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MagCloud
enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and they take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 9:13 AM on June 23, 2008
(43 comments)
Planet Defender
A new tower-defense style Flash game. Research technologies and build defenses to protect the planet from waves of invading alien ships.
posted to Projects by justkevin
at 4:39 AM on April 23, 2008
The Chrysler Building:
77 floors, 319.5m (1048 feet) high, 29961 tons of steel, 3,826,000 bricks, near 5000 windows of total Art Deco coolness.
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice
at 2:16 PM on April 30, 2008
(35 comments)
The Mexican kitchen's Islamic connection
:"When Mexico’s leading writer, Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz, arrived in New Delhi in 1962 to take up his post as ambassador to India, he quickly ran across a culinary puzzle. Although Mexico and India were on opposite sides of the globe, the brown, spicy, aromatic curries that he was offered in India sparked memories of Mexico’s national dish, mole (pronounced MO-lay). Is mole, he wondered, “an ingenious Mexican version of curry, or is curry a Hindu adaptation of a Mexican sauce ?” How could this seeming coincidence of “gastronomic geography” be explained ?"
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 11:18 PM on April 9, 2008
(53 comments)
Maasai Present Cattle to US Ambassador
To mark September 11, people of Enoosean, a Maasai (Rift Valley Province, Kenya) village, have presented 15 heads of cattle to a visiting US ambassador, William Brencick. The presentation was organized by a Maasai medical student who was visiting New York on September 11.
Brencick said the embassy would find it difficult to ship the cattle to the United States and had decided to sell the animals to raise funds to buy beadwork made in the village for display at a September 11 memorial in New York. (
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posted to MetaFilter by rschram
at 2:58 AM on June 3, 2002
(18 comments)
The Man Between War and Peace.
"As head of U. S. Central Command, Admiral William 'Fox' Fallon is in charge of American military strategy for the most troubled parts of the world. Now, as the White House has been escalating the war of words with Iran, and seeming ever more determined to strike militarily before the end of this presidency, the admiral has urged restraint and diplomacy. Who will prevail, the president or the admiral?"
[Via Think Progress.]
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus
at 4:59 PM on March 5, 2008
(50 comments)
I'm not into VU bootlegs really, but apparently this is a big deal. It's the ONLY available live stuff from 1967 and has only become available in literally the last two days. Recorded just after the release of The Velvet Underground And Nico and featuring the debut performance of Sister Ray (19 mins long) and the *previously unheard* song I'm Not A Young Man Any More. That's right, A NEW VELVET UNDERGROUND SONG. And it's fucking good too. This version of Sister Ray absolutely shreds and is what the Velvet Underground are all about.
posted to MetaFilter by stinkycheese
at 4:03 PM on February 29, 2008
(61 comments)
Garfield minus Garfield: "Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?"
posted to MetaFilter by SpacemanStix
at 1:36 PM on February 26, 2008
(127 comments)
To The Best Of Our Knowledge
is one of the most wide-ranging and literate public radio shows in the US, a two-hour "radio salon" featuring leisurely exploration of weekly themes like
No Smoking,
Identity Crisis,
Weekend, and
The Mind, Music, and Math. Host
Jim Fleming approaches these big ideas through the works of authors - journalists of all stripes, memoirists, poets, fiction writers, essayists.
Five years' worth of shows are available on audio archives; you can also search the impressive list of
authors by name, or
subscribe to the podcast.
posted to MetaFilter by Miko
at 9:13 AM on February 27, 2008
(17 comments)
Waving Goodbye to Hegemony.
"Just a few years ago, America’s hold on global power seemed unshakable. But a lot has changed while we’ve been in Iraq — and the next president is going to be dealing with not only a triumphant China and a retooled Europe but also the quiet rise of a 'second world.'"
[Via The Washington Note.]
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus
at 4:15 PM on January 27, 2008
(63 comments)
It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi.... Mr. B has risen beyond his real abilities.... His code is not his own; it is that of his class–no worse, no better, He fits easily into whatever pattern is successful. That is his sole measure of value–success. Nazism as a minority movement would not attract him. As a movement likely to attain power, it would.... Mr. G is a very intellectual young man who was an infant prodigy.... Mr. G will never be a Nazi,... [h]e will certainly be able, however, fully to explain and apologize for Nazism if it ever comes along.
"Who goes Nazi?" via
sott.net, with added context.
posted to MetaFilter by orthogonality
at 12:43 AM on January 24, 2008
(76 comments)
"I'm dead. That sucks, at least for me and my family and friends. But all the tears in the world aren't going to bring me back, so I would prefer that people remember the good things about me rather than mourning my loss. (If it turns out a specific number of tears will, in fact, bring me back to life, then by all means, break out the onions.)"
Blogger Andrew Olmsted was killed in Iraq yesterday. He had been guest-posting at Obsidian Wings as G'Kar. hilzoy of ObWi has cross-posted his final message
there as well.
posted to MetaFilter by maudlin
at 11:15 AM on January 4, 2008
(58 comments)
This may be the coolest flash game ever.
Although it's graphics are nothing to write home about, the game play (which I will wisely follow kotaku's example in not spoiling for you) is quite simply incredible. It's a unique and quick little work break for you
via kotaku.
posted to MetaFilter by shmegegge
at 3:21 PM on January 3, 2008
(92 comments)
A primer on the global derivatives market, the City of London, and the credit crunch:
"In 2003 the total size of the world economy was $49,000,000,000,000. The total size of the derivatives being traded was $85,000,000,000,000. In other words, derivatives today are worth far, far more than the total economic activity of the planet. More than $1,000,000,000,000 of derivatives are bought and sold every day. Every single thing that can be traded through derivatives, is."
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 1:44 PM on January 2, 2008
(30 comments)
It was revealed last week that former Wikipedia Chief Operating Officer Carolyn Doran was
a convicted felon, her prior record includes four convictions for driving under the influence, two of check fraud and petty larceny, one hit and run with fatality, one unlawful wounding for shooting a former boyfriend, suspect in a murder case, and some suspicion surrounding the drowning death of her newlywed husband. Senior Wikipedians are
"shocked", and the waves are still reverberating as apparently something
totally secret and big is going down at the Foundation (that runs Wikipedia) that may radically alter the board for better or worse.
posted to MetaFilter by stbalbach
at 6:55 AM on December 19, 2007
(104 comments)
Resonance FM
gives you an interview with writer Alan Moore in three parts.
I,
II &
III [.mp3]
posted to MetaFilter by oh pollo!
at 6:48 AM on February 16, 2007
(5 comments)
Politico.com has launched. Last year the venture made news due to the high-profile departures of John Harris and Jim VandeHei from the Washington Post. About 20 reporters from major newspapers have left their jobs to work at the new Web site which is devoted solely to politics.
* It’s launched by an established media company that owns several ABC affiliates - Allbritton Communications Company.
They also are publishing a
dead-tree version.
posted to MetaFilter by ericb
at 5:40 PM on January 23, 2007
(14 comments)
Iraq: The Lost Generation.
This 47 minute long documentary was filmed by an anonymous Iraqi journalist. Broadcast on the UK's Channel 4 in November, it tells the stories of several young Iraqis whose lives have been changed by the invasion and occupation of their country.
posted to MetaFilter by washburn
at 3:30 PM on January 7, 2007
(11 comments)
Web programmers take note,
gotAPI is an excellent collection of searchable programming references wrapped up into a customizable interface.
posted to MetaFilter by Roger Dodger
at 6:59 AM on September 21, 2006
(17 comments)
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