The Washington Post give the Associated Press the banhammer. It seems the A.P. doesn't like some blogs for using its headlines and excerpts. It's fair use, but A.P. disagrees. NYTimes take.
posted to MetaFilter by zardoz at 5:33 PM on June 16, 2008 (50 comments)

You loved the trailer. Now here's episode one. ITALIAN SPIDERMAN.
posted to MetaFilter by puke & cry at 8:10 PM on May 23, 2008 (31 comments)

Do you like Berlin? The hippest city on the planet has some interesting video blogs. My personal favorite is First We Take Berlin which is pretty off-beat and covers a lot of not so hip areas of the city. In their current episode they go to the annual may riots in Kreuzberg (after a weird little mouse story). Then there is Mayda3000 which is the longest running video blog about Berlin. Watch Berlin is a sort of compilation of many different video blogs most of which are in german but there are some are in english as well. And last but not least there's Verbundstoff which is in german only and takes a look at the very underground Berlin electronic music scene.
posted to MetaFilter by namagomi at 1:55 AM on May 20, 2008 (47 comments)

I'm a Yank who'll be working in London for ten weeks this summer. My budget is really limited, and, with the dollar falling, it shrinks a bit more every day. Right now I could just use some general advice on living cheaply.
posted to Ask Metafilter by electric_counterpoint at 10:42 PM on March 17, 2008 (15 comments)

How much has it cost you to stay alive in London?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Polychrome at 8:57 AM on April 3, 2008 (23 comments)

I often find myself with an open weekend and an urge to fly to no place in particular, just to go exploring. Whether it's Sioux City, Billings, or Biloxi, I figure I can entertain myself anywhere for a weekend. Are there websites that allow you to search for cheap, last minute flights from a given origin, irrespective of destination? Most sites require you to enter a destination, which makes the whole process a lot more difficult.
posted to Ask Metafilter by decoherence at 2:01 PM on April 24, 2008 (16 comments)

Does anyone know of an English-language newspaper directed toward residents of Berlin?
posted to Ask Metafilter by GilloD at 12:35 PM on March 27, 2008 (3 comments)

I'd like to learn a new language during my daily commute. What is the best language learning audio cd available?
posted to Ask Metafilter by zippity at 12:53 PM on March 25, 2008 (12 comments)

Is there any point learning German?
posted to Ask Metafilter by greytape at 8:38 AM on March 25, 2008 (34 comments)

I'm looking for examples of incidents where photographers/newspapers/photojournalists altered photos (e.g., the Reuters Smoke incident of '06). Help?
posted to Ask Metafilter by CitrusFreak12 at 2:37 PM on March 21, 2008 (36 comments)

What's a good book that takes place in San Francisco?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Maia at 1:17 PM on March 21, 2008 (35 comments)

All the music from the Simpsons collected on one handy dandy page. What more needs to be said? All the songs performed on the Simpsons since season 1, categorized by character. Some of my personal favorites: Happy Birthday Lisa by Michael Jackson/asylum inmate, Cletus, the slack-jawed yokel and See my Vest by Montgomery Burns. Please say a prayer for the bandwidth hosting bill.
posted to MetaFilter by jeremias at 7:17 AM on April 22, 2005 (44 comments)

The shadowy back alleys of MetaFilter...
posted to MetaTalk by carsonb at 6:21 AM on January 12, 2008 (125 comments)

First, Archie met The Punisher. Now he's Common People.
posted to MetaFilter by bwg at 5:10 PM on March 14, 2008 (21 comments)

Great article about methadone?
posted to Ask Metafilter by serazin at 6:19 PM on January 2, 2008 (8 comments)

Life isn't always easy if your father or grandfather was Jim Jones, the legendary founder of the People's Temple. Jones and wife Marcelline adopted seven children of varying ethnicities. Son Jim Jones Jr. lives an upstanding existence as a pharmaceutical sales rep and volunteer basketball coach, but has been hounded by his past throughout his life. Meanwhile, grandson Rob Jones is San Francisco's top high school basketball player. But sometimes the legacy just follows you. (Video)
posted to MetaFilter by huskerdont at 3:06 PM on January 1, 2008 (22 comments)

Meatballs! Donuts! Banana splits! Chocolate mousse! Lobsters! Cake! Frog legs! Eggs! Turtle soup! Salad! Angry dough! Singing with Cleo Laine! Friday fun featuring the Swedish Chef.
posted to MetaFilter by jbickers at 5:40 AM on November 30, 2007 (38 comments)

