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posted to MetaTalk by chrchr at 8:30 AM on September 21, 2010 (81 comments)

Lubrication filter: Trying to replicate something seen in a video with my girlfriend, but having difficulties figuring out what is being used. Link to extremely NSFW video inside.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by wile e at 2:44 PM on April 24, 2010 (16 comments)

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences is a 1960 essay by Eugene Wigner. Via Steve Strogatz.
posted to MetaFilter by jjray at 10:30 PM on January 31, 2010 (29 comments)

In an age where baseball heroes are reviled as frauds, one player's reputation remains secure. His won-loss record and career ERA set standards that will never be matched; the same is true for the character he displayed on and off the mound. But, unbelievable as it may seem, no one has ever set down the exhaustive account of this lion of the diamond. Until now. Charlie Brown's career statistics, 1951-1960. Charlie Brown's career statistics, 1961-1970. Previously on MetaFilter: action-packed four-panel drawings of some of Charlie's greatest games, with material from his personal life as well.
posted to MetaFilter by escabeche at 6:29 PM on January 12, 2010 (26 comments)

In 1940s New York, Harry Dubin and his teenage son went out every weekend to take color pictures of people doing different jobs in the city. Well, not people...Harry Dubin, switching places with people and pretending to do their jobs.
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders at 8:01 PM on January 3, 2010 (33 comments)

How the world's campaign to stop a genocide created a quagmire. (Print version.)
posted to MetaFilter by andoatnp at 2:26 PM on January 2, 2010 (10 comments)

Sometimes we forget the depth of meaning of the word "holy"....perhaps, given the season, this may help....
posted to MetaFilter by HuronBob at 4:37 AM on December 25, 2009 (15 comments)

The Nerds of Paradise: a new webcomic from Dale Beran, the writer of A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible (Previously).
posted to MetaFilter by stresstwig at 10:05 AM on December 20, 2009 (10 comments)

In Two Bits (full-book in html) , Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software, but also music, film, science, and education. The author encourage his readers to modulate the book.
posted to MetaFilter by Monday, stony Monday at 10:00 PM on November 30, 2009 (16 comments)

In the summer of 1996, less than one year before he died, Jeff Buckley wrote and recorded this song which was released for free on the Internet, but never on any of his albums.
posted to MeFi Music by joetrip at 8:19 AM on November 22, 2009 (19 comments)

Where is the most bountiful font of 'hipster cribs' stories?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mattholomew at 2:23 PM on November 4, 2009 (23 comments)

Here is a cover of Q Lazzarus's "Goodbye Horses" made famous I'm told in Silence of the Lambs and Clerks 2.
posted to MeFi Music by frenetic at 6:37 PM on November 1, 2009 (10 comments)

Such are the contradictions that seem to riddle not just Gladwell's thinking but the thinking on Gladwell's thinking, and perhaps even the thinking on thinking on that, and it is precisely these slippery but substantive contradictions that have allowed Gladwell to tout his revolutionary "big ideas" without couching them in anything so mundane as a logical, well-supported or otherwise sound argument. Gladwell for Dummies.
posted to MetaFilter by defenestration at 3:46 PM on November 5, 2009 (101 comments)

One of the best parts of watching Mad Men is the perfectly recreated world of 1960s New York. Who doesn’t wish they could simply step into their tvs for a moment and experience the romance of sipping a cocktail in an elegant 60s bar? Guest of a Guest put together a list of Mad Men inspired locales, consisting of places that have been around since the 1960s as well as their modern counterparts. Here’s everything you need to know to dress, drink, eat, and live like a character out of Mad Men.
posted to MetaFilter by netbros at 3:40 PM on October 30, 2009 (44 comments)

Is there a name or term for the aesthetic these blogs contain?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by CitrusFreak12 at 11:04 AM on October 16, 2009 (22 comments)

The Freakonomics follow up, Superfreakonomics, contains a chapter on climate change that lives up to the best selling contrarian style of authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. However actual climate scientists were not pleased with the chapter. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, the book "repeats tired global cooling myths," "unfairly trashes climate models" and "advocates rolling the dice on unproven technology" among other faults. They have also been accused of misquoting climate scientist Ken Caldeira. Levitt and Dubner respond to their critics, Global Warming in SuperFreakonomics: The Anatomy of a Smear.
posted to MetaFilter by afu at 8:22 PM on October 18, 2009 (127 comments)

'The Golden Age of Video' by Ricardo Autobahn (SLYT)
posted to MetaFilter by fearfulsymmetry at 7:52 AM on October 5, 2009 (17 comments)

Aunt Feminina Boots's Char-Broiled Book Club — Feminina Boots has been experiencing a lot of difficulty lately trying to find a book club where she can say things that aren’t just going to upset people.
posted to MetaFilter by netbros at 12:18 AM on August 27, 2009 (18 comments)

Beepy, Fun, Cute - with flipflops.
posted to MetaFilter by bigmusic at 1:34 PM on September 15, 2008 (36 comments)

What are the best Mefite parodies and pastiches of all time?
posted to MetaTalk by empath at 5:01 PM on July 27, 2009 (27 comments)

We Are All Mice Within the Lesser Vastness of the Not-Kaleidoscope. (SLYT) Structure elevates random into beautiful; individual impasse, in multiplicity, resolves into vibrant design; mirrors are weird; enter, The Duck. via Wired. (Can't find the original link any longer.)
posted to MetaFilter by darth_tedious at 11:34 PM on June 21, 2009 (12 comments)

Schott's Vocab Blog is doing a weekend competition for 'puns that monkey with the description of reported speech for comic effect', and has gotten about 2000 entries so far!" Tom said swiftly. "Some of them are actually funny if you think about them," he added judgmentally.

