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)

2 July 1863, second day of Gettysburg. Sickles has pulled his III Corps -- without orders -- off of Cemetery Ridge and positioned it a half mile in front of the rest of the Union lines. Longstreet smashes the hapless III Corps and its men are in full flight. Hancock rides back and forth inside the gaping hole left by Sickles. Below him, almost 2000 men of Wilcox's brigade are charging up the slope. They will gain a foothold on the ridge and be reinforced by Lee. As Longstreet pins down the Union left, Lee will roll up the center and right of the Northern army and chase them from the field. He will then march on and take Washington before turning north along the eastern seaboard. Lee will capture and burn Philadelphia and Boston in his March Along the Sea, chasing the Northern government from city to city until Lincoln finally sues for peace and the union is no more. Suddenly, a line of blue-coated soldiers comes into Hancock's view. "My God, is this all the men here? Who are you?" "1st Minnesota, sir." "See those colors?", says Hancock, pointing at the flags of the oncoming Confederates, "Take them."
posted to MetaFilter by forrest at 5:45 AM on July 2, 2008 (82 comments)

[SexFilter] Mindblowing sex. I would like to have some.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous at 6:42 PM on June 27, 2008 (20 comments)

Accidental Astrophysicists: "They started with algebra and ended up learning about gravitational lensing (PDF)." [Via linkfilter]
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus at 3:35 PM on June 17, 2008 (22 comments)

How did you adjust to living in New York City? I just got here and I'm feeling incredibly overwhelmed and uncertain about my decision to move here. Any advice?
posted to Ask Metafilter by HotPatatta at 8:14 AM on May 20, 2008 (50 comments)

No more waiting on gas prices. It's time to indulge in a little luxury: the elusive perfect shave.
posted to MetaFilter by merc at 4:10 PM on May 25, 2008 (64 comments)

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posted to MetaFilter by Upton O'Good at 12:00 AM on March 27, 2008 (39 comments)

Back in 2003, I posted a link to a video that showed an octopus transforming itself to look like its surroundings. If you read the thread, there was some doubt about it and I think we all wished that web video was better at the time. Well, a friend posted a link to a TED talk recently that shows this same octopus at a much higher resolution.
posted to MetaTalk by stefnet at 3:46 PM on January 30, 2008 (36 comments)

THX for the eyes.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau at 9:06 PM on January 29, 2008 (54 comments)

The shadowy back alleys of MetaFilter...
posted to MetaTalk by carsonb at 6:21 AM on January 12, 2008 (125 comments)

This may be the coolest flash game ever. Although it's graphics are nothing to write home about, the game play (which I will wisely follow kotaku's example in not spoiling for you) is quite simply incredible. It's a unique and quick little work break for you via kotaku.
posted to MetaFilter by shmegegge at 3:21 PM on January 3, 2008 (92 comments)

A holiday gift for Cortex and the Mods
posted to MeFi Music by psmealey at 10:51 AM on December 29, 2007 (7 comments)

"In the Late December" (MP3 link), by Greg van Eekhout, is a Nebula award-nominated story about Santa Claus and the end of the universe, and is Escape Pod #138. (By the way, this is a very dark story -- there's no sex or violence but this probably isn't suitable for kids, where "kids" is defined as a stereotypical aggregate of child-like characteristics. Yours may be different.)
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris at 8:24 AM on December 25, 2007 (14 comments)

What happened to loquacious' question?
posted to MetaTalk by jacalata at 9:19 PM on December 15, 2007 (105 comments)

What the hell? Silent deletion of my FPP! I know that political correctness is the force that moves Metafilter, but come ON here people! The post was a short one, centered on this story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314564,00.html and apparently that's a story that Metafilter is not ready to handle at this point in time.
posted to MetaTalk by Sukiari at 6:15 PM on December 2, 2007 (16 comments)

Can we delete our own posts, then?
posted to MetaTalk by Pope Guilty at 3:49 PM on November 26, 2007 (5 comments)

Experimenting with images using animated .gifs, Jim Gaspernini presents stereo images on the screen by simply putting the right and left images in an animated .gif. (more inside)
posted to MetaFilter by bluedaniel at 9:13 PM on July 31, 2003 (51 comments)

In this podcast, jessamyn asks for a MeFi Music recording of all the rhymes on this AskMeFi thread. Here's my try.
posted to MeFi Music by divabat at 5:39 AM on November 23, 2007 (14 comments)

