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What was your favorite course in college?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bobber
at 4:21 PM on April 25, 2008
(93 comments)
We've discussed fixed gear bicycles
before.
posted to MetaFilter by wfrgms
at 1:56 PM on May 25, 2008
(99 comments)
"We like to play gladiator. You know what I mean? Let two gangs beat each other up without weapons, and the winner gets to deal on the corner. Or, we grab a bunch of muggers, or maybe two crews who steal cars, and tell them, “Okay, you all fight each other — the one still standing gets to avoid jail.” I know: it sounds awful, but believe me, this really works."
Cops tell Freakonomics "
the things that cops do to keep the peace that no one wants to know about.”"
posted to MetaFilter by plexi
at 7:44 AM on June 19, 2008
(92 comments)
I love nicely done home-built aircraft. I discovered
Mark Langford's website over a year ago but forgot to bookmark it. Thankfully, I recently found it again.
His dedication (obsession?) is obvious. I can't get over how many parts he custom built for his plane. He suffered an engine failure in his Corvair engine at one point, and I loved how he took the engine apart afterward and gave a full rundown about what happened.
posted to MetaFilter by eratus
at 2:58 PM on June 19, 2008
(8 comments)
Little
kids are cute.
posted to MetaFilter by danep
at 5:29 AM on June 20, 2008
(36 comments)
The opening shots of 1920s New York City are wonderful, then you get a zany high-speed Harold Lloyd blazing down the avenues, and that's fun to watch, but the real killer is the horse-drawn trolley absolutely
tearing-ass through lower Manhattan, full gallop. Ends badly. Then it's over to San Francisco for one last bit of homicidal vehicular activity with a bus. Well, they sure don't drive
like they used to!
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 6:53 PM on May 25, 2008
(37 comments)
History is a Weapon
-- Featuring
Propaganda by the inventor of modern PR,
Edward Bernays, essays by
Bill Clinton,
Eugene Debs,
Frederick Douglass,
Sojourner Truth,
Mark Twain, the entirety of
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, and
much, much more.
posted to MetaFilter by empath
at 11:58 PM on May 26, 2008
(55 comments)
Fascinating account
(w/ pix) of a motorcycle journey through Angola. Stumbled onto this from the Black Flag forums and have not been able to stop reading it.
posted to MetaFilter by jcruelty
at 9:29 PM on May 26, 2008
(40 comments)
Immediately, Herson spotted an offense—a second-floor awning outside a tarot shop that advertised "Energy Stone's." They climbed the stairs to the second floor and approached a middle-age women with a quizzical expression. "We happened to notice the sign for energy stones," Deck said, "and there happens to be an extra apostrophe. 'Stone's' doesn't need the apostrophe."
"And?" she asked, her voice flat with annoyance.
"And we wanted to bring it to your attention," Deck said.
A look inside the daring lives of Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson, vanguards of the
Typo Eradication Advancement League.
posted to MetaFilter by Rhaomi
at 9:54 PM on May 21, 2008
(84 comments)
Start-up Junkies. An eight-part documentary on hulu about the genesis and growth of a multi-million dollar startup company.
posted to MetaFilter by norabarnacl3
at 1:04 PM on May 24, 2008
(16 comments)
Fasting may be the remedy for jet lag. By
overiding your clock (audio interview 12 min) that prepares your body to eat, it is likely that you can reset your body's clock. Might this be the missing step in training yourself to be an
early riser?
via
posted to MetaFilter by bigmusic
at 6:41 PM on May 23, 2008
(23 comments)
I though documenting my early sex life would be a perfect reason to use Polaroids to do something other than take naked pictures, yet to still play on the sexual identity of the medium. I lived in Alexandria from 1980 to 1999. These were my formative years and they determined the way I dealt with women.