"And this no-frills site serves up random Swifties," Wendell said refreshingly. "I wanted to give an extra link because I procrastinated in posting this," he extrapolated.

"There's more on the inside!" he added punishingly.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 5:06 PM on June 6, 2009 (190 comments)

Scanwiches.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their sandwiches wedged into their scanners, or why.
posted to MetaFilter by flashboy at 6:09 AM on March 6, 2009 (67 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 (106 comments)

News at 5. Follow the fastest, and breaking stories with Andehal Meyers. Get the latest forcast from Angela Jones. Your team will play at the end of the week, and Angela Braidhal has the inside scoop with coach. Angel Meyers, for the teams inside strategies. Gamblings forecasat.
posted to MeFi Music by dagosto at 4:03 AM on November 20, 2008 (22 comments)

Haskell has a sort of unofficial slogan: avoid success at all costs says one of its inventors, Simon Peyton-Jones. But will the advanced purely functional programming language[, a]n open source product of more than twenty years of cutting edge research remain true to its roots? Things look rather bleak for the obscurity of Haskell. In the wake of Peyton-Jones's own A taste of Haskell, and with the imminent publication of Real World Haskell by O'Reilly and the emergence of the Haskell Platform, comes BONUS's fun, colorfully illustrated Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!.
posted to MetaFilter by Monday, stony Monday at 11:38 AM on October 18, 2008 (61 comments)

Rentrak Corporation is always looking for talented developers to add to our team in beautiful Portland, Oregon. You're probably used to being the smartest developer on your team (but are too humble to admit it), and are looking for a place where you can work alongside talented peers building great software for interesting projects. At Rentrak, we're a small enough company that you can make a big difference, but we're big enough to ensure your paycheck never bounces. Here are just a few things Rentrak programmers have done recently: * Wrote customized extensions to Open Source tools, to process queries hundreds of times faster than commercial RDBMSs * Built a goal-seeking system to dynamically generate optimal SQL queries for end-user data requests * Celebrated our 3 billionth transaction processed * Implemented software to categorize and predict consumer behavior based on television viewing history * Created systems that predict movie sales in theaters, retail stores and video rental locations * Gave a Tech Talk to Google about our brilliant database technology Our teams are relatively small (three to six people), and we have a development environment influenced by XP. We have a nice open work area so our developers can share their brilliant ideas, learn from each other, expand our extensive custom libraries and work together to solve tough problems. We keep our source code base well factored and filled with unit tests. We work with a stunningly large amount of data, and everyone here does an amazing job of turning it into something manageable. We have a very high hiring bar, and we feel that all the people who work here could easily get a job at any of the major tech companies. Our management understands this and works hard to make sure our developers are happy and productive. We're looking for ridiculously smart developers to help us reinvent our industries. Experience with functional or dynamic object-oriented development experience is great (e.g., Lisp, Smalltalk, Scheme, Ocaml, SML, Haskell, Ruby, Unlambda, C++/STL/Boost, or advanced use of Python or Perl). RDBMS experience is also helpful, especially with terabyte-plus databases. Rentrak's developers work with their teammates on all aspects of the development process: requirements gathering, system design, database design and tuning and, of course, lots of unit tests and coding.
posted to MetaFilter Jobs by chrchr at 11:43 AM on August 21, 2008

I get to perform this as part of my set at Blip Festival in NYC next week - essentially the Woodstock of chiptunes / 8-bit / video game music.
This was written out of intense affection for my EVE Online playing nerd girl (a soft orchestral arrangement of it is going to be our wedding processional, awww) and was released on 8bitpeoples' 8BP050 compilation CD. I've spruced it up with some orchestration for the show. Come rock with me if you're local -- I'd love to meet my fellow mefimusicians and introduce more people to the chiptune scene. It's pure love and fun.
posted to MeFi Music by jake at 1:56 AM on November 22, 2007 (10 comments)

Is there a specific term to describe an advertising slogan that actually makes you less sure about that aspect of the product? Examples inside.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by HeroZero at 11:01 AM on July 3, 2008 (19 comments)

A crackly, sketchy demo recording that never found a band.
posted to MeFi Music by srednivashtar at 6:38 AM on April 9, 2008 (2 comments)

Why is the only .arpa website about unicycles?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 8:42 AM on May 27, 2008 (8 comments)

"Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone ... This doglike feeding, if one must engage in it, ought to be kept from public view, where, even if WE feel no shame, others are compelled to witness our shameful behavior." Leon Kass, former chair of the President Bush's Council on Bioethics tells us what he really thinks of modern America.
posted to MetaFilter by arnicae at 7:38 PM on May 27, 2008 (101 comments)

How to ruin a joke. A concise and surprisingly astute explanation of how referential humor works on the web and why it kinda sucks. (Warning: somethingawful.com)
posted to MetaFilter by es_de_bah at 10:12 AM on May 25, 2008 (68 comments)

The Heartbreak Campaign. "Increasingly opposed to the Vietnam War, Robert F. Kennedy struggled over whether he should challenge his party’s incumbent president, Lyndon Johnson, in 1968. His younger brother, Teddy, was against it. His wife, Ethel, urged him on. Many feared he would be assassinated, like the older brother he mourned."
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha at 2:27 PM on May 10, 2008 (28 comments)

Have you seen blog threads where commenters seem not to have read the initial post, and are way off topic? I'm seeking more examples of this for my dissertation research. Looking for blogs which have garnered comments similar to those mentioned on the earlier MeFi threads Tuesdays with Maury, Jeremy Jordan Loves Demon Dogs, and How Hawkish. Basically, commenters show up and start commenting as if they haven't read the original post at all, and they don't seem to have any idea what the discussion is about. In many cases they seem to think they're talking to a celebrity, or they are just seeking information in the wrong place.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by gusandrews at 10:49 AM on April 27, 2008 (23 comments)

Everything you need to know about playing Nintendo.
posted to MetaFilter by dhammond at 10:56 PM on April 10, 2008 (64 comments)

Inspired by the staccato brilliance of political bitch-fest The McLaughlin Group, rocker Andrew W.K. has composed a song (direct mp3) based on a particularly scattered exchange. Here he is explaining the process on the public radio show "Fair Game." The song has already sponsored a video tribute.
posted to MetaFilter by jtajta at 12:17 PM on March 11, 2008 (18 comments)

My system has multiple Internet connections, and I want to be able to specify which of these connections particular applications will use. I run Windows XP Pro.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Emanuel at 3:47 PM on March 5, 2008 (16 comments)

How to find someone to be an intellectual mentor for them? The difficulties I see in finding someone are: 1) I'm not around many new people (esp. younger) that would be interested and 2) why would they choose me?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Furious Fitness at 3:38 AM on December 29, 2007 (38 comments)

A requiem for the post to end all posts
posted to MeFi Music by umbú at 7:30 PM on January 7, 2008 (25 comments)

"Psycho killer raccoons terrorize Olympia." What else is there to say, really.
posted to MetaFilter by _sirmissalot_ at 6:20 PM on August 23, 2006 (55 comments)

umeancompetitor.blogspot.com or How to make "giffords" yourself: part one & part two.
posted to MetaFilter by geos at 9:11 AM on November 2, 2007 (17 comments)

Abstraction by Shintaro Kago is distilled surrealism, a fourth wall-smashing comic that amazes at every turn. (NSFW)
posted to MetaFilter by carsonb at 11:38 PM on October 25, 2007 (45 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 (55 comments)

Out of sheer curiousity I set a sound activated recorder on the flank of a road-killed deer on the Monida pass - directly in between Idaho and Montana on I-15. I was fully engaged in my summer work of road construction, the year was 1999. I saw a murder of crows assembled, making plans to have this poor deceased deer for dinner. I was curious to hear if crows spoke differently between themselves from the regular crowspeak between us and them. Though this may not be 'music', I found it to be one of the most surreal and interesting things I'd put to tape. The sounds of slow-motion bullets you hear are heavy trucks passing. The crows speak for themselves.
posted to MeFi Music by isopraxis at 10:12 PM on February 1, 2007 (14 comments)

An Eye for the World. "Shotaro Shimomura XXI (1883-1944) was Chairman of The Daimaru Inc., a department store chain... He took these photographs on a subsequent trip around the world in 1934 and 1935." Just two pages of photos, but I find them irresistible—worth it for this one alone. (Via wood s lot.)
posted to MetaFilter by languagehat at 9:00 AM on December 30, 2006 (18 comments)

What the....? Where's the punchline? I don't get it. Why, that's just plain disgusting! I can't *even* believe my eyes. Channeling the spirit of B1FF in the early morning. o<
posted to MetaFilter by Settle at 11:46 PM on April 20, 2002 (48 comments)

How do I know if a prospective manfriend is the type to, um, pull my hair?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 11:29 PM on December 29, 2006 (42 comments)

I like stavros. I like copyright infringement. I like the kind of hard work that goes into a FPP like this. But there's something about this Wii-winning post that doesn't sit well with me. Could you help me put my finger on it?
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman at 10:08 AM on December 29, 2006 (258 comments)

Why is this thread still around? I know at least one admin has seen it, since my snarky response was removed. Is it now OK to ask for piracy how-to's?
posted to MetaTalk by mkultra at 10:02 AM on December 23, 2006 (120 comments)