How do you keep track of your project ideas? How do you get yourself to follow through on them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rivenwanderer at 8:44 PM on July 18, 2008 (14 comments)

Type is art. Take little pieces of letterforms and make something new.
posted to MetaFilter by signal at 8:01 AM on July 18, 2008 (10 comments)

"New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources was created to serve as a starting point for research using Library of Congress collections of New Deal program materials." Includes links to numerous collections of digitized materials, including photos, posters, music, manuscripts and more.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins at 12:55 PM on July 15, 2008 (4 comments)

Who are some great comedians I've probably never heard of that I can watch on youtube?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Christ, what an asshole at 3:50 PM on July 14, 2008 (50 comments)

How do you all manage the information that you find in various places, online and off, and make it findable later?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kenzi23 at 7:35 PM on July 10, 2008 (18 comments)

The handwriting of typographers.
posted to MetaFilter by oneirodynia at 5:19 PM on July 10, 2008 (21 comments)

"...aside from the Devil, you have no enemy more venomous, more desperate, more bitter, than a true Jew... What shall we Christians do with this rejected and condemned people, the Jews? Since they live among us, we dare not tolerate their conduct, now that we are aware of their lying and reviling and blaspheming.... First, to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians.... Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed.... Third, I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them.... Fourth, I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb." -- From On the Jews and Their Lies, authored by the man voted by his countrymen the second greatest German of all time, the theologian whose break with Rome began the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther.
posted to MetaFilter by orthogonality at 9:54 PM on July 7, 2008 (87 comments)

2 July 1863, second day of Gettysburg. Sickles has pulled his III Corps -- without orders -- off of Cemetery Ridge and positioned it a half mile in front of the rest of the Union lines. Longstreet smashes the hapless III Corps and its men are in full flight. Hancock rides back and forth inside the gaping hole left by Sickles. Below him, almost 2000 men of Wilcox's brigade are charging up the slope. They will gain a foothold on the ridge and be reinforced by Lee. As Longstreet pins down the Union left, Lee will roll up the center and right of the Northern army and chase them from the field. He will then march on and take Washington before turning north along the eastern seaboard. Lee will capture and burn Philadelphia and Boston in his March Along the Sea, chasing the Northern government from city to city until Lincoln finally sues for peace and the union is no more. Suddenly, a line of blue-coated soldiers comes into Hancock's view. "My God, is this all the men here? Who are you?" "1st Minnesota, sir." "See those colors?", says Hancock, pointing at the flags of the oncoming Confederates, "Take them."
posted to MetaFilter by forrest at 5:45 AM on July 2, 2008 (82 comments)

Remember Kevin Everett? Well, those of you who said Kevin Everett would walk, it turns out you were right.
posted to MetaTalk by ikkyu2 at 9:54 PM on June 30, 2008 (20 comments)

The Staten Island Ferry is said to be "one of the best values in New York City" because it's free and offers great views of the city. What are other "best values" in NYC, including shopping, food, activities, and anything else that's surprisingly inexpensive.
posted to Ask Metafilter by HotPatatta at 9:43 PM on June 23, 2008 (19 comments)

Every issue of The Times published between 1785-1985, digitally scanned and fully searchable. (Via Wordorigins.org.)
posted to MetaFilter by languagehat at 6:50 AM on June 23, 2008 (45 comments)

screamyGuy: Random Acts of Programming [created using Processing]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 4:39 PM on June 22, 2008 (8 comments)

I need some creative ideas for getting myself, my husband, two 50-pound dogs and a cat from Miami FL to Seattle WA in a 2007 Mini Cooper.
posted to Ask Metafilter by little miss s at 1:33 PM on June 18, 2008 (16 comments)

If I could I would live on lox. When I moved to NYC, I thought that I would be in lox-heaven. Instead, I am in lox-hell. Please help me find good lox!
posted to Ask Metafilter by prefpara at 9:02 AM on May 1, 2008 (25 comments)

A woman ovulates during surgery for a partial hysterectomy, and it's caught on film.
posted to MetaFilter by streetdreams at 1:48 PM on June 12, 2008 (82 comments)

I've been developing a taste for Mexican/border music.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jonmc at 5:00 PM on June 11, 2008 (20 comments)

"The Magazineer is a blog about magazine design and print culture, written by people who love, and make, magazines." {The most recent entry is by Jess, actually.}
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs at 10:30 AM on June 6, 2008 (8 comments)

