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Fuelly: share and compare your mpg
Fuelly is a new site built by me and pb to help you track your gas mileage, allowing comparisons with EPA estimates, and other people driving the same car.
posted to Projects by mathowie
at 4:09 PM on August 7, 2008
I'd like a dynamic signature in Gmail. Possible?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wordsmith
at 6:51 AM on August 7, 2008
(5 comments)
In the First Person
"is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records."
(Description from website.) You can also browse by
repository,
collection,
subject and several other ways.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 9:01 AM on August 7, 2008
(8 comments)
Can you recommend some children's picture books that don't just feature white faces?
posted to Ask Metafilter by featherboa
at 5:24 AM on August 7, 2008
(37 comments)
The Invisible Life of Poet
is a webcomic by
Christopher Stetson Wilson that's been published weekly for three and a half years. It features the adventures of nerdy high school student Poet and his retinue (mostly his friend Ben). There are many ways to navigate the
archive. For a quality skim, check out the
author's favorites. If you want a more indepth look you can check out the tag categories,
characters (e.g.
Seph the Corruptor,
Coach Fathead),
contemporary issues (e.g.
class warfare,
gender issues),
culture and society (e.g.
mass media,
religion),
hyperreality (e.g.
board games,
hallucinations),
miscellaneous (e.g.
great art,
lowbrow humor) and
psycho-social constructs (e.g.
bullying,
love and seduction).
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 6:54 AM on March 27, 2008
(17 comments)
Breaking anthrax attacks update:
A new suspect, a US goverment expert on anthrax, kills himself as he's about to be arrested. Bruce Ivins
helped analyze the killer powder sent by mail in 2001 that killed five people and freaked out the US right after 9/11. The govt paid out $5.82 million just last month to former govt scientist
Steven Hatfill for wrongly targeting him in the investigation.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist
at 10:22 PM on July 31, 2008
(150 comments)
Can you pass a Barack Obama's
final?
posted to MetaFilter by jourman2
at 5:27 PM on July 29, 2008
(93 comments)
How do I give an effective presentation
without Powerpoint?
posted to Ask Metafilter by valleys
at 11:32 AM on July 26, 2008
(21 comments)
Are there any good website where they analyze a movie thoroughly just as though you are in a film class (from cinematic, philosophical, psychological, etc. perspectives)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by clueless22
at 8:26 AM on July 25, 2008
(7 comments)
Slides used to be dangerous.....
After climbing up those sandy, metal crosstrax steps you got to the top and stared down at that steep ride below. The slide was burning hot to the touch, a stovetop set to high all day under the summer sun, just waiting to greet the underside of your legs with first-degree burns as you enjoyed the ride
posted to MetaFilter by bluesky43
at 1:09 PM on July 21, 2008
(170 comments)
RestoftheMovie.com
will probably be taken offline pretty soon, since it seems like they show full (screener) versions of current movies (like
Kung Fu Panda and
Ironman) in streaming format, so you'll probably want to check it out sooner rather than later.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris
at 4:02 PM on June 12, 2008
(34 comments)
I love me some girly music. Recommend me your favorite unabashedly girly musicians. More detailed description inside.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zoomorphic
at 9:56 AM on July 18, 2008
(112 comments)
Tiled Background Designer
is just a small, useful tool to create patterns. Experiment with pictures, colors, textures and transparency to get best result.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris
at 1:38 AM on July 17, 2008
(37 comments)
Sean Tevis Takes On Intelligent Designer with Some Intelligent Design of His Own...
Sean Tevis is running for State Representative in Kansas, against an opponent he describes as a proponent of intelligent design. Short on name recognition (and campaign funds) he took it upon himself to use his skills as an information designer to connect to his "constituents" - could he be the first true candidate for a generation that grew up on the Internet? Very clever
xkcd-style infographic deployed against the agents of doom... (I donated, couldn't help myself)
via BoingBoing
posted to MetaFilter by piedrasyluz
at 4:31 PM on July 16, 2008
(248 comments)
Do you know of any songs that are more like
this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jne1813
at 10:28 AM on July 16, 2008
(10 comments)
How do state lotteries work? Is there a formula for winning or is it truly random?
posted to Ask Metafilter by terrier319
at 4:43 PM on July 15, 2008
(36 comments)
How do I convince someone Science is real?
posted to Ask Metafilter by doppleradar
at 12:50 PM on July 15, 2008
(69 comments)
How do I type
small on gchat? Is there a listing of html codes for gchat in general? Thanks!
