Some time ago The New Yorker published a list of 100 essential jazz albums. What is the most expedient and economical way I can buy all 100 albums?
posted to Ask Metafilter by randomstriker at 8:34 AM on July 8, 2008 (10 comments)

Looking for a song online? Use Muxfind to search Muxtape (previously) for tracks.
posted to MetaFilter by Korou at 11:40 AM on May 27, 2008 (30 comments)

I would't kill them if I didn't have grandchildren and dogs.
A walk along a river with dogs, and a poem, with Jim Harrison.
posted to MetaFilter by timsteil at 9:46 AM on March 28, 2008 (18 comments)

Traveling a lot this weekend? Long drive, plane or train ride? You can use that transit time to listen to the Dalai Lama talk for more than four hours with neuroscientists and Buddhist scholars on the topic of craving, suffering and choice. Part one. Part two. [iTunes links] If you're stuck at home, you can watch the video. The video link has the full list of participants.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 9:57 PM on November 21, 2007 (11 comments)

Obscure Todd Rundgren/Utopia filter: What chords will go with the Utopia song "Zen Machine" ?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein at 1:23 PM on October 23, 2007 (1 comment)

Possible-Neuroscience-filter: How can I simulate the way things look through our fovea vs. through our peripheral? Using Photoshop.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Brainy at 9:14 AM on October 1, 2007 (4 comments)

The MacArthur Foundation awarded its "genius" grants yesterday. Among the winners was Jonathan Shay, a a VA psychiatrist whose midlife discovery of the Homeric epics inspired him to use their depictions of soldier bonding and cohesion, leadership, trust and betrayal, and terror and rage to treat the psychological disorders and transition difficulties of combat veterans. NPR interview.
posted to MetaFilter by Miko at 8:14 AM on September 26, 2007 (17 comments)

Fifty years ago, I suspect that along with Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Sandy Koufax, most Americans could have named, at the very least, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Arthur Miller, Thornton Wilder, Georgia O'Keeffe, Leonard Bernstein, Leontyne Price, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Not to mention scientists and thinkers like Linus Pauling, Jonas Salk, Rachel Carson, Margaret Mead, and especially Dr. Alfred Kinsey.

The prepared text of the speech delivered by Dana Gioia at Stanford University Commencement on June 17, 2007.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 10:38 AM on June 26, 2007 (153 comments)

I'm from the UK and I'm going to Canada next week (Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa). I asked earlier, about Montreal but our plans have now expanded to other cities... So, what shouldn't I miss? Of course, there's...
posted to Ask Metafilter by handee at 7:03 AM on April 24, 2006 (21 comments)

Access in Ottawa - which sights should I see, where can I get free wifi?
posted to Ask Metafilter by QIbHom at 7:07 PM on October 3, 2006 (30 comments)

Is there a site which will notify me when a TV program I want is on, by keyword?
posted to Ask Metafilter by aguy at 1:14 AM on June 16, 2007 (4 comments)

I've bought a couple pieces of Chinese calligraphy in recent years and have been wondering what the characters on them mean/represent. Can someone here fluent in Chinese or just knowledgeable about Chinese calligraphy give me a decent translation of each? (Sorry about the frame glass glare in the first picture.) Thanks! http://tinyurl.com/38movo http://tinyurl.com/2nvc66
posted to Ask Metafilter by aught at 8:36 AM on January 29, 2007 (11 comments)

Can you get to seven in this puzzle using clues hidden in the text, images, HTML and CSS? If you can get to the seventh page, can you get to fourteen? How about get to 28?
posted to MetaFilter by Captaintripps at 2:28 PM on November 25, 2006 (16 comments)