Things you can print. From a pinhole camera to a wifi antenna to a Sudoku generator.
posted to MetaFilter by OmieWise at 7:58 AM on September 13, 2007 (21 comments)

40 Unusual Websites you should Bookmark. Entries include Yak4Ever - make free international calls from US, UK and Ireland to 50+ countries, ListenToaMovie, Nutsie - takes a copy of your iTunes library file and creates an online copy of your library etc.
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye at 11:04 PM on September 5, 2007 (30 comments)

Persistence of Myths Could Alter Public Policy Approach. "The conventional response to myths and urban legends is to counter bad information with accurate information. But the new psychological studies (PDFs) show that denials and clarifications, for all their intuitive appeal, can paradoxically contribute to the resiliency of popular myths." [Via Firedoglake, more at MindHacks.]
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus at 10:30 PM on September 5, 2007 (53 comments)

Content Aware Image Resizing. Every year SIGGRAPH rolls around I get a reminder of how smart everyone else is, especially people who do computer graphics research. From Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. The algorithm resizes images non-uniformly and, well, somewhat magically.
posted to MetaFilter by GuyZero at 7:29 PM on August 21, 2007 (94 comments)

After reading a few comments, I've decided to make the soundtrack to a video game that doesn't exist.
posted to MeFi Music by tehloki at 8:10 PM on August 12, 2007 (8 comments)

52 Influential Photographs: From the oldest survivng photograph, to images of revolution, misery, beauty and humility, to...goatse and LOLCAT? You win some, you lose some, I guess.
posted to MetaFilter by Jimbob at 4:36 AM on August 4, 2007 (68 comments)

Behold the Uniqlock. (flash, sfw)
posted to MetaFilter by boo_radley at 12:38 PM on July 27, 2007 (65 comments)

Abandoned places: A satellite facility. A drag strip. A sports arena. A factory. A highway. A school. Another factory. An industrial park. A missile site. A church. A brewery. And much more at Abandoned But Not Forgotten. (Warning: Web 0.2 site with very large photos of variable quality...)
posted to MetaFilter by dersins at 12:00 PM on July 26, 2007 (42 comments)

Learn to navigate using the stars in 15 minutes! OK, well maybe not navigate, but you'll know exactly where Orion, Betelgeuse, Polaris (the North Star), Cassiopeia, and Jupiter are.
posted to MetaFilter by Mave_80 at 5:51 AM on July 26, 2007 (36 comments)

200 Bad Comics.
posted to MetaFilter by Prospero at 6:44 AM on July 20, 2007 (58 comments)

Our own fandango_matt, of Metafilter design contest and multiple pissing elephant fame, has come up with his own Boy Scout inspired Metafilter safety guide.
posted to MetaTalk by Krrrlson at 10:25 AM on July 16, 2007 (188 comments)

Akamai's Internet Visualizations. Akamai is a major mirroring and caching service which serves up a large chunk of all internet traffic. They are now sharing some pretty visualizations based on their data which used to be customer only. News. Music. Retail. Real-time Web Monitor . Network Performance Comparison. Visualizing Akami.
posted to MetaFilter by srboisvert at 3:20 PM on June 7, 2007 (19 comments)

TakeZer0 is a weekly videoblog by two young filmmakers aiming to be a free basic film school for anyone interested, with lessons so far on shot composition, lighting, camera stabilization & the overall process.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 6:26 PM on June 6, 2007 (12 comments)

If you ever wanted to have an actual working M41-A Pulse Rifle (the preferred weapon of the Colonial Marines in the 1986 Documentary Aliens), then today is your lucky day. Many more sci-fi prop replica guides can be found here.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 2:07 PM on June 3, 2007 (33 comments)

Interested in QR codes? Make your own here.
This article, in Hypulp, describing how text and data can be coded into noiselike pixel patterns, was fascinating. It made me look for a way to generate these codes myself. Thanks gen for yesterday’s link to Hypulp.
posted to MetaFilter by Termite at 10:50 AM on April 15, 2004 (12 comments)