AskMe is quickly turning into my favorite food resource of all time. It's a vast treasure trove of practical, easy to make recipes and good food-related advice shared by regular folks, not food writers or even, necessarily, hardcore foodies. Can we have a thread consolidating the favorite/most useful recipes and advice AskMe has produced?
posted to MetaTalk by freshwater_pr0n at 5:10 PM on October 30, 2007 (64 comments)

Allow me to properly introduce you to MarkovFilter.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 1:37 PM on September 11, 2007 (369 comments)

My wireless router is not working, even though it keeps telling me that it has an excellent connection to my network...So, what did I do wrong?
posted to Ask Metafilter by meesha at 8:23 AM on September 18, 2007 (14 comments)

What are some basic recipes to add to my cooking repertoire?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mpls2 at 2:25 PM on September 8, 2007 (35 comments)

I received a mix-tape a while ago with a really great band on it that I can't find. I'm pretty sure they're called "Album," and I think the song was called "hormigas." The song was quite bleak and beautiful and I think it was sung in Spanish. It sounded a little post-rockish.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Baby_Balrog at 12:39 PM on August 15, 2007 (8 comments)

I'm in Buenos Aires for a week, what Argentine rock and pop (not Tango) CDs should I buy?
posted to Ask Metafilter by fdhidalgo at 8:50 AM on August 11, 2007 (8 comments)

Spanish Civil War posters, utilizing many early modernist styles --like Art Deco, surrealism, realism, and photomontage-- to communicate with the people of Spain, many of whom were illiterate.
posted to MetaFilter by Gamblor at 7:02 PM on August 4, 2007 (20 comments)

43 Road Runner cartoons on YouTube. (And one more.)
posted to MetaFilter by Silune at 8:02 PM on July 16, 2007 (55 comments)

30 blogs a seguir en 2007 A selection of original and creative blogs in Spanish besides rankings and A-lists.
posted to MetaFilter by jlori at 7:36 AM on January 4, 2007 (15 comments)

Cerro Torre is a magnificent, bleak shard of granite in Argentina's Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. In the Patagonian summer of early 1959, Cesare Maestri, Toni Egger, and Cesarino Fava began their attempt to be the first to climb the daunting face of Cerro Torre's northeast ridge. Halfway up the climb, at the Col of Conquest, Fava gave up and turned back, while Maestri and Egger forged on. Six days later, while packing to leave and despairing of ever seeing his friends alive again, Fava found a half-frozen Maestri wandering alone in the snow at the base of the east face. (more inside)
posted to MetaFilter by the painkiller at 12:30 PM on January 3, 2007 (20 comments)

The rise and fall of the bus plunge story. [via slate] Bus plunge from Wikipedia. Bus Plunge the web site.
posted to MetaFilter by fixedgear at 8:09 AM on November 14, 2006 (50 comments)

What was said to Zidane?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mr. Gunn at 1:59 PM on July 9, 2006 (74 comments)

I want to learn German. By which I mean I want to do anything that will lead, in the long term, to fluency (by which I mean well enough to live a full life in a German speaking country some day). I have absolutely no experience. I am not a "busy professional" who wants to "learn the basics of communication". I'll be taking Introductory German in college next year (I don't know what textbook they'll be using, or I'd buy that). I have a summer free of distraction (except for a 40 hour workweek) and approximately $50 at the moment (though lets say $100 for the purposes of conversation). What should I do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by phrontist at 4:57 PM on June 13, 2006 (27 comments)

"This is the underground history of the international Dirty Wars by U.S. allies in South America. It is the first "War on Terrorism" (.pdf) and the parallels to the current wars are a cautionary tale. For much of a decade, six allied military governments engaged in secret warfare intended to wipe out their enemies, kidnapping and murdering up to 30,000 people. At the initiative of Chilean president General Augusto Pinochet, and with initial encouragement from the CIA, they set up a multinational terrorist organization, Operation Condor, to pursue those who escaped to other Latin American countries, Europe and the United States."
posted to MetaFilter by j-urb at 10:44 PM on June 1, 2006 (14 comments)

My brother and I would like to learn German. Any book recommendations or other tips?
posted to Ask Metafilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 8:46 AM on June 1, 2006 (30 comments)