Here's a miscellaneous list. It would help to know more about his interests...

http://boston.com/bigpicture/"> Boston Globe's Big Picture blog , with large-size pictures on new events of the day.

Newseums' Today's Front Pages with the front pages of hundreds of US and international newspapers, updated each day.

National Weather Service
Wunderground for lots of weather info.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by LobsterMitten at 8:47 PM on September 2, 2008 marked best answer

Just commenting to get this on my recent activity. Wait. A way to do that without commenting has been a pony request before, right? Whatever happened to that....

Step one: favorite the post.
Step two: go here.

You get there by clicking "Recent Activity" (my favorite link on the whole site) up in the header, and then clicking on the "My Favorites" tab. Placeholder-free thread tracking!... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 1:38 PM on July 2, 2008

'Meh' is the first letter of one of Apathor's "Sixteen or Seventeen Dread Names or Something." Modern Apathites, especially those of more progressive Order of the Passive Snark, use it as minor invocation of their patron's powers. Apathor, being an ancient god of laziness and lack of motivation (his most famous of temples, the never-quite-completed Pile of Bricks of Babel, had its last biblical mention expunged from the Bible in 978 by a lazy Irish monk - it was late... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by robocop is bleeding at 4:59 AM on December 21, 2007

Screw the others... the blobfish (in both links) is by far the creepiest. I mean it looks like a cartoon caricature of an ugly, grumpy, obese man who was exposed to some equally cartoonish (and extreme) radiation and melted down to the point where only his gelatinous head was left, looking up at you with his hopeless, sunken eyes. *shiver*
posted to MetaFilter by the other side at 10:27 PM on August 20, 2007

I highly recommend this book: Best Friends, Worst Enemies: the Social Lives of Children.

It covers all the stuff you've talked about here: what's really a crisis, when to get involved (the answer is usually "never"), and how children's socialization evolves from toddler to teen, so you know what to watch out for (you'll find yourself having loads of "a-ha!" and identifying moments).

It's been... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by pineapple at 9:16 AM on March 23, 2007 marked best answer

Perhaps some people don't want to be classified by their sex when it isn't relevant to the conversation? Hofstadter's Person Paper on Purity in Language drives that point home pretty well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by squidlarkin at 5:26 PM on February 22, 2007

now I'm torn, because I liked no-damn-sense's anecdote.

how do you make a cents symbol?

No damn sense? Who the fuck is no damn sense motherfucker? Here is my username's origin story for the third time:

My username is ND¢ and is pronounced like indecent. But, try typing my username out. You can't. The whole point of my participation on Metafilter is to say incredibly engaging things and for people to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 2:22 PM on February 22, 2007