This AskMe post blows my mind in a minor and enjoyable way. Who knew? It turns out a lot of people have a Tourette's-like response to embarrassing memories.
posted to MetaTalk by ottereroticist at 10:12 PM on July 22, 2008 (75 comments)

Should I proceed with my routine workout if the particular muscle group in question hasn't fully recuperated?
posted to Ask Metafilter by alcoth at 11:02 AM on July 29, 2008 (6 comments)

Help me transform myself from someone who knows how to swim (albeit inefficiently) into a real swimmer who swims laps for exercise.
posted to Ask Metafilter by freshwater_pr0n at 6:52 PM on July 23, 2008 (18 comments)

Of Muppets and Men. [1 2 3 4 5 6] Excellent behind-the-scenes documentary showing the mental, verbal and physical athleticism of putting together The Muppet Show. Also, a TMBG video mashup with excerpts from the doc. [All YouTube, Previously]
posted to MetaFilter by McLir at 12:02 AM on August 12, 2007 (55 comments)

How do I make the projection screen in my NOC look like the control room at NORAD?
posted to Ask Metafilter by empath at 8:13 PM on June 10, 2008 (20 comments)

"We're not building a themed adventure for Mega Man; just kill him!" Where does Mega Man's nemesis get his wonderful toys? How much does it cost to construct big spikes? Can one add ice blocks to the magnet level without violating a building code? It's not easy being in the Dr. Wily business.
posted to MetaFilter by Servo5678 at 2:47 PM on July 1, 2008 (43 comments)

Rémi Gaillard leaves a trail of befuddled witnesses and victims in his wake.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 9:52 AM on June 24, 2008 (43 comments)

bloowish Universal wishlist for all things internet-ish. Add stuff via a bookmarklet, RSS for your list. Coming soon: price watching, better sharing features, tags if users nag loudly enough. Enjoy!
posted to Projects by littlerobothead at 6:56 PM on June 4, 2008

"You're really smart!" Psychologist Carol Dweck says that praising a child for being smart only teaches the kid to avoid any effort that might fail. "When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart, don't risk making mistakes." Malcolm Gladwell chimes in with his thoughts on the importance of being a smart kid, "What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement."
posted to MetaFilter by revgeorge at 7:15 AM on February 13, 2007 (218 comments)

On Having A Black Name "I am a white woman, a blond, blue-eyed white woman, and I have a first name strongly associated with black women. My mother, a southerner by birth, never stopped telling me she made the name up. The fact that she truly could not remember ever hearing the name before, is a testament to the strength of southern segregation. It is likely she heard it once or twice, and simply forgot it until later. And so, even at 50 years old, I have a name that makes people do a double-take. "You're _____?" is something I have heard all my life. "Yes, that would be me," is what I say, as they look confused. I have upset the social order. Names, I have learned, are a big, big part of it."
posted to MetaFilter by nooneyouknow at 9:06 AM on April 24, 2008 (257 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)

Team Fortress 2 Metafilter Server
posted to MetaTalk by eurasian at 10:49 AM on April 17, 2008 (184 comments)

FramingFilter: How can I frame autographed CDs and liner notes without overpaying?
posted to Ask Metafilter by sjuhawk31 at 8:39 AM on May 6, 2008 (3 comments)

I know there is a "Best of Craigslist" site. Is there something similar for Wikipedia?
posted to Ask Metafilter by anastasiav at 2:44 PM on April 30, 2008 (13 comments)

I have trouble keeping up with the big political news on television. So I use the clips on crooksandliars.com as a way of staying on top of what the current political stories are and how they are being discussed. What I don't like is the editorializing. It's not that I disagree with all their takes, I just find that the way they push their agenda distracts from what I am trying to get from the site. Is there another blog that can keep me up to date with the current television news cycle that is a bit more unbiased? Specifically one that includes video clips of the pundit discussions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by aburd at 11:20 AM on April 27, 2008 (13 comments)

I eat oatmeal for breakfast pretty much every day. Help me build a bowl that is as jam-packed with nutrition as possible, while still tasty.
posted to Ask Metafilter by catlet at 7:52 AM on April 9, 2008 (32 comments)

Crash Man beats Flash Man beats Quick Man beats Metal Man beats Bubble Man beats Heat Man beats Wood Man beats Air Man beats CRASHMAN!!! (ad infinitum)
posted to MetaFilter by Navelgazer at 6:14 PM on March 16, 2008 (75 comments)

