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I have just found out I'm a big fan of post apocalyptic fiction books. Somehow I like the idea of an individual or small group of survivors almost alone in the world trying to find out what the hell happened to the planet and fighting for their survival. What are some good books and movies the hive mind can recommend?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dcrocha
at 11:24 AM on June 27, 2008
(99 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)
Give me your best camping hacks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by keith0718
at 2:24 AM on June 24, 2008
(43 comments)
RemodelingKitchenFilter: What do you wish you had done to your kitchen when you had the chance?
posted to Ask Metafilter by birdlips
at 8:01 AM on June 11, 2008
(43 comments)
Simple, easy and elegant recipes that are always crowd pleasers: What are yours?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Carialle
at 10:28 AM on June 11, 2008
(49 comments)
I returned two items to a store and was refunded $37 extra. The refund did go back to my credit card and is on my statement. Will the company notice and take it back?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jesirose
at 2:53 PM on May 29, 2008
(11 comments)
Give me your baby hacks! My wife and I are expecting our first child in November. What tips and tricks can you offer us to make our lives a lot easier? For example, a friend of mine swears that putting a crying baby in front of a mirror will cause it to stop. Another uses noise cancelling headphones to temper the noise from his shrieking child. I am looking for hacks on everything from diaper changing to stroller modifications. Make our lives easier as we enter into parenthood.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jasondigitized
at 9:16 AM on May 20, 2008
(47 comments)
Tools for Life: The last [blank] you'll ever need to buy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by sirion
at 12:59 PM on May 23, 2008
(50 comments)
In Buddhist philosophy, how is one supposed to
do anything?
posted to Ask Metafilter by phrontist
at 8:16 PM on May 18, 2008
(44 comments)
What are your recommendations for good baby and toddler books in English?
posted to Ask Metafilter by k8t
at 2:04 AM on May 17, 2008
(22 comments)
What are some of your absolute favourite online essays, articles and other pieces of non-fiction writing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by turgid dahlia
at 4:21 PM on May 1, 2008
(49 comments)
Does anyone know a way to stop icons from bouncing on the OS X doc? I'm NOT talking about unchecking "animate opening applications" in the dock preferences. That only stops opening-app bounces. I want to stop warning bounces, too. They drive me crazy. Please note that I'm using an INTEL Mac (Leopard). I've only been able to find solutions for PowerPC Macs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by grumblebee
at 8:42 AM on March 10, 2008
(11 comments)
What do you look at/notice, as you wander through the world, that I probably ignore?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 12:15 PM on February 12, 2008
(130 comments)
My best friend and I are sake (rice wine) lovers. Not lovers, because he's a guy. And ugly. But he's a great guy and I'd like to buy him some top quality traditional sake and a set of cups and bottle.
posted to Ask Metafilter by simplesharps
at 2:40 AM on December 6, 2007
(13 comments)
I need a razor that won't get clogged with hair.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 9:25 PM on November 2, 2007
(31 comments)
Regarding the ending to David Mamet's
The Spanish Prisoner (note: spoilers contained within).
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:37 PM on May 30, 2007
(10 comments)
Jazzy electronic music recommendations? I'm thinking of Squarepusher, some Tortoise, etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by electric_counterpoint
at 12:48 PM on July 24, 2007
(49 comments)
In 1997, the ABC gave
John Safran, "Australia's most exciting guerilla filmmaker", his big break on
Race Around The World. Although he came last in the competition, it's not too hard to fathom why he won the popular vote, with these submissions:
Don't screw with the rules in Japan,
The ambulance chaser (Mumbai),
Anarchy in the Renault family hatchback (Bristol),
The right to bare grudges (Cote d'Ivoire),
Mum I'm not Jewish any more (Cote d'Ivoire),
Father Pino vs the Devil (Sicily),
Mohammad's guide to busting a move (Lebanon),
Football's my religion (Jerusalem),
The series of unfortunate events and
The happiest place on earth, my butt (Disneyland). youtube; each ~6 minutes
posted to MetaFilter by goo
at 2:53 AM on June 23, 2007
(16 comments)
“We realised that life is too short to read all the books you want to and we never were going to read these ones.”
