Displaying post 1 to 50 of 129
After 80 years, a complete version of Fritz Lang's
Metropolis has
been discovered in Buenos Aires.
posted to MetaFilter by Nathaniel W
at 2:27 PM on July 2, 2008
(81 comments)
Early in July of 1895, a grand jury convened and returned an indictment against Michael Cleary of Ballyvadlea, Co. Tipperary, for the murder of his wife, Bridget.
Bridget Cleary had been set on fire and burned to death in the hearth of the Cleary house, in front of family and friends, because Michael Cleary said she was a
fairy changeling, and not his wife at all. That night, he sat for hours near a Kylenagranagh cairn with a silver knife, insisting the true Bridget would soon ride past on a white horse, and he could cut her bonds and set her free.
posted to MetaFilter by Countess Elena
at 6:34 PM on July 1, 2008
(22 comments)
So, about 9 months ago I started working on this compilation... Until yesterday, however, I hadn't seen a tracklist from the mysterious 10-cd set called the VrootzBox, so this is not a derivative work, however similar it may be...I should mention that not all of these songs are songs that he covered or copped licks from. Most of the music he has made mention to, though a few of the songs were recorded after his formative years and one or two he never would have heard. But they are presented to give an illustration of the styles he drew from (such as gamelan, which he grew up playing in his neighbor's back yard).
Wrath of the Grapevine: The Roots of John Faheyvia FaheyGuitarPlayers
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl
at 12:33 PM on June 1, 2008
(12 comments)
100 Must-Read Books (for dudes)
Men just have different ... needs ... than women, so apparently they need to read different books as well. However (as a chick myself) I tend to check this sort of thing out in a futile but ongoing attempt to figure out men. Hmmph. Men. Go figure ....
posted to MetaFilter by kd
at 1:29 PM on May 14, 2008
(90 comments)
Chronotron is a Flash game in the same vein as the earlier
Cursor*10, which was deliberately triple-posted. (Sadly, the mods didn't see the humor value....) This is a very clever game mechanic, in which you cooperate with
yourself to try to solve puzzles. Lots of fun.
(I also found it slightly depressing to realize just how predictable I am.) [via]
posted to MetaFilter by Malor
at 4:04 PM on May 13, 2008
(14 comments)
Is compulsive lying linked with any recognised mental disorders?
posted to Ask Metafilter by UbuRoivas
at 6:27 PM on July 8, 2007
(25 comments)
Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics... again! For the 12th straight year, this legendary
group of music nerds from
Hoboken, NJ encamps to the studios of local free form radio station
WFMU to play, on the spot, three full hours of listener-requested covers. The request show, part of the station's annual pledge drive, happens tonight
(Sunday, March 2) from 5-8 pm EST, and thanks to the wonder that is the internet you can
listen (128k MP3 stream) and
pledge live from anywhere in the world
(or catch the real broadcast in FM at 91.1 in NYC / New Jersey and 90.1 in the Hudson Valley, Catskills, Western NJ and Eastern Penn).
posted to MetaFilter by kowalski
at 6:36 AM on March 2, 2008
(46 comments)
Acquitted of the murder of Francis Scott Key's son by the first successful pleading of temporarily insane?
Check. Civil War Union general?
Check. Medal of Honor winner?
Check. Amputated leg on display to the public?
Check. Lover to the deposed Queen of Spain?
Check. Ladies and Gentlemen, I introduce you to Major General, Foreign Minister, and Congressman
Daniel Edgar Sickles.
posted to MetaFilter by Atreides
at 6:46 PM on February 11, 2008
(18 comments)
What do you call capturing sound the way the human head hears it, that is, three-dimensionally? Nope, not stereo.
Binaural recording.
Holophonics. Dummy head (no, not you) recording.
posted to MetaFilter by artifarce
at 8:12 AM on January 29, 2008
(14 comments)
The shadowy back alleys of MetaFilter...
posted to MetaTalk by carsonb
at 6:21 AM on January 12, 2008
(125 comments)
Alex Adventure
and
Space Barnacle are both freeware platformers that have small cult followings but have possibly been overlooked by a wider audience.
posted to MetaFilter by pancreas
at 2:03 AM on January 2, 2008
(11 comments)
Proceeding
Otis by two years and 364 days,
Sam Cooke was shot and killed on this day in 1964. Much
controversy still surrounds his
death, but his legacy is untouchable and
influence sweeping. From
gospel to
pop, he did it all.
You Send Me,
Ain't That Good News,
Cupid,
Chain Gang, and
Bring it on Home to Me were some of his biggest hits and (along with Ray's work) the early foundations of soul; but it was
one song, inspired by a
white boy's passion, that gave a posthumous voice to a broken nation. Today and forever,
Sam Cooke is yours, he'll never grow old.
posted to MetaFilter by Roman Graves
at 2:59 AM on December 11, 2007
(31 comments)
Maximum Fun!
Interviews
with all sorts of interesting people.
John Hodgman and Henry Rollins,
Brendon Small and Peter Molyneux,
Terry Jones,
Jonathan Katz and Jonathan Goldstein,
Patton Oswalt,
Elmore Leonard,
They Might Be Giants,
Ira Glass, and many, many more, from all areas of the arts and sciences and stuff. Something for everyone!
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 11:57 PM on December 9, 2007
(38 comments)
Straight from the Department of Things Everybody But Me Probably Knew About Two Years Ago, it was only yesterday that I discovered the mind-boggling usefulness of the
Amazon Filler Item Finder, which allows you to enter the exact price of the item you need to pad your order up to $25.00 for free shipping. Happy postage-free holidays.
posted to MetaFilter by XQUZYPHYR
at 7:14 AM on December 4, 2007
(54 comments)
How do I sleep when my boyfriend's devil cat is around?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nakedsushi
at 10:41 AM on September 6, 2006
(47 comments)
Ulysses -
An
Irish guy (in West Virginia) reads
Ulysses and posts it to the web in 20 parts. It's a work best appreciated when read aloud and here is someone who has read it aloud just for you. (ultra-condensed version
here )
posted to MetaFilter by caddis
at 7:44 PM on November 25, 2007
(21 comments)
