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The 150 Best Online Flash Games grouped according to theme: Action, Aim and Shoot, Arcade and Classic, Escape the Room, Graphical Adventures, Guitar Hero, Jewels, Logic, Multiplayer, Physics, Puzzles, Racing, Reflex, RPG, Shoot It Far, Shoot-’em-Up, Skill, Sports, Strategy, Weird. Includes a link to every game on the list, a visual and mini description and how each one is played.
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye
at 5:34 PM on October 10, 2008
(20 comments)
Help us figure out why our five-day-old son has been screaming for the last four hours. (Other than just being a big baby, I mean.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by ook
at 8:25 PM on October 6, 2008
(27 comments)
Help with colleges/universities offering bachelors degrees in "Interdisciplinary Studies".
posted to Ask Metafilter by Nillocsoc
at 10:28 AM on October 6, 2008
(10 comments)
I have just finished setting up an XP-installation for my four year old boy. Now i need to set up some kind of internet filter.
posted to Ask Metafilter by FidelDonson
at 11:23 AM on October 4, 2008
(9 comments)
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 600 maps.
Worldmapper
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl
at 3:21 PM on October 2, 2008
(28 comments)
Can one be grateful without any recipient ?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lahersedor
at 5:39 AM on September 27, 2008
(22 comments)
Tell me about ambient & instrumental music that features vibraphones, marimbas, xylophones &/or similar instruments.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jammy
at 12:13 PM on September 27, 2008
(27 comments)
How can I test and build up my strength, tenacity, and courage. As far as I can see, there are limited opportunities to test my mettle in the corporate world ( besides calling out some a**hole in the boardroom ). I am looking for things to do that will put me to the test and see what I am made of. I am thinking along the lines of CrossFit, 'Man vs. Wild', high stakes negotiation, or skydiving. The only time I can really remember being tested was a fight in 10th grade and the hazing I went through in University. How can I earn a badge of honor when I spend most of my time in a cubicle. I would prefer answers that would not involve the risk of certain death, although I wouldn't mind getting the living sh*t scared out of me. I also wouldn't mind pushing my mind or body to the limit. I am willing to travel, spend money, bleed, and cry.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kaizen
at 9:16 AM on September 24, 2008
(51 comments)
How can I force myself to write?
posted to Ask Metafilter by blocked
at 4:48 PM on September 22, 2008
(35 comments)
With all
this talk of
Sandy Smith (epilepsy warning on that last link), his
greatest project still wants for submissions. Smith:
In May 2007 I commissioned an essay from a supplier of tailor-made academic essays. I requested a 1500 word essay that was to "prove that Junior... is the best film ever made." This essay was to make reference to various writers including Freud, Barthes, Baudrillard and Jameson in proving it's case. Yes,
that Junior.
posted to MetaFilter by nímwunnan
at 5:08 PM on September 21, 2008
(9 comments)
What are some films that celebrate life, liberty and the indomitable human spirit in the face of adversity?
posted to Ask Metafilter by UbuRoivas
at 3:44 PM on September 20, 2008
(51 comments)
On city sidewalks, when strangers pass each other, why do they sniffle? Walking toward each other, we size each other up at a distance of 25 ft, then avert eyes, then 10 ft, then avert eyes and as we pass *sniffle* or quick intake of air through the nose that makes a sound.
What does this mean? It seems wholly subconscious. Are we tracking a scent? Are they sticking their nose in the air in an aristocratic air of disapproval?
I've noticed this phenomenon, so I consciously avert my sniffling because I don't even know why it happens, or what it means. But now I hear it from passers-by all the time. It's definitely not allergies; it seems very focused.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Jason and Laszlo
at 6:48 AM on September 20, 2008
(31 comments)
How's your hues? Test your color hue ability with
this online test. Horizontally drag 'n' drop the squares in the correct hue order.
posted to MetaFilter by zardoz
at 7:11 PM on September 16, 2008
(220 comments)
Uh oh, you smashed a dish while you were washing up. But you don't get upset, because you know what to do with the pieces. Being both cultured and crafty, you not only know about the
long and illustrious history of mosaic art but also that you can make mosaics from china and ceramic shards as well as
pebbles,
beads (new or removed from old jewelery),
shells,
marbles, or even
lego or
Scrabble tiles. So you take those pieces of your broken plate (and others that klutzy you has broken in the past) and,
following some basic instructions, make
numbers for your house, a
fireplace surround, a
birdbath, a
flowerpot, a
table or
two or four, a
tray,
picture or
mirror frames, a
wall mural/homage to Hitchcock, or even
a floor. By now you're wishing you had a spare
basilica or
Roman villa so you could really go nuts.
