Homer Simpson in CSS "...I stayed with the idea in mind that more complex designs could be made using the Verdana font and absolute positioning in CSS, thus generating vector drawings directly embedded in the code html." [via]
posted to MetaFilter by mewithoutyou at 12:15 PM on April 30, 2008 (52 comments)

The Library of Congress has unveiled a baseball history section on their website. You can see old baesball cards, panoramic shots, a section for teachers and, coolest of all, a video of a baseball game shot by Thomas Edison in 1898.
posted to MetaFilter by zzazazz at 3:20 PM on March 26, 2008 (17 comments)

Continuing the New Year's Eve trend: What can a single, 20-something female do in San Francisco on New Year's Eve?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Nickel at 9:16 PM on December 30, 2007 (10 comments)

Teach me to be a better informed voter for the next Presidential election
posted to Ask Metafilter by Pantalaimon at 1:40 PM on December 26, 2007 (14 comments)

What sweet, silly gift can I give to a sweet, silly boy? This question isn’t as cliché as one might think.
posted to Ask Metafilter by fiasco at 11:06 AM on December 25, 2007 (46 comments)

My 6 yr. old son just lost his first tooth. He now expects a "tooth fairy" because his Brittish dad told him. I'm Dutch and have no idea. Help me out to answer some of his questions.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kudzu at 11:25 AM on December 10, 2007 (67 comments)

What's the oldest believable continuous genealogy for a live person?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Flunkie at 6:36 PM on October 24, 2007 (14 comments)

Sure, reading is great, but books are fun to look at, too
posted to MetaFilter by nuclear_soup at 8:17 AM on June 21, 2007 (37 comments)

The story of the strange language of the Pirahã is just as much a story about the state of the field of linguistics. Professor Dan Everett of Illinois State University, who lived for decades with the Pirahã, first as a missionary, then as a linguist, believes Pirahã casts serious doubt upon Chomsky's theory of universal grammar. Chomskyites have started to fight back with a reassessment of Everett's famous paper on the Pirahã, where he claimed that the Pirahã "have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few”—terms of quantification believed by some linguists to be among the common building blocks of human cognition." He also claims that it doesn't have recursion, a feature of language Chomsky recently claimed was the defining feature of human speech. Dan Everett has rebutted the Chomskyite reassessment of his work. Video interview with Professor Everett. [Pirahã previously covered on MetaFilter in 2004 and 2006]
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 9:10 PM on June 18, 2007 (60 comments)

"Clever" music videos?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mwongozi at 3:48 PM on June 15, 2007 (63 comments)

How does one mingle effectively?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Effigy2000 at 9:32 PM on June 7, 2007 (25 comments)

Where the South Really Begins [Flash] Forget the Mason-Dixon Line. The South really starts at the Sweet Tea Line. [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha at 4:03 PM on June 8, 2007 (99 comments)

Free Your Imagination : from the furry "Yeti crab" to the almiqui, animals discovered and rediscovered this millenium.
posted to MetaFilter by anjamu at 7:30 PM on August 23, 2006 (17 comments)

I've decided to collect and scan all my family's photographs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by gtr at 12:37 PM on August 17, 2006 (13 comments)

What are the best manners that I am not aware of?
posted to Ask Metafilter by iurodivii at 8:38 PM on May 18, 2006 (128 comments)