Best Story Ever is a series of clips featuring various celebrities -- Henry Rollins, Lewis Black, Dee Snider, Chuck D, Ron Jeremy, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, and many more -- telling their best stories. Some are lame, some are funny. But hey, what's your best story ever? (It can't be lamer than Alan Thicke's, can it?)
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 7:58 AM on March 31, 2008 (63 comments)

Lending through Kiva or other organization?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vers at 8:55 AM on March 30, 2008 (11 comments)

A few years ago I saw a graph/map/info chart that displayed Napoleon's 1812 March to Russia. What was interesting about the graphic was how it displayed multiple facets of informations all at once.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tarvuz at 4:21 PM on March 8, 2008 (11 comments)

I imagine that some of my fellow mefites, collectors of the Best of the Web, would have great del.icio.us accounts for me to pick through. I'm not getting enough use out of their networking feature, either. Link your profiles! Here's me.
posted to MetaTalk by tylermoody at 6:38 AM on August 1, 2007 (118 comments)

Josh Klein is a novelist, hacker, and inventor whose Crow Vending Machine trains crows to pick coins off the ground in exchange for peanuts using Skinnerian training principles. Previously. So far, he's only succeeded with trained crows and banded crows, but he hopes to teach wild crows to use the device and collect some of the $215,000,000 in change lost in the United States each year.
posted to MetaFilter by arnicae at 12:36 AM on March 5, 2008 (48 comments)

My roommate and I are planning on leaving our filthy, shitty East Village apartment, to find something nicer and larger in Brooklyn or Queens. How do we go about making this move?
posted to Ask Metafilter by incomple at 11:21 PM on February 13, 2008 (12 comments)

I'm looking for a XP-friendly version of the old "virus war" games.
posted to Ask Metafilter by LairBob at 7:42 AM on February 9, 2008 (10 comments)

Years ago I read a Guitar World column written by Diamond (later Dimebag) Darrell. If memory serves, in one column he offered to mail a six pack of beer to anyone who learned some riff he notated. Does anyone know of a recipient of Dimebag's beer?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mragreeable at 8:18 PM on February 3, 2008 (3 comments)

I really like the music used in the game Team Fortress 2 (TF2). I describe it as 60's secret agent music (think early James Bond). Where can I find more music like this? Is there a sub-genre style of music that this belongs to? If you don't know what TF2 is, check out the trailers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by medarby at 9:53 PM on January 26, 2008 (12 comments)

I need angry music to work out to.
posted to Ask Metafilter by heavenstobetsy at 8:25 PM on January 22, 2008 (63 comments)

Is living in New York really that hard?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lunasol at 3:01 PM on January 14, 2008 (73 comments)

Send me on a tour of Brooklyn that will help me decide which part of it to live in.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bingo at 7:38 PM on January 12, 2008 (36 comments)

Allegro Non Troppo is an animated film written and directed by Bruno Bozzetto [previously]. Now the wonder of the youtubes enjoy Ravel's Bolero [Part 2] [Part 3], Debussy’s Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Dvorak's Slavonic Dance # 7, Sibelius' Valse Triste, Vivaldi's Concerto in C major, and Stravinsky's Firebird.
posted to MetaFilter by mattoxic at 4:49 AM on January 11, 2008 (21 comments)

How Obama is branding himself in graphic design
posted to MetaFilter by growabrain at 10:57 PM on January 9, 2008 (71 comments)

Has anyone ever been sued for downloading music?
posted to Ask Metafilter by squarehead at 7:57 AM on December 31, 2007 (25 comments)

A little over two months ago, I proposed a Metafilter Mix CD Swap: Best of 2007 Edition. Twenty-three people decided to participate and swapped CDs containing their favorite songs from 2007. In that thread it was suggested that after the swap concluded “yall make a thread with your final tracklists and commentary, or otherwise publish them where I and others could read and DL accordingly.” Of the twenty-three participants, seventeen decided to share their tracklists, which you will find inside. Rock on.
posted to MetaTalk by ND¢ at 8:37 AM on December 14, 2007 (103 comments)

