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posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 5:18 PM on January 29, 2008 (95 comments)

I've been invited to speak at an event - for an entire hour. How can I keep the audience awake?
posted to Ask Metafilter by so_necessary at 7:58 PM on January 9, 2008 (21 comments)

Heavenly Pop Hits: The Flying Nun Story. New Zealand rock doc (in 9 parts).
posted to MetaFilter by sleepy pete at 11:04 AM on January 6, 2008 (40 comments)

The King William College Quiz, apparently now my only FPP in a year (since the last quiz), hopefully as hard as ever, but unlikely to reward my brand of laziness. Merry Christmas! See previous posts for laying out answers, I'll post the Guardians' answer sheet in January.
posted to MetaFilter by biffa at 2:46 PM on December 24, 2007 (101 comments)

Here are the ten stories you probably missed this year From Foreign Policy. I certainly missed a lot of them. Sorry about the single link.
posted to MetaFilter by donfactor at 12:45 PM on December 18, 2007 (13 comments)

I could use some help translating normal thoughts into office-speak and playing it cool at the office during professional negotiations and meetings.
posted to Ask Metafilter by salvia at 1:05 AM on December 6, 2007 (11 comments)

"Fascism", in its current hyphenated repackaging, gets bandied about quite a bit these days. So, it may surprise you to learn that the populist appeal of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad depends in part on a Persian concept, "gharbzadegi" ("weststruckness" or "occidentosis") whose roots are located in an Iranian adaptation of Martin Heidegger's proto-fascist concept of "The Darkening of the World" by the intellectuals Ahmad Fardid and Jalal Ali Ahmad.
posted to MetaFilter by felix betachat at 10:26 AM on November 23, 2007 (32 comments)

I'm about to become a forum moderator. Help.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eleyna at 3:58 PM on October 18, 2007 (23 comments)

Margaret Talbot's wonderful profile of David Simon, the creator of "The Wire." Simon said, he and his colleagues had “ripped off the Greeks: Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides. Not funny boy—not Aristophanes. We’ve basically taken the idea of Greek tragedy and applied it to the modern city-state.” He went on, “What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason—instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it’s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods.”
posted to MetaFilter by geoff. at 10:50 AM on October 15, 2007 (37 comments)

Control, the biopic covering the the life and untimely death of Joy Division's singer Ian Curtis, opens in the US today (on a limited release) [ trailer | fan site | on set interview ]. This is director Anton Corbijn's debut full length film [ interview ] and was co-produced by Tony Wilson (a giant in the Manchester and UK music scene, sadly missed. Check out 24 Hour Party People [trailer | clip]) . Control opened in the UK several days ago and the reviews are largely positive [ Guardian | Times Online | Independent | Channel 4 | Time Out | Manchester Evening News ].
posted to MetaFilter by the_very_hungry_caterpillar at 11:43 AM on October 10, 2007 (40 comments)

Gabba gabba hey.
posted to MetaFilter by monju_bosatsu at 9:43 AM on October 7, 2007 (36 comments)

Learn to Play Guitar! Justin, of JustinGuitar.com (not the dork with the TV camera strapped to his head) offers over 100 free video guitar lessons for absolute noobs & guitar enthusiasts, with lesson categories & written instrx as well. For people who want tablature to play along, the good people of Guitar Video Tabs provide full tab notation under videos hundreds of popular songs.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 4:26 PM on September 3, 2007 (17 comments)

Jessica Dimmock: I was approached by a cocaine dealer who made it clear that he was a dealer. Over the course of the conversation he made it clear that if I wanted to follow him and photograph him I could. He took me to a variety of places - parties, people's apartments, the owner of an escort service. The last place he ever took me was the apartment where the project starts. Jessica Dimmock is the 2006 recipient of the Inge Morath Award to encourage young female photojournalists. Her series, The Ninth Floor is epic in its savage and true depiction of the reality of drugs in New York City. NSFW.
posted to MetaFilter by parmanparman at 7:57 AM on July 9, 2007 (160 comments)

I've decided to write down 52 challenges for myself and to give myself one week for each of them, making up a year. Right now, I'm at 31. Help me think of more!
posted to Ask Metafilter by alona at 4:45 AM on July 1, 2007 (50 comments)

Are you ready for the third annual MeFi poker tournament? Sunday June 10th, 9pm Eastern.
posted to MetaTalk by ODiV at 10:21 AM on May 31, 2007 (41 comments)

The Western Tradition, an outstanding 52-part instructional video series about the history of western civilization, is available as free streaming video.
posted to MetaFilter by Chinese Jet Pilot at 3:13 PM on May 31, 2007 (13 comments)

I want to be stronger and more physically fit. So I've heard weight training is the way to go. As a complete n00b, where/how do I start?
posted to Ask Metafilter by zippity at 8:32 PM on November 12, 2006 (23 comments)

Is Science Fiction primarily an American genre of literature?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Deep Dish at 8:29 PM on November 4, 2006 (35 comments)

Looking for good cyberpunk books. (Authors I like but have already read: Gibson, Stephenson, Miéville, Gaiman, Dick.) Go, Hive mind, go.
posted to Ask Metafilter by govtrust at 9:29 PM on November 1, 2006 (43 comments)