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I like singers with strange voices. I don't like novelty songs (e.g. Betty Boop) and I don't like "songs" that are so avant-garde that they're basically noise (e.g. someone screaming into a microphone). So I'm not looking for strange music. I'm looking for traditional (melodic) music sung by singers with non-traditional singing voices. Examples of what I like:
Joanna Newsom,
Leon Redbone,
Screamin' Jay Hawkins,
Elaine Stritch.
posted to Ask Metafilter by grumblebee
at 11:26 AM on June 22, 2008
(103 comments)
Which high quality fonts - mainly serifs/sans-serifs - can you recommend that should be in every designer's toolkit? I'm thinking about gorgeous and versatile fonts such as Helvetica, Futura, Frutiger, Franklin Gothic, Myriad, Garamond, Palatino, etc.
Go on, get that list underneath your pillow because I really want to know!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Foci for Analysis
at 6:02 PM on June 25, 2008
(20 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)
I want to become a vegetarian, but my husband will still be eating meat. Any practical tips on how to make this work?
posted to Ask Metafilter by All.star
at 7:03 PM on June 5, 2008
(25 comments)
Are free, serialised podcasts of great novels available for download from anywhere on the web?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lottie
at 8:40 PM on June 2, 2008
(8 comments)
I'm looking for books set in subterranean locations. Caves, sewers, underground cities, hollow earth, etc. Non-Fiction or fiction.
posted to Ask Metafilter by highfidelity
at 6:06 AM on June 2, 2008
(56 comments)
How can I remember more of what I read?
posted to Ask Metafilter by zenpop
at 10:34 AM on May 30, 2008
(21 comments)
A poem that builds upon itself and grows as the world wide web grows.
The Apostrophe Engine is a website operated by Bill Kenney and Darren Wershler-Henry. It is the source of the poems in
apostrophe, a book published by ECW Press in 2006.
The home page of the Apostrophe Engine site presents the full text of a poem called "apostrophe", written by Bill in 1993. In this digital version of the poem, each line is now a hyperlink.
How it works.
posted to MetaFilter by Fizz
at 9:29 PM on May 28, 2008
(29 comments)
Recommend some fiction that takes place in autumn.
posted to Ask Metafilter by prior
at 10:10 AM on May 28, 2008
(16 comments)
RelationshipFilter, 1873. An online archive of letters from a wife to her husband, which include an intimate look at their relationship crisis.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 8:01 PM on May 26, 2008
(37 comments)
What's the big deal with JL Austin's "How To Do Things with Words"?
posted to Ask Metafilter by limon
at 8:04 PM on May 20, 2008
(10 comments)
Any good reading about apothecaries in the middle ages?
posted to Ask Metafilter by slyrabbit
at 7:04 AM on May 14, 2008
(7 comments)
Japanese animation from 1933.
A bizarre Max Fleischer-inspired 11-minute cartoon about some critters from traditional Japanese folklore, complete with a soundtrack of traditional Japanese music.
[youtubefilter]
posted to MetaFilter by a louis wain cat
at 6:28 PM on July 24, 2006
(12 comments)
What are some of your absolute favourite online essays, articles and other pieces of non-fiction writing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by turgid dahlia
at 4:21 PM on May 1, 2008
(49 comments)
Here's a semi-tough one (at least, I think). TV show from the 80's, had at least one character that was a mannequin who would come to life after you placed his cabbie-hat on him...
posted to Ask Metafilter by pedmands
at 9:54 PM on April 16, 2008
(11 comments)
Moving to Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky: help me find what I like!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Rykey
at 2:56 PM on April 13, 2008
(8 comments)
MITOpenCourseWare offers
an online high-school course on
Douglas Hofstadter's much-loved 1980 Pulitzer-winning exploration of maths, patterns, music, art, recursion, and computability,
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Previously, some here had indicated
an interest in such a course.
posted to MetaFilter by orthogonality
at 3:00 AM on April 12, 2008
(28 comments)
Newspapers and media: the sky is falling, the bowl is being circled. What can we do about it? Your best suggestions please.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Gagglehack
at 10:25 AM on March 28, 2008
(19 comments)
[Math filter] What fascinatingly cool mathematical topics do you wish you knew about in high school?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomcochrane
at 7:33 AM on March 27, 2008
(102 comments)
Women loners, recluses, survivalists, they lived alone and liked it that way. Which books details their lives?
posted to Ask Metafilter by watercarrier
at 9:40 AM on March 16, 2008
(27 comments)
Recommend a good seafood restaurant in West Palm Beach, FL area or within a 40 mile or so radius.
posted to Ask Metafilter by fx3000
at 11:59 AM on March 10, 2008
(9 comments)
I first stumbled across
Leoncie in open-mouthed disbelief about two years ago. When her
website disappeared I imagined that we'd lost her forever, but last month she returned with her own
YouTube channel.
