An Engineers Guide to Cats (youTube)
posted to MetaFilter by Lanark at 2:12 AM on April 13, 2008 (50 comments)

Over 2000 classic tales and fables including Aesop's Fables, Bulfinch's Mythology, Indian "Why" Stories, tales by Oscar Wilde, Beatrix Potter, Rudyard Kipling, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum and Harriet Beecher Stowe and stories about Abraham Lincoln, Robin Hood and Baron Munchausen. And more! The folk and fairytale collection is particularly rich, with hundreds of stories from all over the world.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 9:41 AM on April 1, 2008 (15 comments)

Obama's Gettysburg Address. Today we saw and heard a preview of our brightest possible American future in Senator Barack Obama's glorious speech. This, then, is what it means to be presidential. To be moral. To have a real center. To speak honestly, from the heart, for the benefit of all. If there was any doubt about what we have missed in the anti-intellectual, ruthlessly incurious Bush years, and even the slippery Clinton ones (the years of "what is is"), those doubts were laid to rest by Barack Obama's magisterial speech today. A speech in which he distanced himself from a flawed father figure, Reverend Wright, and did so with almost Shakespearian dignity and honor. One of the most important speeches on race in decades if not longer. (text)
posted to MetaFilter by caddis at 9:31 PM on March 18, 2008 (1141 comments)

GoogleDrive. Drive a little car around Google Maps. Potentially useless. Enjoy.
posted to MetaFilter by XQUZYPHYR at 6:05 PM on March 18, 2008 (41 comments)

Link to a picture heavy post on railroadforums.com about a coal mine in northernmost China.
posted to MetaFilter by Catfry at 6:44 AM on March 9, 2008 (16 comments)

POV-Ray Short Code Contest #5 - The animation round! This time the competitors were allowed 512 bytes of POV-Ray code to create a (short...) animation. The rules of rounds 2 and 3 (previously on Mefi) allowed 256 bytes but to create stills.
posted to MetaFilter by elgilito at 1:29 AM on February 16, 2008 (11 comments)

The shadowy back alleys of MetaFilter...
posted to MetaTalk by carsonb at 6:21 AM on January 12, 2008 (125 comments)

Who was Alexander Hamilton? Bastard, immigrant, Federalist, Secretary of the Treasury, speechwriter, philanderer, industrialist, duelist.
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea at 4:39 PM on December 19, 2007 (27 comments)

Two talking cats l cat talking translation l assorted cats.
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye at 8:20 AM on December 15, 2007 (38 comments)

Passage -- a small game about a big subject.
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 6:57 PM on December 11, 2007 (24 comments)

Screenvader. Media and algorithms and home made music. [flash]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:07 AM on March 5, 2007 (9 comments)

Where, exactly, were commercial vessels in the San Francisco Bay in the past hour? Here, for one. Behold the power of AIS! Previously
posted to MetaFilter by Ogre Lawless at 5:17 PM on January 28, 2007 (22 comments)

Apostrophes, apostrophes, more apostrophes. Yet more apostrophes. They're "everywhere". It's grammar hell - literally!
posted to MetaFilter by progosk at 2:51 PM on January 18, 2007 (88 comments)

Goldsmith sings Wittgenstein. Part two. (mp3) Kenneth Goldsmith (previously), the "most boring writer that has ever lived," has become a sort of rockstar in conceptual art circles. When he's not singing linguistic theory, you can find him transcribing his own speech, spinning records, and reading the other Kenny G's fanmail. More theory set to music.
posted to MetaFilter by roll truck roll at 8:59 PM on December 27, 2006 (23 comments)

"[C]omputer design is being dictated not by electronic design rules, physical layout requirements, and thermal issues, but by the wishes of the content industry." By deliberately breaking audio and video functionality, opening up new avenues for debilitating malware, and reversing performance gains in desktop PCs and third-party components, Peter Gutmann argues "the Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history."
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon at 10:03 PM on December 23, 2006 (132 comments)

Is PreacherTom an astroturfer? He's made 13 posts to the blue, all in the past couple of months. And all 13 of them start with a link to Business Week. There's someone with the same name on Netscape.com's digg-esque site who does the same thing, and one on StumbleUpon, too. And that's not all. Am I being paranoid? Is this even worth frowning on, as long as they're all decent posts?
posted to MetaTalk by Plutor at 5:41 AM on December 22, 2006 (166 comments)

What's a good "gateway drug" as far as a book title for philosophy? Something that will suck me in?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rolypolyman at 6:23 PM on December 8, 2006 (33 comments)

Sketch Furniture, aka Furniture Made With Frickin' Lasers. Swedish designers use motion capture technology to draw chairs and tables with light in mid-air. Their sketches are then built out of plastic by a laser into real pieces of furniture. Honestly, either one of these things would amaze me. I'm starting to like living in the future. (via bb)
posted to MetaFilter by Riovanes at 9:09 PM on November 1, 2006 (23 comments)