The New John Handy Quintet · Naima

Dave Holland Quartet · Conference Of The Birds

John Abercrombie, Jan Hammer, Jack DeJohnette · Timeless

Rob Wasserman, Stephane Grappelli · Over the Rainbow
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl at 8:44 PM on January 2, 2013 (15 comments)

Is there a good resource for the symbolism in Gaudi's Sagrada Familia? I am especially curious as to what the skeletons mean, but I want to know what everything represents that he included in his plans.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mermaidcafe at 1:35 PM on January 2, 2013 (3 comments)

People taking photos :
9:03AM 9/11.
The 2004 Tsunami.
This was taken a second before a lightning strike the hikers. The kid on the left died.
6 bolts hitting the water at the same time.
Diet Coke & Mentos (click on pix to see the second candy).
Bored.
Gray squirrel leaping between two trees. 8 lives left.
Throw ups: A baby, a seaman, a group photo.
Fencing.
…I took a picture w/ no flash at the same time someone took a picture w/ flash…
posted to MetaFilter by growabrain at 12:07 PM on December 31, 2012 (44 comments)

What sort of clothes to wear to project an image primarily of trust and secondarily of mystique/mystery? In seeking to improve myself, I want to upgrade my wardrobe. At work I can wear and usually do, wear T shirts and jeans. I'm tired of that. As part of my self-improvement, a book (Fascinate) shows that I'm viewed as trustworthy and mysterious. I'd like to dress for that.. I'm mid 40's male and have always been a T shirt and jeans guy. This is just one area that I just am not fully understanding
posted to Ask MetaFilter by badger11 at 9:26 AM on December 29, 2012 (27 comments)

Guided By Voices {previously} has put out more songs than you can imagine (since allegedly the mid-80s [GBV Doc, Audio NSFW]), most of them under 2 minutes [Concert from 1996]. Which certainly might make it hard to decide what album to start with. Judging by volume of cover versions however, there is no contest. By that metric, Alien Lanes is the most beloved Guided By Voices record.
posted to MetaFilter by Potomac Avenue at 9:20 AM on December 27, 2012 (62 comments)

The Best of Keith Apicary
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon at 1:08 AM on December 27, 2012 (7 comments)

What do you get if you slice a Menger Sponge on a diagonal plane?
Watch this video to find out.
posted to MetaFilter by thatwhichfalls at 4:59 PM on December 26, 2012 (43 comments)

The Church of La Sagrada Familia is perhaps the most famous under-construction Catholic church in the world. Started in 1882 under the direction of Francisco de Paula del Villar, Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi took over construction in 1883, after which it became his life's work. La Sagrada Familia was dedicated in 2010, after the installation of the roof, and is scheduled to be complete in 2028 Let's look around:
posted to MetaFilter by the man of twists and turns at 1:35 PM on December 24, 2012 (27 comments)

Can you recommend a good sound-file metadata editor for OS X?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by TheDonF at 5:55 PM on December 23, 2012 (8 comments)

Michael Jordan
posted to MetaFilter by Golden Eternity at 2:31 PM on December 23, 2012 (24 comments)

I just finished my first course in Linear Algebra. I know a fair amount of Python. Please help me come up with a project that combines the two.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by lobbyist at 10:46 AM on December 23, 2012 (11 comments)

replace heart with butt
posted to MetaFilter by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 11:58 AM on December 20, 2012 (292 comments)

They were local bodybuilders with a penchant for steroids, strippers, and quick cash. And they became expert in the use of a peculiar motivational tool: Torture.

"Pain & Gain" [part 1, part 2, part 3] [print version: 1,2,3], a series of articles from 1999-2000, chronicles a true life story of kidnapping, torture, extortion and murder. Just the thing to inspire a "small" "character-driven" action-comedy from noted auteur Michael Bay. [Trailer]
posted to MetaFilter by dersins at 11:49 AM on December 20, 2012 (27 comments)

This is Workflowy. If Simple Note isn't quite enough, and Evernote is way too much, this might fit the bill. It's an outlining tool that supports tags, and is easy to navigate and rearrange. If you've drunk the GTD Kool-Aid, it's a pretty lightweight way to organize things. reluctant hat tip to Farhad Manjoo
posted to MetaFilter by leotrotsky at 6:47 AM on December 20, 2012 (75 comments)

The newest segment in the Charlie Rose Brain Series, addressing Post-Traumatic Stress (SL Video)
posted to MetaFilter by beisny at 11:43 AM on December 18, 2012 (6 comments)

The Glitch [slyt]
posted to MetaFilter by cthuljew at 3:54 PM on December 17, 2012 (17 comments)

• I did not know the incense storing temple,
• I walked a few miles into the clouded peaks.
• No man on the path between the ancient trees,
• A bell rang somewhere deep among the hills.
• A spring sounded choked, running down steep rocks,
• The green pines chilled the sunlight's coloured rays.
• Come dusk, at the bend of a deserted pool,
• Through meditation I controlled passion's dragon.

