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What in the equivalent of
Design Within Reach for buying a new watch? Bonus points for stores I can visit in the SF Bay Area.
posted to Ask Metafilter by otherwordlyglow
at 11:22 AM on January 11, 2010
(17 comments)
CT Scan art
- Radiologist Kai-hung Fung takes scans of our innards and makes them outwardly beautiful.
posted to MetaFilter by Kickstart70
at 5:41 PM on November 27, 2009
(8 comments)
[FlickrPoolFilter] Crappy Bootleg DVD Covers: Here, you will find Tom Cruise's hit movie,
Pepe Likes Tacos. In this universe,
Star Wars features Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Dustin Hoffman stars in Lost in Translation;
witches, pirates, and hobbits inhabit the same world. Titles are improved upon.
Reviews are refreshingly frank (if they make any sense at all). Your DVD may also contain subtitles in French, Chinese,
Spamsoc, or
Martian.
(Don't say there was no warning.) Remember, kids:
Piracy Creates Jobs!
posted to MetaFilter by not_on_display
at 9:55 AM on November 5, 2009
(58 comments)
Matthias Schlitte is a modern day
popeye.
"...by only increasing the size of his one forearm and no other part of his body, he has allowed himself to arm wrestle in lower weight classes, even though his arm is as strong or stronger than much bigger men than him."
posted to MetaFilter by lazaruslong
at 1:20 PM on October 27, 2009
(68 comments)
Choose Your Own Adventure question.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kirklander
at 11:11 AM on September 17, 2009
(40 comments)
Central Massachusetts, sometime in early 1985. You were cranking your way through the
UHF dial when you caught a glimpse of
Rock and Roll. It was
V66, and you were hooked.
posted to MetaFilter by dirtdirt
at 10:32 AM on August 14, 2009
(22 comments)
Forgotten Bookmarks.
"I work at a used and rare bookstore, and I buy books from people every day. These are the personal, funny, heartbreaking and weird things I find in those books. "
posted to MetaFilter by milquetoast
at 9:33 PM on July 25, 2009
(48 comments)
When thousands of people depart, leaving an entire city dead that’s a real tragedy. There are mainly two reasons why people leave the place where they used to live for years or even generations: danger, and economic factors.
Abandoned Places In The World. ( previously
1,
2)
posted to MetaFilter by netbros
at 7:11 AM on June 21, 2009
(29 comments)
What Is That Song They Always Use...?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jfrancis
at 11:23 AM on June 3, 2009
(127 comments)
Meme Scenery
- Only someone familiar with the original memes would sense something's amiss, like the set of a play waiting for the actors to stumble into history.
posted to MetaFilter by sambosambo
at 4:36 AM on May 27, 2009
(120 comments)
"I said to myself, 'we are going to die.'" Space Shuttle commander Hoot Gibson on his reaction as he saw pictures from the Shuttle's robot arm of gouged and missing tiles along its underbelly. Shades of
Columbia - but this was mission
STS-27, over fourteen years earlier. Yet mission control discounted the reports from orbit, perhaps misled by the poor quality of the downlinked images that resulted from encryption demanded by the mission's secretive military profile. In the end,
Atlantis made it back, but with
visible damage along her right flank. But like most classified DoD missions of the time, little was reported, and NASA was arguably wary of drawing attention to the near-loss of only the second flight since the
Challenger disaster. But if this near-miss had been better known, might NASA have been more concerned about
indications of debris damage during the launch of STS-107?
posted to MetaFilter by Major Clanger
at 3:36 AM on March 28, 2009
(28 comments)
Star Trek TNG goes horribly wrong in a series of short, surreal and very zen mashups: Episode
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious
at 4:54 AM on January 31, 2009
(102 comments)
It is the
central, most eyecatching feature of the modern Oval Office. But for over a year, abandoned by a captain said to be harsh and venereal, it drifted slowly, its huge frame creaking, locked in ice, in the land of endless night.
posted to MetaFilter by felix
at 9:56 AM on January 27, 2009
(123 comments)
A retro set of
cocktail napkins showing Eisenhower-era damsels and drunkards, with captions by The Bard.
via
posted to MetaFilter by Rumple
at 12:10 AM on December 29, 2008
(19 comments)
Brain shift: How do I transition out of a heavily academic/theoretical mode, and into a creative one?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lottie
at 7:21 PM on November 24, 2008
(12 comments)
People took to the streets to celebrate Obama's victory in
New York,
Seattle,
Austin,
San Francisco,
Boulder,
New Brunswick,
Oakland,
Philadelphia,
Gainesville,
Los Angeles,
Boston,
Portland,
Atlanta,
Cambridge,
Madison,
Richmond,
Baltimore,
Santa Cruz, and
Washinton, D.C.
posted to MetaFilter by twoleftfeet
at 3:51 PM on November 5, 2008
(82 comments)
