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Grrrr, Time Warner Cable has unceremoniously removed their stellar USENET access. What do I do now?
posted to Ask Metafilter by willie11
at 4:02 PM on June 25, 2008
(18 comments)
Mefi's Own Baby_Balrog: "Stephen and I traveled to Bilin, near Ramallah, on Friday. [...] IDF soldiers began firing CS gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets at the marchers [...] here's a video of me running away when the soldiers started firing gas canisters [...] I had my jump kit with me and tried to help a few people [...]" He's writing a pretty fascinating blog.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 12:56 PM on June 24, 2008
(14 comments)
Do you enjoy classic 2D platformers? Then boy, are you in luck! The
indie game community is thriving, and a good majority of its games are exactly that. I've spent many hours playing these unique, beautiful, and often exceptional projects, and there's quite a few - more than I can count on my fingers! - that could stand toe-to-toe with the finest contemporary games. Inside is a list of some of the greatest indie platformers, based on community recommendations and my own experience. Enjoy!
posted to MetaFilter by archagon
at 3:28 AM on June 24, 2008
(48 comments)
The hardest race you've never heard of:
Primal Quest 2008 kicked off today in SW Montana. Using only a map and compass, teams of 4 have up to 10 days to run, kayak, mountain-bike,
riverboard and climb over 500 miles of wilderness. Sleeping is not required by the rules.
posted to MetaFilter by dolface
at 7:04 PM on June 23, 2008
(18 comments)
DSLR recommendations anyone?
posted to Ask Metafilter by drpynchon
at 9:52 AM on June 22, 2008
(21 comments)
The Nexus Home Library Catalog
This one's for the collectors out there. It's a home library catalog for books, CDs, and DVDs that uses cover art to present your items on a book shelf.
You can do all the things you'd expect, like recording titles, multiple authors, publishers, release dates, etc. It also lets you track books you've borrowed or loaned, as well as upcoming releases and 'wishlist' items.
Turns out it's similar to Delicious Monster, but mine's been written for Windows instead of the Mac, so there's that. It also let's you tag your stuff and perform online ordering, I also do a bit of analysis to present tag clouds and pie charts showing what tags / authors / bookstores have cost you the most money over the years.
I started writing this after talking to a bunch of book and DVD collecting friends and finding out we each had our own home-brewed catalog (usually using Excel or Access). The Nexus is my attempt to create an uber-catalog that suited us all. If you think it's missing something, I'd love to hear it and try to incorporate your ideas.
posted to Projects by Reto
at 10:14 AM on December 18, 2005
"Bishop contends that as Americans have moved over the past three decades, they have clustered in communities of sameness, among people with similar ways of life, beliefs, and in the end, politics. There are endless variations of this clustering—what Bishop dubs the Big Sort—as like-minded Americans self-segregate in states, cities—even neighborhoods. Consequences of the Big Sort are dire: balkanized communities whose inhabitants find other Americans to be culturally incomprehensible; a growing intolerance for political differences that has made national consensus impossible; and politics so polarized that Congress is stymied and elections are no longer just contests over policies, but bitter choices between ways of life. "
Article about the book from
the Economist. Book's
Website. A
review.
posted to MetaFilter by wittgenstein
at 11:21 AM on June 22, 2008
(52 comments)
Asking for a co-worker: Is there a service, web-based or otherwise, that will record a message from me, then call a list of phone numbers I provide and play it back to them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mysterious1der
at 6:18 AM on June 18, 2008
(13 comments)
Teach the Controversy.
Because we know that the earth sits on giant elephants which in turn ride an even gianter turtle.
posted to MetaFilter by cerebus19
at 11:25 AM on June 16, 2008
(74 comments)
The
Kanye West Beat Drop. A
number of the web's best
rap blogs get
together to post and chronicle the best of Mr. West's impressive and extensive history of producing, ghost producing, and the stories around many of the songs.
posted to MetaFilter by cashman
at 8:50 PM on June 15, 2008
(25 comments)
I'm helping manage a project which has a lot of different document types contributed and edited by a lot of different people. Program code, bitmaps, text documents with homebrew markup code, PDFs, and a whole lot more all need to live together in the same repository.
I was using SVN, but many of the people on the site are pretty non-technical. I had to switch to a mailing list from a real project management forum, because people weren't consistently able to get the RSS feed working for the forum. I know people are likely to say we should use a wiki, but I haven't liked any of them--they're great for documentation (and that is a lot we're working on) but they don't really handle things like programming code and desktop publishing files especially well.
Ideally, the source control would look just like a local directory, and users could load and save files to it and the merging and versioning would happen transparently. As close to that as possible would be great. A specific wishlist is inside. Any ideas?
posted to Ask Metafilter by catsclaw
at 9:56 PM on June 14, 2008
(18 comments)
Atmospheric recording of birds and crickets in the Nikko forest.
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 10:17 PM on July 1, 2006
(5 comments)
In a field, on a mountain, near a village above Nice, 1999
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 10:28 PM on July 1, 2006
(1 comment)
In a lush park in Bern, Switzerland, Spring 2000
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 10:32 PM on July 1, 2006
(3 comments)
On a winding, dirt road above the Maggiore lake, Baveno, Italy 2000.
