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What are some interesting, uncommon "vocabulary" words that you use regularly or semi-regularly?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Metroid Baby
at 1:24 PM on April 22, 2008
(90 comments)
Give me your best camping hacks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by keith0718
at 2:24 AM on June 24, 2008
(43 comments)
Help me be the coolest camper on the block...er field.
posted to Ask Metafilter by djstig
at 2:21 AM on July 17, 2006
(33 comments)
I'm looking for decent stock web elements that aren't from 1998, but I'm totally stuck. Where should I go?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ejoey
at 1:58 AM on June 18, 2008
(9 comments)
ResearchFilter: How does one go about covering bases and exploring fundamentals of qualitative research?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tybeet
at 9:23 AM on June 17, 2008
(9 comments)
Earlier this week I spent some time filling sandbags with other volunteers. A few tried to get some singing going, with no success. One problem was that few people know all the words to any given song anymore. The other problem seemed to be a lack of suitable songs. What are your favorite examples of
call and response in the popular music of the last 40 years? I'm looking for examples where both call and response are vocal.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bricoleur
at 6:55 AM on June 12, 2008
(17 comments)
Where can I find games for the PC that soothe, make me ponder and go *wow*?
posted to Ask Metafilter by watercarrier
at 10:13 AM on June 10, 2008
(34 comments)
Henry Raddick's Amazon Reviews
are among the most insidiously hilarious works I've seen in some time. From his review of
"McDonald Happy Meal Toys From The Nineties: With Price Guide": "An essential guide for the fast food promotional toy collector, this fine book lists each and every one of the toys given away with Happy meals in the 90s. If you choked on it, it's in here. It even had listings and recent auction prices for some of that weird "McCrying Game" merchandising. A must. " Indeed.
posted to MetaFilter by effugas
at 12:56 PM on December 12, 2002
(28 comments)
Is there a website that tests computer hardware like Tom's Hardware does, but publishes comprehensive comparison artilces more regularly?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ErWenn
at 6:25 PM on June 9, 2008
(7 comments)
Five years and 800,000 images went into producing a 4 gigapixel
mosaic image of the galactic plane, which when printed out is 180 feet long. But it has been made browser-sized by
GLIMPSE, the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire, the research group which, along with
MIPSGAL, created the image:
A Glimpse of the Milky Way.
posted to MetaFilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 8:42 PM on June 5, 2008
(14 comments)
Article in UK newspaper The Independent about two members of Nottingham University, U.K., Rizwaan Sabir and Hicham Yezza, who were arrested last week on terrorism charges and held for six days before being released without charge. The reason was that they had downloaded a terrorist manual from a US government website, which MA student Sabir needed for his research into terrorism, and which was approved by his supervisor. His friend Hicham Yezza, former student and current administrator at the university was arrested for helping to print out the 1500 page document. On release Yezza was then immediately rearrested on immigration charges and now faces imminent deportation, despite being a resident of the UK for 13 years and currently in the process of applying for citizenship. A
campaign is currently underway to prevent this.
posted to MetaFilter by leibniz
at 1:29 PM on May 26, 2008
(85 comments)
History is a Weapon
-- Featuring
Propaganda by the inventor of modern PR,
Edward Bernays, essays by
Bill Clinton,
Eugene Debs,
Frederick Douglass,
Sojourner Truth,
Mark Twain, the entirety of
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, and
much, much more.
posted to MetaFilter by empath
at 11:58 PM on May 26, 2008
(55 comments)
"You people bring matches for Mikey?"
When people fondly remember TV's
Mystery Science Theater 3000 they commonly focus on the film riffing part of the show, but some of the best comedy to come out of the Satellite of Love involves the host segments that provided a break from the movie. MSTies over at Satellite News have spent the past ten weeks discussing the best host segments from each season of the show, analyzing what makes some segments work while others fall flat.
posted to MetaFilter by Servo5678
at 5:03 AM on May 23, 2008
(66 comments)
Know of any good freeform roleplaying sites?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 8:40 PM on May 22, 2008
(5 comments)
Dead simple mapping software for visualizing data? Any idea how to make something similar to
these pretty maps without expensive and complicated GIS software?
posted to Ask Metafilter by willie11
at 8:24 AM on May 20, 2008
(8 comments)
I'm looking for something really freaky to put on the tv at the bar I work at; video imagery to really make some hipster indie rocker kids say wtf when they notice it playing in the background-"holy mountain" and svenmahers"alice" are my usual standbys, but I know you Mefites know just the thing to make a standard night watching post rock bands just a little stranger.what visuals would you use, remembering that the sound of the movie won't be heard--
posted to Ask Metafilter by donabean
at 11:46 PM on May 16, 2008
(75 comments)
What influences trends in baby names? And why have popular girls names changed more over the past 20+ years than boys names?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ThePinkSuperhero
at 9:19 PM on May 11, 2008
(66 comments)
1812OvertureFilter: I need epic music.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Lockeownzj00
at 3:40 PM on December 17, 2006
(46 comments)
What is the iconic (or just "your favorite") dead-tree product catalog (listing of merchandise for mail-order sale) for your hobby, industry, or trade?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cadastral
at 9:23 AM on April 1, 2008
(72 comments)
[Math filter] What fascinatingly cool mathematical topics do you wish you knew about in high school?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomcochrane
at 7:33 AM on March 27, 2008
(102 comments)
What strategy/simulation based games would I love?