Research confirmed that “many regular readers think of the classics as long, slow and, to be frank, boring. You’re not supposed to say this but I think that one of the reasons Jane Austen always does so well in reader polls is that her books aren’t that long”.
The first six titles in the
Compact Editions series are
Anna Karenina,
Vanity Fair,
David Copperfield,
The Mill on the Floss,
Moby Dick and
Wives and Daughters.
Each has been whittled down to about 400 pages by cutting 30 to 40 per cent of the text. Words, sentences, paragraphs and, in a few cases, chapters have been removed.
“We realised that life is too short to read all the books you want to and we never were going to read these ones.”
posted to MetaFilter by four panels
at 9:12 PM on May 7, 2007
(270 comments)
What are some good 3+ hour made-for-TV series or epic movies along the lines of
I, Claudius and
Shogun?
posted to Ask Metafilter by zek
at 12:40 PM on May 7, 2007
(54 comments)
What's the most exciting novel you've ever read? I mean this in the simplest sense: an exciting plot. I'm looking for page-turners. Novels that keep you on the edge of your seat and refuse to let you sleep until you finish them. I'm looking for genre novels -- but I don't care what genres: Mystery, thriller, sci-fi, etc. (though sci-fi/fantasy has been done-to-death here, so I'm really more interested in other genres.) Oh, I care about words. So no matter how exciting, I'll quit reading if the prose is crappy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by grumblebee
at 2:41 PM on May 25, 2006
(148 comments)
I'm going to become a demigod bass player, relied upon to skillfully secrete pelvis-destroying, improvised funk-era bass lines. Who will I listen to? What albums will I know by heart?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Moistener
at 6:25 PM on January 21, 2007
(48 comments)
Deals and Free Stuff in the UK?
posted to Ask Metafilter by srboisvert
at 3:48 AM on January 8, 2007
(7 comments)
I want to seriously improve my football (soccer) skills. I play fairly often in a mixture of 5-a-side games and an 11-a-side team, but my skills are improving very slowly as the games don't involve any training, just playing and you only get the ball for a fraction of the game. I was hoping for suggestions to make up some kind of training plan of my own as well as getting a better understand of football tactics.
posted to Ask Metafilter by equality7-2521
at 4:15 PM on December 6, 2006
(10 comments)
Weird-in-a-good-way-filter: I need suggestions for online stores/catalogs for Christmas Shopping!
posted to Ask Metafilter by deedeep
at 1:08 PM on November 14, 2006
(47 comments)
Academics: What are your favorite research papers?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tasty
at 9:26 PM on October 3, 2006
(23 comments)
New
Canadian music is infiltrating your culture with its
neo-retro ways, and you may not even know it!
Hot Hot Heat is too dance-rocky for it's own good, Joy Division-loving
the Stills are constantly mistaken for New Yorkers (thanks to touring with Interpol), and certainly
Stirling are too epic to be anything but Cure-loving Brits! Watch out for the seditiously warm synth-pop of
Stars and the society-destroying rock-folk of lesbian siblings
Tegan and Sara. While you're at it, keep tabs on Toronto super-supergroup
Broken Social Scene and the quirky, danceable girl-rawk of
Metric. This is the cell of the retro rock revolution you really need to pay attention to. The Strokes and their ilk have nothing on the Canucks.
posted to MetaFilter by Kleptophoria!
at 3:56 PM on November 25, 2004
(146 comments)
Spider web construction gallery
is a collection of diagrams of the path a spider takes when constructing it's web. The diagrams are colour coded by construction phase.
[VIA MoFi's very first post.]
posted to MetaFilter by Mitheral
at 11:10 AM on August 15, 2006
(24 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)
Please help with the details of renting a flat in London.
posted to Ask Metafilter by meerkatty
at 4:39 PM on June 7, 2006
(13 comments)
I’m looking for songs that won’t piss me off at six a.m.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cdadog
at 7:34 AM on May 19, 2006
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