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 10:35 PM on July 1, 2006
(1 comment)
Late at night in the dark, next to a rice paddy, in the forrest - frogs and water.
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 10:36 PM on July 1, 2006
(1 comment)
Late at night in the dark, next to a rice paddy, in the forrest - frogs and water.
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 10:39 PM on July 1, 2006
(1 comment)
Recorded from the 4th Floor window of a medieval villa in the village of Tourrettes-sur-Loup. Distant thunder and Summer rain falling on the Grande Rue.
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 10:42 PM on July 1, 2006
(1 comment)
Late at night in the dark, next to a rice paddy, in the forrest - frogs and water.
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 10:40 PM on July 1, 2006
(1 comment)
Distant rolling thunder, a country lane, a pond and some ducks - a still, warm day with light rain, a stroll after lunch.
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 10:53 PM on July 1, 2006
(1 comment)
Recorded from a bedroom window during rainy season in Aoyama, Minato-Ku.
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 10:47 PM on July 1, 2006
(1 comment)
On the porch of my parents' house in Portland, Victoria. The familiar sound of an electrical fuse box buzzing in the rain and pluvers (birds) in the distance.
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 10:57 PM on July 1, 2006
(1 comment)
Standing on a pebbly beach, after dinner in the dark - small waves wash up the beach and around my bare feet.
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 10:59 PM on July 1, 2006
(3 comments)
Scaled the cliffs of an abandoned embassy, sitting on a broken concrete jetty, looking out to the Mediteranean. Kids playing around me in the water.
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 11:02 PM on July 1, 2006
(1 comment)
The calming Tokyo broadcast (public address system) - "don't be alarmed... there is no disaster"
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 11:05 PM on July 1, 2006
(5 comments)
5PM daily Minato-ku broadcast - Tokyo public address system
posted to MeFi Music by strawberryviagra
at 11:07 PM on July 1, 2006
(1 comment)
Long term storage of digital media that is too big for DVD's... what's best practice?
posted to Ask Metafilter by crapples
at 6:41 PM on June 14, 2008
(21 comments)
off my first ep, "Night School"
posted to MeFi Music by god particle
at 3:45 PM on June 8, 2008
(2 comments)
WILDCARD Challenge - beatboxing & humming & processing.
posted to MeFi Music by naju
at 3:17 AM on June 8, 2008
(4 comments)
Because it's new.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat
at 4:07 PM on June 10, 2008
(10 comments)
My wifes love for Galen "The Chief" Tyrol from Battlestar Galactica knows no bounds and now it's burst out in song format. She made the words and singing, I made the music. All together now, "I don't care if he's a Cylon, I know he's someone I can rely on..."
posted to MeFi Music by merocet
at 4:32 PM on June 10, 2008
(4 comments)
[NSFW]"The following program is in living color and has been rated X by the Vietnam academy of maggots. The purpose of this program is to bring vital news, information and hard acid rock to the first termers and non-re-enlistees in the Republic of Vietnam. Radio First Termer operates under no Air Force regulations or manuals. In the event of a vice squad raid this program will automatically self-destruct." Radio First Termer was a pirate radio show broadcast by "Dave Rabbit," an anonymous USAF sergeant, for 63 hours between January 1st and 21st, 1971, out of the back room of a brothel in Saigon, gracing the dial at 69 MHz and 690 AM.
Fearing reprisal from his superiors,
Dave Rabbit then shut
Radio First Termer down and, after returning to the States, went back to living a normal life. 34 years later, while helping his son on a homework assignment,
Dave came across old recordings of his show. He's since revived
his old persona via
podcast, and has also brought Radio First Termer back to the warzone--
to Baghdad, Iraq.
posted to MetaFilter by not_on_display
at 6:13 PM on June 11, 2008
(11 comments)
I need to redirect all traffic on a subdomain to https instead of http. mod_rewrite is installed, but I don't know how to use it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Radish
at 2:44 PM on June 11, 2008
(7 comments)
How do I make the projection screen in my NOC look like the control room at NORAD?
posted to Ask Metafilter by empath
at 8:13 PM on June 10, 2008
(20 comments)
Over the last few months one of the Metafilter regulars has produced a number of comments demonstrating an above average grasp of the democratic parties political process as well as an above average ability to articulate that understanding in to language that highlights the substance of the comments.
posted to MetaTalk by iamabot
at 3:12 PM on June 7, 2008
(100 comments)
Related questions are awesome.
posted to MetaTalk by GuyZero
at 3:37 PM on June 4, 2008
(81 comments)
I know that there's a dedicated cadre of Team Fortressers out there. Anyone playing Call of Duty 4?
posted to MetaTalk by nevercalm
at 8:01 PM on June 5, 2008
(48 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)
On May 13, security advisories published by
Debian and
Ubuntu revealed that, for over a year, their OpenSSL libraries have had a major flaw in their
CSPRNG, which is used by
key generation functions in many widely-used applications, which caused the "random" numbers produced to be extremely predictable.
[lolcat summary]
posted to MetaFilter by finite
at 10:01 PM on May 16, 2008
(81 comments)
A song written and recorded today in one go. Can you guess what it's about?
posted to MeFi Music by inoculatedcities
at 9:25 PM on April 19, 2008
(6 comments)
