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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)

Jesus Christ.

The Last Supper recreated out of 4,050 Rubik's Cubes. (SLYT)
posted to MetaFilter by gman at 10:43 AM on October 26, 2009 (43 comments)

Mystery Google

Mystery Google gives you what the person before you searched for. {via}
posted to MetaFilter by Ljubljana at 1:12 AM on October 14, 2009 (95 comments)

An infinitely expanding field of boxes, each containing one thing

Spezify is a metasearch engine. The interface is in Flash.
posted to MetaFilter by ardgedee at 12:01 PM on September 29, 2009 (38 comments)

Who knew the Roomba had an inner artist?

The art of the Roomba: Long term exposures of the vacuum cleaning robot at work.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 8:03 PM on September 26, 2009 (31 comments)

Remembering the dead

Every evening since July 2nd 1928*, at precisely eight o'clock, the Last Post has been played under the Menin Gate in Ieper (Ypres, "Wipers" as it was known to British tommies), Belgium. The ritual - performed by buglers from the local fire brigade - honours British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in the five battles at Ypres in the First World War. Today is the 27,888th day of the Last Post ceremony.
posted to MetaFilter by MuffinMan at 2:16 PM on September 26, 2009 (16 comments)

A Choose Your Own Adventure that you couldn't win?

Choose Your Own Adventure question.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kirklander at 11:11 AM on September 17, 2009 (40 comments)

Augmented Reality Comes to iPhone

Subways were the first application. Using the iPhone 3GS' camera, GPS, and compass, several new apps overlay information on a live view of the world around you. This week, Yelp joins them. William Gibson, eat your heart out. (A brief introduction to augmented reality for those who need one.)
posted to MetaFilter by spitefulcrow at 10:55 AM on August 28, 2009 (31 comments)

Bike Parkour

Bike Parkour. Exactly what it says on the tin.
posted to MetaFilter by By The Grace of God at 1:42 PM on April 20, 2009 (91 comments)

I want my, I want my, I want my VJV.

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)

Wouldn't that be L'Ira di Khan?

Le Wrath Di Khan. This is too much of a geekgasm not to share.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike at 6:15 PM on July 28, 2009 (34 comments)

Forgotten Bookmarks

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)

Light-Test

Light-Test: a home for all of our light tests. A website dedicated to pictures of photography assistants at work. Sort of.
posted to MetaFilter by ColdChef at 7:13 PM on July 5, 2009 (24 comments)

HTML Playground

HTML Playground allows you to learn HTML and CSS by example.
posted to MetaFilter by minifigs at 3:13 AM on June 26, 2009 (10 comments)

The Bat Boy Archives

In keeping with its mission to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," Google Books presents every issue of Weekly World News from 1981 to 2007. previously via
posted to MetaFilter by Knappster at 5:26 PM on June 20, 2009 (62 comments)

Leaving the Ghosts in Peace

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...?

What Is That Song They Always Use...?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jfrancis at 11:23 AM on June 3, 2009 (127 comments)

Starts out kind of pathetic. Then it gets awesome.

This is how you start a party. (SLYT) (via)
posted to MetaFilter by The Devil Tesla at 4:04 PM on May 31, 2009 (123 comments)

Can You Name Them All?

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)

Across The Night

A time lapse video of the night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. The galactic core of the Milky Way is brightly displayed.
posted to MetaFilter by Effigy2000 at 1:32 PM on May 19, 2009 (67 comments)

Clever clever logo logo

You may have already noticed some of the visual tricks in these logos. Or maybe not. (I never saw the b--- in the T-------- logo before.) Or maybe you just think these are too obvious for words and there are much better examples out there. (via)
posted to MetaFilter by maudlin at 11:26 AM on May 18, 2009 (119 comments)

All Our Yesterdays

Five galleries of candid and behind-the-scenes production photos of the Star Trek cast, crew, sets, and soundstages in and around Los Angeles, circa late 1960s. I particularly like this one. And this one.
posted to MetaFilter by mattdidthat at 1:53 AM on May 10, 2009 (30 comments)

The dot and dash that adorn his hat constitute the Morse code symbol for the letter "A"

Just what is the deal with Jughead's weird crown cap? I'm learning to share investigates a forgotten history of haberdashery.
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 6:15 AM on April 28, 2009 (102 comments)

Sunday morning tire inflation video

Off road vehicle gets a tire inflated without a pump (SLYT) 23 seconds of "huh?".
posted to MetaFilter by zerobyproxy at 7:07 AM on April 19, 2009 (47 comments)

Am I Neil Diamond or what?

Long before there was Adult Swim, there was Cartoon Planet, an odd little show that showed Turner-owned cartoons with surreal vignettes featuring Space Ghost, Zorak and Brak in-between. Soon the old cartoons were dropped in favor of more strangeness from SG and his crew, ostensibly in the form of an afterschool special with regular features like mailbag, story time and educational bits like Learning to Talk Italian. Over time, the sketches got odder and odder.
posted to MetaFilter by jbickers at 7:58 AM on April 16, 2009 (72 comments)

Sometimes you just want to laugh at nothing.