Stopping at Incense Storing Temple, Wang Wei (699-759)
posted to MetaFilter by lemuring at 5:48 AM on December 17, 2012 (13 comments)

The best classical performance you've never heard: the remarkable violinist Amandine Beyer plays the Diverse Bizzarrie Sopra La Vecchia Sarabanda Ò Pur Ciaccona, by 17th-century composer Nicola Matteis. Here she discusses trying to recreate Matteis's original violin technique, to understand why the Baroque composer, whose work pre-dates Johann Sebastian Bach, wrote his pieces the way he did. Previously, Beyer and her ensemble Gli Incogniti breathed life into one of classical music's most overplayed masterpieces, Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
posted to MetaFilter by Rory Marinich at 1:06 PM on December 14, 2012 (16 comments)

To say that Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant-Jesus (Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus) is a masterpiece is a gross understatement. Over sixty years after its composition, it has rightfully earned the recognition of being one of the most important piano works of the 20th century. ... [It] is one of the most personal and intimate pieces Messiaen ever wrote, and it gives the listener a close look at Messiaen the person. Messiaen was a deeply religious person, and although his faith influenced every single piece he wrote, the Vingt Regards is almost like his own personal spiritual diary. - Keith Kerchoff
posted to MetaFilter by Egg Shen at 8:56 PM on December 13, 2012 (16 comments)

Do you know this man? You may not recognize his face, but his voice --and oh, what a voice -- is probably buried somewhere in your childhood memories of American television. Paul Frees was Boris Badenov, The Pillsbury Dough Boy, Burgermeister Meisterburger, The Haunted Mansion's Ghost Host, Toucan Sam, K.A.R.R., Morocco Mole, and ...
posted to MetaFilter by MonkeyToes at 9:29 AM on December 10, 2012 (29 comments)

Rosalind.info is a website with bioinformatics problems inspired by Project Euler (previously, previouslier.)
posted to MetaFilter by lizarrd at 8:24 PM on December 8, 2012 (21 comments)

Drama of the Gifted Child: does it have practical applications?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Wordwoman at 2:29 PM on December 8, 2012 (8 comments)

In defense of Superman's underpants
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 10:45 AM on December 7, 2012 (109 comments)

Franz Kafka's hallucinatory A Country Doctor anime by Kōji Yamamura. The original text is very short.
posted to MetaFilter by stbalbach at 11:47 PM on December 6, 2012 (9 comments)

Help me identify this source of this strange shape appearing on my Mac OSX chrome
posted to Ask MetaFilter by halseyaa at 1:32 PM on December 6, 2012 (18 comments)

In search of an Oshawott/Mijumaru t-shirt. Can you help me find one?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Janta at 1:10 PM on December 6, 2012 (6 comments)

Congratulations to Metafilter's own Maias are once again in order. She is a noted drug addiction and recovery specialist, who won the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology's media award Monday night.
posted to MetaTalk by msali at 12:03 PM on December 6, 2012 (42 comments)

Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A (pdf) illustrate the combined imaging power of two of astronomy's cutting-edge tools, the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, and the recently upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in west-central New Mexico.
posted to MetaFilter by AElfwine Evenstar at 9:11 AM on December 6, 2012 (30 comments)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book, Antifragile, was release at the end of November. His previous books centered on describing the problems of prediction. The new book is a conversational, sometimes diatribe, about, "How to live in a world we don't understand".
posted to MetaFilter by KaizenSoze at 11:17 AM on December 6, 2012 (34 comments)

Have you experienced the sublimely calm and gorgeously unfolding melodic beauty of Djivan Gasparyan's music? Here's Shepherd's Song, A Cool Wind Is Blowing, I Will Not Be Sad In This World, Ojakhum and Eshkhemed.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite at 7:45 AM on December 6, 2012 (12 comments)

The only two things missing in Bach’s music are randomness and sex. This book review was written by Jeremy Denk, who has a blog where you can find more good writing about music.
posted to MetaFilter by From Bklyn at 4:11 AM on December 6, 2012 (13 comments)

Yesterday, the New York Post published a dramatic image on its cover of a Queens man just seconds from being hit by a Q train after being pushed by another man who is now in custody.
posted to MetaFilter by roomthreeseventeen at 6:51 AM on December 5, 2012 (177 comments)

In 1960 humorist Georges Bernier, author François Cavanna and comic artist (and artistic director) Fred Aristidès began publishing the satirical magazine Hara Kiri, which attacked the French establishment, including politicians, the government and Catholic Church. In 1961 and 1966 it was temporarily banned by the French Government. The magazine's covers were often tasteless, NSFW, "famously perverted, bizarre and highly creative and at the time, and in fact even by today's standards in a league of their own."
posted to MetaFilter by zarq at 3:04 PM on December 4, 2012 (16 comments)

