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Well, I'm compleetly fed up with english speling for everything. Its so dammed inconsistant and ilogical, Ill never get the hang of it. Forchunately, now theres a way to express yourselfs using chinese-like english characters. It's called
Yingzi and now you can write english as quickly as you can write
for
Fellini or
for
Peach
posted to MetaFilter by lagado
at 6:55 AM on July 23, 2000
(13 comments)
News from the Field on The Archeology Channel
The Archaeology Channel is a collection of individually submitted reports and presentations of new research in archaeology, in various media formats. This high-tech self-publishing is really popular with archaeologists; it reminds me of
Harappa.com. Yet, I don't know of any sites like
this.
posted to MetaFilter by rschram
at 7:27 AM on July 3, 2001
(1 comment)
Shiseido Women.
'In Japan, womens fashion, like makeup, continues to
evolve, reflecting the moods and mores of the times.
The following photographs of women provide tantalizing
glimpses into some of the radical changes that have
marked the past century. '
Related interest :-
An American Visit to Japan, 1923.
posted to MetaFilter by plep
at 11:44 AM on April 18, 2003
(7 comments)
Your screensaver is boring.
Electric Sheep(Linux, OSX) produces animated flame fractals rendered via distributed computation.
n 0 time(Win) draws its data from things such as a custom word list, cached web site text, your favorites, or your cookies.
The Bank of Time(Win2k-, OS9-) grows plants based on your idle time connected to the net.
Dirty Fingerprints(Win) leaves fingerprints all over your screen, generated by user clicks on contributing sites. Or, if you really want, you can join in the effort to
crack various encryption methods(most systems) at Distributed.net.
Deskswap(
prev. link) has unfortunately been offline for months, due to bandwidth issues.
posted to MetaFilter by Su
at 10:32 AM on September 22, 2002
(18 comments)
A fascinating Salon (Premium, alas)
article asks why we haven't heard more about the purported
Israeli art student spy ring. Depending on who you ask, there's either nothing *to* ask, or there's a cover-up of positively Oliver Stone-ian proportions underway. Riveting reading, whichever explanation you subscribe to.
posted to MetaFilter by artifex
at 10:56 PM on May 8, 2002
(20 comments)
This was originally posted over three years ago,
but has been significantly updated since that time with the addition of many new Flame Warriors. I thought it was worth another look-see. I hope it's new to most of you, because it's a good laugh.
posted to MetaFilter by vito90
at 1:41 PM on June 24, 2003
(10 comments)
The Lewis Walpole Library
has digitized 10,000 images from its superb collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century satirical prints -- not the only collection of its kind on the Internet, but certainly one of the largest and best. Search under "Gillray", "Rowlandson" or "Cruikshank" and browse a selection of images from the golden age of English caricature. Everyone will have their own favourites, but here are a few of mine: Rowlandson's
Author and Bookseller, Cruikshank's
The Headache and Gillray's
Advantages of Wearing Muslin Dresses.
posted to MetaFilter by verstegan
at 2:04 AM on July 31, 2004
(4 comments)
If we were having this conversation in 1985, and I had said to you, “Four years from now the Soviet Union will collapse and in six years it will disappear,” you would have thought, “This is not a reliable observer.” But the U.S.S.R. is gone -- disappeared -- and we didn’t predict it. Russia today is a much smaller country than the former Soviet Union. The CIA had all the wrong data. We also made a mistake when we concluded that we had won the Cold War. We had almost nothing to do with what happened in the Soviet Union: there were internal issues and it certainly wasn’t Star Wars. We now know in detail how Gorbachev brought Sakharov out of exile in Gorky to address the Politburo on, “What would you do about a ballistic missile defense?” Sakharov said, “It’s easy to overwhelm it with missiles. I wouldn’t spend a ruble on it.” And they didn’t. But in mistakenly thinking that we won the Cold War, we strongly imply that we did something to cause that. Instead, the Soviet Union collapsed because of overstretch, a case of imperial overstretch. An Empire of More Than 725 Military Bases An interview with Chalmers Johnson, author of
Blowback and
The Sorrows Of Empire (More Inside)
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl
at 11:38 AM on December 1, 2004
(33 comments)
The Dark Side
of the Washington National Cathedral. Is this real? If so, why would they put an icon of evil on the outside of this place, "intended for national purposes, such as public prayer, thanksgiving, funeral orations, etc.,and assigned to the special use of no particular Sect of denomination, but equally open to all."
posted to MetaFilter by zanpo
at 8:32 AM on December 20, 2001
(22 comments)
Prisoner 547 is a Rabbit in prison. He shares a cell with another Rabbit, a Frog and a Chicken. It is visiting day.
In Japanese.
One episode of many.
posted to MetaFilter by Lord_Pall
at 10:57 AM on January 8, 2008
(25 comments)
Fight the Power!
"Telemarketers make use of a telescript - a guideline for a telephone conversation. This script creates an imbalance in the conversation between the marketer and the consumer. It is this imbalance, most of all, that makes telemarketing successful. The EGBG Counterscript attempts to redress that balance." It's own medicine time!
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo
at 7:19 PM on October 26, 2002
(73 comments)
The folks from Japanese public TV's excellent children's show "Pythagora Switch" have for several years been creating some of the most delightful and inventive Rube Goldberg-esque contraptions you're likely to ever see.
Here's a 9 minute clip featuring lots of these little kinetic masterpieces, guaranteed to entertain.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 4:20 AM on June 24, 2007
(43 comments)
I'm looking for online streams of Japanese TV, with as many game shows as possible.
posted to Ask Metafilter by 31d1
at 6:04 PM on June 23, 2007
(7 comments)
I've agreed to put some money down on the milk challenge. My boss has bet me that I can't drink a gallon of milk in one hour. Do I have a chance? How?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Telf
at 2:34 PM on November 9, 2006
(64 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)
Duclod man uncovered.
Sarah Aswell uncovers but does not name the author of bizarre letters. "As early as 1992, students at Grinnell College, a small liberal arts school in Iowa, began receiving strange, anonymous letters in the mail. The letters contained homemade greeting cards with crudely drawn pictures—men crawling on the ground, toilets and trash cans, twin closet doors—and jokes that didn’t make any sense."
Previously on Metafilter, plus
this blip.
posted to MetaFilter by Mo Nickels
at 5:51 PM on March 12, 2007
(156 comments)
My boyfriend has recently been diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Alone this is something to come to terms with but on top of this i have just found out he has been lying to me, which has made me question my whole relationship and the very foundations it has been built on. I have no idea what i should do...
posted to Ask Metafilter by rainbow_2006
at 11:31 AM on February 14, 2007
(83 comments)
Mythbusting Question: can you help me find inspiration in the old west?
posted to Ask Metafilter by asavage
at 6:53 PM on January 24, 2007
(206 comments)
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