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Crunk/Southern Club style head banging high energy hip hop track. All vocals by my normal collaberator, Juicy Karkass, and his buddy Savior of
Animal Farm
posted to MeFi Music by mediocre
at 5:19 AM on August 1, 2008
(96 comments)
Igor Kenk was arrested for bicycle theft in Toronto on July 17. Here's an audio documentary that includes an interview with the man himself:
Steal This Bike (be warned, a lot of profanity, and a little pretentious).
posted to MetaFilter by Chuckles
at 4:28 PM on July 29, 2008
(40 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)
MagCloud
enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and they take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 9:13 AM on June 23, 2008
(43 comments)
I just watched 24 Hour Party People and I love the music. I want to know as much as I possibly can about the Manchester music scene that produced these people and the people themselves. Please recommend some films,books or television programs that can inform the crap out of me
posted to Ask Metafilter by carefulmonkey
at 10:13 AM on June 8, 2008
(15 comments)
Among industrialized nations,
Japan has a pretty low rate of violent crime, a relatively high number of police, and a virtually non-existent acquittal rate. Yet, somehow
the Yakuza persists.
posted to MetaFilter by absalom
at 4:45 PM on May 12, 2008
(58 comments)
In this way, Lu Yang became one of the "RMB gamers" she disdains. More than 10,000 RMB was quickly and nearly imperceptibly spent. In the game, the "queen" possessed fearsome power. She carried out vengeance for herself and her friends, she accepted entreaties, and she protected the caravans of the kingdom. At the same time, she went out with the heroes to invade other kingdoms. Her reputation spread far and wide. [...] "Long live the Queen!" People bowed to her in submission. That was the high point for Lu Yang on ZT Online, and for that one fleeting moment, she felt that the time and money she had spent was worth it.
The System is a translated Chinese article examining ZT Online, an MMORPG that has taken fleecing gamers to a new level.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 7:40 PM on May 6, 2008
(34 comments)
A chance meeting between actress
Tippi Hedren and 20 Vietnamese refugees over 30 years ago, sparked a Vietnamese American domination of the
manicure business (80% of manicurists in California; 43% nationwide)
posted to MetaFilter by jaimev
at 12:19 PM on May 5, 2008
(39 comments)
I recently came across an article about the lack of opportunities for teenagers in rapidly developed suburban/exurban communities. Can you help me find it again?
posted to Ask Metafilter by glibhamdreck
at 1:20 PM on April 24, 2008
(4 comments)
It hasn't been updated in a few months, but the
Cocteau Twins Podcast is a treasure trove of rare and never-before-heard recordings.
posted to MetaFilter by jbickers
at 4:17 AM on April 21, 2008
(17 comments)
Record levels of immigration have had
"little or no impact" on the economic well-being of Britons says
a report (pdf) from an influential House of Lords committee. Initial reactions from the various parties, institutes and publications have been
largely predictable. Coming so closely on the back of the BBC's recent
"White" series on white working-class Britain, it looks likely to provoke some debate on
British attitudes to immigration (pdf).
posted to MetaFilter by Jakey
at 7:54 AM on April 1, 2008
(28 comments)
Life Before Death
- (from the site)
"This sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they had died is a challenging and poignant study. The work by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days, reveals much about dying - and living."
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 8:41 AM on April 1, 2008
(67 comments)
Iwase Yoshiyuki
"In the late 1920s, young Yoshiyuki received an early Kodak camera as a gift. Since the main livelihood of the town came from the sea, he gravitated there, and soon found a passion for "the simple, even primitive beauty" of
ama – girls and women who harvested seaweed, turban shells and abalone from beneath the coastal waters." "By the late 1960s, they had disappeared. This body of work stands as the final, most comprehensive visual document of the life and work of these divers."
[NSFW]
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 10:45 PM on March 27, 2008
(48 comments)
Dual cassette deck DJ.
DJ Ramsey of Scottsdale, Arizona does with cassettes what DJ's have done for decades with vinyl records, CDs and mp3s.
posted to MetaFilter by basicchannel
at 2:08 PM on March 20, 2008
(19 comments)
This is a post about
6'4", 380 lb. professional fighter and entertainer Bob Sapp. A good place to start is
this fantastic, disdainful overview of Sapp's kickboxing career through 2005. It features lots of pictures, crooked officiating, illegal blows to the back of the head, and some well-deserved humbling. Sapp is also known for a less distinguished MMA
career, which includes one of the most exciting fights of all time, against the great
Antônio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira (Watch it here:
[Round 1] [Round 2]).
posted to MetaFilter by 1
at 9:59 AM on February 13, 2008
(50 comments)
Mixed With Love: The Musical World Of Walter Gibbons: "This tale begins with a skinny white DJ mixing between the breaks of obscure Motown records with the ambidextrous intensity of an octopus on speed. It closes with the same man, sick with Aids and all but blind, fumbling for gospel records as he spins up eternal hope in a fading dusk. In between, Walter Gibbons transformed the art of DJing and marked out the future co-ordinates of remixology."
posted to MetaFilter by Len
at 10:38 AM on February 7, 2008
(6 comments)
Everyone by now has heard the story of
Oscar Schindler, but he wasn't the only one
saving Jews in the dark era of WW II. This story was kept secret for many years, until the last member of the
Leitz family died.
posted to MetaFilter by pjern
at 2:11 AM on November 10, 2006
(27 comments)
Haruki Murakami doesn't do many interviews. However, he granted one to a University of Hawaii journalism student and it was published in the January 2007 issue of GQ Korea. The text has been translated by the blog owner.
Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4
posted to MetaFilter by spec80
at 8:44 AM on February 1, 2008
(25 comments)
Say I wanted to fill the genre tags of my whole mp3 library automatically.
Say I trusted the
last.fm community enough to use the three most used tags for a certain song/album listed there (for example:
New Order's Ceremony would get "80s" "new wave" and "post-punk").
Say I wanted to do this automatically.
Say I had a Mac.
How would I go about this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Skyanth
at 4:44 AM on January 24, 2008
(12 comments)
Which is the best online photo printing service? This was
asked two years ago, but things may have changed. My priorities would be: archival quality prints; good service; and reasonable prices, in that order. Most ideal would be a Canadian service, but a second choice would be a U.S. service that mentions that they ship to Canada with reasonable fees.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jellicle
at 5:57 PM on March 29, 2007
(6 comments)
Tom Hodgkinson, of
The Idler, really
hates Facebook: "We are seeing the commodification of human relationships, the extraction of capitalistic value from friendships."
posted to MetaFilter by mekanic
at 4:30 PM on January 14, 2008
(85 comments)
To all the sneaker pimps* out there: what can you tell me about sneaker culture?
*no, not the band
posted to Ask Metafilter by lekvar
at 11:55 AM on January 14, 2008
(8 comments)
What tools exist for OS X to manage my music library?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Loto
at 11:17 AM on January 12, 2008
(9 comments)
