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I would like to go from a beginner level to an advanced level in Photoshop. What is the best book or online course/site to achieve this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Ringo
at 8:33 AM on August 1, 2008
(10 comments)
Back in the 80s DiC produced a cartoon, aired in syndication and on ABC Saturday Mornings, called "
The Real Ghostbusters." Based on the popular action-comedy movie, it more-or-less continued the adventures of Ray, Egon, Winston and
Garfield Peter through seven seasons of supernatural shenanigans. It could have been a mere cash-in, but there was something more to it. It aspired to realism, at least as much as possible. It was story-edited by
J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of Babylon 5. (He also worked on
He-Man and
Murder She Wrote!)
This may explain the second season episode, written by
Michael Reaves and rife with Lovecraft references, in which the Ghostbusters face down the Cthulhu cult.
Part 1 -
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posted to MetaFilter by JHarris
at 3:29 AM on June 25, 2008
(64 comments)
What is your relationship like with your literary agent?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Bookhouse
at 1:45 PM on April 25, 2008
(5 comments)
Anyone published a children's book, or work at a publishing house that does?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Penelope
at 11:21 AM on May 27, 2008
(10 comments)
Gyminee
is a truly excellent web app that lets you track workouts, nutrition and fitness goals. Prints grocery lists, lets you find workout buddies, etc. Very aesthetically pleasing, too. Considerably easier to use than
Fitday, which a lot of people swear by.
posted to MetaFilter by jbickers
at 1:49 PM on May 19, 2008
(15 comments)
Gmail Redesigned
is a really slick CSS makeover for - you guessed - Gmail. It uses the
Stylish Firefox add-on. (So yes, this is something you would need a computer, firefox, and gmail to care about.)
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 1:45 PM on May 7, 2008
(64 comments)
Free Speculative Fiction Online
is a database of free science fiction and fantasy stories online by published authors (no fan-fiction or stories by unpublished writers). Among the authors that FSFO links to are
Paul Di Filippo (14 stories),
James Tiptree, Jr. (4 stories),
Connie Willis (3 stories),
Eleanor Arnason (3 stories),
Bruce Sterling (5 stories),
Robert Heinlein (7 stories),
Ursula K. LeGuin (3 stories),
Jonathan Lethem (5 stories),
Michael Moorcock (6 stories),
Chine Miéville (2 stories),
Samuel R. Delany (3 stories),
Robert Sheckley (8 stories), MeFite
Charles Stross (33 stories) and hundreds of other authors. If you don't know where to start, there's a list of
recommended stories.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 1:52 PM on April 5, 2008
(34 comments)
Steam locomotives are dead, right?
Awe-inspiring though they might be, labor issues and diesel fuel at 4 cents a gallon killed them in the 1950's and 60's, and they survive only in isolated pockets around the world and on tourist railways.
posted to MetaFilter by pjern
at 6:56 AM on April 3, 2008
(51 comments)
Over 2000 classic short stories
from
American Literature as well as an option to sign up for a
short story of the day rss feed. Among the authors on offer are Kate Chopin, Saki, O. Henry, Louisa May Alcott, Ambrose Bierce, H. P. Lovecraft, Jack London, James Joyce, Willa Cather, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Herman Hesse, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, Honoré de Balzac, Edith Warton, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes, Leo Tolstoy, Aldous Huxley, Roald Dahl, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield and I could keep going for a while. The point is, there's over 2000 short stories in there.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 9:32 AM on February 17, 2008
(31 comments)
Help! My laptop is a nightmare of unorganized .pdfs, and if I have to create any more staggered files I might just lose my mind. Is there a program specifically designed to help me manage this deluge of information?
posted to Ask Metafilter by numinous
at 11:17 AM on February 7, 2008
(31 comments)
Please help me find bike friendly routes from CT to NY and PA.
posted to Ask Metafilter by sequential
at 9:04 AM on February 6, 2008
(9 comments)
"
GET LAMP is a documentary about Text Adventures (later
Interactive Fiction), the storytellers who created them, and their unique place in the history of computer games." Although not completed yet (it will be soon, as filming was completed in October), this documentary will contain
76 interviews with people involved in the industry at the time, including Scott Adams (not the cartoonist), Marc Blanc and Tim Anderson (who both worked on
Zork, one of the best known examples of the medium) . Here's a
teaser trailer. And here are some
fun representatives of the genre to play online.
posted to MetaFilter by SpacemanStix
at 4:42 PM on January 2, 2008
(55 comments)
During its run, Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffed on over 50 short films. Almost all of them are now on YouTube or Google Video. See the list (shamelessly cribbed from
here) inside for links.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 12:38 PM on October 24, 2007
(148 comments)
Writer's Links.
Write better, or at the very least, more authentically, with this list of hundreds of resources for writers of all shades. For example, writing a jazz age screenplay? This guide to
1920's slang will be handy. Need help getting your procedural legal drama accurate? Try the
Jurisdictionary. Enjoy tormenting your readers? This list of
Tom Swifties will do the trick nicely.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson
at 8:47 PM on September 9, 2007
(14 comments)
New profile feature: link to your stuff at other social sites.
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posted to MetaTalk by pb
at 4:32 PM on August 7, 2007
(130 comments)
I watch virtually
no television but
this NPR review for the debut episode of
Masters of Science Fiction (ABC) had me intrigued. (
A similar review in the NY Times). ABC is being accused of burying this show with the timing of its introduction (and time slot). As for me, I'm still thinking about the debut episode, three hours later.
posted to MetaFilter by spock
at 10:22 PM on August 4, 2007
(40 comments)
Plotbot is a web-based collaborative screenwriting application where you can write a screenplay with as many or as few people as you like. Adopting the wiki approach to screenwriting, each element is editable by any member of a project. You can also comment on, delete or restore any element.
For all of the "filmic storytellers" on MeFi.
posted to MetaFilter by ColdChef
at 8:11 PM on July 30, 2007
(18 comments)
"It seems like a really original and interesting read."
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the first line of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is one of literature's most famous, wittily kicking off one of the most beloved of all classics. And yet, 17 British publishers failed to recognize it and rejected the manuscript when Jane's name and the title were changed. What happens when the gatekeepers of literature are illiterate?
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist
at 10:35 AM on July 19, 2007
(124 comments)
How do I keep cats out of my yard?
posted to Ask Metafilter by 6550
at 9:54 AM on June 21, 2005
(31 comments)
A team of astronomers needs your help.
It's not terribly easy to get computers to distinguish between galaxy shapes, but fortunately humans are not only very good at it, but seem to actually enjoy gazing out in to space. So, go to
galaxyzoo.org, look at a few pretty pictures from
the Sloan Digital Sky Survey , and help classify millions of galaxies and aid research in to how they form and evolve while you're at it.
posted to MetaFilter by edd
at 4:46 AM on July 11, 2007
(43 comments)
Project managers and delevopers, please give me advice so I can be awesome and give developers proper care.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dame
at 9:09 AM on July 10, 2007
(21 comments)
The Censored Eleven
[
IMDB] is a
group of Warner Brothers cartoons that have been withheld from syndication because of their racial stereotypes:
Hittin' the Trail to Hallelujah Land (1931;
info),
Sunday Go to Meetin' Time (1936;
info),
Clean Pastures (1937;
info),
Uncle Tom's Bungalow (1937),
Jungle Jitters (1938),
The Isle of Pingo Pongo (1938),
All This and Rabbit Stew (1941;
info),
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943;
info),
Tin Pan Alley Cats (1943;
info),
Angel Puss (1944), and
Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears (1944).
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posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 7:01 AM on July 10, 2007
(65 comments)
