiled a "handy new holster that holds not only your stun gun but a music player too." "The TASER MPH (Music Player Holster) is a combination MP3 player and TASER C2 holster."
* The
C2 Personal Protector is available to consumers "
in four designer colors," including leopard print, red-hot red and fashion pink. It's what they call "Fashion with a Bite."
posted to MetaFilter by ericb
at 2:36 PM on January 7, 2008
(54 comments)
