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In the summer of 1897, the Devil transported a
minor Decadent poet named Enoch Soames one hundred years into the future to see what posterity would make of
his work. The only witness to the affair was the parodist
Max Beerbohm, whose
account of Soames and his journey ensured that at 2:10 P.M. on June 7, 1997, some dozen pilgrims waited in the Round Reading Room of the British Museum
to see the poet appear...
posted to MetaFilter by Iridic
at 10:58 AM on July 22, 2008
(26 comments)
Flash Friday: If you enjoyed GemCraft (
recently posted by juv3nal), you'll want to stop by
towerdefence.net, catering to all of your tower defense needs. With a hundred Flash games and ten downloadable ones, you're sure to find something you like.
posted to MetaFilter by greenie2600
at 12:19 PM on June 20, 2008
(15 comments)
Randy Pausch,
Barbara Kingsolver,
Barack Obama, and
J.K. Rowling inspired the hell out of Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Wesleyan, and Harvard graduates this year.
If you're a big fan of pomp and circumstance, you'll also want to check out these:
Chuck Norris at Liberty University,
Samantha Power at Pitzer College, and
Michelle Nijhuis at Reed College.
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 7:21 PM on June 8, 2008
(36 comments)
At TED this past March, Al Gore once again presented the Mother of all Power Point Shows. This time around, there is a renewed sense of urgency, with updated slides about Arctic sea ice loss, among other things. More so than in the past, Gore specifically focuses on the necessity for laws to change, and how before that can happen, politics, especially American politics, must change as well. Another theme of Gore's latest TED appearance is how climate change is also a tremendous opportunity for a new heroic generation, to be remembered as the ones who solved the greatest crisis of human civilization.
posted to MetaFilter by [expletive deleted]
at 2:43 PM on April 8, 2008
(30 comments)
MITOpenCourseWare offers
an online high-school course on
Douglas Hofstadter's much-loved 1980 Pulitzer-winning exploration of maths, patterns, music, art, recursion, and computability,
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Previously, some here had indicated
an interest in such a course.
posted to MetaFilter by orthogonality
at 3:00 AM on April 12, 2008
(28 comments)
The antidote to LOLbushsuxx0rs.
Over the course of the past week, Slate ran a ten (10!)-piece series, "Fixin' It", in which various writers postulated how the course of various aspects of the United States' military, culture, and policies could be redirected for the better. Although the articles are not entirely devoid of Bush criticism, there's mostly a fairly rare focus on the positive actions to be taken from here onward by the next President (whether it be McCain or Obama or Clinton).
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 5:54 PM on April 10, 2008
(33 comments)
Free Speculative Fiction Online
is a database of free science fiction and fantasy stories online by published authors (no fan-fiction or stories by unpublished writers). Among the authors that FSFO links to are
Paul Di Filippo (14 stories),
James Tiptree, Jr. (4 stories),
Connie Willis (3 stories),
Eleanor Arnason (3 stories),
Bruce Sterling (5 stories),
Robert Heinlein (7 stories),
Ursula K. LeGuin (3 stories),
Jonathan Lethem (5 stories),
Michael Moorcock (6 stories),
Chine Miéville (2 stories),
Samuel R. Delany (3 stories),
Robert Sheckley (8 stories), MeFite
Charles Stross (33 stories) and hundreds of other authors. If you don't know where to start, there's a list of
recommended stories.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 1:52 PM on April 5, 2008
(34 comments)
New Feature: My Ask MeFi
posted to MetaTalk by pb
at 11:05 AM on April 2, 2008
(154 comments)
Fill in the blank:
"The secret of great meatloaf is ___________."
posted to Ask Metafilter by RavinDave
at 11:33 AM on April 1, 2008
(73 comments)
[Math filter] What fascinatingly cool mathematical topics do you wish you knew about in high school?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomcochrane
at 7:33 AM on March 27, 2008
(102 comments)
I’ve discovered that typically, a farmer who grows the forbidden fruits and vegetables on corn acreage not only has to give up his subsidy for the year on that acreage, he is also penalized the market value of the illicit crop, and runs the risk that those acres will be permanently ineligible for any subsidies in the future. (The penalties apply only to fruits and vegetables — if the farmer decides to grow another commodity crop, or even nothing at all, there’s no problem.)
If you can't stop demand, curtail production.
One farmer's view on the power of commodity crops.
posted to MetaFilter by Toekneesan
at 3:21 PM on March 1, 2008
(33 comments)
what's the secret handshake that gets me access to the interesting/unusual materials that designers and contractors can get ahold of?
posted to Ask Metafilter by phoeniciansailor
at 11:11 PM on February 24, 2008
(17 comments)
A Resume Experiment. In which career blog
JibberJobber responds to a request for resume help by assembling a team of hiring managers and professional resume writers to review the document:
Part 1
: Introduction |
Part 2: First Impressions/Reactions |
Part 3: Formatting the Resume |
Part 4: Content is King |
Part 5: Wrap Up
posted to MetaFilter by lalex
at 9:55 PM on February 25, 2008
(37 comments)
What are some movies that have either
drastically changed the way you view the world or changed the way you live your life?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MaryDellamorte
at 5:09 PM on February 12, 2008
(150 comments)
Protector.
~Flash Friday~ Protector takes the mechanics of
tower defense games, and adds an RPG element to it. Specialize, level up, and say goodbye to your free time.
previously
posted to MetaFilter by MythMaker
at 10:50 AM on February 8, 2008
(17 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
(239 comments)
"It so often happens that I receive mail - well-intended but totally useless - by amateur physicists who believe to have solved the world. They believe this, only because they understand totally nothing about the real way problems are solved in Modern Physics...It should be possible, these days, to collect all knowledge you need from the internet. Problem then is, there is so much junk on the internet... I know exactly what should be taught to the beginning student...I can tell you of my own experiences. It helped me all the way to earn a Nobel Prize. But I didn't have internet.