While our unfiltered, unmoderated internet has pushed a lot of "outsider art" into the mainstream, Leoncie has remained firmly stuck in obscurity; maybe these gobsmackingly low-rent videos will change that? Until today, I'd only been able to imagine the full glory of songs like
Radio Rapist, or the beguiling
Man! Let's Have Fun, or indeed the frankly exhausting
Invisible Girl. But
Sex Crazy Cop and
Killer In The Park, with their carnivalesque spin on the grim world of law enforcement, are probably my favourites. Astonishing.
posted to MetaFilter by rhodri
at 11:21 AM on March 10, 2008
(25 comments)
Help me understand the methaphor/mythology behind female sci-fi characters losing their ovaries (slightly spoilery for
Alias,
X-Files, and S2 of
Battlestar Galactica).
posted to Ask Metafilter by junkbox
at 1:53 PM on March 6, 2008
(17 comments)
What do I need to know about raising a baby in the tropics?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wallaby
at 12:23 PM on March 5, 2008
(9 comments)
I'm looking for good stories about families whose patriarchs rely on psychological and physical intimidation to control family members, and the consequences for the adult children of those families.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 8:29 PM on March 4, 2008
(19 comments)
I'm looking for really terrible creative works made by well-regarded artists. For example, Picasso's secret crappy drawings, or John Coltrane playing out of tune. I welcome examples from all creative pursuits from all eras: literature, music, art, dance, theatre, film, architecture, graphic design, etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by desjardins
at 7:35 AM on March 4, 2008
(40 comments)
When I was in third grade, there was a book at the library that I would go and find every couple of months. Having since, you know, grown old, I can't remember what it was called.
posted to Ask Metafilter by svolix
at 1:46 PM on February 28, 2008
(12 comments)
There seems to be
a lot of bleeping going on lately. But now it's time, with the help of our friend Count von
Count Bleep (
wikipedia), to
bleep the number of times you can have a laugh with the
bleeping bleeps.
Start here and then go on:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5;
And more
bleeping fun with Ernie, Bert, Oscar, and the Cookie Monster:
1,
2,
3,
4.
posted to MetaFilter by omegar
at 8:41 AM on February 25, 2008
(20 comments)
I would like to read books by more MeFi writers. I have therefore made a list of who they are and their books.
posted to MetaTalk by paduasoy
at 5:03 AM on February 23, 2008
(102 comments)
I'm curious about goat bras.
I've seen a lot of goats wearing bra-like things (like
this), and I'd like to know what, exactly, the function is. Protect the teats during lactation? Keep them from dragging in the dirt? Keep the baby goat from nursing? My animal husbandry experience is pretty limited, but I have faith that somebody on Metafilter has cared for goats.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bookish
at 1:22 PM on February 19, 2008
(4 comments)
Within religious traditions which involve reincarnation to or from various animal forms, have any religious scholars created hierarchical lists of the known beings which one could potentially get reincarnated as? Like:
1. Human
2. Mouse
3. Mosquito
If so: who's done this, when did they write this, and where can I find this list?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Greg Nog
at 2:36 PM on February 18, 2008
(4 comments)
Examples of organizational emblems depicting elaborate scenes?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Phlogiston
at 7:35 PM on February 13, 2008
(9 comments)
What do you look at/notice, as you wander through the world, that I probably ignore?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wittgenstein
at 12:15 PM on February 12, 2008
(130 comments)
I am a fan of turnovers, pasties, empanadas and similar instances of the global phenomenon of creating a portable meal by putting something yummy in the middle of pastry. I usually put ground beef in my turnovers, but I'm getting bored of variations on spiced ground beef. Help me find new delicious things to encase in pie crust! I'm looking for recipes, links to recipes, ideas for recipes, and cookbook recommendations. Feel free to recommend things that are sweet, savory, or both.
posted to Ask Metafilter by craichead
at 4:50 PM on February 12, 2008
(33 comments)
Please help me find the name and author of a short story I read in The New Yorker within the last five years or so. The premise of the story is a teacher at a prep school in Manhattan is brought home by one of his students because she has decided he's the person she is going to marry. Toward the end of the story, the girl's father punches the teacher in the stomach unexpectedly. I believe the story won some awards.
posted to Ask Metafilter by pasici
at 9:45 PM on February 7, 2008
(25 comments)
Villagers in the mountains of northern India and Pakistan have been
growing their own glaciers for centuries. They're small
domesticated glaciers, cultivated by hand, and they provide a reliable source of water for agriculture. Legend has it that they made glaciers to block mountain passes and keep the Mongol Hordes out! More detail in
New Scientist - subscription required, but you can probably see this
instruction sheet.
posted to MetaFilter by moonmilk
at 10:55 PM on February 7, 2008
(28 comments)
Are there any books that take a Freakonomics like approach to explaining and analyzing urban sprawl?
posted to Ask Metafilter by stedman15
at 7:34 AM on February 6, 2008
(14 comments)
