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Too much steampunk?
posted to MetaTalk by joeclark
at 1:41 PM on July 23, 2008
(122 comments)
Crime TV Filter: What really happens during interrogations? Are the TV shows anything like actual witness/suspect interviews?
posted to Ask Metafilter by slavlin
at 9:46 PM on July 22, 2008
(21 comments)
What's with my weird compulsion?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Alabaster
at 7:08 PM on July 22, 2008
(110 comments)
The ancient web
is an online resource for students, teachers, and anyone interested in the cultures of the ancient world. With the Olympics fast approaching, here is an opportunity to learn more about the past 4500 years of
Chinese civilization. Or how the
Celtiberians would get drunk and eat raw meat before going to war. 24 ancient civilizations in all.
posted to MetaFilter by netbros
at 4:25 AM on July 16, 2008
(9 comments)
In Parentheses
is a collection of many ancient, medieval and classic texts from all over the world, many of whom are hard to find anywhere, let alone on the internet. There are translations from
Greek,
Old Norse,
Medieval Irish,
Japanese,
Incan,
Old French,
Medieval Latin and many more! As well as all that they have
papers in medieval studies and
vaguely decadent and
orientalism series. Adding to that there's a
linguistics section with wordlists and language flash cards in languages such as
Icelandic,
Quechua,
Basque,
Classical Armenian and a whole bunch more.
[flashcard links go to pdf files]
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 12:19 PM on July 10, 2008
(18 comments)
Where to go near Montreal for a "Bro Weekend"?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ouchitburns
at 9:14 AM on July 7, 2008
(2 comments)
What vegetables, fruits, fish and animals would be recommended for a self-sufficient survival farm?
posted to Ask Metafilter by netbros
at 4:43 AM on July 7, 2008
(27 comments)
White Mountains Hiking. Need a great dayhike for two middle-aged women and two teens, all fit and adventurous. What would you recommend?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Miko
at 6:25 PM on July 6, 2008
(8 comments)
In the latter years of the second world war, the economist RA Radford was a prisoner of war. After the war ended, he wrote
this now well known (if you're an economist) article on the economic structures that emerged in the POW camps. (
JSTOR link)
posted to MetaFilter by pharm
at 7:37 AM on July 6, 2008
(25 comments)
ColoradoWildflowerFilter: Two guys, four days, a crapload of camera gear, last gasp before one guy gets married. We plan to be in Aspen first thing Friday morning, and need to leave the state by noon (preferably just after sunrise) on Monday. Where are the best stands of wildflowers *right*now*?
posted to Ask Metafilter by notsnot
at 12:28 PM on June 30, 2008
(2 comments)
Why do so many currency symbols contain a vertical or horizontal slash?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jepler
at 7:31 AM on June 30, 2008
(7 comments)
Women's rights: What's in it for men?
- "Women in rich countries largely enjoy gender equality while those in poor countries suffer substantial discrimination. This column proposes an explanation for the relationship between economic development and female empowerment that emphasises changes in the incentives males face rather than shifts in moral sentiment. Technological change that raises demand for human capital may give men a stake in women's rights."
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 7:48 AM on June 29, 2008
(29 comments)
"It's somewhat fitting that a man named
Charles Bird King--a name both eminently European yet vaguely Amerindian--would depict the natives of the American East (Creek, Crow, Seminole, Cherokee, Choctaw, Iowa, Fox, Winnebago, etc) at a time when there was a semblance of parity (parody of parity?) between the Old and New Worlds. This was expressed in the dress of natives as well as many whites who lived among them: European brass gorgets and artfully knotted cravats around the neck of a men with painted faces and feathers in their hair. The synthesis is breathtaking: both fierce and fey. It's a damn pity the European influence eventually crushed the Native--this could very well have become our national mode of dress."
Lord Whimsy.
posted to MetaFilter by vronsky
at 12:56 PM on June 25, 2008
(8 comments)
Geeky DIY Homesteading
posted to Ask Metafilter by brandnew
at 4:59 AM on June 25, 2008
(11 comments)
Thinking of Joe Cocker's great cover of the Beatles'
"With a Little Help From My Friends", I started wondering: what other cover versions have actually changed the
time signature of the original?
posted to Ask Metafilter by flapjax at midnite
at 9:54 PM on June 21, 2008
(48 comments)
I've just started a wine tasting course, and someone asked whether there was an adjective that described a wine that tastes like it smells. The closest we could get was onomatopoeic, which obviously isn't the right word, but is similar in concept.