These comments are really making me think, actually... I really wish people could post comments as anonymous sometimes. Because by percentages alone, YOU KNOW that there are people reading this thread who are, indeed, serial flashers or public masterbators. There HAVE to be. You know, I can take a bit of sexism, but this is really overboard.
posted to MetaTalk by four panels at 1:09 PM on November 15, 2007 (570 comments)

A post about how women experience street harassment has been deleted. The one about how the psychology of exhibitionist men remains. The grounds: This post was deleted for the following reason: one exhibitionism post per day is enough. This is linked in the thread just below this. Please don't use MetaFilter to forward your point from metatalk. -- jessamyn My point was to continue a discussion some people thought valuable from a previous thread deleted apparently because that post was poor. Just can't get the hang of this thing. Hey ho.
posted to MetaTalk by jennydiski at 7:46 AM on November 16, 2007 (1163 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)

y'all are a sexy bunch of people.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 2:44 PM on November 14, 2007 (218 comments)

Asemic is a magazine of asemic writing, which is writing without semantic content. The editor is Australian Tim Gaze, who's made the asemic books Aussie Runes and The Oxygen of Truth, volumes 1 and 2. "Only words lie; asemic texts cannot lie."
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 7:07 PM on October 13, 2007 (74 comments)

Where/how do I get ahold of a "Big Suit" like David Byrne wore in _Stop Making Sense_?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Tasanova at 11:19 AM on October 11, 2007 (6 comments)

Now you can check out what some Mefites are posting to Twitter thanks to the Recent Twitters by MeFites page.
posted to MetaTalk by pb at 5:27 PM on October 10, 2007 (62 comments)

Digg did it.
posted to MetaTalk by evariste at 5:32 PM on July 1, 2006 (44 comments)

Government is good. An unapologetic defense of a vital institution.
posted to MetaFilter by edverb at 8:24 PM on October 9, 2007 (25 comments)

Shoegazer 101 Shoegazing (also known as shoegaze or shoegazer; practitioners referred to as shoegazers) is a genre of alternative rock that emerged from the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. It lasted until the mid 1990s, peaking circa 1990 to 1991. The British music press (notably NME and Melody Maker) called this genre "shoegazing" because the musicians in these bands often maintained a motionless performing style, standing on stage and staring at the floor while playing their instruments; hence, the idea that they were gazing at their shoes. The shoegazing sound featured extensive use of guitar effects, and indistinguishable vocal melodies that blended into the creative noise of the guitars. Some notable bands are Ride, Lush, Swervedriver, Slowdive, Curve, and American bands Lilys and the Swirlies.
posted to MetaFilter by psmealey at 7:41 AM on October 3, 2007 (113 comments)

as often nostalgic and sad as they are summery and blissful, indiepop songs have long been the refuge of popkids the world around who embrace DIY but reject the rebellion of punk and pretentiousness of indie-rock. Over the years the regional focus has shifted from the twee bands in the united kingdom in the 80s to australia in the early nineties, to the northwestern united states, and to strangely.. sweden. Maybe its the combination of warm scarfs and good social services, but for whatever reason sweden's young generation has embraced the genre and, armed with casios and knit sweaters, have set about reminding the rest of us how truly wonderful and affecting it can be
posted to MetaFilter by petsounds at 5:42 PM on September 3, 2006 (29 comments)

Remember this? It's content-aware image resizing. Well, now it's alive online.
posted to MetaFilter by flibbertigibbet at 5:03 AM on October 1, 2007 (28 comments)

I really want to watch German-language television to improve my German. How can I do that in the US?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jcwagner at 10:26 AM on September 19, 2007 (14 comments)

Academic writer's block: tips, strategies, experiences, psychology for dealing with it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by RogerB at 2:45 PM on September 27, 2006 (19 comments)

Help me be a bike / bicycle messenger / courier in San Francisco
posted to Ask Metafilter by loquacious at 11:55 AM on May 30, 2007 (14 comments)

When the Quabbin Reservoir is low, they say a church steeple rises from the water, a ghostly reminder of the towns submerged by the flooding of the Swift River Valley in 1939.