This is a laughing baby. Babies laugh with abandon. They think everything is very funny. Hooray for laughter!
posted to MetaFilter by h00py at 6:49 AM on April 3, 2009 (56 comments)

When the Shuttle program nearly ended - in 1988

"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)

PSAs Gone Wrong.

The Nine Weirdest PSAs Ever Made.
posted to MetaFilter by gman at 2:31 PM on February 23, 2009 (73 comments)

Flying a model airplane in Brazil, with video!

First person video of Gabriel flying his model plane around Rio and landing it through the balcony of his 10th story apartment. Here's a greatest moments compilation that includes him launching and retrieving the plane from a boat, a moving train, through tunnels and around high rises. Here he is flying a plane with no engine, using only his car's windshield to generate lift. Also, RC Groups' "What to Buy For Video Piloting." Oh and Brazil is very pretty.
posted to MetaFilter by geoff. at 4:01 PM on February 23, 2009 (50 comments)

Of course, the frames are probably made from Chinese toothpaste...

A selection of eyeglasses for $8. (That's including your lens prescription.) Or if that's not to your liking, there's $39.
posted to MetaFilter by Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson at 8:24 PM on September 19, 2007 (81 comments)

A fistful of Rikers.

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)

Articles to tickle your humerus.

The Canadian Medical Association Journal's archive of humorous medical articles. See, for example, why Pooh needs help, why Tintin needs a dose of HGH, and an exhortation to abolish the law of gravity.
posted to MetaFilter by kldickson at 5:53 AM on January 28, 2009 (15 comments)

RESOLUTE!

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)

You and Your Research

You and Your Research was a talk given by Richard Hamming in 1986. Read it if you have an interest in doing first-class work.
posted to MetaFilter by parudox at 7:23 PM on January 4, 2009 (24 comments)

Cocktayle Napkinf

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)

Flight of the Conchords, Redux

The first episode of the new season of Flight of the Conchords is available to watch free online (US only, sorry). "Formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo," their first season was chock full of hilarious moments and musical interludes, including some drawn from their live performances. Previously on Metafilter.
posted to MetaFilter by explosion at 7:20 AM on December 17, 2008 (73 comments)

Turn the my brain from Spock-like robot into artist.

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)

Infopornographics

Everything is prettier as a flow chart.
posted to MetaFilter by puckish at 8:58 PM on November 22, 2008 (30 comments)

Dancing in the streets for Obama

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)

Pokémon Snap was about as far as I got with photography.

What are some absolute beginner DSLR tips and tricks my wife can pick up on quickly and start using today?
posted to Ask Metafilter by joshrholloway at 9:13 AM on October 27, 2008 (26 comments)

A Presidential Word-a-Day

The wonderful wordsmith, Anu Garg, at Wordsmith.org has posted five words this week: "To barrack"."Bidentate"."Meeken". "Palinode". "Obambulate". Definitions inside.
posted to MetaFilter by Tarn at 10:00 PM on October 24, 2008 (26 comments)

How can I make myself do stuff?

I can't make myself do anything. I've never been able to. I want to accomplish so much, I have goals, but for some reason, I just can't make myself do all the things I know I'm capable of. How can I turn this around? Is there a name for it? What should I do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous at 3:53 PM on October 22, 2008 (35 comments)

If that's not enough, they're also closely related to boobies.

Gannets like sardines. Gannets like sardines so much that they will fly high in the air and then dive at speeds of up to 100 km/hr, up to 22 meters below the water, to catch them. (Youtube videos have commentary and occasional music.)
posted to MetaFilter by voltairemodern at 11:11 AM on October 20, 2008 (20 comments)

Single link silliness.

The "best" of the internet.
posted to MetaFilter by pedstel at 10:25 PM on October 14, 2008 (44 comments)

Bad Physics

Recurring science misconceptions in K-6 textbooks: CLOUDS REMAIN ALOFT BECAUSE WATER DROPLETS ARE TINY? Wrong! SOUND TRAVELS BETTER THROUGH SOLIDS & LIQUIDS? No it doesn't. GRAVITY IN SPACE IS ZERO? It's actually strong. THE SKY IS BLUE BECAUSE OF COMPLICATED PHYSICS. No, it's simple. And many more.
posted to MetaFilter by vronsky at 3:25 PM on October 12, 2008 (108 comments)

Unprotected Memory

So, you watched the movie Tron, and now you want to run your computerized guy off of the game grid and into the rest of the computer system? That's exactly what Daniel Wellman did on his Apple IIgs.
posted to MetaFilter by CrunchyFrog at 9:27 PM on October 8, 2008 (34 comments)
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