"My deepest sympathies for posting this. I lack all attempts at rhythm and meter, and don't even have a nice English accent to back things up!"
posted to MeFi Music by chrismear at 9:10 PM on May 23, 2007 (54 comments)

Things you can do with empty Altoids tins. People are spending a lot of time coming up with uses for Altoids tins. You don't have to buy the mints. Pinhole camera. Photos taken with that camera. Key for practicing Morse Code. Another one. Religious shrines. Postage assistant. Miniature luggage and furniture. Quilted. Etched and plated. Ipod speakers. Ipod case. Previously mentioned on MeFi: Ipod battery pack; survival kit. Of course, you could stash your drugs in one - but maybe you shouldn't.
posted to MetaFilter by Kirth Gerson at 7:10 AM on May 23, 2007 (31 comments)

Free Photoshop Plug-ins : Virtual Photographer for "professional" results. Filters and plugins from ad and design agency, Richard Rosenman. AutoFX Mosaic, for making your photos look as if they were created out of a mosaic tile. HDR Soft, (trial s/w) for increading dynamic range of photographs, and creating and HDR look. Power Touche for creating divinely-inspired photographs. And many more.
posted to MetaFilter by psmealey at 7:13 AM on May 17, 2007 (20 comments)

The Size of Our World. A brief study in pictures of the relative sizes of some astronomical bodies.
posted to MetaFilter by Eideteker at 10:49 PM on July 27, 2006 (47 comments)

The 10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World.
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus at 10:30 PM on March 21, 2007 (63 comments)

Why can't I produce the classic taxi whistle (you know, two fingers in mouth, very loud)? And I've just spent quite a while in the attempt, following these directions.
posted to Ask Metafilter by timepiece at 7:47 AM on March 2, 2007 (19 comments)

Hey kids, it's the first MetaFilter podcast.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 1:35 PM on February 16, 2007 (125 comments)

Fifteen hundred cat pictures. (56k, no way.)
posted to MetaFilter by BeerFilter at 5:23 AM on February 10, 2007 (52 comments)

Flash Friday tutorials. Want to know how to make a pre-loader? A cool image gallery, or sound driven animation? Learn how to do so here with some nice tutorials by Lee Brimelow, or visit his flash blog.
posted to MetaFilter by localhuman at 4:12 PM on February 2, 2007 (3 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)

Metafilter: We Love Taglines!
posted to MetaTalk by Mach5 at 5:54 PM on December 1, 2006 (67 comments)

SF writers only use six words. A collection of six word epics from the cream of contemporary SF writers. Can Mefi do better? I reckon!
posted to MetaFilter by Sparx at 8:45 PM on October 24, 2006 (400 comments)

LyricsWiki is the place to find reliable lyrics without invasive ads. SongMeanings when you've been wondering what those lyrics mean. The Archive of Misheard Lyrics because sometimes your version is much better than the original.
posted to MetaFilter by Sharcho at 9:10 AM on October 21, 2006 (21 comments)

How can I mix astronaut background sounds and change my voice so it sounds like I'm using one of the radios from the old-NASA spaceflight days?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Smedleyman at 12:20 PM on September 14, 2006 (10 comments)

How can I set Mac OS X so that it doesn't create .DS_Store, .Trashes, and ._* files on USB drives I work with?
posted to Ask Metafilter by odinsdream at 7:51 PM on August 23, 2006 (9 comments)

There are approximately 77.6 million owned cats in the United States alone. And at least 20 million feral cats. There are many different breeds of cats. A very popular house pet, cats can be quite odd indeed. Cats can be tiny. And cats can be huge. Baby cats are called kittens and are extremely cute. Indoor cats are frequently overfed. But most importantly, cats can be very, very funny.
posted to MetaFilter by weretable and the undead chairs at 5:56 PM on June 2, 2006 (109 comments)