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How do you develop focus, drive, and personal discipline?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Saxon Kane
at 8:26 PM on May 11, 2008
(28 comments)
A site for artist
Bas Jan Ader (
wikipedia) who was last seen in 1975 when he took off in what would have been the smallest sailboat ever to cross the Atlantic. Site includes his most famous piece,
I'm Too Sad to Tell You.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 5:08 PM on December 23, 2007
(15 comments)
I've been to small art fairs in college towns where art students sell their assigned works. The variety of subjects and media is wide and normally the costs are very reasonable (~$20).
Are there online versions of this experience?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cobbenterprises
at 6:26 PM on September 12, 2007
(6 comments)
Any recommendations for free or low-cost video hosting without extra logos and links and stuff?
posted to Ask Metafilter by allen8219
at 2:09 AM on September 13, 2007
(6 comments)
Screwing around with my shortwave radio tonight, I found
this signal.
[MP3] Anyone care to shed some light?
posted to Ask Metafilter by knave
at 6:38 PM on September 7, 2007
(22 comments)
Not written by me, a song I learned ages ago in Ireland. Not much is known of where it comes from, apart from having been collected from Bess Cronin 30 years ago. I learned it from Phil Callery. I love this song for its soaring melody line; you really do imagine you're standing at the top of a mountain!
posted to MeFi Music by LN
at 6:18 PM on August 29, 2007
(6 comments)
Another treehouse question. I'm almost done building mine, and I can't figure out why it's so wobbly. Take a look at photos & video, please, and let me know what I might do to make it more solid. No treehouse experience necessary, this is mostly carpentry 101.
Degree of difficulty: I do not want any posts in the ground supporting the treehouse. I want all the support to be in the tree.
posted to Ask Metafilter by stupidsexyFlanders
at 8:54 PM on September 3, 2007
(16 comments)
What are the best *free* video podcasts available? News and cooking are what I'm really looking for.
posted to Ask Metafilter by HotPatatta
at 9:36 AM on July 15, 2007
(5 comments)
Intonation (specifically English). Can I change it? Can I flip between them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by gadha
at 4:51 AM on July 2, 2007
(11 comments)
Lots of programs allow you to create system wide hotkeys, or identify hotkeys in shortcuts, but what about a utility that reports what's already taken and what program owns it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lasitter
at 12:50 AM on July 4, 2007
(1 comment)
Parting the Veil of Faery:
The Colmore Fatagravures, said to date from the 1890s. "A Scottish adventurer, inventor, and photographer named
Neville Colmore claimed to have constructed a device capable of '...parting the veil of Faery...' The device, which he called the Spectobarathrum, along with all of the images he claimed to have made were believed destroyed in a fire. I believe some of these images and related artefacts may have survived."
[via Apothecary's Drawer]
posted to MetaFilter by mediareport
at 9:43 PM on June 19, 2007
(16 comments)
The story of the strange language of the Pirahã
is just as much a story about the state of the field of linguistics. Professor
Dan Everett of Illinois State University, who lived for decades with the Pirahã, first as a missionary, then as a linguist, believes Pirahã casts serious doubt upon Chomsky's
theory of universal grammar. Chomskyites have started to fight back
with a reassessment of Everett's
famous paper on the Pirahã, where he claimed that the Pirahã "have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few”—terms of quantification believed by some linguists to be among the common building blocks of human cognition." He also claims that it doesn't have recursion, a feature of language Chomsky recently claimed was
the defining feature of human speech. Dan Everett has
rebutted the Chomskyite reassessment of his work.
Video interview with Professor Everett.
[Pirahã previously covered on MetaFilter in 2004 and 2006]
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 9:10 PM on June 18, 2007
(60 comments)
In Midtown Manhattan, can you recommend a nearby and decent: 1) Indian restaurant; 2) Jewish or Italian deli; and 3) a place to get a good egg cream?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Karlos the Jackal
at 12:59 PM on February 14, 2007
(36 comments)
I'm doing 7 months in Europe, paying my way by telecommuting as a freelancer. To this end, wireless internet access is vital. I often spend a few days in a row working, without doing any sight-seeing, go out exploring a few days and repeat. I need a base city where I can work from, but also keep my expenditure to a minimum.
posted to Ask Metafilter by linus587
at 10:41 PM on May 20, 2007
(18 comments)
I'm moving to London in a few weeks to attend a graduate program [UL's SOAS]. I am leaving my long term boyfriend and many friends in Vermont for 9 months to attend classes. I've already lined up a part time tutoring gig and my housing is covered through the university. I don't have anything specific to ask, just general advice about being an American late 20-something non-single student in London. [I've lived in second world countries before for extended periods of time, general travel won't be too helpful.] Money is a concern, but not an obstacle.
posted to Ask Metafilter by k8t
at 3:35 PM on August 29, 2005
(23 comments)
Help me figure out the best way to finance graduate school abroad.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dead_
at 8:17 AM on May 10, 2007
(4 comments)
Some stuff that happened. A mild case of OCD.
