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Tonight, I created a really, really, really good remake of an old song of mine. I don't even know if I have a copy of the original anymore, but ... whoa ... this thing ended up being kind of epic. Features horns and toy pianos, a reed organ, both regular and electric ukulele, some drums. I even tried my hand at playing the bass. Short, simple lyrics within (of which I am also rather proud)!
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 10:33 PM on July 13, 2008
(16 comments)
On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble
You’re probably guessing that because it involves “do no evil” Google, Fortune magazine’s “Best Company to Work For” the past two years, this is a heart-warming tale of a good company reversing a dumb decision. If only.
posted to MetaFilter by ThePinkSuperhero
at 9:49 AM on July 5, 2008
(143 comments)
Mefi's Own Baby_Balrog: "Stephen and I traveled to Bilin, near Ramallah, on Friday. [...] IDF soldiers began firing CS gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets at the marchers [...] here's a video of me running away when the soldiers started firing gas canisters [...] I had my jump kit with me and tried to help a few people [...]" He's writing a pretty fascinating blog.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 12:56 PM on June 24, 2008
(14 comments)
A Dispatches documentary
Gaza: The Killing Zone shows the shocking reality of seemingly ordinary Palestinians caught in the crossfire between Hamas and Israeli forces. Feels almost like a sci-fi movie about some fictional totalitarian regime. Hard to believe it's their everyday life. WARNING: contains scenes of graphic violence, which you may find disturbing.
posted to MetaFilter by Surfin' Bird
at 9:45 AM on June 23, 2008
(65 comments)
A version of my still-favorite all-time MeMu song by the inimitable
Great Big Mulp, for the June challenge.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 12:42 PM on June 6, 2008
(21 comments)
Please help identify my mixed puppies breed... Pictures inside
posted to Ask Metafilter by ShootTheMoon
at 11:27 AM on June 19, 2008
(20 comments)
I think I managed to write a somewhat upbeat song! Well, upbeat if you ignore the title and lyrics. It's got: hammond organ, celesta, acoustic guitar, bass, drums, and some epic "Woo-oo-oooh" back up vocals.
posted to MeFi Music by inoculatedcities
at 11:01 AM on May 26, 2008
(15 comments)
From the Bookstalls of a Nigerian Market.
Onitsha Market Literature consists of stories, plays, advice and moral discourses published primarily in the 1960s by local presses in the lively market town of Onitsha [
in then-newly-independent Nigeria]...
In the fresh and vigorous genre of Onitsha Market Literature, the commoner wrote pulp fiction and didactic handbooks for those who perused the bookstalls of Onitsha Market, one of Africa’s largest trading centers. Examples:
How To Write And Reply Letters For Marriage, Engagement Letters, Love Letters And How To Know A Girl To Marry,
Learn To Speak 360 Interesting Proverbs And Know Your True Brother,
Struggle For Money [All full-text links are in pdf format, and some are quite large]. With links to
additional resources.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 7:59 PM on June 4, 2008
(25 comments)
Recommendations for Sci-Fi while on the Treadmill?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Smarson
at 10:07 AM on June 3, 2008
(25 comments)
A big tweak to Projects: new comments going public
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 10:05 AM on May 27, 2008
(46 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)
Mehdi Kazemi is granted asylum in the UK.
Mehdi, now 20, was studying in the UK when Parham (his boyfriend) was arrested for the crime of homosexuality by the Iranian government. Mehdi was named by his boyfriend and warned he was liable to arrest on his planned return. The UK Home Office denied him asylum [
despite a thoughtful campaign by human rights campaigners] - because it was said he had overstayed his student visa and was therefore not seen as genuinely seeking asylum. So he escaped to the Netherlands. That's where it gets complicated.
posted to MetaFilter by dash_slot-
at 1:43 PM on May 20, 2008
(17 comments)
The Ediwina Church of God in Jesus Christ Name. Pastor Jimmy Morrow's spelling is often non-standard and this isn't the world's best designed web page. But it's remarkable for what it is: an insider account of the history and practice of a serpent-handling sect by a current practitioner.
posted to MetaFilter by Pater Aletheias
at 9:36 AM on May 19, 2008
(65 comments)
Academic discussions of stock markets frequently reference
The Efficient Markets Hypothesis; an idea that share prices are fairly valued, their prices reflecting all available information. However folklore such as
"Sell in May and go away", which proved prudent in 2007, clashes with this theory.
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant
at 8:22 AM on May 15, 2008
(11 comments)
An extraordinary piece of magazine writing by Chris Jones.
Jones tells the story of how the body of Sergeant Joe Montgomery makes its way from a Baghdad suburb to its final resting place in a grave in Indiana. It's one of the finest pieces of journalism that I've read in years. It’s extremely moving without being saccharine or twee. It’s a military story, but utterly without jingoism or indictment. And it’s wonderfully observed. If I taught a first-year creative writing course, I'd make this required reading.
posted to MetaFilter by dbarefoot
at 9:57 PM on April 30, 2008
(87 comments)
The other day I happened to come upon a music video that is just so grooving, so human and so
real, that, well, it
moved me, darling.
