Muppet Labs, where the future is being made today, is the site of scientific enquiry, technological breakthroughs, and sundry explosions on The Muppet Show. Headed by Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, the lab premiered in episode 108 and lasted all five seasons. During the first season, Bunsen worked alone. Beginning in season two, the good doctor acquired an assistant-cum-guinea pig, the hapless Beaker. An annotated list of every single televised appearance of the Muppet Labs is after the fold!
posted to MetaFilter by Blasdelb at 7:42 PM on December 31, 2011 (30 comments)

How many of these classic video game characters do you remember? A list of the 50 Greatest Video Game Characters of All Time. Obviously, it's a difficult task to create a definitive list of all our beloved favorites, but this seems to cover all the really significant characters. A little surprised (in a good way!) that Gestalt actually came in at number 10, TBH.
posted to MetaFilter by Greg Nog at 7:39 AM on September 21, 2011 (225 comments)

I loved ianK's minimalist take on All The Small Things the other day, and I thought it'd be fun to fill it out with a bunch more acoustic instrumentation and harmony vocals.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 11:17 AM on May 25, 2011 (6 comments)

I seem unable to cover songs (even those I hate) without making them sound completely earnest.
posted to MeFi Music by ianK at 12:12 AM on May 24, 2011 (8 comments)

Astro Zombie's words, my music, Steven Slater's epic flight-attendant flameout.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 1:06 PM on August 10, 2010 (122 comments)

What in life did it take you a surprisingly long time to realize you've been doing wrong all along?
posted to Ask Metafilter by colinmarshall at 1:58 PM on July 6, 2010 (933 comments)

By request, this has been played through this. Unmodified or post processed in anyway, it sounds a little like a bad dub. But I thought I would post it as an example for other folks to see what is possible.
posted to MeFi Music by mrzarquon at 11:43 PM on January 8, 2009 (99 comments)

Chances are, over the past two years you've seen lawn signs for [your_town_name]singles.com If you're like me, you wondered about the marketing strategy behind them. If you're like this guy, you launch an obsessive investigation into the phenomenon.
posted to MetaFilter by lekvar at 1:46 PM on November 6, 2008 (41 comments)

Nearly a month ago jbickers made a post that mentioned the TIGsource Demakes competition. The competition is over, and the winners have been announced. All of these are playable. Most are for Windows, except for those that are Flash or something else:
1. Soundless Mountain II (Atari 2600 Silent Hill) (from previous post)
2. Gang Garrison II (Kyntt Stories-like Team Fortress 2, complete with multiplayer)
3. Aquarium (NES-ish Aquaria)
4. Little Girl in Underland (Soviet McGee's Alice)
5. House Globe (Homeworld)
6. S.T.A.C.K.E.R. (Nuclear Tetris)
7. Squish
(Crush is a PSP game where the player can switch the world between a 2D and 3D representation. Squish is a game in which the player switches between a 2D and a 1D representation. See for yourself.) 8. (tie) Fillauth and Advanced Set The Rope On Fire Cartridge (an Intellivision-like remake of this, previously mentioned)
9. Sexy Seaside Vollyball (NSFW, pixelated breasts) (Sinclair Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Vollyball)
10. Macarena of the Missing (A thematically-appropriate demake of Limbo of the Lost)

Lots more after the jump!
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris at 3:19 AM on October 7, 2008 (29 comments)

Barnacle Press : archive of mostly public domain newspaper comics. Loads of good stuff, but some highlights not previously mentioned include (especially) Ella Cinders, an stylishly written flapper-Cinderella update; the less clever but still charming Cinderella Suze; the appallingly cute Diary of Snubs, Our Dog; Foxy Grandpa, about a grandfather who outsmarts prank-happy kids; The Hurry Up New Yorker, a kinetically drawn one-joke strip; The Newlyweds' Baby, about a cartoon-sexually-dimorphic couple with a terrible baby; Doesn't It Seem Strange, sort of a beautifully illustrated 'They'll Do It Every Time' for 1903-4; Bringing Up Father, class comedy with lots of rolling pin violence; the freaky-deaky Terrors of the Tiny Tads. (Main link previously posted a couple of times in 2005, but new stuff has been added since then, and the site's been redesigned.)
posted to MetaFilter by zusty at 2:05 PM on September 2, 2008 (22 comments)