posted to Ask Metafilter by lunit
at 11:01 AM on July 15, 2008
(3 comments)
The company I work for is growing by leaps and bounds. We've gone from 3 folks in the same office to 10 folks in 4 offices, the US and Asia. We need a communication solution. Looking for suggestions, experiences and thoughts. More inside.
posted to Ask Metafilter by GilloD
at 8:17 AM on July 9, 2008
(13 comments)
Loading.Ready.Run is a group of people who make funny videos on the Internet. They're also giant geeks, which makes their material more obscure to most people, but more hilarious to me.
posted to MetaFilter by aftermarketradio
at 8:03 AM on July 2, 2008
(9 comments)
webofdeception.com
is a bizarre, timecubesque linkdump maintained and updated by
private investigator and
domain squatter Joseph Culligan. In addition to sleazy dirt-digging on various celebrities and politicians, Culligan also includes a
huge resource list of links to databases and public-record searches.
posted to MetaFilter by sergeant sandwich
at 3:08 AM on June 29, 2008
(14 comments)
Is there any kind of exercise I can do to strengthen my knees?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jb
at 12:08 PM on June 27, 2008
(19 comments)
Guitarist and singer
José González's myspace page mentions [lots of youtube ahead]
Low and
Elliot Smith. And no review of the Swede whose parents left Argentina in the 1970s is complete without a reference to
Nick Drake. But what about the influence of styles from the hemisphere his parents left behind?
posted to MetaFilter by umbú
at 9:19 PM on March 22, 2008
(25 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)
A version of my still-favorite all-time MeMu song by the inimitable
Great Big Mulp, for the June challenge.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey
at 12:42 PM on June 6, 2008
(21 comments)
What have been the most important books in social science (including psychology, political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, "applied" social sciences like marketing, and so on) of the past 50 years?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Malad
at 12:31 PM on June 3, 2008
(19 comments)
Is there someplace in the Seattle area where I could go to be taught how to do some retro hairstylings like fingerwaves?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Foam Pants
at 11:53 AM on June 4, 2008
(3 comments)
I could offer excuses, but I won't. I'm unacceptably uninformed about the presidential hopefuls. Are there any good sites/articles offering summaries, breakdowns and/or analyses of the candidates' views/opinions on key issues? I'm primarily, but not exclusively, interested in the Democratic candidates.
posted to Ask Metafilter by anonymous78
at 2:20 PM on November 14, 2007
(14 comments)
What are the major issues for the 2008 presidential race, and what are the best links that support your view of those issues?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bove
at 10:32 AM on December 14, 2007
(28 comments)
Teach me to be a better informed voter for the next Presidential election
posted to Ask Metafilter by Pantalaimon
at 1:40 PM on December 26, 2007
(14 comments)
I'm looking for some research or (last resort) anecdotal stories about the effect of improved/improving schools on communities/neighborhoods.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jeanmari
at 11:45 AM on June 3, 2008
(8 comments)
I'm looking for an online video that I've seen within the last couple of years of a one man show by a British comedian that covered the reasons why America invaded Iraq and the history leading up to it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rfbjames
at 10:15 PM on May 7, 2008
(4 comments)
Is anyone familiar with ancient Native American legends of giant frogs riding people?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kittens for breakfast
at 1:02 PM on May 8, 2008
(5 comments)
AskMefi Followup: I asked you guys for tips in Seoul, and the response was very helpful, I'm still here for 5 more days, but
here are pictures of the awesome places you led me to!
posted to MetaTalk by nile_red
at 5:11 AM on May 8, 2008
(46 comments)
Ben Stein's
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a pro-Intelligent Design, anti-evolution polemic, arrived in theaters Friday to overwhelmingly
negative reviews and
anemic ticket sales. In response to the claims made in the film comes
Expelled Exposed, a website which seeks to "show you why this movie is not a documentary at all, but anti-science propaganda aimed at creating the appearance of controversy where there is none."
posted to MetaFilter by Pope Guilty
at 1:57 PM on April 20, 2008
(363 comments)
What's some speculative fiction that uses magic or fictional technology to explore psychology, sociology, or political science in a deep way? I'm not as much interested here in fabulous monsters or space operas or even deep thinking about physics -- I'm interested in books that explore the nature of the mind and/or human society by imagining a world that worked differently.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum
at 12:11 PM on April 13, 2008
(45 comments)
How can I disable favicon animation in Firefox 3?
posted to Ask Metafilter by equalpants
at 4:04 AM on March 25, 2008
(5 comments)
