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What are your favorite books that you can learn through osmosis from reading?
posted to Ask Metafilter by shotgunbooty
at 1:36 PM on June 2, 2008
(31 comments)
My parents are both well into their eighties now with health failing just a little bit more each year. How do I prepare myself for their eventual death?
posted to Ask Metafilter by netbros
at 5:59 PM on May 28, 2008
(11 comments)
I'm looking for an online video that I've seen within the last couple of years of a one man show by a British comedian that covered the reasons why America invaded Iraq and the history leading up to it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rfbjames
at 10:15 PM on May 7, 2008
(4 comments)
What are the most incredible, maybe slightly offbeat, places in New York City to hang out? Stunning rooftop bars, strange nighttime museums, secret gardens, bizarre burlesques, etc. and more all welcome. Alcohol availability a plus.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Malad
at 11:01 AM on April 10, 2008
(17 comments)
I'm starting to learn German, and I love it- I find everything about the language fascinating, and making my flashcards and doing my speech exercises about how Jan liebt Sara and how das Madchen ist glucklach is the funnest part of my day. I'd like to get good at it. Really, really good. Can you help me?
posted to Ask Metafilter by foxy_hedgehog
at 9:37 AM on February 11, 2008
(31 comments)
Were the "R2D2 Circle" and the "C3PO Walk" widespread children's exercises in the late Seventies, or were they just something my Phys Ed teacher made up?
posted to Ask Metafilter by breezeway
at 8:44 AM on February 2, 2008
(24 comments)
At the Isle of Wight Festival, Dylan was the only monster on the bill capable of attracting a monster of an audience. In refusing to play the Woodstock Festival and in then letting himself be talked into playing the Isle of Wight, Dylan in effect was telling England's counterculture: ''C'mon. Let's hold our own Woodstock.'' And so, on the Isle of Wight, a dot of land that certainly wasn't the easiest place in the world to get to, Dylan almost single-handedly proved an enticing enough attraction to collect an audience sometimes estimated to be as few as a 125,000 and sometimes as many as 250,000.
My Dylan Papers: Part 2 The Isle of WightAnother scrap from the late Al Aronowitz, the self-styled Blacklisted Journalist, and former Dylan courtier, recalling the only full concert Dylan gave solo or with the Band between 1967 and 1973 and sung in his Nashville Skyline voice, to boot, no less. And now you can have it all to yourself....
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl
at 12:27 AM on January 26, 2008
(10 comments)
Since its inception in 1961, over 190,000 volunteers have served overseas with the
US
Peace Corps. In 2007, the Peace Corps had over 8,000 volunteers serving in 74 countries (
2007
annual report (PDF)). Some volunteers have taken to blogging their activities and experiences.
Peace Corps
Journals maintains a directory of most of them, organized by region and nation. Every nation's page has
Wikipedia,
CIA
Factbook,
PC
proper,
PC staff listings and
PC
Wiki links;
link(s)
to site(s) pertaining to RPCVs that served in that nation (if any); and some even link to the nation's informative Peace Corps-published
Welcome
Book (PDF). Below those elements are the links to the various blogs. While you're perusing the journals, also check out flickr's
Peace Corps photo pool
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 6:22 PM on January 23, 2008
(18 comments)
Can I kiss you?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 7:23 PM on January 22, 2008
(61 comments)
In love with Slashfood, looking for alternative "food blogs".
posted to Ask Metafilter by Sufi
at 5:46 PM on January 20, 2008
(21 comments)
Let's pause for a moment to view the best part of any gameshow -- the
stupid contestants.
posted to MetaFilter by flatluigi
at 8:44 PM on January 13, 2008
(36 comments)
The shadowy back alleys of MetaFilter...
posted to MetaTalk by carsonb
at 6:21 AM on January 12, 2008
(125 comments)
Hair dye-filter, need to fix this mid-90's burgundy disaster I created on my head last night by 4 pm and I can't afford a pro at the moment.
posted to Ask Metafilter by sarelicar
at 9:39 AM on December 21, 2007
(19 comments)
Spacebar.not.functional?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Danf
at 7:19 PM on December 3, 2007
(19 comments)
Please recommend a delicious, decadent, primarily chocolate dessert that I can make for Thanksgiving. Some constraints inside.
posted to Ask Metafilter by peep
at 9:30 AM on November 14, 2007
(36 comments)
Movie recommendation time: what are some funny tearjerkers?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Sticherbeast
at 2:43 PM on November 11, 2007
(62 comments)
What if Wolverine decided to become a carpenter?
posted to MeFi Music by sleepy pete
at 10:04 PM on October 14, 2007
(9 comments)
I like them so much. However, when I eat hot cheetos I get crazy.
posted to MeFi Music by eddydamascene
at 7:58 PM on September 10, 2006
(4 comments)
Why is the US House pushing to declare the deaths of Armenians as a genocide committed by the then Ottoman Empire/now Turkey?
posted to Ask Metafilter by SeizeTheDay
at 7:26 AM on October 14, 2007
(46 comments)
I'm looking for a program (in NYC, ideally) that will help me survive the coming apocalypse.
posted to Ask Metafilter by incomple
at 9:42 PM on October 11, 2007
(41 comments)
What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?
posted to Ask Metafilter by limon
at 5:40 PM on September 8, 2007
(238 comments)
Cracked Pepper
by ccc and ill chemist is a mash-up of The Beatles'
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and an amazing array of songs you know. While not quite on par with the focus and sheer audacity of DangerMouse's
Grey Album, Cracked Pepper is a smart, rich, and rewarding listen. Available track by track or as a torrent.
See inside for tracks sampled.
posted to MetaFilter by saguaro
at 9:24 AM on July 30, 2007
(35 comments)
I'm in the fortunate/unfortunate positon of having to rent out my one-bed flat in Shepherds Bush, London. So I've got a few questions to ask:
posted to Ask Metafilter by electriccynic
at 6:03 AM on June 11, 2007
(9 comments)
Is there still a Metafilter Cafepress store? I'd like to buy another "Coffee is for Closers" mug, but the store seems to have disappeared. If it's truly gone, is there a (non-Cafepress?) alternative where I could get the same mug? (The non-MF mugs I've seen aren't as nice).
posted to MetaTalk by gd779
at 12:01 PM on May 22, 2007
(30 comments)
Are there any "Americatowns" or "Little New Yorks"? I mean, are there any neighborhoods outside the U.S. that are known for having a sizable American expatriate/emigrant population and culture? I'm not talking about tourist ghettos in popular vacation spots. Nor am I interested in discussing the many American businesses and aspects of American culture that have spread outside the U.S. I just want to know if there are neighborhoods of non-American cities where a sizable, cohesive community of Americans live and work.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mahamandarava
at 8:17 AM on May 8, 2007
(42 comments)
Goodbye everyone, Since there has been discussion regarding whether or not my posts to this community are relevant, I have decided to no longer post here. I've enjoyed my time here...meeting a lot of you, but I simply find this community's rules too restrictive, and since I write what I feel, without regard to content (Is it sexist? Is it parental? Is it political? Is it, God forbid, all three??), this community will only end up stifling my originality, and I have no intentions of letting myself be censored in this way. i hope you fall off your soap box someday and bust your ass.
i'm out of here. i am not sad about it either.
posted to MetaFilter by absalom
at 7:34 PM on May 7, 2007
(120 comments)
Porn in the woods. Did you, as a kid, find porn in the woods? I did, and I have noticed this is a worldwide phenomena. Why the porn in the woods? Where does the porn in the woods come from?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mr.marx
at 1:01 PM on August 3, 2005
(124 comments)