Moving to New York City. Give me some advice you wish you had been given!
posted to Ask Metafilter by cklennon at 5:31 AM on June 6, 2008 (30 comments)

Read at Work. How to read at work without being busted, and not in a "guide to" kind of way...
posted to MetaFilter by jonathanstrange at 8:38 PM on May 28, 2008 (49 comments)

What are your favorite tofu recipes?
posted to Ask Metafilter by barrakuda at 2:14 PM on May 27, 2008 (31 comments)

Every time an electionfilter post gets deleted, people say, "There are websites where this post would be appropriate, but this isn't one of them." What sites are those?
posted to Ask Metafilter by showbiz_liz at 6:25 PM on May 24, 2008 (19 comments)

The year is 1989, the world of hip hop in mainstream America is dominated by the street hard, in your face West Coast Gangsta Rap genre headed by NWA. And an army of increasingly forgettable imitators as well as genuine ingenuity coming from the opposite coast The pop music market is dominated by the sugary sweet vaguely hip-hopish pop of The New Kids On The Block. And on the corner Crendshaw and Exposition in South Central Los Angeles a group of kids at a health food store called The Good Life Health Food And Resource Center take a weekly Open Mike and turn it into an ongoing hip hop workshop where lyrical prowess, performance, and positivity instead of battling and trash talking was encouraged. In fact, swearing was strictly disallowed at The Good Life.
posted to MetaFilter by mediocre at 9:05 AM on May 17, 2008 (36 comments)

Joanna Connors, a theatre critic, was raped on an empty stage. She tells her story in vivid, lucid detail-- then traces her rapist's twisted family history. One of the best pieces of journalism-- or writing, for that matter-- I've read for ages. Lots of resources for survivors and their families, as well.
posted to MetaFilter by Maias at 2:13 PM on May 6, 2008 (124 comments)

from ACT I SCENE 4

J: Your pardon; did I break thy concentration?
Continue! Ah, but now thy tongue is still.
Allow me then to offer a response.
Describe Marsellus Wallace to me, pray.
posted to MetaFilter by 2or3whiskeysodas at 6:48 AM on April 20, 2008 (170 comments)

FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. Once you're done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 9:43 PM on April 12, 2008 (21 comments)

Holy crap, the back tagging project (recent update) is complete! 43,000 old posts have been keyworded by a team of hundreds of volunteers here. A huge thanks to all, I never thought we'd finish up all those old MeFi posts.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 11:54 PM on March 20, 2008 (161 comments)

Pathetic Geek Stories is back! After a hiatus of almost three years we can once again revel in new comic strips detailing people's most humiliating youthful (and inevitably cringe-worthy) moments.
posted to MetaFilter by wsg at 9:17 AM on March 21, 2008 (23 comments)

I need to print a huge map, but I need a high resolution source, or vector graphics. I will be printing this on a large 64" color plotter. I found a place that sells pdf/vector files, but they are wanting near $100 dollars, and I don't think they even cover our County. I was hoping there was some software out there that allows this, or better yet, some way to output large images from google maps. Any suggestions? Thanks!
posted to Ask Metafilter by passtehbrainz at 6:33 PM on March 21, 2008 (19 comments)

The opening credits to Star Wars, if Saul Bass had made them. Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by hifiparasol at 12:39 AM on March 4, 2008 (42 comments)

OK, so no human sacrifice, but a new puppy in an apartment already containing a cat - advice for training the puppy and dealing with the cat?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrhaydel at 12:02 PM on December 5, 2006 (6 comments)

Help my cat adjust to the new neighbour's dog. She has never had to live with a dog before.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Sonny Jim at 4:05 PM on February 26, 2007 (6 comments)

Will getting a puppy ruin my cats' lives?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tastybrains at 1:59 PM on May 21, 2007 (31 comments)

What are the odds that I can successfully introduce a cat into my household, given the presence of a high strung dog?
posted to Ask Metafilter by maryh at 11:46 PM on July 29, 2007 (9 comments)

I was looking for a cat groomer on Yelp today and was struck by the comments: only place that will do lion cuts in the city, most places won't shave cats, please don't shave your cat, etc. I realized that I've seen this sentiment quite often on the interwebs...
posted to Ask Metafilter by sfkiddo at 9:17 PM on August 22, 2007 (28 comments)

