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What, if anything, is a "Target Retirement" fund like VTIVX missing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by selfnoise
at 7:24 AM on June 30, 2008
(4 comments)
Please Vote for Me (official site) is a documentary about Chinese third-graders electing a class monitor.
posted to MetaFilter by generalist
at 9:57 AM on June 1, 2008
(35 comments)
Fascinating account
(w/ pix) of a motorcycle journey through Angola. Stumbled onto this from the Black Flag forums and have not been able to stop reading it.
posted to MetaFilter by jcruelty
at 9:29 PM on May 26, 2008
(40 comments)
Celemony are a bunch of crazy German software engineers known best for making Melodyne, a family of top of the line pitch correction tools. Apparently they've recently figured out how to do what they do with polyphonic audio.
I can't begin to explain how cool this is. Just
watch the video.
posted to MetaFilter by stenseng
at 4:10 PM on March 13, 2008
(122 comments)
My employer does not provide vision insurance -and I wear glasses for nearsightedness. The way I see it, I have three options -
1) Use the Lenscrafters coupons in the Sunday paper,
2) Use my AAA member card for a discount at Lenscrafters,
3) Use the measly 20% vision discount I have available as a member of BlueShield, or
4) Sign up for independent vision coverage through a plan like
VSP. Is anyone else in a similar boat? What do you use? What do you recommend
and advise against using?
posted to Ask Metafilter by invisible ink
at 8:53 PM on October 28, 2007
(22 comments)
I've recently started experiencing with amphetamines during rave events.
I've used it less than 5 times, but I'm wondering...
posted to Ask Metafilter by PowerCat
at 6:48 AM on October 13, 2007
(45 comments)
Can someone give me some backstory on
this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pjern
at 10:12 PM on August 27, 2007
(8 comments)
Tactics 100 Live
A flash game similar to Final Fantasy Tactics or Ogre Tactics. Spend 100 points to create an 8 unit army and battle it out on a 7x7 grid. Practice against an AI opponent, or face off in multiplayer combat.
posted to MetaFilter by boo_radley
at 9:53 AM on June 7, 2007
(21 comments)
How does one become an air traffic controller? And why wouldn't one want to do such a thing for a living?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tksh
at 6:06 PM on May 24, 2007
(37 comments)
How do I hop a freight train? I've wanted to do this for years and I think this summer is going to be the one. Any info you can give me will be more than I know now. Most online sources are very secretive with specifics.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the jam
at 8:37 AM on May 8, 2007
(50 comments)
The Antikamnia Calendar for 1900
shows a policeman, a clown, and a newspaper editor (among others), with one slight but notable difference. The
1899 one is pretty neat, too, but not as useful (because 1900 matches 2007 day-for-day). More info and related pics
here.
via.
posted to MetaFilter by cerebus19
at 4:10 PM on May 6, 2007
(10 comments)
How long would it take the average gambler to lose $50 in Las Vegas? Assume that they're playing at the lowest-stakes table possible.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tweebiscuit
at 9:32 AM on January 17, 2007
(17 comments)
Tower Defence
A Macromedia Flash based Tower Defence game inspired by Elemental TD for WarcraftIII.
posted to MetaFilter by srboisvert
at 5:03 AM on January 9, 2007
(113 comments)
Why is the CGI in Jurassic Park so good? Despite being nearly fifteen years old, it's no worse than that in The Lord of the Rings and King Kong, and certainly better than the recent Star Wars movies.
posted to Ask Metafilter by caek
at 4:24 AM on January 4, 2007
(29 comments)
What are the most addictive, not-too-hard-to-master, good-for-casual-gamers multiplayer computer games out there? Cool graphics appreciated. Strategy games preferred, but not required...
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum
at 4:45 PM on October 19, 2006
(30 comments)
Lofi is showing a cold fusion error if you are not logged in.
posted to MetaTalk by Jim Jones
at 11:19 PM on February 13, 2005
(15 comments)
New Yorkers: where are the best coffee shops, cafes, bars for a spot of work or a quiet read?
posted to Ask Metafilter by godawful
at 1:44 PM on September 21, 2006
(32 comments)
who owns the internet? i'm a complete technology ignoramus with a somewhat instinctive understaning how most things work. can you please humor me and tell me who owns the internet? e.g. why do i have to pay for registering a new domain name, who gets this money and why? who supports the entire internet system and how? who is in control?
posted to Ask Metafilter by barrakuda
at 3:34 PM on September 6, 2006
(20 comments)
can i EVER get revenge on a fraudulent ebay seller?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airnxtz
at 12:11 PM on November 13, 2005
(303 comments)
Need more TV shows to download. Recommendations please!
posted to Ask Metafilter by BigBrownBear
at 2:45 PM on July 31, 2006
(56 comments)
Can a n00b post to MetaTalk?
posted to MetaTalk by econous
at 3:43 PM on June 27, 2006
(1 comment)
Check out this map of
The Simpson's hometown of Springfield. We may never know what state the town is located in, and yes, the show has sucked for at least six years now (if not more) but this map was considered to be so good, it was, apparently, added to the
Harvard Map collection. Comic Book Guy would be proud.
posted to MetaFilter by Effigy2000
at 11:18 PM on July 20, 2006
(53 comments)
forum.ma.ru thread on a russian couple who adopted and are raising a
fishing cat in their home. Seventy-nine pages of awesome photos of the cat playing, eating, and hunting.
Babelfish translation of thread
starts here (
NSFW warning: many visceral pictures to make animal cruelty activists [and vegetarians] squirm,
and one picture of lady taking a bath with bigcat in murky water).
posted to MetaFilter by naxosaxur
at 4:18 PM on June 23, 2006
(78 comments)
