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I love nicely done home-built aircraft. I discovered
Mark Langford's website over a year ago but forgot to bookmark it. Thankfully, I recently found it again.
His dedication (obsession?) is obvious. I can't get over how many parts he custom built for his plane. He suffered an engine failure in his Corvair engine at one point, and I loved how he took the engine apart afterward and gave a full rundown about what happened.
posted to MetaFilter by eratus
at 2:58 PM on June 19, 2008
(8 comments)
Wedding Readings: As the wedding draws closer, we need to find some interesting readings to have at the (register office) ceremony. The internet seems chock full of bog standard sentimental nonsense, but we want something light hearted, amusing, witty, fun.
posted to Ask Metafilter by gaby
at 10:53 AM on April 15, 2007
(17 comments)
Help me market myself as a secondary math teacher. I am one year out of college with Econ and Finance degrees, have minor classroom experience, and have had jobs irrelevant to education.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yoyoceramic
at 7:32 AM on May 14, 2008
(11 comments)
What's some speculative fiction that uses magic or fictional technology to explore psychology, sociology, or political science in a deep way? I'm not as much interested here in fabulous monsters or space operas or even deep thinking about physics -- I'm interested in books that explore the nature of the mind and/or human society by imagining a world that worked differently.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum
at 12:11 PM on April 13, 2008
(45 comments)
"1 Crunchwrap Supreme + 1
OCTO-MAC + 20 or so Taco Bell Fire Sauce packets + Taco Bell Cheese Sauce + Bacos + Garfield's Macaroni & Beef + A splash of Jim Beam + Approximately 2 cups of salsa =
GODKILLER, for why else would it exist but to kill God?"
posted to MetaFilter by Del Far
at 9:28 PM on April 2, 2008
(65 comments)
I am changing careers at the moment and am looking to get into technical writing possibly. Of the software that are industry standards (FrameMaker, RoboHelp) it all seems to run only on windows. I have a pre-intel Mac but would still love to get my feet wet, any suggestions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by munchingzombie
at 7:21 PM on January 27, 2008
(4 comments)
Are there any good single-player pen-and-paper games?
posted to Ask Metafilter by SpacemanStix
at 4:00 PM on March 14, 2008
(19 comments)
A Resume Experiment. In which career blog
JibberJobber responds to a request for resume help by assembling a team of hiring managers and professional resume writers to review the document:
Part 1
: Introduction |
Part 2: First Impressions/Reactions |
Part 3: Formatting the Resume |
Part 4: Content is King |
Part 5: Wrap Up
posted to MetaFilter by lalex
at 9:55 PM on February 25, 2008
(37 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)
"It so often happens that I receive mail - well-intended but totally useless - by amateur physicists who believe to have solved the world. They believe this, only because they understand totally nothing about the real way problems are solved in Modern Physics...It should be possible, these days, to collect all knowledge you need from the internet. Problem then is, there is so much junk on the internet... I know exactly what should be taught to the beginning student...I can tell you of my own experiences. It helped me all the way to earn a Nobel Prize. But I didn't have internet.
I am going to try to be your teacher. It is a formidable task."
posted to MetaFilter by vacapinta
at 4:22 PM on August 29, 2007
(47 comments)
How do I act like a New Yorker?
posted to Ask Metafilter by brautigan
at 2:36 PM on July 26, 2007
(102 comments)
In the Fall of 1991, MTV's 120 Minutes released two compilations (Amazon:
one,
two) of songs from the show. (Youtube:
one,
two)
posted to MetaFilter by nervousfritz
at 6:05 PM on June 18, 2007
(45 comments)
So MeFi user
Brian B. has chosen to use the recent
Scientology thread to spread a bit of good old-fashioned antisemitism, selective quotes from the Talmud styley, explaining why, apparently, Jews believe is it ok to murder non-Jews, something my own rabbi omitted to mention at any point, starting
here and continuing through the thread. As I am relatively new to posting here, I would like to ask what is the MeFi etiquette for dealing with a fellow MeFite who wants to use the site to spread racist propaganda of this sort. Because right now I am breathing very slowly and deeply and still seeing everything through an extremely red mist and I would appreciate some suggestions.
posted to MetaTalk by motty
at 3:18 PM on May 13, 2007
(1723 comments)
Metafilter now has a group at LibraryThing. Inspired by the reaction to
this thread, jbickers has set up a group with the name "Metafilter" at LibraryThing. Please join if you care to swap reading lists, see what books fellow MeFis own, etc. For maximum coolishness, sign up with the same screen name you use here.
posted to MetaTalk by ND¢
at 12:43 PM on April 30, 2007
(122 comments)
(Spoilers in most links). So an SNL digital short,
Dear Sister spoofs the second season
finale of the OC. Now the internets just don't know when to stop, with parodies (of the parody) playing on everything from the obvious like
The Departed,
LOST,
Snatch,
The Matrix,
Reservoir Dogs, and
Predator to the not-so-obvious like
Lord of the Rings,
Raging Bull,
Monty Python,
Duck Hunt (my favorite),
Looney Toons,
LazyTown,
Smash Brothers,
Office Space, and
Bio-Ooze Super Soakers.
posted to MetaFilter by ztdavis
at 12:26 PM on April 28, 2007
(67 comments)
the snark feature is disabled for me - by that i mean the comments arent working.
posted to MetaTalk by sgt.serenity
at 12:43 PM on April 25, 2007
(22 comments)
How sure should I be before accepting a marriage proposal?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 8:07 PM on April 10, 2007
(63 comments)
I am looking for books similar in style with Christopher Priest's "The Prestige". What i want is complex stories, epistolary in structure where the plot has to be puzzeled together by the reader.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ilike
at 4:07 PM on March 22, 2007
(26 comments)
Is there a formula for buying an engagement ring?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wondergreen
at 5:31 PM on February 19, 2007
(40 comments)
Got some free time over the New Year's long weekend? Well, here's every episode (or damn near it) of
Aqua Teen Hunger Force,
Boondocks,
Clone High,
Metalocalypse,
Moral Orel,
Robot Chicken,
South Park (
alt),
Venture Brothers,
Futurama. Or over
here, there's
all those and more.
But
wait my friends, there's more, yes,
even more: for the same low price, I'll include the Ultimate Motherlode of Music Video
(11,500 of them, or your money back!), alphabetized for your viewing pleasure. Just free up some bandwidth, and step inside ...
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken
at 3:30 AM on December 29, 2006
(158 comments)
When is a little knowledge a dangerous thing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lunchbox
at 8:47 PM on December 17, 2006
(52 comments)
The Memorial Gardens in Surrey has a pigeon problem, and has hired a marksman to come to town & conduct a three year program of pigeon sniping to resolve the issue. The people of Surrey respond, via some of the
funniest letters to the newspaper I've ever read (letters published at the bottom of the article).
posted to MetaFilter by jonson
at 11:27 PM on December 6, 2006
(33 comments)
MinorPonyFilter: Is there a way to see favourites posted by me in the chronological order they were favourited in, not the order they were posted in? If not, could there be?
posted to MetaTalk by GuyZero
at 4:02 PM on December 2, 2006
(8 comments)
I need to become a database-design expert ASAP!
posted to Ask Metafilter by BigBrownBear
at 2:09 AM on November 11, 2005
(20 comments)
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