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)

On the prowl for online databases that list BPMs of popular music.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ageispolis at 9:29 PM on March 14, 2007 (5 comments)

What magazines have the best slush turnaround times? This is a question for submitters and editorial assistants alike about average response times for unsolicited works.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shownomercy at 11:00 AM on March 12, 2007 (12 comments)

Wired: What We Don't Know How did life begin? What's the universe made of? Why do we sleep? Is the universe actually made of information? How does the brain produce consciousness? Why do we still have big questions? 42 of the biggest unanswered questions in science.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 1:07 AM on January 26, 2007 (45 comments)

How to drive... like a maniac. The affable Tiff Needell illustrates how to get more out of your FWD, RWD, and AWD vehicle. And, of course, how to manage on two out of your four wheels. (youtube)
posted to MetaFilter by Eideteker at 8:21 PM on January 15, 2007 (20 comments)

The Riff-O-Matic will help you learn to play rock & roll guitar, or at the very least, will help you play several of the most famous riffs in rock & roll history. Using a combination of sheet music, tablature notation & embedded (flash) audio & (windowsmedia) video, the site will get you up & playing the intro to Stairway to Heaven in the guitar store in no time. If you don't have time to learn whole songs, there's even an abridged list of the 10 Greatest Rock Riffs of All Time.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 11:21 PM on December 18, 2006 (35 comments)

'I'm bringing Paxil back' [Quicktime]
posted to MetaFilter by Steve_at_Linnwood at 12:51 PM on October 11, 2006 (27 comments)

AOL releases 3-months of queries from 500k users. AOL, either fairly or unfairly, is sometimes considered the internet with training wheels. So while parsing this data, keep that in mind. Some of these queries seem like spam email subjects, don't they? Don't forget, this is the same demographic that brought you the September that didn't end. AOL tried to retract the data, but it's of no use - it's out there, on the web.
posted to MetaFilter by rzklkng at 8:33 AM on August 7, 2006 (89 comments)

Does the lack of time travellers, or artifacts from the future, indicate that time travel into the past will never be invented/possible/feasible at any point in the future? Is anyone looking for time-travel artifacts?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mwongozi at 6:22 AM on July 28, 2006 (79 comments)

Over the last few days, one of my pictures on Flickr has received about 300 views. This represents a quarter of all views to all my pictures since I joined. Someone must be linking to it, how can I find out who's doing so?
posted to Ask Metafilter by davehat at 4:18 AM on July 28, 2006 (16 comments)

The 10 Best Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed
posted to MetaFilter by Tlogmer at 10:40 PM on February 13, 2006 (157 comments)

PCWorld magazine lists the top 25 worst tech products of all time. via /.
posted to MetaFilter by Afroblanco at 8:55 AM on May 27, 2006 (40 comments)

What's the most exciting novel you've ever read? I mean this in the simplest sense: an exciting plot. I'm looking for page-turners. Novels that keep you on the edge of your seat and refuse to let you sleep until you finish them. I'm looking for genre novels -- but I don't care what genres: Mystery, thriller, sci-fi, etc. (though sci-fi/fantasy has been done-to-death here, so I'm really more interested in other genres.) Oh, I care about words. So no matter how exciting, I'll quit reading if the prose is crappy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by grumblebee at 2:41 PM on May 25, 2006 (148 comments)

Here we are now, entertain us. An all-ukulele cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. From their Web site, "Sugar Plum Fairy" [mp3]. But can UOGB hold a candle to "While My Ukulele Gently Weeps," discussed previously?
posted to MetaFilter by BackwardsCity at 10:34 PM on May 24, 2006 (33 comments)

TV Theme Songs: The Dukes of Hazzard, The Love Boat, Taxi, Knight Rider, Air Wolf, The Prisoner, and many more. From TV Cream previously mentioned 1, 2, 3.
posted to MetaFilter by bigmusic at 2:17 AM on May 15, 2006 (30 comments)