If not in English, is there a word in any language? (I'm thinking that maybe there's a German word, as they're really good at creating new words by putting other words together)
Or is "tastes like it smells" as good as it gets?
posted to Ask Metafilter by finding.perdita
at 5:33 PM on June 17, 2008
(18 comments)
Help me find real-world magic items.
posted to Ask Metafilter by MrVisible
at 12:34 PM on June 17, 2008
(47 comments)
The
Kanye West Beat Drop. A
number of the web's best
rap blogs get
together to post and chronicle the best of Mr. West's impressive and extensive history of producing, ghost producing, and the stories around many of the songs.
posted to MetaFilter by cashman
at 8:50 PM on June 15, 2008
(25 comments)
What's a really good looking copper coin?
posted to Ask Metafilter by 1f2frfbf
at 8:01 AM on June 16, 2008
(5 comments)
Help me escape the clutches of my Russian dentist -- who do you recommend as a general dentist in midtown Manhattan?
posted to Ask Metafilter by acorn1515
at 8:39 AM on June 12, 2008
(7 comments)
It began when Mr. Klinsky threw in his two cents, a vague request that a poem he had written for and about his family be lodged in a wall somewhere, Ms. Sherry said, “put in a bottle and hidden away as if it were a time capsule.”
Sometimes when you make a simple suggestion about the remodeling of your $8.5 million 5th Ave. apartment, the designer goes a little
overboard. In an awesome way. Don't miss the
slideshow.
posted to MetaFilter by Who_Am_I
at 7:03 AM on June 12, 2008
(81 comments)
I want to make my own homemade, raw meat (chicken and rabbit) cat food. My girlfriend thinks it's a bad idea. Almost everything I can find on the interwebs suggest that feeding a cat a
BARF (biologically appropriate raw food) diet is healthy for the cat.
This wiki suggests that there is no scientific evidence pointing to a clear resolution - in the references section there are some vets arguing one way or the other, but nothing concrete. Has anyone been there, done that, or have any other advice?
posted to Ask Metafilter by billysumday
at 6:50 AM on June 11, 2008
(16 comments)
Death were a
proto-punk trio of black Jehovah's Witnesses based out of Detroit back in 1974. They were almost signed to Columbia, but bailed on the label when Columbia wanted them to change their name. Instead, they self-released a 7" which is now
quite a collector's item, influenced as it was by,
“Iggy and Stooges, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper and The Who”.
But the story doesn't end there. Recently, Bobby Hackney, whose father played in Death along with two of his uncles, learned of the band and, lo and behold, his dad found the master tapes for their unreleased full-length in his attic. Is a new chapter in
punk rock history about to be written?
posted to MetaFilter by stinkycheese
at 7:52 AM on June 11, 2008
(35 comments)
What is a Munchy Box?
In the west of Scotland, in the towns and villages surrounding Glasgow, there is a delicacy available in some of the more discerning fast-food outlets. It’s called the Munchy Box (sometimes just Munch Box) and it’s a sight to behold.
posted to MetaFilter by armoured-ant
at 3:12 AM on June 11, 2008
(91 comments)
How to Butcher a Chicken.
From killing to plucking to gutting and freezing, Herrick Kimball takes the budding poultry farmer step by step through the process.
posted to MetaFilter by Chrischris
at 12:20 PM on June 10, 2008
(34 comments)
What are the best poems about glory in battle and valor in warfare?
posted to Ask Metafilter by clockworkjoe
at 3:18 PM on June 9, 2008
(32 comments)
Is there any reason I can't be younger than I am?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mpls2
at 1:22 PM on June 8, 2008
(60 comments)
I've studied for weeks (20 hours per week these past three weeks), I've paid attention in math class for years, and I've taken dozens of practice tests. But how to go from 780 to 800?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Precision
at 1:34 PM on June 6, 2008
(43 comments)
For Those Who Tried To Rock is a blog about the bands that never went anywhere, for example.