"If the emergence of techno and the proliferation of its related genres thrust DJs and producers into the spotlight, it also spawned artists who, like Kraftwerk before them, chose to remain anonymous and distant. The Scottish duo Boards of Canada (Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison) is a case in point, an even more enigmatic presence on the UK's electronic music landscape than Aphex Twin and Autechre. Eoin and Sandison have consistently minimized their role in the commercial side of music-making and have avoided its attendant lifestyle: They've shunned city life for the rural seclusion of their Hexagon Sun studio and its local collective of artists. They claim to record primarily for themselves and their friends. They have reportedly amassed an enormous archive of unreleased music dating back to the early '80s (numerous apocryphal BoC tracks make the rounds). They seldom give interviews or perform live."
posted to MetaFilter by bigmusic at 9:11 AM on November 26, 2007 (70 comments)

I need software that will track my nutritional intake. It would track calories, carbs, protean, fats and keep them in a date base for reference. It should have a good sized date base of foods already in it and be able to have new ones added. This is for a pre-intel Mac preferably, or online if need by. Free or cheap would make me happy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by munchingzombie at 7:33 PM on November 15, 2007 (18 comments)

I'm hoping to get into a Computer Science Masters program somewhere next fall, and am looking for some advice on bettering my chances.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous at 9:44 AM on November 14, 2007 (9 comments)

Rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs.
posted to MetaFilter by 31d1 at 5:52 PM on November 9, 2007 (66 comments)

windowsprogramming filter - I want a program running under Windows to be notified whenever a particular file(s) is/are modified. Need some keywords to help my searches about this facility.
posted to Ask Metafilter by southof40 at 4:20 PM on November 8, 2007 (5 comments)

Mac OS X filter: In terminal, if I go to / and ls, I see a bunch of folders that are hidden in Finder, for example /etc, /private, /sbin, and so on. How do I add a folder to that list?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jon4009 at 2:24 PM on October 24, 2007 (8 comments)

How can I increase my evening productivity (i.e. not be such a lazybones when I get home from work) ?
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinityjinx at 11:27 AM on October 24, 2007 (22 comments)

New York Stories with Martin Scorsese, Nick Nolte, ROSANNA Arquette, Richard Price, Steve Buscemi, Larry David, Coppolas, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Soho - 1989. And this beautiful aurora video.
posted to MetaFilter by vronsky at 5:09 PM on September 26, 2007 (31 comments)

How do I manage the source code for a big Java program?
posted to Ask Metafilter by neuron at 8:54 PM on September 18, 2007 (13 comments)

What's the de facto python web framework in active development/use today?
posted to Ask Metafilter by zackola at 7:17 PM on September 12, 2007 (12 comments)

Learn to Play Guitar! Justin, of JustinGuitar.com (not the dork with the TV camera strapped to his head) offers over 100 free video guitar lessons for absolute noobs & guitar enthusiasts, with lesson categories & written instrx as well. For people who want tablature to play along, the good people of Guitar Video Tabs provide full tab notation under videos hundreds of popular songs.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 4:26 PM on September 3, 2007 (17 comments)

T.R.A.N.S.I.T. is, by a wide margin, my favorite animated short ever produced. Set in the art deco Europe of the 1920's and (and released in 1997) it tells the story of a journey throughout several major vacation destinations of a wealthy tycoon, his young wife with wandering eyes, and a murderous turn of events. The story is told in reverse, from the final stage of the "vacation" back through each prior stop, and the artwork for each segment is painted in the style of the luggage travel sticker for that stop.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 2:35 PM on September 2, 2007 (14 comments)

Content Aware Image Resizing. Every year SIGGRAPH rolls around I get a reminder of how smart everyone else is, especially people who do computer graphics research. From Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. The algorithm resizes images non-uniformly and, well, somewhat magically.
posted to MetaFilter by GuyZero at 7:29 PM on August 21, 2007 (94 comments)

Like em or Hate em, Something Awful asks and answers the question: Do guitar solos make non-guitar solo songs better? A-HA, Beach Boys, Britney, Backstreet Boys. Rest of the thread.
posted to MetaFilter by Lord_Pall at 11:43 PM on August 18, 2007 (75 comments)

What are the five most mind-blowing, fanmaking, yet accessible albums of the past ten years?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Ambrosia Voyeur at 8:36 AM on August 4, 2007 (60 comments)

Banjo
posted to MetaFilter by Mblue at 8:47 PM on July 24, 2007 (61 comments)

Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks , as brought to us by our very own Lore Sjöberg. English majors, begin your griping now.
posted to MetaFilter by SansPoint at 5:21 AM on July 23, 2007 (301 comments)