MeFi post: The Myth of the Media Myth: Games and Non-Gamers

I've been outside. It's overrrated.

Traditionally Outside receives extremely high ratings by those who like to see others play it, and these people are in many cases comfortably ensconced Inside themselves. Outside was released many years ago, it was in fact the first massively multiplayer game, and yet it has always managed to avoid the double-edged Retro tag. In its favor, continual user updates have kept Outside current; there are always new things... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by aeschenkarnos at 4:19 PM on March 30, 2008

MeFi post: Elementary, My Dear Watson

My collection:
Periodic Table - Flash Version
Elementymology & Elements Multidict
Wiki: The periodic table of the chemical elements
WebElements: Periodic Table
Mark Winter: WebElements 1.2.1: Periodic Table
Periodic Table w/X-Ray Properties
Magenetic Resonance Periodic Table
Periodic Table of Matter -AntiMatter (AMatter) Elements
The Schemata of the Elements: A New Periodic Table... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by psyche7 at 4:48 PM on November 1, 2007

MeFi post: You got your pizza in my Happy Meal!

I see a real future in fractal-like foods. The "all edge" brownie tray, recursive pizza-on-pizza concoctions, fractal-cut fries that maximize crisp-to-starch ratios, fractal-shaped cereals or cookies to facilitate interesting milk-interfacing properties.

It wont end until the successful implementation of the hypertaco, a crispy Americanized corn taco shell that manages to cram nearly 1000 square miles of crunchy, bland shell into a 6x6" cube, by way of a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 4:41 PM on October 27, 2007

MeFi post: MAKE's open source gift guide

Phillip:

Your Make:Blog, over the last year or so, has devolved into pure noise, with little or no signal. Reposting the same projects day after day, most of which are either using hardware sold by Make:, or are about the idiot flavor of the month (Zune and Wii, currently). Hyping the fuck out of "Maker" culture bullshit will get you nowhere. There is only one Cory Doctorow, please stop marketing your magazine as if there were more of him.
posted to MetaFilter by blasdelf at 12:53 PM on November 27, 2006

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