Urbicide,
The Tribulations and
Only One. The band photos are usually accompanied by mp3s and short testimonies, such as this one about
Soft Option: "Flock of Seagulls owned Liverpool when we came together but we were really Depeche Mode fans. Trouble was, we only had one Synth – the Roland pictured above – so on the more complicated songs we covered like Everything Counts (see cassette below) I had to play parts on a Melodica – the small keyboard you blow into. It was my Mother's idea. We went to an all boys school, so the gigs were boys only, which meant we did not get laid but the nights we played were some of the greatest of my adolescence."
[via Carrie Brownstein's Monitor Mix]
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 1:49 PM on June 5, 2008
(50 comments)
Do Your Strip:
A hopeful book and exhibition where 70 artists and illustrators invent a character, provide instructions on how to draw it, then create the first comic adventure. Exhibit-goers would then create additional stories with their favorite characters. All the characters, instructions, and first strips can be seen
here [pdf].
posted to MetaFilter by artifarce
at 6:04 PM on June 4, 2008
(5 comments)
What is this 70s-sounding instrumental version of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring?
posted to Ask Metafilter by fructose
at 11:35 PM on June 2, 2008
(5 comments)
Did the Generic Food people put out Generic Books?
posted to Ask Metafilter by suki
at 6:53 AM on June 2, 2008
(5 comments)
Lamb and chicken, pork and beef... which is the meatiest Indian cookbook?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vorfeed
at 10:19 PM on May 30, 2008
(10 comments)
I have this neighbor who is making me really uncomfortable, and I'm not sure how to make her stop. Background info: she's in her mid 30s, with a husband and two very very sweet little boys. She has a crush on me. Oh, and she's crazy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wearyaswater
at 8:59 PM on May 27, 2008
(20 comments)
What are your favorite tofu recipes?
posted to Ask Metafilter by barrakuda
at 2:14 PM on May 27, 2008
(31 comments)
In the late 18th or early 19th century a group of runaway slaves and serfs fled from Kentucky into the Ohio Territory, where they inter-married with Natives and formed a tribe - red, white & black - called the Ben Ishmael tribe. The Ishmaels (who seem to have been Islamically inclined) followed an annual nomadic route through the territory, hunting & fishing, and finding work as tinkers and minstrels. They were polygamists, and drank no alcohol. Every winter they returned to their original settlement, where a village had grown.
But eventually the US Govt. opened the Territory to settlement, and the ~official~ pioneers arrived. Around the Ishmael village a town began to spring up, called Cincinnati. Soon it was a big city. But Ishmael village was still there, engulfed & surrounded by "civilization." Now it was a ~slum~.
Maroons,
Ramapaughs,
Jackson Whites, the
Moors of Delaware,
Melungeons, the
Ben Ishmaels--hat tip to Footnotes of History on that
last--Red Bones, Brass Ankles, Turks, Lumbees,
Croatans and other
lost tribes and
rebel slave communities.
The questions raised are what is race, tribe and family ...among others.
Included by extension are
Hakim Bey,
The Moorish Orthodox Church, various tribes of
Black Indians, Jukes, Kallikaks, Margaret Sanger,
The Bell Curve and Heather Locklear.
(Step within the tent for the latter's interpetive dance)
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl
at 3:27 PM on November 15, 2002
(38 comments)
Calling all chefs: How can I "shred" raw chicken to re-create the spicy shredded chicken from my local Sichuan joints? Is it just a matter of slicing the breast into thin matchsticks? That sounds arduous and also sounds like it would produce stiff strips of chicken instead of the tender floppy shreds I'm trying to copy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist
at 8:38 AM on February 26, 2006
(19 comments)
I love counterfeiting. Especially counterfeit toys and clothes, cars and other crazy items! I LOVE counterfeiting. I want to explore the possibility of a career in intellectual property law or other careers that have to do with counterfeiting (like: becoming a counterfeiter!)
posted to Ask Metafilter by parmanparman
at 6:52 AM on May 22, 2008
(15 comments)
What did I hear in the woods? Was it a human crying in pain or a non-human animal?
posted to Ask Metafilter by PatoPata
at 10:02 AM on May 20, 2008
(35 comments)
The Ediwina Church of God in Jesus Christ Name. Pastor Jimmy Morrow's spelling is often non-standard and this isn't the world's best designed web page. But it's remarkable for what it is: an insider account of the history and practice of a serpent-handling sect by a current practitioner.
posted to MetaFilter by Pater Aletheias
at 9:36 AM on May 19, 2008
(65 comments)