A neighbourhood mom played the violin.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 9:33 PM on July 10, 2006
(57 comments)
Er... so my new girlfriend doesn't believe in atoms...
posted to Ask Metafilter by wfrgms
at 5:55 PM on March 24, 2007
(157 comments)
Moving to Europe: Finances? (Credit cards, bank, etc)
posted to Ask Metafilter by sirion
at 6:55 PM on March 21, 2007
(12 comments)
Calling all electrical engineers, cyclists and gadget freaks: How can I modify my SON dynamo bicycle wheel hub so that I can use it to power a variety of peripheral devices (cell phone, iPod, GPS, etc.)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by piedrasyluz
at 9:00 PM on March 6, 2007
(14 comments)
What's an MPhil worth in America? (more inside)
posted to Ask Metafilter by farishta
at 2:48 PM on March 6, 2007
(13 comments)
What do I need to do in daily life that I don't realize I need to be doing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by phoenixy
at 8:46 AM on February 21, 2007
(58 comments)
Recently I've met my favorite writer in a book presentation. He is considered one of the best living writers. In 2006 he won several prizes. His name is sometimes mentioned as a Nobel candidate. I was lucky enough to cause an impression on him, and I suggested him to visit my blog. He did, and then he sent me a short e-mail about it.
Now, how do I keep things moving forward? How do I develop this contact into a friendship, without turning this into a worship, without causing a wrong impression that I could be using his name to my personal benefit?
Essentially: how do I maintain and develop this relation, instead of killing it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dfreire
at 3:06 AM on February 22, 2007
(24 comments)
Help me understand my fiancee's non-verbal communication better.
posted to Ask Metafilter by hobgadling
at 6:53 AM on February 14, 2007
(51 comments)
Starting in a few weeks I will be doing a lot of travelling with my laptop. Help me choose a wifi provider for airports and possibly other locations.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jessamyn
at 9:45 AM on February 13, 2007
(19 comments)
Dynamic Journalism Job Feeds
I'm a graduate student at the Medill School of Journalism where I and many of my friends are always interested in fresh leads for post-graduation journalism jobs.
So we've set up a page of dynamic job feeds for entry-level newspaper, newmedia, magazine, and broadcast job feeds using Indeed.com, which scrapes all the major job sites. Setting up a bunch of feeds like this is nothing new, but I don't think there's anything quite like this for journalism jobs on the web.
if you're ever wondered about working as a reporter or editor somewhere, drop by and check out a few. there's always something good from the New York Times or WashPost.
posted to Projects by bflora
at 8:13 PM on February 6, 2007
Looking for stories and advice about getting an O-1 visa for someone in the film and television field.
posted to Ask Metafilter by andrewyakovlev
at 11:38 AM on February 5, 2007
(3 comments)
Jobs my friend could do with a laptop and an internet connection? (i.e., data-entry from home?)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Squid Voltaire
at 1:43 PM on February 5, 2007
(18 comments)
What's best chip & memory bang for my buck? For my upcoming laptop purchase, any reason to upgrade the configuration from an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66GHz 2M L2 Cache to something speedier like the Intel Core 2 Duo 2.00GHz 4M L2 Cache ($140 upgrade at Dell)? Is there a noticable difference? And, what's the ideal amount of memory? 2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM ($195 upgrade from 1GB at Dell)?... I'm inclined to skip the chip upgrade and get the extra RAM. Do you agree? What sort of use would necessitate the faster chip...gaming? No hi-graphics games for me. I just like my apps and my Web pages to load fast and tolerate multiples open simultaneously. And I'm not all that interested in a Vista upgrade...
posted to Ask Metafilter by timnyc
at 7:46 PM on January 26, 2007
(16 comments)
This question was asked about a year ago.... I'm looking for a compact, small screen (12" or less) laptop for travel that's decently priced. Any thoughts/advise?
posted to Ask Metafilter by gb77
at 5:30 AM on January 27, 2007
(16 comments)
What resources can you recommend for professional digital video editing and processing? Books, magazines, websites, forums, courses and software suggestions are all appreciated.
posted to Ask Metafilter by McGuillicuddy
at 10:26 AM on January 26, 2007
(4 comments)