A guy documents the
spots in his old neighborhood (SFW) where he got kissed, dumped, laid or confused as a kid, and tries to work out "what went wrong." (
via,
via — both NSFW)
posted to MetaFilter by nebulawindphone
at 8:58 AM on May 7, 2008
(16 comments)
Gary Snyder,
sublime and
seminal poet of
ecological awareness and
activism [YouTube link], Zen
appreciation of "ordinary mind" and American speech,
shamanistic intimacy with the natural world, and
surviving member of the Beat Generation (West Coast posse) at age 78, has
won the $100,000 Ruth Lilly poetry prize. "
Gary Snyder is in essence a contemporary devotional poet, though he is not devoted to any one god or way of being so much as to Being itself,"
said Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman. "His poetry is a testament to the sacredness of the natural world and our relation to it, and a prophecy of what we stand to lose if we forget that relation.” Previous recipients of the Lilly prize include
Adrienne Rich,
John Ashbery, and
W.S. Merwin. [Previously mentioned
here.]
posted to MetaFilter by digaman
at 9:15 AM on May 7, 2008
(44 comments)
The Wise Man.
George Frost
Kennan, (Feb. 16, 1904 — Mar. 17, 2005). Architect of the Cold War, father of the
Marshall Plan and the
doctrine of
containment in the "
Kennan Century".
In February 1946, as the second-ranking diplomat in the American Embassy in Moscow, he dispatched his famous "
Long Telegram" to
Washington. Widely circulated, it made Kennan famous and evolved into an even better-known work, "
The Sources of Soviet Conduct," which Mr. Kennan published under
the anonymous byline "X" in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs. More inside.
posted to MetaFilter by matteo
at 12:20 PM on March 19, 2005
(22 comments)
Duke University has three image collections of old U.S. and Canadian advertisements.
Ad*Access a database of over 7000 print ads from 1911 to 1956.
Emergence of Advertising in America has 9000 images of ads from 1850-1920.
Medicine and Madison Avenue has 600 medical ads and documents from 1911 to 1958. You can browse the collections by product, company, subject, year and categories or you can use the search function. Here are some of my favorites:
Miss Clairol,
They're Both in the Swim Today,
Fancy Goods and Toy Bazaar,
Sky Blue Pink,
SAS Makes Airline History,
A Montgomery Ward Hat that Becomes Nearly Every Woman,
Radiant Peony and
Hitler's Death Warrant.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 7:57 PM on April 14, 2008
(11 comments)
Speaking of speeches, David Eggers
delivers one at TED on grassroots community tutoring for kids who need help with their English homework: "There's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one on one, getting all this attention. They finish their homework, they go home -- they're finished. They don't stall. They don't do their homework in front of the TV. They're allowed to go home 5:30, enjoy their family, enjoy other hobbies, get outside, play and that makes a happy family. A bunch of happy families in a neighborhood is a happy community. A bunch of happy communities tied together is a happy city and a happy world, right? So, the key to it all is homework." Love him or hate him (
mefi consensus) it's a great example of
nervous energy microphilanthropy,
social entrepreneurship and, if I may make the connection,
machines of
loving grace. [
previously]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 7:22 AM on March 23, 2008
(26 comments)
There’s a
new Corey
in town and he’s
getting rich
because of a
party
he threw in which 500 kids, the police dog squad and helicopters
showed up. The “journalist's” voice, intonation and overall attitude is
more grating than Corey. His
parents are pleading for him to come home, fans have started
sites dedicated to him, and DJ Loc-a-Doc? has already
remixed the interviews.
Show your support or have him
add you so you can get his next invite.
posted to MetaFilter by gman
at 12:32 PM on January 16, 2008
(89 comments)
In 1975 a young divorced mother named "Gloria" volunteers, in an attempt to find some answers to the problems in her life, to be videotaped being a client to three rather new psychotherapies:
Person-Centered Therapy,
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, and
Gestalt Therapy. Not only is she filmed participating in each therapy, she receiving the therapies from the respective founders of each therapy,
Carl Rogers (
Part 1, sadly it's cut short),
Fritz Perls (
Part 2), and
Albert Ellis (
Part 3). They all take the time before each therapy to explain their methods and there beliefs and how the therapy will go.
posted to MetaFilter by Del Far
at 11:19 PM on March 11, 2008
(17 comments)