I am going to try to be your teacher. It is a formidable task."
posted to MetaFilter by vacapinta
at 4:22 PM on August 29, 2007
(47 comments)
Dick/Crack/Head
- The Return of Alexyss K. Tylor.
And yeah, it's a single link YouTube post that definitely isn't safe for work.
Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by awesomebrad
at 3:13 PM on August 16, 2007
(36 comments)
But where did the awesome MeFi map come from?
posted to MetaTalk by typewriter
at 3:32 PM on May 10, 2007
(25 comments)
The Power of the Penis
[YouTube],[NSFW]. I'm sorry for making my first post ever a single link YouTube post, but this Atlanta Public Access TV clip is the most educational video I have ever seen. Alexyss Tylor hosts a show on 'Vagina Power 'and 'Penis Power' with her mother. It's about 9 minutes of true insight - women, don't let men hit the bottom or use their penis as a weapon! Separate the love, the orgasm, and the penis, OK? Make sure he buys you the shrimp plate though!
posted to MetaFilter by waitingtoderail
at 3:00 PM on April 17, 2007
(302 comments)
Top
100 watch sites on the web.
Strangest watches,
odd watches, tactical
sniper watch,
geek watches,
TokyoFlash watches,
abstract LED,
math watches,
Pimp watches,
micromechanical engineering for connoisseurs.
Nooka watches,
USB Data Storage watch,
dot matrix watch, futuristic
cool vintage 1,
2 and
3, funkadelic
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not fussy about the exact time watch,
Rolex or replica?, horological
hallucination watches, solar powered
braille watch,
Philippe Starck style,
war watches, our
growabrain's super collection of timepieces. A brief
history of watches.
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye
at 11:22 PM on April 9, 2007
(34 comments)
Got some free time over the New Year's long weekend? Well, here's every episode (or damn near it) of
Aqua Teen Hunger Force,
Boondocks,
Clone High,
Metalocalypse,
Moral Orel,
Robot Chicken,
South Park (
alt),
Venture Brothers,
Futurama. Or over
here, there's
all those and more.
But
wait my friends, there's more, yes,
even more: for the same low price, I'll include the Ultimate Motherlode of Music Video
(11,500 of them, or your money back!), alphabetized for your viewing pleasure. Just free up some bandwidth, and step inside ...
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 3:30 AM on December 29, 2006
(158 comments)
How far in advance, or how close to the time, is the most advantageous time to purchase airline tickets in order to get the cheapest fares? For instance, if I were planning to travel in early August, and it's late April now, should I buy my ticket now, or should I wait until closer to the time (and how close is the "sweet spot")? Are there risks of the price going up substantially (more than $100)? This refers to U.S. travel (SEA-ATL in this case), traveling mid-week, with a weekend stay.
posted to Ask Metafilter by matildaben
at 2:50 PM on April 25, 2006
(11 comments)
You've heard of
ScummVM and
MAME, but harvest time is approaching in the field of reverse-engineered
open source re-implementations of other classic games too:
OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon),
LinCity (Sim City),
Advanced Strategic Command (Battle Isle),
Freeciv (Civilization),
Enigma (Oxyd),
Widelands (Settlers),
OpenArena (Quake 3),
Spring (Total Annihilation),
JJFFE (Frontier First Encounters),
Vega Strike and
Oolite (Elite),
FreeOrion (Master of Orion),
Pingus (Lemmings),
Stratagus (Warcraft II et al.),
CloneKeen (Commander Keen),
Exult (Ultima VII),
FreeCNC (Command & Conquer),
REminiscence (Flashback),
LGeneral (Panzer General),
Pioneers (Settlers of Catan), and
Freedoom (Doom).
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water
at 3:27 PM on February 1, 2007
(43 comments)
An autistic woman "speaks" her language, then ours. (YouTube)
"My language is not about designing words or even visual symbols for people to interpret. It is about being in a constant conversation with every aspect of my environment, reacting physically to all parts of my surroundings." [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by maudlin
at 9:13 AM on January 25, 2007
(171 comments)
Tower Defence
A Macromedia Flash based Tower Defence game inspired by Elemental TD for WarcraftIII.
posted to MetaFilter by srboisvert
at 5:03 AM on January 9, 2007
(113 comments)
All the episodes of
The Secret Life of Machines are available online. Created by engineer, artist, tinkerer and cartoonist
Tim Hunkin, the show took a look at the science and mechanics behind common household objects, with a bit of social history, homemade laboratory experiments, and downplayed humor. The series grew out of a long-running strip, which Hunkin has now offers as his own
cartoon encyclopedia. You can also try some
experiments of your own, marvel at the
coin-operated contraptions he made for the
Under the Pier Show in Suffolk (don't miss the
film), and read his
thoughts about his brief foray into the fine art world and his
ruminations about how art and engineering mix.
posted to MetaFilter by hydrophonic
at 8:43 AM on January 5, 2007
(27 comments)
Google Web Toolkit + Texas Holdem Poker = gpokr.com. I should probably be embarrassed about how much time I've spent in the last few weeks playing poker online for pretend money. As the site operator mentions in his
development blog, it seems to be the small things that make the site so sticky: elegant ajax design, players' rankings displayed and updated right next to their names at the table, a slew of player statistics presented on the main
ranking page, even more statistics and graphs on each
user page. (
Oh, and out of 5000 or so current players, I seem to be #1).
posted to MetaFilter by nobody
at 9:57 PM on August 17, 2006
(35 comments)
