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Tomorrow,
Björk,
Ólöf Arnalds and
Sigur Rós are
teaming up for a free concert -
Náttúra - which aims to raise awareness of the proliferation of aluminium smelting plants in Iceland.
Held in a large park near the centre of Reykjavik, will be broadcast live on the
Nat Geo Music and all of the performances will be in broad daylight with Iceland’s dramatic rolling scenery providing a perfect backdrop to what is expected to be one of the biggest concerts the country has seen.
The festival also aims to publicize Andri Snær Magnason's book
Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual to a Frightened Nation, an Icelandic bestseller about the environmental situation that will be published in an English translation next month.
posted to MetaFilter by chuckdarwin
at 12:51 PM on June 27, 2008
(40 comments)
Women's rights: What's in it for men?
- "Women in rich countries largely enjoy gender equality while those in poor countries suffer substantial discrimination. This column proposes an explanation for the relationship between economic development and female empowerment that emphasises changes in the incentives males face rather than shifts in moral sentiment. Technological change that raises demand for human capital may give men a stake in women's rights."
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless
at 7:48 AM on June 29, 2008
(29 comments)
The
MetaFilter Music Challenge is back,
(*cue triumphant fanfare, followed by sound of jubilant, cheering throng*) and suggestions for the monthly Challenge themes are open to all MeFiers. This means YOU! You are hereby encouraged, month by month, to offer suggestions, and if yours is chosen, not only will your name go up in lights at the Music page, but you'll also be the spark that ignites the creative genius of some MeFi Musician. A chance at a little slice of immortality!
posted to MetaTalk by flapjax at midnite
at 6:36 PM on June 1, 2008
(31 comments)
How do I handle interactions with a parent in the present, when I still haven't been able to let go of anger from the past? It's my mother.. simply calling me every now and then to ask how I am doing, and yet when she comes up on my caller ID I usually have overwhelming feelings of dread, anger, and then guilt if I don't pick up the phone.
posted to Ask Metafilter by citron
at 10:14 AM on May 24, 2008
(28 comments)
My computer is sick. Please help (XP pro).
posted to Ask Metafilter by wilful
at 7:00 PM on February 15, 2008
(16 comments)
I'm for looking non-karaoke instrumentals to sing over, preferably free. Ideally someone just playing an acoustic guitar or piano with no vocals, limited frills and high recording quality, either jazzy standards or pop. It's actually pretty hard to find all three at once on youtube and other such sites, so I thought I'd give Mefi a shot. Somebody must have a collection...any ideas?
posted to Ask Metafilter by StrikeTheViol
at 6:54 PM on May 17, 2008
(5 comments)
I need advice for selling my used stuff online via eBay and Amazon--more specifically, the shipping and order management part of it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cosmic osmo
at 12:05 PM on April 11, 2008
(7 comments)
Does anybody have ideas about how to teach 'Julius Caesar' to 10th graders?
posted to Ask Metafilter by flowerofhighrank
at 6:47 PM on April 3, 2008
(30 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)
An analysis of
376 recorded performances of Beethoven's
Eroica (Symphony #3), broken down by such variables as the age of the conductor, length of the recording, and tempo variations.
posted to MetaFilter by pjern
at 11:00 PM on March 14, 2008
(25 comments)
Ellen Willis was a writer and critic who wrote for the
Voice, the
Nation, and
Dissent, among many others; her
NYU homepage and
Wikipedia entry link to a number of essays and reviews, all of which are worth your time. She didn't make me a feminist, but her writing gave me much of the intellectual framework of my feminism and throughout the depressing retreat of the '80s reminded me there was still humor and hope. (From her
Wikiquote page: "My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.") She
died yesterday, of lung cancer, at the absurdly early age of 64. I'd like to quote from her "Escape from New York" (
Village Voice, July 29-Aug. 4, 1981), an account of a bus trip across the country that shows her inextricable mix of the personal, the political, and the just plain human: [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by languagehat
at 6:43 PM on November 10, 2006
(15 comments)
HindsightFilter: Due to a lack of perspective I didn't give math the attention I should have. I want to now.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zennoshinjou
at 8:01 AM on February 26, 2008
(10 comments)
My XP takes too long to shut down & boot up. What could be causing it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cheero
at 2:29 PM on February 21, 2008
(14 comments)
I think that the main reason for the practical intelligence and the political good sense of the Americans is their long experience with juries in civil cases. I do not know whether a jury is useful to the litigants, but I am sure it is very good for those who have to decide the case. I regard it as one of the most effective means of popular education at society’s disposal.
Dissent offers commentaries on jury duty from
Alexis de Toqueville,
Joanne Barkan,
Paul Berman,
Susan Cheever,
Nicolaus Mills,
Maxine Phillips,
Ruth Rosen,
Jim Sleeper,
Michael Walzer, and
Darryl Lorrenzo Wellington.
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 3:28 PM on February 18, 2008
(8 comments)
If you were showing the MetaFilter Universe (including the main page, Ask, Talk, Projects, Music, everything) to someone for the first time, what threads would you choose as examples of MeFi at its best and at its worst?
posted to MetaTalk by amyms
at 12:10 AM on February 17, 2008
(60 comments)
Can anyone walk me through the steps (in as easy terms as possible) to forward my Hotmail emails to gmail?
posted to Ask Metafilter by omnigut
at 9:53 AM on February 10, 2008
(5 comments)
What are some little things I can do to stay positive and kind to myself while going through some heartache?
posted to Ask Metafilter by loiseau
at 6:19 PM on January 28, 2008
(50 comments)
Personal journal-keeping - something I've wanted to be consistent with, but haven't. So, what works for you journalers to keep you journaling or at least keep coming back to journaling?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lucyleaf
at 11:54 AM on February 4, 2008
(26 comments)
Haruki Murakami doesn't do many interviews. However, he granted one to a University of Hawaii journalism student and it was published in the January 2007 issue of GQ Korea. The text has been translated by the blog owner.
Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4
posted to MetaFilter by spec80
at 8:44 AM on February 1, 2008
(25 comments)
Is there anywhere online that I can listen to instruments tuned to uneven temperament (ideally playing a scale)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by deeper red
at 12:56 PM on January 30, 2008
(5 comments)
I don't understand Habitat for Humanity. Perhaps you do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by moxiedoll
at 4:19 PM on January 30, 2008
(50 comments)
What are some amazing adventures, anywhere on the planet, that take around 3 months to do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by twirlypen
at 4:15 PM on January 25, 2008
(13 comments)
It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi.... Mr. B has risen beyond his real abilities.... His code is not his own; it is that of his class–no worse, no better, He fits easily into whatever pattern is successful. That is his sole measure of value–success. Nazism as a minority movement would not attract him. As a movement likely to attain power, it would.... Mr. G is a very intellectual young man who was an infant prodigy.... Mr. G will never be a Nazi,... [h]e will certainly be able, however, fully to explain and apologize for Nazism if it ever comes along.
"Who goes Nazi?" via
sott.net, with added context.
posted to MetaFilter by orthogonality
at 12:43 AM on January 24, 2008
(76 comments)
Ubuntu has quickly become the number one
Linux distro for the desktop. Not only is it free, but it has also made Linux easier to use than ever. Now,
Wubi enables
Windows users to install Ubuntu just like any other application, so you no longer have to mess around with partitions, burning CDs, etc.
posted to MetaFilter by Foci for Analysis
at 8:09 AM on January 21, 2008
(82 comments)
16th-18th Century (Western Europe): Did working-class women wear corsets?
posted to Ask Metafilter by grumblebee
at 7:18 AM on January 20, 2008
(15 comments)
"My name is Gudo Wafu Nishijima, a Buddist Monk, who is 86 years old, and recently because of my old age, I finished my Buddhist lectures, which were held at many places for many years, and so I decided to open
Dogen Sangha Blog, to express the Buddhist thought. It might be very short sentences, but I would like to continue it as far as possible almost every day."
The blog of Zen Master
Gudo Wafu Nishijima, founder of
Dongen Sangha Buddhist group. Learn from his video,
How to Practice Zazen, or read some of Nishijima Roshi's
lectures and articles, including the interesting talk,
Zazen, A Better Way of Experiencing Pain.
posted to MetaFilter by MetaMonkey
at 5:01 PM on February 25, 2006
(44 comments)
Recommended reading for midlife crisis/moral quandary?
posted to Ask Metafilter by InkaLomax
at 11:47 AM on November 24, 2007
(16 comments)
And we're off! Prime Minister John Howard has set the date for the Australian Federal election as November 24th, meaning we're up for a long six-week campaign. With Kevin Rudd leading the PM by
between 16 to 18 points (depending on who you read) in recent opinion polls, this election seems the most likely to provide a change of Government since Howard was first elected 11 years ago. Antony Green's usual excellent election guide is
up and running here, along with an
excellent calculator which shows which seats are up for grabs dependent on a
2 party preferred swing. You might also want to check out the
Vote-O-Matic, a fun but entirely disposable quiz which aims to help you decide who you'll vote for.
posted to MetaFilter by Effigy2000
at 7:48 PM on October 13, 2007
(621 comments)
Australia Votes.
Polls have been predicting a
Labor win for the past few weeks, and it's beginning to look like it just might happen. But that's not the real sport.
posted to MetaFilter by Neale
at 12:45 AM on November 24, 2007
(78 comments)
Jimbob said "
Yeah, keep this thread running. May it serve as an example to all the American politics nuts who insist on starting a new post every time Hillary takes a shit." And so that's just what we did. In an example of how I think Metafilter can do politics well, the
Australian Politics thread, which started on October 14 (the date the election was called, which is
not the first day of the campaign), ran for 30 days straight and (at time of writing) had amassed almost 600 comments. But as is the norm for an FPP after 30 days on the Blue, it's about to be closed so discussion has moved over to
Thread #2, by wilful, to get us through to election day. An index of the first thread is inside, as well as kudos for those involved (because I think they deserve it).
posted to MetaTalk by Effigy2000
at 5:12 PM on November 11, 2007
(66 comments)
The Imagined Village
[promoting an album too but plenty of interesting free stuff] Several luminaries of a now more globalised British music scene reinterpret the folk heritage and pose questions about a modern English identity. There's Benjamin Zephaniah's version of
Tam Lyn and a retelling of
Hard Times in Old England; even our American cousins get in on the act, for instance
remixes like Doghouse Riley's doo-wop
Cold Hailey Rainy Night. There's also a few
thinky pieces explaining what it's all about.
posted to MetaFilter by Abiezer
at 1:02 AM on November 17, 2007
(5 comments)
City of Sound
as it describes itself, is a blog about cities, design, architecture, media, music, etc. But calling it a blog really does it a disservice. City of Sound is a category-killer; amazingly dense, thoughtful, erudite, and compelling, it begins to catalog our urban identity. A bit of reminiscent of
Metropolis magazine, if it was edited by
Robert Rauschenberg. If you've not visited, do yourself a favor. It is a treasure trove.
posted to MetaFilter by spacely_sprocket
at 8:13 AM on November 17, 2007
(13 comments)