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What are some exceptionally well-performed audiobooks?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Ambrosia Voyeur
at 1:24 PM on July 7, 2008
(77 comments)
School me on the classics of classical music. What are the top ten recordings that someone who knows nothing about classical music should own?
posted to Ask Metafilter by gnutron
at 4:27 PM on June 16, 2008
(42 comments)
Looking for decently written, page-turning historical fiction.
posted to Ask Metafilter by banjo_and_the_pork
at 6:20 AM on June 15, 2008
(66 comments)
I fell in love with "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches all over again this week. Can you recommend similar songs or artists, particularly with that amusing juxtaposition of voice samples as part of the track?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Bakuun
at 2:09 PM on June 8, 2008
(26 comments)
Professional photographers: What blogs, resources, sites do you use/recommend for keeping up to date, trends, reviews, techniques, experiences with vendors, etc?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pmaxwell
at 7:05 AM on June 9, 2008
(13 comments)
Help me stop cluttering up my (OS X) desktop.
posted to Ask Metafilter by grumblebee
at 8:41 AM on June 7, 2008
(23 comments)
Is there really an advantage to gold dental fillings?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 3:14 AM on April 1, 2006
(9 comments)
Toys for very long airplane trip with a 13 month old?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joh
at 10:34 AM on June 3, 2008
(36 comments)
What is the best way for an American nuclear family (2 adults, kid) to emigrate to New Zealand with permanent residency?
posted to Ask Metafilter by hal_c_on
at 1:19 AM on May 30, 2008
(12 comments)
I am a sort-of musician (lo-fi ambient-ish- real marketable stuff) and I want to start going out into the crazy world about me and recording various sounds. I'm looking for tips on a suitable microphone for field recording and, just as importantly, a good (quality + convenience) digital sound recording device so that I can come back and transfer my sounds without losing quality.
posted to Ask Metafilter by xmutex
at 9:30 AM on March 23, 2005
(11 comments)
Care to help me find a ringtone I heard on "The IT Crowd"?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wild_Eep
at 4:02 PM on April 15, 2007
(7 comments)
Can you suggest some headphones suitable for running?
posted to Ask Metafilter by talitha_kumi
at 5:41 AM on March 27, 2006
(13 comments)
Seeking reliable internet service to enlarge an image to poster size.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Constant Reader
at 10:43 AM on May 7, 2008
(6 comments)
Why does our brain perceive
tilt-shift photography as tiny little toy models? I'd love to know the science behind this popular effect.
posted to Ask Metafilter by waxpancake
at 12:16 PM on April 10, 2008
(19 comments)
I'd like to do a time-lapse movie of photos taken every 30 seconds during a week-long, 500 mile ride I'm doing later this year. But the rig has to be small, light, automatic, and run for hours a day without a recharge. Is this possible? (something tells me Make Magazine probably already covered this at one point)
posted to Ask Metafilter by mathowie
at 10:02 AM on April 8, 2008
(6 comments)
The wife and I will be taking our four month old baby on an Amtrak train from Chicago to St. Louis. Does anybody have any recommendations for surviving this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by blackjack514
at 6:47 AM on April 4, 2008
(10 comments)
I can't log in with Firefox, Safari's working just fine. Following Jessamyn's suggestions I deleted cookies & disabled greasemonkey, but just get directed back to MeFi homepage as not logged in. Anyone else having trouble? Anyone solved it?
posted to MetaTalk by tula
at 9:53 AM on April 2, 2008
(19 comments)
I'm looking for a famous old photograph. I can see it in my mind but don't know what its title is. It's possible it's by Henri Cartier-Bresson, but maybe not. The photo is taken from inside an art gallery, and through the window can be seen a middle aged man and woman. The woman is saying something to the man about a painting that's in front of them, but the man is peeking sideways at another painting that depicts a nude woman. I love this photo, I think it sums up so much of human experience in one image. Also, I remember that this photo is part of a series of photos depicting the reactions of different people (including children and a cop) to the nude painting. I'm sure someone out there will know the title and photographer. Thank you!
posted to Ask Metafilter by arcadia
at 9:05 AM on March 26, 2008
(3 comments)
[Math filter] What fascinatingly cool mathematical topics do you wish you knew about in high school?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomcochrane
at 7:33 AM on March 27, 2008
(102 comments)
FinanceFilter: Is the money supply contracting, or expanding, after netting all the Fed action, bank closures, mortgage defaults, etc?