SELECT from Rows, UPDATE your opponents' Rows to subtract from the money field, and occasionally even INSERT brand-new Rows in mySQLgame! It's the first multiplayer browser-based game to be completely transparent about just what it is you're accomplishing with your time. [probably not yet working in Internet Explorer, sry]
posted to Projects by jhc at 12:03 PM on August 21, 2008 (9 comments)

For years, Wired magazine has tapped a bevy of designers and artists in the tech field to craft detailed visions of futuristic objects for a monthly showcase at the close of each issue. Now, after hinting as much in the July edition, it is clear that that the tradition of FOUND has been brought to an end. What better way to say goodbye to this whimsical feature than by taking a look back at the full archived run of the series?
posted to MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 5:42 PM on July 22, 2008 (29 comments)

Do you enjoy classic 2D platformers? Then boy, are you in luck! The indie game community is thriving, and a good majority of its games are exactly that. I've spent many hours playing these unique, beautiful, and often exceptional projects, and there's quite a few - more than I can count on my fingers! - that could stand toe-to-toe with the finest contemporary games. Inside is a list of some of the greatest indie platformers, based on community recommendations and my own experience. Enjoy!
posted to MetaFilter by archagon at 3:28 AM on June 24, 2008 (48 comments)

From the Infocom treasure trove: Milliway's, the unreleased sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
posted to MetaFilter by matthewr at 6:18 AM on April 18, 2008 (43 comments)

Improv Everywhere turned a little league baseball game into a major league event. Jumbotron & all.
posted to MetaFilter by prefpara at 1:34 PM on April 7, 2008 (92 comments)

Fruit Mystery. It is a flash game. (via waxy)
posted to MetaFilter by pantsrobot at 3:03 PM on April 4, 2008 (43 comments)

What Saturday Night Live skit had "a man dead, goes to heaven and asks God questions?"
posted to Ask Metafilter by BigCreekBill at 7:38 AM on February 28, 2008 (10 comments)

Everyblock has launched. It's local news culled from (any and all available) services, including photos, news, restaurant inspections, classified ads, and civic announcements. Sounds pretty dry, but looking at my old neighborhood in San Francisco, there's a wealth of hyperlocal information that you can't get in one place. They're currently in three major metro areas of the US with many more to come -- their launch announcement has more. This site was spearheaded by Adrian Holovaty, a pioneer of the intersection between journalism and computer science, and winner of a $1million grant last year to build such sites.
posted to MetaFilter by mathowie at 2:07 PM on January 23, 2008 (34 comments)

Nerds, start your engines: it's the new Metafilter Infodump.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 7:58 AM on January 22, 2008 (279 comments)

Photographs taken on the set of Twin Peaks by Richard Beymer (who played Benjamin Horne).
posted to MetaFilter by Prospero at 11:05 AM on December 6, 2007 (61 comments)

With about as much fanfare as last time, Greg Knauss has re-re-started An Entirely Other Day, this time in a slightly different location. Greg, we love you. Don't make us work this hard.
posted to MetaFilter by whuppy at 9:42 AM on November 13, 2007 (15 comments)

Cinematic particles is an online applet that draws watercolor-like visualizations of movie dialogs, from Apocalypse Now to Zabriskie Point. See also: Spinal Rhythms, L-Garden, SpyCamp and other online toys by Austrian artist Eva Schindling.
posted to MetaFilter by elgilito at 10:49 AM on September 15, 2007 (3 comments)

Being a comic book fan I created this comic book cover gallery (under fair use context). You'll see comics ranging from alternative to superhero to European, from cool to pulp, and I'll be adding new stuff based on feedback, too. The site has been created using a variety of APIs (some more of the approach is detailed at http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-10-09-n22.html ). Hope you guys like it!
posted to Projects by philipp at 6:12 AM on October 16, 2006

This song is called mathowie's community blog, and it's about mathowie, and the community blog, but mathowie's community blog is not the name of the community blog, that's just the name of the song. - lyrical brilliance by It's Raining Florence Henderson, with extra bits of artistic license taken in the studio. - Arlo-esque lead vocals by French Fry, aka Alex Millard, aka my brother.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 10:40 PM on September 3, 2006 (95 comments)

Daniel Raeburn's story about his daughter's still birth is one of the most depressing things I've read in a while. Thankfully, there is a much happier update to the story. (via Kottke)
posted to MetaFilter by chunking express at 8:22 AM on July 11, 2006 (90 comments)

Information. One of ten random flash thingys from the 10 ways project.
posted to MetaFilter by monju_bosatsu at 1:00 PM on May 18, 2006 (26 comments)