And, besides planning on picking up some thrift shop china, you're eyeing that 48-piece reindeer-and-elves Christmas dinnerware set your mother-in-law gave you a few years back and thinking it's really too bad you're so clumsy and likely to break it in the very near future.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 1:27 PM on September 16, 2008
(20 comments)
I love psychedelia, but good stuff is impossible to find. Recommend!
posted to Ask Metafilter by greenie2600
at 12:55 PM on September 15, 2008
(11 comments)
Teach me or help me find fun tricks to entertain my friends. I'm looking for any kind of trick, specifically psychology ones. Anything "magic" and fun or even just plain silly.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Knigel
at 4:31 PM on September 13, 2008
(18 comments)
What are some of the best independent, foreign, artsy, or unique films that came out during the 90s?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Christ, what an asshole
at 1:48 PM on September 10, 2008
(56 comments)
The Sound of Mathematics
Mathematical functions whose output have been jammed into MIDI files. The results are disturbingly musical.
posted to MetaFilter by Mwongozi
at 3:00 PM on March 30, 2004
(8 comments)
I'm looking for more riddles like "the seagull sandwich" and "the guy who goes to work every day, takes the elevator to the 35th floor, gets out, walks the stairs to the 38th except when it rains" and the one where Romeo and Juliet are dead on the floor surrounded by shards of glass.
Though preferably harder and better.
Thanks!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Skyanth
at 9:36 AM on September 8, 2008
(41 comments)
Who you are is what you listen to:
Prof. Adrian North of Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University recently published results of what the Beeb calls "the largest study of its kind" linking music listening habits to personality characteristics. His breakthrough conclusions? Heavy metal listeners, contrary to public perception, are not a "suicidally depressed" or a "danger to themselves and society in general. But they are quite delicate things."
posted to MetaFilter by beelzbubba
at 12:05 PM on September 5, 2008
(65 comments)
Looking for some inspiration about overcoming shame.
posted to Ask Metafilter by MiggySawdust
at 2:58 PM on August 30, 2008
(11 comments)
What science fiction films are there, iyho, that really measure up to the best of written work in that genre?
posted to Ask Metafilter by protorp
at 12:25 AM on August 31, 2008
(51 comments)
The Guardian has compiled a list of their
top fifty arts videos, the majority being from either rare or obscure sources and uploaded onto YouTube.
posted to MetaFilter by djgh
at 9:42 PM on August 30, 2008
(13 comments)
More good stuff for people who like visual ("optical") illusions (
previously): A nice Scientific American
article, a particularly
creepy illusion, and a
link to the "Best visual illusion of the year" contest. Given that the eye/mind/brain is so easy to trick, a person might wonder what's
really out there in the world.
posted to MetaFilter by cogneuro
at 2:31 PM on August 28, 2008
(26 comments)
Get your learn on. 180+ ways of investigating the human brain = hours of fun for the whole family.
Thanks to an innocuous question by a 5 year old, my entire evening is now being spent investigating and discussing the structure and workings of the human brain. This flash site lets you explore the workings of the brain according to 12 subject areas (each with subtopics which are not included in the "180" count), within each of which are 5 levels of organization from social to molecular, within each of which are three levels of explanation (beginner, intermediate, and advanced.) discovered via Wikipedia.
posted to MetaFilter by ThusSpakeZarathustra
at 3:27 PM on August 19, 2008
(10 comments)
David Brooks, Social Psychologist,
Mark Liberman at Language Log looks at the science behind David Brook's
latest column in which he claims there is a fundamental differences between the thought processes of individuals in Asian "collectivist" societies and Western "individualist" ones. (
via)
posted to MetaFilter by afu
at 7:57 AM on August 14, 2008
(68 comments)
A grotesque comparison of a steamy love affair to a New York City street has won a Washington man this year's grand prize in an annual contest of
bad writing.
posted to MetaFilter by rtboo
at 6:30 AM on August 14, 2008
(34 comments)
Confusing Words
is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 2:29 PM on August 11, 2008
(76 comments)
Help me find beautiful posters with science, math or music as the subject.
posted to Ask Metafilter by storybored
at 8:37 PM on August 10, 2008
(33 comments)
What happy memories do you have of being a young child that make you think either "those were good times" or "that was good parenting"?
posted to Ask Metafilter by onlyconnect
at 12:07 PM on August 12, 2008
(64 comments)