The dollar falling seems to signal a net increase of money supply, but this is inconsistent with the thesis of a credit or liquidity crunch. If the money supply is growing at a slower rate due to tighter lending practices, shouldn't the dollar be rising, even in the face of Fed-rate cutting? Do we know the net expansion or contraction of the money supply due to the
combination of rate cuts and mortgage defaults?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Pastabagel
at 11:39 AM on March 17, 2008
(9 comments)
Mandolux - photographic desktop wallpapers. Just keep hittin' previous.
posted to MetaFilter by nthdegx
at 3:04 AM on August 20, 2006
(23 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)
Sound Comparisons
is a database of different accents in English from all over the world. It provides soundfiles and
IPA transcriptions of 110 words in 110 separate dialects and Germanic languages closely related to English. Most dialects and languages are current but there are also reconstructions of older stages of English, Scots and Germanic. That makes for 12100 soundfiles that load directly into your browser. The site can be navigated either by dialect or individual word and there's also a
handy Google map of all the different dialects and languages. If you've ever wondered what the difference was between a Somerset and a Norwich accent, New Zealand and Australian, Canadian and American or Indian and Glaswegian,
Sound Comparisons is the site to go to.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 7:16 AM on March 5, 2008
(44 comments)
My 18 month old baby loves to pound on the computer keyboard in imitation of her mom and dad. Does anyone have any experience with programs that would both prevent her from deleting all of our files while providing an entertaining experience?
posted to Ask Metafilter by blahblahblah
at 12:52 PM on February 26, 2008
(26 comments)
I think that the main reason for the practical intelligence and the political good sense of the Americans is their long experience with juries in civil cases. I do not know whether a jury is useful to the litigants, but I am sure it is very good for those who have to decide the case. I regard it as one of the most effective means of popular education at society’s disposal.
Dissent offers commentaries on jury duty from
Alexis de Toqueville,
Joanne Barkan,
Paul Berman,
Susan Cheever,
Nicolaus Mills,
Maxine Phillips,
Ruth Rosen,
Jim Sleeper,
Michael Walzer, and
Darryl Lorrenzo Wellington.
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 3:28 PM on February 18, 2008
(8 comments)
FreakAngels.
Warren Ellis has a new web-based graphic novel starting today, with art by Paul Duffield.
posted to MetaFilter by monju_bosatsu
at 5:00 PM on February 15, 2008
(29 comments)
What lens to buy?
posted to Ask Metafilter by oxford blue
at 1:44 AM on January 30, 2008
(23 comments)
Can you think of any children's albums by
good adult artists? (more inside)
posted to Ask Metafilter by waxpancake
at 8:55 AM on June 28, 2004
(37 comments)
I need quality music to play around my young kids.
posted to Ask Metafilter by crapples
at 8:47 PM on September 6, 2005
(48 comments)
I let my company's domain name expire, and now someone else owns it. What can I do to get it back?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 6:34 PM on December 28, 2007
(11 comments)
Open Culture's "10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube"
features "intellectually redeemable" channels from
UC Berkeley, @GoogleTalks, TheNobelPrize, TED Talks, FORA.tv, the European Graduate School, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, BBC Worldwide, National Geographic, PBS, UChannel, MIT, Vanderbilt, and
USC.
posted to MetaFilter by Soup
at 5:40 PM on December 27, 2007
(21 comments)
Editor wars are some of the most divisive debates among programmers and writers. These days, the battles are between proponents of IDEs like
NetBeans,
Eclipse, and
the like as often as they are between proponents of
vi and
Emacs, the traditional battlegrounds. That fight hasn't ended, of course. The support of the vi camp has largely solidified behind
Vim, the largest and most feature rich (or bloated, if you like
nvi) variant, and
GNU Emacs has essentially vanquished its internecine
rival. Are you a traditionalist? You can find an
argument if you really want to.
Of course, a lot of people
now vote for third parties. There are candidates for the
ignorant, for the
masochistic, and the
insane. Some people are more comfortable
with familiar interfaces. Still
others are
obsessed. [
Previously]
posted to MetaFilter by sonic meat machine
at 1:04 PM on December 22, 2007
(98 comments)
Life-altering experiences. Can you point to a single experience in your life, as a child, which you can define as having contributed to the person you are today? (+)
posted to Ask Metafilter by jeremias
at 4:41 AM on February 2, 2005
(216 comments)