posted to Ask Metafilter by JPowers
at 8:35 PM on February 27, 2008
(34 comments)
A good friend just received a brain cancer diagnosis with an estimated one year survival time. She wants to talk about death and time. She thinks I have something to teach or tell her worth hearing. I'd like to be helpful, but have no confidence in my ability to say or do anything meaningful. What I've said so far she appreciates.
What can I read that might help me frame discussions. I don't need pop psychology stuff, or advice dealing with the health care system or funeral arrangements. I like the idea of Zen notions of letting go but am too ignorant to know what to say.
Advice, experience, suggestions for gathering information please.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NorthCoastCafe
at 3:12 PM on January 7, 2008
(65 comments)
Editor wars are some of the most divisive debates among programmers and writers. These days, the battles are between proponents of IDEs like
NetBeans,
Eclipse, and
the like as often as they are between proponents of
vi and
Emacs, the traditional battlegrounds. That fight hasn't ended, of course. The support of the vi camp has largely solidified behind
Vim, the largest and most feature rich (or bloated, if you like
nvi) variant, and
GNU Emacs has essentially vanquished its internecine
rival. Are you a traditionalist? You can find an
argument if you really want to.
Of course, a lot of people
now vote for third parties. There are candidates for the
ignorant, for the
masochistic, and the
insane. Some people are more comfortable
with familiar interfaces. Still
others are
obsessed. [
Previously]
posted to MetaFilter by sonic meat machine
at 1:04 PM on December 22, 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)
JavaScript: jQuery vs Scriptaculous - Which is currently the favorite amongst developers?
posted to Ask Metafilter by afx114
at 3:49 PM on November 16, 2007
(11 comments)
I am looking for a free font that can be used royalty free (ie. 100% free in all respects) in potentially commercial material.
posted to Ask Metafilter by iamcrispy
at 1:20 PM on March 14, 2005
(8 comments)
Lately, I've taken an interest in simple but slightly offbeat sans fonts, such as
Rotis,
Indosans,
Elemental, et.al.
What other sans fonts would you recommend that have clean, simple shapes, with some quirkiness and character mixed in?
posted to Ask Metafilter by signal
at 12:27 PM on March 17, 2005
(15 comments)
There's a certain fiendishly addictive structure in video (and other) games, and I'd like to know if anyone has named it or researched it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by argybarg
at 10:23 AM on July 29, 2007
(23 comments)
What are the functional and modern differences between Sunni and Shi'a Islam?
posted to Ask Metafilter by scaryblackdeath
at 1:15 PM on July 26, 2007
(7 comments)
How do I act like a New Yorker?
posted to Ask Metafilter by brautigan
at 2:36 PM on July 26, 2007
(102 comments)
Need a simple document management system with a clean, easy interface that can index documents based on job #, who the document is to and from, and date. Tagging the documents would be a really cool feature (like del.icio.us tagging) but not required.
posted to Ask Metafilter by farmersckn
at 4:34 PM on July 26, 2007
(3 comments)
I need to buy a good custom-built PC
posted to Ask Metafilter by unreason
at 5:30 PM on July 26, 2007
(14 comments)
Can any mefites suggest some alternative barebones PC builders other than Monarch? Looks like they've fallen on hard times just as I'm gearing up for a new machine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Jase
at 4:10 PM on December 14, 2006
(9 comments)
I would like to make a mix of "post grunge" modern rock type music. Gin Blossoms, Toad the Wet Sprocket etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢
at 6:36 PM on July 26, 2007
(72 comments)
I'm compiling a few questions for a trivia night that my girlfriend is hosting and wanted to include a multiple choice question in which one has to guess which movie title is
not a porno. So, for instance,
Snatch sounds like it's a porno, but it's not. Please help me come up with some more funny-sounding porno-ish titles for non-porno films. In addition, what are some relatively innocuous porn titles? Thanks in advance.
posted to Ask Metafilter by billysumday
at 4:58 PM on July 20, 2007
(56 comments)
Read a Book.
Drink some water. Buy some land (not rims). Brush your teeth. Wear deodorant (it's not expensive). Some say it's a parody, some say it's an important urban social statement set to a phat beat. The artist is
Bomanni "D'Mite" Armah and it was originally
aired at the NY Comic Con and a few times on BET.
posted to MetaFilter by revmitcz
at 3:54 PM on July 10, 2007
(46 comments)
