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Punch 'Em In The Dick (NSFW lyrics)

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)

More abandoned places, because they're creepy and beautiful

Illicit Ohio has a wide range of photos and essays of abandoned places in Ohio, from the Cincinnati subway system (yes, there really is was one, and it's been discussed here before), to various and sundry prisons, government installations, hotels, hosiptals, houses and more. And don't miss the old vs. new galleries, either.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins at 9:07 AM on August 29, 2007 (20 comments)

The eye of Mordor

Six days ago, the Chaitén volcano in Chile began a surprise eruption. So far, more than 8000 people have been evacuated, and NASA has tracked the results from space. Even more stunning however, are the images that occurred when a thunderstorm collided with the volcanic plume.
posted to MetaFilter by CheeseDigestsAll at 6:53 AM on May 8, 2008 (58 comments)

It Can't All Be Brass, Dear

There’s more than a few valve’s worth of pressurized love for steampunk on MeFi [previously 1 2 3]. Naturally, we’ve also had to replace many a sump filter due to the vitriol sluicing from the very same. Regardless how you may feel about it, Steampunk Magazine seeks to accompany the genre along its transmogrification from a form of fiction into fashion, music, and ‘misapplied technology’.
posted to MetaFilter by cosmonik at 8:43 AM on April 23, 2008 (47 comments)

"Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?"

Every One That Hates Billy....” It featured a photograph of Billy’s face superimposed over a likeness of Peter Pan, and provided this description of its purpose: “There is no reason anyone should like billy he’s a little bitch. And a homosexual that NO ONE LIKES.”
Billy, busy building a miniature house, didn’t see it coming: the boy hit him so hard in the left cheek that he briefly lost consciousness. [His mother] remembers the family dentist sewing up the inside of Billy’s cheek, and a school official refusing to call the police, saying it looked like Billy got what he deserved.

posted to MetaFilter by orthogonality at 11:05 PM on March 23, 2008 (269 comments)

Things you never thought you could do with your camera

One of the most amazing user-led projects out there, CHDK firmware turns cheap Canon cameras into photography powerhouses. You can take take time-lapse movies as in this stunning sunset example; automatically photograph lightening; easily make pretty HDR images and stereograms; have unlimited depth-of-field; and, perhaps most impressively, take photographs with shutter speeds of 1/60,000 of a second!
posted to MetaFilter by blahblahblah at 8:18 AM on March 13, 2008 (69 comments)

How do I maintain my sanity when my partner has ADHD?

My partner has ADHD and I need ways of understanding/coping with his behavior so I can maintain my sanity.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous at 12:40 PM on March 11, 2008 (31 comments)

Detritus From a Dream

Shaun O'Boyle recently returned from Cape Canaveral where he photographed the artifacts of the early space program. They are part of the Modern Ruins site (previously, previously, and previously) which is a great place to waste an afternoon.
posted to MetaFilter by Toekneesan at 8:37 AM on February 29, 2008 (8 comments)

Very cool camouflage photographs

Desiree Palmen makes some really neat camouflage photographs. via
posted to MetaFilter by cerebus19 at 4:39 PM on February 27, 2008 (14 comments)

The Dyatlov Pass Mystery

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)

Today is the Day

Today is the Day.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 5:12 PM on February 3, 2008 (105 comments)

A Wild and Introspective Guy

Steve Martin on the development of his comedy.
posted to MetaFilter by bove at 9:14 AM on January 30, 2008 (61 comments)

Large Marge sent him.

He was born in 1980, during a risqué Groundlings show. After cameo roles (NSFW/language) in two Cheech & Chong movies, he earned his own HBO special. Four years later, Pee Wee Herman made his first feature film. Love him or hate him, his tv show won 22 Emmys... it seemed he was the luckiest boy in the world. Until one fateful day. Since then he's kept busy, and has regularly started and then nixed rumors of the bow tie's return. Recently he's changed his mind though, and in June a middle-aged Pee Wee made a surprise appearance after 15 years. Now he's promising two upcoming Pee Wee films... but will Johnny Depp take over his giant underpants?
posted to MetaFilter by miss lynnster at 1:39 AM on December 17, 2007 (105 comments)

Shaolin Awesome

Over the past eight years, photographer Jus­tin Guariglia has slowly but surely won the trust of the notoriously secretive warrior monks of the Shaolin Temple. Shamelessly taken from kottke.org, because this is some amazing photography and video.
posted to MetaFilter by lazaruslong at 6:22 PM on November 27, 2007 (34 comments)

In the blink of an eye.

Teach me the ways of high speed photography.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mullingitover at 1:29 PM on September 11, 2007 (8 comments)

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

Thou shalt not make a one-link YouTube post. Unless, you know, it's something good.
posted to MetaFilter by ikkyu2 at 10:54 PM on April 19, 2007 (101 comments)

Down down in the salt mine underneath the ground

Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland has been in operation for 800-odd years. Needless to say, this has given the miners plenty of time to carve some pretty amazing things. More photos here and here. Videos here and here. Virtual tour here. Wikipedia.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins at 10:20 AM on August 16, 2007 (36 comments)

It takes lot of practice to sit that still in meditation

Sokushinbutsu - The self-made mummies.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:17 AM on July 2, 2007 (55 comments)

Nature Slowly Reclaims Abandoned Amusement Park

Chippewa Lake Park is a former amusement park in Ohio; opened in 1878, it closed in 1978 due to lack of attendance. During the decades since then, the ballroom, roller coasters & other rides have lain abandoned as the surrounding forest reclaims them.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 2:55 PM on June 23, 2007 (40 comments)

Tao Te Ching in many languages

The Tao Te Ching in dozens of languages and translations, with a lovely side-by-side comparison tool.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 6:35 AM on September 10, 2006 (19 comments)

Aikido tested in urban combat.

Aikido tested in urban combat. ^
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 6:56 PM on July 25, 2006 (133 comments)

This is the internet upside down

They'll never piggyback on your wireless again Your router makes the computer look funny. (via MeTa)
posted to MetaFilter by klangklangston at 2:09 PM on August 10, 2006 (62 comments)

Strange Statues From Around the World

Strange Statues From Around the World
posted to MetaFilter by IndigoJones at 11:33 AM on July 1, 2006 (40 comments)

No, really?

We're raising a nation of wimps.
posted to MetaFilter by keswick at 2:59 PM on July 31, 2006 (118 comments)

Huh, your world, maybe, pathetic earthlings!

The Size of Our World. A brief study in pictures of the relative sizes of some astronomical bodies.
posted to MetaFilter by Eideteker at 10:49 PM on July 27, 2006 (47 comments)

The Death of Perspective

The Death of Perspective. Among the greatest achievements of the renaissance artists was the perfection of the art of perspective: Giving the appearance of depth to a flat surface. Felice Varini uses perspective to do the opposite.
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 5:38 AM on June 9, 2006 (38 comments)

Could a typical young man, armed only with a knife,...

Could a typical young man, armed only with a knife, (say, six or eight inches long) be trained to consistently "win" fights with a grizzly bear? Assume no element of surprise.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar at 2:41 PM on May 5, 2004 (87 comments)
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