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Crunk/Southern Club style head banging high energy hip hop track. All vocals by my normal collaberator, Juicy Karkass, and his buddy Savior of
Animal Farm
posted to MeFi Music by mediocre
at 5:19 AM on August 1, 2008
(105 comments)
Write Rhymes
: As you write, hold the alt key and click on a word to find a rhyme for it...
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 8:27 AM on July 29, 2008
(39 comments)
Eighty one years ago to the day, barber, banjoist and balladeer
B.F. Shelton travelled from his home in Kentucky to take part in a recording session in Bristol Tennessee. Now referred to as the "
Bristol Sessions", these recordings are widely viewed as some of the most important and influential in American music history. The four songs Shelton recorded that day, stark, simple and immensely powerful in their unadorned honesty, can all be heard
here. After Bristol, Shelton never recorded again.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 1:25 AM on July 29, 2008
(16 comments)
After 40 years of national broadcasts, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood will be removed from PBS' weekday program service this fall.
The current situation is that PBS beams the show to member stations as part of its children's programming block Monday through Friday. Most (63%) stations air it. Starting in the fall, PBS stations won't receive the show daily but rather one episode per week will be sent. This summer, PBS stations that still want to play the the show during the week will have an opportunity to receive a season's worth of episodes to stockpile. But receiving and scheduling those episodes requires effort.
posted to MetaFilter by k8t
at 11:55 PM on July 28, 2008
(33 comments)
Israeli paper publishes Obama's stolen Western Wall prayer
New York, July 26 : Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama wrote a prayer in Jerusalem this week - and left it at Judaism's holiest of sites, the Western Wall. As Barack placed his prayer in the cracks of the Western Wall, someone came from behind and stole it.
That pilfered prayer has now been published in an Israeli newspaper, exposing to the world a personal plea for God to help him "guard against pride and despair."
posted to MetaFilter by Postroad
at 5:13 AM on July 27, 2008
(240 comments)
Randy Pausch is a
pioneer in virtual reality, a
computer science professor, a
Disney Imagineer, an
innovative teacher, and the co-founder of
the best video game school in the world. One year ago he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and after a long and difficult fight
he's been given just a few more months to live. This week he gave
his powerful, funny, and life-affirming last lecture to a packed auditorium at Carnegie Mellon University, entitled "How to Live Your Childhood Dreams".
The WSJ's summary, and
a direct link to the complete video of the lecture (2 hours, and unfortunately streaming WMV). Warning: hilarious jokes about dying.
posted to MetaFilter by xthlc
at 8:13 AM on September 20, 2007
(32 comments)
Silent spring
:
Deep in the radioactive bowels of the smashed Chernobyl reactor, a strange new lifeform is blooming.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan
at 7:37 AM on July 25, 2008
(46 comments)
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 came out in 2004, and was received with mixed reviews. Four years later, hobbyists of the game continue to take it to a whole other level. You may have already seen links to the
creative ways to devastate in RCT3. A whole other group of fans, however, have gone on to create highly detailed parks and ride recreations. They use customized textures and mods to create
massive architectural works that require hundreds--sometimes over thousands--of hours of work.
posted to MetaFilter by The ____ of Justice
at 3:29 PM on July 21, 2008
(41 comments)
In a 2001 University of Houston study of 153 survivors of nearly lethal attempts between the ages of 13 and 34, only 13 percent reported having contemplated their act for eight hours or longer. To the contrary, 70 percent set the interval between deciding to kill themselves and acting at less than an hour, including an astonishing 24 percent who pegged the interval at less than five minutes.
A surprising
article about the nature, methods, and deterrence of suicide.
posted to MetaFilter by Who_Am_I
at 11:41 AM on July 7, 2008
(69 comments)
"The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries." Very pretty, eerie, animated interpretations of the fields inhabit
Semiconductor's "
Magnetic Movie."
posted to MetaFilter by Kronos_to_Earth
at 9:29 PM on July 10, 2008
(25 comments)
Dadhacker
started his game programming career, like many people, by making a freeware knockoff of a popular arcade game. This got the attention of Atari, who hired him to do the official conversion of Donkey Kong, then
Super Pac-Man. After the
crash of 1983, he survived a round of layoffs, and was
pushed into the development of the
Atari ST along with a group of programmers and executives from Commodore.
