A local print shop is having a sale on 36"x24" custom prints. What are some of your favorite high-resolution digital images that would work well as framed prints?
posted to Ask Metafilter by aerotive at 8:06 AM on March 8, 2008 (7 comments)

Bot flies are large, stout bodied, hairy flies that resemble bumblebees. But how they reproduce is what makes them interesting: 1) An egg-laden female botfly captures a night-flying female mosquito and glues her eggs on to it. 2) When the mosquito is released and bites a victim, the host's body heat triggers an egg to hatch. 3) It falls off and burrows in. Even more interesting is that sometimes, this happens on humans! [YouTube/NSFSqueamish] And on humans sometimes, this happens in the most inconvenient [pdf] of places.
posted to MetaFilter by humannaire at 7:53 PM on December 14, 2007 (59 comments)

I'm looking for funny sayings, expressions, idioms, et cetera.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anoxs at 7:29 PM on August 21, 2007 (59 comments)

I love esoteric jokes, the kind of humor which presupposes a lot of specialized knowledge. The more opaque the joke is, the better. However, by their very nature they're kinda hard to search for on Google, or at least I rarely hit upon the magic searchterms. So, do you know good sites with specialist jokes? If not, do you know any particularly obscure jokes?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kattullus at 9:56 AM on September 23, 2007 (97 comments)

Social Wallpaper. A community effort to classify, rank, and distribute high resolution images for use as computer wallpaper.
posted to MetaFilter by Mitheral at 7:08 PM on August 12, 2007 (24 comments)

MusicFilter: I need to make a playlist for a cocktail hour this weekend. I'm looking for more things like Suba, Amon Tobin, or the Gotan Project. Preferably without lyrics, although non-English lyrics would be acceptable. Bonus points for Italian elements or Rat Pack ambience.
posted to Ask Metafilter by billtron at 10:10 AM on July 18, 2007 (32 comments)

My sister just graduated from Parsons with a BFA in Fashion Design. I said I would help her with a website, which would basically be an art/photo gallery with a few different sections. Are there any content management systems that would work well for this type of application? Free is good, but I wouldn't mind spending a little money for something really good. She sent a couple links to designers' homepages that she liked [1 2 3 4 5]. Whatever it is will need to be PHP/MySQL (or flash) based.
posted to Ask Metafilter by delmoi at 3:38 PM on July 14, 2007 (10 comments)

Bane of My Existence is a very observant and well done record of idiocy for future historians by illustrator Rod Filbrandt. You of course, are nothing like these drawings. The rest of his blog is pretty good to poke around too. (via Drawn)
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 8:06 PM on June 19, 2007 (48 comments)

Suddenly, my laptop and wireless network aren't playing well together.
posted to Ask Metafilter by punishinglemur at 12:33 PM on June 13, 2007 (6 comments)

Kuroko, Japanese performance art: Why is my girlfriend mad at me?
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye at 10:50 PM on May 27, 2007 (14 comments)

If you haven't had enough of spork lore, take a stab (and scoop) at this lesson on the anatomy of a spork. This field deserves more research, as here are many species of this elegant icon of minimalist design that we secretly wish we could still use at the dinner table.
posted to MetaFilter by vanadium at 9:30 AM on May 7, 2007 (24 comments)

Demonstrate one of the weirdest quantum effects in your home using a laser pointer, some tinfoil, a piece of wire, and a $7 polarizer. The device, called a quantum eraser, operates in a way very similar to the famously mind-blowing double slit experiment that was voted the most beautiful experiment in physics.
posted to MetaFilter by blahblahblah at 11:16 AM on April 30, 2007 (49 comments)

The Power of the Penis [YouTube],[NSFW]. I'm sorry for making my first post ever a single link YouTube post, but this Atlanta Public Access TV clip is the most educational video I have ever seen. Alexyss Tylor hosts a show on 'Vagina Power 'and 'Penis Power' with her mother. It's about 9 minutes of true insight - women, don't let men hit the bottom or use their penis as a weapon! Separate the love, the orgasm, and the penis, OK? Make sure he buys you the shrimp plate though!
posted to MetaFilter by waitingtoderail at 3:00 PM on April 17, 2007 (302 comments)

I have a client who commissioned some web work from me and then dropped the bombshell when I had completed the project that they didn’t have the funds in place to pay me fully until they’ve sold more advertising on it. What can I do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by toocan at 3:51 AM on April 15, 2007 (32 comments)