Writer's Rooms, portraits of the spaces where authors create: Martin Amis. Simon Armitage. Diana Athill. Jane Austen. Berly Bainbridge. JG Ballard. John Banville. Nicola Barker. Ronan Bennett. Alain de Botton. William Boyd. Raymond Briggs. Charlotte Bronte. Carmen Callil. Jung Chang. Roald Dahl. Charles Darwin. Margaret Drabble. Geoff Dyer. Anne Enright. Joshua Ferris. Jonathan Safran Foer. Margaret Forster. Antonia Fraser. Michael Frayn. Esther Freud. Simon Gray. Mark Haddon. David Hare. David Harsent. Seamus Heaney. Russell Hoban. Eric Hobsbawm. Michael Holroyd. Siri Hustvedt. AL Kennedy. Judith Kerr. Rudyard Kipling. Hanif Kureishi. Penelope Lively. David Lodge. Michael Longley. Hilary Mantel. Eamonn McCabe. Charlotte Mendelson. John Mortimer. Kate Mosse. Andrew Motion. Julie Myerson. Edna O'Brien. Andrew O'Hagan. Adam Phillips. Caryl Phillips. Craig Raine. Ian Rankin. John Richardson. Michael Rosen. Will Self. George Bernard Shaw. Alan Sillitow. Posy Simmonds. Helen Simpson. Ahdaf Soueif. Graham Swift. Adam Thirlwell. Colm Toibin. Claire Tomalin. Sue Townsend. Barbara Trapido. Rose Tremain. Sarah Waters. Jacqueline Wilson. Virginia Woolf. (Step into the reading room for a wee bit more...)
posted to MetaFilter by NotMyselfRightNow at 8:16 AM on August 8, 2008 (22 comments)

Looking for good books on the history of technologies.
posted to Ask Metafilter by pombe at 4:33 PM on July 16, 2008 (17 comments)

I'm curious about companies like this one that convert Photoshop files to working HTML/CSS. If you've had an experience with one (good or bad), I'd like to hear how it went.
posted to Ask Metafilter by davebush at 6:15 AM on July 2, 2008 (7 comments)

I think that a thesaurus that was organized in terms of which adjectives typically go with which nouns would be really useful. Like, the adjectives that modify the verb "urge" (as in deep or unfulfilled, say). Same thing could be done for adverbs, e.g., ones that modify "talk" (relentlessly, incessantly, insightfully). I am aware of WordNet and many other on-line lexical databases like the BNC. I'm looking for something like a compiled list, based on actual usage, of what modifies what. thanks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cogneuro at 4:38 AM on May 29, 2008 (9 comments)

I'm looking for a showcase/inspiration gallery of imageless (or at least minimal graphics) pure CSS web designs. I figured this would totally have been done as a "Top X" list somewhere, but it doesn't seem to exist. Not necessarily "minimalist" design, but what can be done with great colour, layout, typography, and clever CSS.
posted to Ask Metafilter by stephthegeek at 5:07 PM on February 4, 2008 (9 comments)

Anyone know of any cross-platform information organizer software?
posted to Ask Metafilter by braintoast at 6:37 AM on July 26, 2007 (4 comments)

Fontfilter: What's the font used in Shakespeare's First Folio?
posted to Ask Metafilter by trim17 at 11:25 PM on June 10, 2007 (4 comments)

10-hour Orgy® of Laurie Anderson on WHRB Cambridge 95.3 FM Laurie Anderson Orgy®
6 / 7 May 2007
WHRB : Harvard Radio Broadcasting
95.3 FM : whrb.org

Sunday 6 May : 5a - 11a EST [UTC -5h]
Monday 7 May : 5a - 9a EST [UTC -5h]

Produced by WHRB [Cambridge, MA]

Ten hours of music, speech, and sound-art from the legendary Chicago-via-NYC multimedia artist, including both popular and rarely-heard recorded works from 1978-2001.

Kit is producing the Laurie Anderson Orgy® in collaboration with mykescipark.

Kit is also producing the Bhangra Orgy® on May 13 and 14, and the African Hip-Hop Orgy® on May 21 and 22.

Check out the complete Orgy schedule.

posted to Projects by Kit at 4:01 PM on May 3, 2007

Logo Search: I've got a company, but I ain't got no logo!
posted to Ask Metafilter by matty at 8:28 AM on August 16, 2006 (24 comments)

What are some good sauces and marinades for fish?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Afroblanco at 8:29 PM on July 18, 2006 (36 comments)

Is there a device (pair) that can take digital audio out and wireless-ly transmit it 30 feet to allow for digital audio in on a receiver?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jshelus at 4:12 AM on July 21, 2006 (13 comments)

MySQLFilter: Help me with my 56 million record table! Lots of cumbersome background inside...
posted to Ask Metafilter by disillusioned at 5:27 AM on July 19, 2006 (12 comments)

I love 80s New Wave synthpop in a completely non-ironic way. I came of age with this music, and it's still a big part of my life. What contemporary music has that mid-80s synthpop vibe? I'm looking for both individual artists and songs. (For example, I think Kylie Minogue's "I Believe in You" has an 80s vibe, but not everything of hers does. But The Postal Service would be right at home in 1984.) Here are some examples of what I'm looking for:
posted to Ask Metafilter by jdroth at 4:09 PM on July 14, 2006 (64 comments)

can I turn a wireless router into a range extender/relay?
posted to Ask Metafilter by fidgets at 10:51 AM on July 13, 2006 (9 comments)

I'm looking for American Psycho style business cards.
posted to Ask Metafilter by andrewzipp at 9:54 AM on June 15, 2006 (22 comments)

I'm on the hunt for sites and/or blogs about big ideas... Who wants to join me?
posted to Ask Metafilter by 0bvious at 8:39 AM on July 9, 2006 (17 comments)

Is there a good standard language for specifying complex date expressions, e.g. '4th Fridays in month that are not last Fridays', or '3d workday in year', or 'every other Thursday except holidays'?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Zed_Lopez at 2:39 AM on June 8, 2006 (5 comments)