The 2012 Turner Prize for modern art has been awarded to video artist Elizabeth Price for her work The Woolworths Choir of 1979 (excerpt). Price beat a number of contenders, including visual artist Paul Noble (nominated for a series of pencil drawings of a fantastic metropolis named Nobson Newtown), Luke Fowler (with a film titled All Divided Selves, about the controversial Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing) and the splendidly named performance artist Spartacus Chetwynd. Before winning the Turner Prize, Price was best known as a member of 1980s indiepop band Talulah Gosh, though is by no means the only former member to have a notable post-band career.
posted to MetaFilter by acb at 11:46 AM on December 4, 2012 (14 comments)

Trevenge depicts Christmas from the perspective of sentient Christmas trees. After being hacked down and shipped to homes, they are subject to "humiliation" by humans, who decorated them and make them stand in their living rooms. The Christmas trees have had enough, and go on to massacre and kill an entire town as part of their uprising.
• [Not the least bit safe for people who anthropomorphize objects, don't do gore, or don't do creepy violence - Seriously]
posted to MetaFilter by Blasdelb at 2:14 PM on December 3, 2012 (26 comments)

"Draw some random points on a piece of paper and join them up to make a random polygon. Find all the midpoints and connecting them up to give a new shape, and repeat. The resulting shape will get smaller and smaller, and will tend towards an ellipse!" [code to make this in Mathematica] [a version which allows you to watch the process step by step, with 10 vertices or 100]
posted to MetaFilter by ocherdraco at 2:09 PM on December 3, 2012 (65 comments)

Why did girls used to smell like girls?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by user c at 11:13 AM on December 3, 2012 (35 comments)

In China, people are being evicted from their homes at an alarming rate, according to a recent report by Amnesty International. Eager to spur economic development, local Communist Party officials have used violence and intimidation to force people out of their homes and farmland, including employing private gangs to attack residents who won't comply with eviction orders. In Hebei Province, however, one father-and-son duo, both devotees of Bruce Lee and facing a gang of over 30 men outside their house, decided to fight back--and won.
posted to MetaFilter by Cash4Lead at 7:57 AM on December 3, 2012 (31 comments)

What's the best very-close-shave electric shaver/razor for the face and other sensitive areas? I'm intrigued by the Cleancut and the similar Body Bare, but they seem too good to be true and honest reviews are hard to find. Do you have personal experience with either of those, or another you really like? Or does what I want even exist?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by rhiannonstone at 10:22 PM on December 2, 2012 (6 comments)

From thecatamites of Space Funeral and jchastain of MONSTER KILLERS fame comes Goblet Grotto, "Millionaire coolgame franchise and mystery pak" featuring "over 2000 hours of cave-based gameplay".
posted to MetaFilter by pravit at 9:05 PM on December 1, 2012 (8 comments)

I have extreme negative reactions to witnessing public displays of affection (PDA) or overhearing sex (e.g. anger, disgust, heart racing, crying). I get that I need therapy, but what kind should I be looking for?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Manlee Forresiddy at 6:10 PM on November 30, 2012 (10 comments)

The retirement of Fireman Ed is more than just an index of the toll taken by the Jets quarterback controversy on fans. It’s also a glimpse into the agonizing heart of fandom.
posted to MetaFilter by jenkinsEar at 4:18 PM on November 30, 2012 (79 comments)

What are some good, current books (or other resources) on the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by brundlefly at 3:15 PM on November 30, 2012 (4 comments)

You are what you eat. A peek inside 50 people's refrigerators. navigate with left and right arrow keys
posted to MetaFilter by special-k at 1:27 PM on November 30, 2012 (187 comments)

How can I create a "tap essay" app (such as Robin Sloan's Fish without learning Objective C? I'm a poet, not a programmer! The idea is pretty simple: an app that shows styled text on a page that you tap to go to the next page with the occasional option to tweet the current line, etc.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by fncll at 12:50 PM on November 30, 2012 (5 comments)

This unassuming, feel-good spice "has been one of the saddest stories of history," from the gruesome, grisly tale of how the Dutch tortured and massacred the people of the Banda Islands in Indonesia in an attempt to monopolize the nutmeg trade.
posted to MetaFilter by filthy light thief at 11:30 AM on November 30, 2012 (37 comments)

Which personal fitness gizmo do I want?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by KathrynT at 2:25 PM on November 29, 2012 (16 comments)

"I’m bigger than most people, let alone most nutritionists — but I’m a pretty normal person. And a damn good nutritionist." The Fat Nutritionist wants to help you eat normally again.
posted to MetaFilter by dontjumplarry at 2:04 PM on November 29, 2012 (135 comments)

One of the more memorable things about Moloko are their music videos - or more specifically, music videos featuring Roisin Murphy dancing.
posted to MetaFilter by chris88 at 1:44 PM on November 29, 2012 (14 comments)

I'm planning on getting a Mac Mini with Lion Server. I don't have much experience with security or setup. Point me to some basic articles, sites, or books, please. I'll also take any advice the hivemind might have as well.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by nevercalm at 11:00 AM on November 29, 2012 (1 comment)