Yes, another 'can a dog peacefully co-exist with cats' question. (A little more specific than questions already out there)
posted to Ask Metafilter by irishkitten at 2:59 PM on September 11, 2007 (4 comments)

I would like to read books by more MeFi writers. I have therefore made a list of who they are and their books.
posted to MetaTalk by paduasoy at 5:03 AM on February 23, 2008 (102 comments)

Nine experienced cross-country skiers hurriedly left their tent on a Urals slope in the middle of the night at around -30 degrees Celsius for no obvious reason, casting aside skis, food, boots and most of their clothes. Soon they would be dead, some with injuries more suited to car crash victims, and apparently dosed with radiation. Their deaths are still unexplained, 49 years later. The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Accident.
posted to MetaFilter by Henry C. Mabuse at 7:48 AM on February 22, 2008 (122 comments)

"You bend your words like Uri Geller's spoons", sang Toad. But how is it that science can dismiss Geller as the fraud he is without experimenting on every psychic claimant? Surely someone claiming telekinetic powers might be telling the truth? Quantum physics to the rescue.
posted to MetaFilter by CheeseDigestsAll at 8:14 PM on February 20, 2008 (80 comments)

What is the most useful book you own?
posted to Ask Metafilter by shotgunbooty at 10:01 AM on February 16, 2008 (104 comments)

Name the darkest, most evil fiddle player out there. Atonal, discordant, scratchy, and furious are all big pluses.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Thin Lizzy at 3:54 PM on February 15, 2008 (34 comments)

Say you wanted to print a small chart of eternally and universally useful reference information on the back of your business card, so recipients would have a good incentive to carry it with them and refer to it often. What information would you choose?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mthomps00 at 12:34 PM on February 15, 2008 (39 comments)

Truck Bearing Kibble is an intricately illustrated web comic clearly inspired by Perry Bible Fellowship (previously), albeit with more pop culture references. I recommend it for fans of both PBF and Cyanide and Happiness.
posted to MetaFilter by spiderskull at 11:04 AM on February 9, 2008 (20 comments)

Vegan waffles with no banana, using egg substitute?
posted to Ask Metafilter by amtho at 5:19 AM on February 7, 2008 (17 comments)

Drawn MetaFilter comments.
posted to MetaTalk by jpburns at 11:22 AM on February 5, 2008 (63 comments)

What did the Internet look like in 1996? "...very few web designers had even the most rudimentary of aesthetic sensibilities, and nearly half of them were clinically retarded."
posted to MetaFilter by desjardins at 10:53 PM on January 26, 2008 (90 comments)

In the United States, most counties conduct local legal business in a centrally-located courthouse, which tends to be located in the county seat. Here is a flickr photo set of nearly all the county courthouses in the United States. From the [oldest] to the [most densly populated] to the [most populous], from the [ugly] to the [ornate], county courthouses present a remarkable variety of architectural styles. In some ways, these buildings seem to be the equivalent of European cathedrals -- they often represent the local community's largest and most expensive building, and they're designed with that in mind. Given our remarkable capacity for observer list keeping, I wonder why more people aren't courthouse spotters.
posted to MetaFilter by one_bean at 4:15 PM on January 15, 2008 (34 comments)

Israeli designer Oded Ezer produces stunning works of experimental typography. He has been lauded for creating [PDF link]"...Hebrew characters that melt," but it is his more unconventional work that is truly breathtaking - made up of letters with vivacity and personality. He calls his gorgeously abstracted work "typo art," existing wholly neither in the space of art or typography, with hope that it might transcend language altogether. See his flickr stream for more sketches, works, and arresting typescapes.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 1:19 PM on January 9, 2008 (21 comments)

Looking for the source of a quote that goes something like "i always knew the right thing to do. without fail, i always knew. but i never did it. because it was too damn hard."
posted to Ask Metafilter by theseampsgoto11 at 3:33 PM on January 1, 2008 (6 comments)

A selection of eyeglasses for $8. (That's including your lens prescription.) Or if that's not to your liking, there's $39.
posted to MetaFilter by Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson at 8:24 PM on September 19, 2007 (81 comments)

50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007. [previously - 2004, 2005, 2006].
posted to MetaFilter by ericb at 1:08 PM on December 28, 2007 (109 comments)