Just check it out. After watching the clip, I learned that these guys are mostly disabled by polio (that's why several of them are in those rather unusual wheelchairs) and that they were living on the grounds of the Kinshasa zoo, which is where the clip was filmed. Then I learned that last year they were seeking to bring
a lawsuit against the UN. Then I found
some other clips. And now I am a
major fan of
Staff Benda Bilili.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 3:30 AM on April 26, 2008
(47 comments)
Tul Karem’s refugee camp, the time, if I remember correctly, Chanukah 2003, it was to execute there about 9 people. Sorry, I don’t remember the pretense we were given for the mission.
From Shovrim Shtika or
Breaking the Silence where Israeli soldiers confess the horror they have visited on
Hebron
posted to MetaFilter by adamvasco
at 11:45 PM on April 21, 2008
(13 comments)
Not so different from anything else I've done, but I'm proud of the production of this one.
posted to MeFi Music by kingbenny
at 8:54 AM on April 15, 2008
(7 comments)
The result here is spending a few free days on my couch with my violin and computer. I would love all comments/criticism from anybody, as this is something I'd like to continue experimenting with. (I guess if you like it, you can vote by clicking on the plus sign and pass the link onto anybody else).
http://www.radioheadremix.com/remix/?id=1196
Thanks!
posted to MeFi Music by analogtones
at 8:36 AM on April 13, 2008
(9 comments)
jez, of the
sunray estate applies his mando/mixage skills to our bouncy, and now even happier track, everything is byte size.
posted to MeFi Music by kimyo
at 11:29 PM on April 15, 2008
(3 comments)
Song I wrote and recorded recently when thinking about how thankful I am for my friends.
posted to MeFi Music by kingbenny
at 2:41 PM on March 31, 2008
(8 comments)
I'm looking for narratives (books, movies, games) in which the protagonist is dead, dying or unconscious, and discovers they are not in the 'real' world at all, but Hell, heaven, purgatory, a coma, a nightmare, memory, or similar. Examples which contain spoilers below the fold.
posted to Ask Metafilter by unSane
at 5:52 AM on March 28, 2008
(64 comments)
Any Southern California Mefites have a fondness for obese beagles or Australian
blue heelers?
posted to MetaTalk by miss lynnster
at 3:52 PM on March 26, 2008
(4 comments)
ALLDEAD by
Christopher Keeley. Photos of and commentary about the many friends he has made and lost during his years in the intervention business. (Some NSFW artsy nudity.)
posted to MetaFilter by snsranch
at 4:29 PM on March 25, 2008
(15 comments)
Edinburgh author
Iain M. Banks, creator of the post capitalist space faring society
The Culture and it's
oddly named ships, has long been the UKs top science fiction writer, but has never had
more than a toehold in the US (in part through lack of availability, in part due to lack of promotion and in part due to some pretty
awful covers. That could change:
Matter, his latest, has been heavily promoted in the US and sports a cover nearly identical to the UK edition. This week
Orbit are releasing US editions of the two earliest Culture novels, with the third following in July, which could mean a complete release of all the novels in the US in order.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw
at 11:00 PM on March 23, 2008
(160 comments)
We just got an adorable new puppy. We're ecstatic! The dog, however, seems less enthused... for the past two days, he has done almost nothing but sleep. He has yet to eat anything, and he has no desire to explore our apartment or walk outside. Why is this, and what can we do to help him adjust?
posted to Ask Metafilter by arianell
at 3:16 PM on March 22, 2008
(13 comments)
I think the deletion of
this post by indienial is a bad call. The continued destruction of all things Aboriginal is a big fat important & undercommented issue, and one which I was looking forward to reading comments about.
posted to MetaTalk by seanyboy
at 1:22 AM on March 13, 2008
(94 comments)
AskMe Feature suggestion - here's some questions you might like to answer....
posted to MetaTalk by Happy Dave
at 9:46 AM on March 12, 2008
(89 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
(19 comments)
Dad, do you ever wish you had
diabetes?
posted to MetaFilter by swift
at 1:48 PM on March 6, 2008
(40 comments)
In Mongolia, overtone singing (or hoomei, as it's known locally) is mainly a guy thing, but there are exceptions to the rule, for example, the
Hoomei Women's Group. More commonly though, women who want to sing do so in an exquisite, soaring style like
this and
this. Sometimes the men do the hoomei thing while the women do that
soaring thing. Then there are those lovely
choral arrangements. And then there are those rare moments when the YouTube poster's description of a clip just hits the nail square on the head, as with this one:
amazing.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 7:26 AM on February 29, 2008
(23 comments)
After reading a few comments, I've decided to make the soundtrack to a video game that doesn't exist.
posted to MeFi Music by tehloki
at 8:10 PM on August 12, 2007
(8 comments)
My heartfelt thanks to loving MeFites: Brandon Blatcher, hadjiboy, Grammar Moses, madamjujujive, vronsky, hortense, It's Raining Florence Henderson, rtha and Hildegarde.
posted to MetaTalk by nickyskye
at 5:13 PM on February 19, 2008
(133 comments)
Well, I have been onsite five or ten minutes and already flagged two posts...can I say I am sick and tired of seeing gratuitous and profane rants against God and Christianity in general-especially since I know for a fact that kind of speech is not tolerated for other groups here?
posted to MetaTalk by konolia
at 12:30 PM on February 17, 2008
(657 comments)
I wrote this song about my eldest daughter, who a constant source of inspiration. Steve Eschelman is playing mandolin and singing backing vocals.
posted to MeFi Music by chuckdarwin
at 2:39 PM on September 6, 2007
(10 comments)
