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Modista
"I can't believe how intuitive and effective this is." Shop for apparel (men's and women's shoes, handbags, eyewear) in a totally novel way. Click on something that catches your eye, then instantly see more items that look similar. There's also some variety thrown in so that you can explore related looks. This open-ended browsing is supposed to be easy and fun! This project, based on computer vision algorithms, won the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition this year. We're just releasing the beta now. I'd love to get some feedback on it... thanks!
posted to Projects by ajshankar
at 6:31 PM on September 18, 2008
Soviet Music
"You are browsing a resource which is devoted first of all to the history and culture of the Soviet Union, the country which the West for a long time usually named as "The Empire of Evil", the country to which some people in the West perceive as "something big and snowy".
I offer you to try to look outside the frames of usual stereotypes, to try to understand life of a unique country, with its interesting history, beautiful culture and miraculous relations between people.
The music submitted on this site - is an evident sample of a totally new culture, which completely differs from all that, with what Hollywood and MTV supply us so much. This culture, being free from the cult of money, platitude, violence and sex, was urged to not indulge low bents of a human soul but to help the person to become culturally enriched and to grow above himself."
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 8:38 AM on September 23, 2008
(16 comments)
The Lido was a shop on a busy road in East Vancouver that was always closed -- yet clearly occupied and maintained. It's been an
intriguing mystery for locals for many years. Following the recent death of the owner, an elderly woman who lived above the shop, cleanup crews found old furniture, cans of dry goods -- and
more than $400,000 in antique banknotes.
posted to MetaFilter by PercussivePaul
at 2:41 PM on July 11, 2008
(31 comments)
After 80 years, a complete version of Fritz Lang's
Metropolis has
been discovered in Buenos Aires.
posted to MetaFilter by Nathaniel W
at 2:27 PM on July 2, 2008
(81 comments)
ESPN's Paul Jackson tells the tale of
10-Cent Beer Night and the ensuing riot in Cleveland on June 4, 1974.
posted to MetaFilter by togdon
at 12:25 PM on June 4, 2008
(28 comments)
"Only Nixon could go to China," and only
ex-Republican ex-Senator Lincoln Chafee can explain how George W. Bush set out "to preempt the Congress... on every issue", "turned his back on (his) bedrock campaign pledges", and become simultaneously America's most powerful and least popular President (and why there could never be a "surely this..." moment). NOT just another OMGBUSH commentary, this should be required reading for anybody who
honestly wants to know what went wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 11:59 AM on May 2, 2008
(46 comments)
Lennon and McCartney's Studio Reunion. On March 28, 1974, John Lennon was in a Burbank studio producing Harry Nilsson's "Pussy Cats" album when Paul McCartney dropped in. The room froze and remained silent until John said, "Valiant Paul McCartney, I presume?" Paul responded: "Sir Jasper Lennon, I presume?" The tension broken, a
jam session [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] ensued featuring Lennon on guitar and vocals, McCartney on drums and vocals, Stevie Wonder on electric piano and vocals, Harry Nilsson on vocals, Jesse Ed Davis on guitar and Bobby Keys on saxophone. A
bootleg of the session has circulated under the title
"A Toot and a Snore in '74".
posted to MetaFilter by New Frontier
at 8:19 PM on March 30, 2008
(25 comments)
Y'all think whatever you want about Michael Jackson
now, knaamean? But on this day back in 1983,
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever was being taped before a live audience. Since he was no longer contractually tied to Motown, MJ planned to attend but not perform at the function; he was finally able to negotiate a solo spot singing a non-Motown song.
Thriller had been released more than a year prior;
Billie Jean had been the Number One single on Billboard's Top 100 for two weeks. It was time for a Pop Culture "Do you remember where you were when...?" moment.
And then came the moonwalk.
posted to MetaFilter by t2urner
at 1:00 PM on March 25, 2008
(82 comments)
w00t is a 50-minute collage piece by
Bob Ostertag, using sounds and music from 18 different videogames. It's a lot of fun to listen to, and it's freely available and downloadable, as are
a bunch of other albums of his.
posted to MetaFilter by sleevener
at 8:02 AM on March 10, 2008
(8 comments)
In the early twentieth century, photographer
Lewis Hine took
now-famous photographs of American child laborers. In the nearly hundred years since Hine took those photos, surely many viewers have wondered what became of the children he documented. Freelance historian Joe Manning has taken it upon himself to
find out.
posted to MetaFilter by craichead
at 6:55 PM on January 16, 2008
(20 comments)
These webcams were found automatically through a variety of clever search techniques and update several times a day. Their owners may or may not have intended for them to be public, but they obviously are. Via
Opentopia.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime
at 9:35 AM on January 16, 2008
(36 comments)
Billy Jenkins was "
The Nazi Cowboy." One of the most popular German western stars of the 1930s, Jenkins (real name Erich Rudolf Otto Rosenthal) was a card-carrying member of the Nazi party. Pre-war Germany was
crazy for cowboys, with Jenkins starring in pulp fiction books with titles like "Texasfieber" and "Aufruhr in Laredo" that were influenced by
the works of Karl May. The only problem? Under Nazi Germany's racial laws,
Jenkins was considered half-Jewish.
posted to MetaFilter by huskerdont
at 3:18 PM on January 3, 2008
(6 comments)
The Shoe Project:
people and their shoes. Simple and sweet, I don't know why this makes me smile so much but it does.
(via swissmiss)
posted to MetaFilter by mathowie
at 12:11 PM on August 15, 2007
(23 comments)
Mars and Beyond - 50 years ago, this animated episode of Tomorrowland aired on Disneyland a few months after the launch of Sputnik - an entertaining melange of astronomy, sci-fi, pop culture, science, speculation, and surreality. Walt himself and Wernher von Braun make guest appearances and clip 5 is particularly trippy. (Parts
2,
3,
4,
5,
6)
posted to MetaFilter by madamjujujive
at 10:22 PM on June 10, 2007
(9 comments)