posted to MetaFilter by CrunchyFrog
at 8:35 AM on March 17, 2008
(18 comments)
Did you happen to see those "
making-popcorn-pop-with-a-cellphone" clips that showed up at the end of last month on the toobs? Well,
WIRED wrote about it, and a kajillion copycat clips showed up in about the time it'd take to, you know, make some popcorn. Turns out it was a viral, natch, as a cursory search will reveal. But just today a clip appeared that
explains how the actual stunt was pulled off. Well, anyway, as you've probably guessed by now, this is all just an excuse to link to
Popcorn. Yep,
Popcorn.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 6:01 PM on June 20, 2008
(42 comments)
Mashup artist Gregg Gillis, aka
Girl Talk, is another artist to try the 'pay whatever you want' Internet release model. However, his
55-minute album consists of over 300 samples from other artists, with many current and past hits. No stranger to current controversies in copyright, Gillis also appeared in the documentary
Good Copy Bad Copy.
Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by uaudio
at 2:32 PM on June 20, 2008
(44 comments)
Death were a
proto-punk trio of black Jehovah's Witnesses based out of Detroit back in 1974. They were almost signed to Columbia, but bailed on the label when Columbia wanted them to change their name. Instead, they self-released a 7" which is now
quite a collector's item, influenced as it was by,
“Iggy and Stooges, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper and The Who”.
But the story doesn't end there. Recently, Bobby Hackney, whose father played in Death along with two of his uncles, learned of the band and, lo and behold, his dad found the master tapes for their unreleased full-length in his attic. Is a new chapter in
punk rock history about to be written?
posted to MetaFilter by stinkycheese
at 7:52 AM on June 11, 2008
(35 comments)
"
Day Ten - Cervix low and closed. Notice blood spot near
os and brown clot near cervix (right). Possibly from vigorous intercourse earlier that day (not
mittelschmerz as I am not ovulating yet)."
First link has graphic photos that may be NSFW.
posted to MetaFilter by pwb503
at 2:30 PM on June 5, 2008
(111 comments)
Please Vote for Me (official site) is a documentary about Chinese third-graders electing a class monitor.
posted to MetaFilter by generalist
at 9:57 AM on June 1, 2008
(35 comments)
I though documenting my early sex life would be a perfect reason to use Polaroids to do something other than take naked pictures, yet to still play on the sexual identity of the medium. I lived in Alexandria from 1980 to 1999. These were my formative years and they determined the way I dealt with women.
A guy documents the
spots in his old neighborhood (SFW) where he got kissed, dumped, laid or confused as a kid, and tries to work out "what went wrong." (
via,
via — both NSFW)
posted to MetaFilter by nebulawindphone
at 8:58 AM on May 7, 2008
(16 comments)
cranked this one out today...going to be part of my first demo ep under the name "neon zoo", later I plan on adding vocals.
posted to MeFi Music by god particle
at 8:01 PM on April 30, 2008
(1 comment)
A sad/angry song about the place where all the things we'd rather forget end up. Inspired by MeFi politics filter, where I was first introduced to the concept of "the memory hole," which in turn gave rise to this song. (This is a redux post after I accidentally posted an old mix before.)
posted to MeFi Music by saulgoodman
at 7:36 AM on April 28, 2008
(9 comments)
High-Tech Noon.
What makes a classic Western even more classic? Blasters and force-fields, that's what. (SLYT)
posted to MetaFilter by fearfulsymmetry
at 4:17 AM on April 21, 2008
(25 comments)
cb.vu
is a javascript virtual terminal which opens up full window in your browser and lets you fiddle with some UNIX goodness without being connected to a server, or affecting anything in The Real World whatsoever. Try creating, copying and reading files (and, particularly, read the about.txt), or playing one of the games provided. It even has an implementation of
vi!
posted to MetaFilter by benzo8
at 5:18 AM on April 17, 2008
(18 comments)
What HTML tags are allowed on the three main Metafilter sections? (I dare not experiment for obvious reasons.)
posted to MetaTalk by AlexReynolds
at 4:14 AM on April 14, 2005
(64 comments)