Enfield: "The residents of Enfield held a farewell ball in the town hall for their lost community."
Prescott: "The youngest of the four towns and the first to give up its identity in 1928"
Greenwich: "Where eastern Massachusetts saw four luckless, shabby towns, the residents saw a home."
Dana: "The Rabbit Run was used by school children. It was the only means of getting to daily classes at Athol High School"

'I had one guy in here who swore he remembered being a little kid on a boat with his dad, paddling around the steeple,"... He tries to set such visitors straight, but 'you can't just tell people they're crazy."
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 7:02 AM on August 20, 2007 (49 comments)

Ducks and dogs. They get along better than you'd expect.
posted to MetaFilter by tylermoody at 6:17 AM on August 1, 2007 (35 comments)

Is there a "sartorialst"-style website for haircuts?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lekvar at 5:58 PM on July 25, 2007 (6 comments)

Time Travel, or, the art of causing events after they've already happened. [requires java, more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by Avenger at 2:39 AM on July 23, 2007 (34 comments)

Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks , as brought to us by our very own Lore Sjöberg. English majors, begin your griping now.
posted to MetaFilter by SansPoint at 5:21 AM on July 23, 2007 (302 comments)

What are the most intellectual, but non speciality knowledge jokes that you know?
posted to Ask Metafilter by markovich at 12:48 PM on July 20, 2007 (89 comments)

Our own fandango_matt, of Metafilter design contest and multiple pissing elephant fame, has come up with his own Boy Scout inspired Metafilter safety guide.
posted to MetaTalk by Krrrlson at 10:25 AM on July 16, 2007 (188 comments)

What is the evolutionary relevance of PMS?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Ambrosia Voyeur at 9:35 AM on July 2, 2007 (50 comments)

The Armageddon flowchart: Just how will the end times play out?
posted to MetaFilter by edgeways at 7:22 PM on June 12, 2007 (12 comments)

Why are American voters reluctant to support free market policies when professional economists have achieved near-consensus? Bryan Caplan of the Cato Institute investigates. (pdf)
posted to MetaFilter by stammer at 9:52 PM on June 1, 2007 (71 comments)

On June 4th, 2007, New Haven became the first city to pass a law offering Municipal IDs for all citizens of the city, including illegal immigrants giving them better access to city services and making it possible for them to obtain a library card or open a bank account. Some people think it's a good idea. Some people don't, saying, among other things, that the program will cause illegal immigrants from other cities to rush to New Haven. The federal government may have made their opinion known on June 6th, when 31 illegal immigrants were arrested in what officials say was a routine raid, not in any way influenced by what had occurred two days previous. However, the mayor of New Haven, John DeStefano Jr has called it "an act of intimidation." Yesterday, in nearby North Haven, 3 more illegal immigrants were arrested.
posted to MetaFilter by eunoia at 4:17 PM on June 12, 2007 (75 comments)

Largest lake on an island, in a lake, on an island, in a...
posted to MetaFilter by petsounds at 9:06 PM on June 11, 2007 (71 comments)

Drowned out by boos, former White House Chief of Staff, Andy Card, receives an Honorary degree from UMass Amherst. (youtube)
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 4:20 AM on May 27, 2007 (96 comments)

"My deepest sympathies for posting this. I lack all attempts at rhythm and meter, and don't even have a nice English accent to back things up!"
posted to MeFi Music by chrismear at 9:10 PM on May 23, 2007 (49 comments)

The Klein Four is a group of math students at the Northwestern University who delight in bringing you various lovely, well-sung A Capella songs infused with their very own and very nerdy flavour. They're not the newest of the web, having released their first CD in 2005, but witty lyrics and five-part harmonizing are definitely worth checking out. I did do a search for this and didn't find anything. Please don't kill me.
posted to MetaFilter by Phire at 8:05 PM on May 23, 2007 (14 comments)

TV Shows | Cartoons | Anime | Movies | Music Videos | Sports
posted to MetaFilter by carsonb at 9:14 PM on May 19, 2007 (49 comments)

Woodstock^ (YouTuner)
Day ☼ { Richie Havens ♪ Country Joe McDonald ♪ John Sebastian ♪ Sweetwater ♭ Incredible String Band ♪ Bert Sommer ♭ Tim Hardin ♪ Ravi Shankar ♭ Melanie ♪ Arlo Guthrie ♪ Joan Baez ♪ }
Day ☼☼ { Quill ♪ Keef Hartley Band ♭ Santana ♪ Canned Heat ♪ Mountain ♪ Janis Joplin ♪ ♫ Sly & the Family Stone ♪ Grateful Dead ♪ Creedence Clearwater Revival ♪ The Who ♪ ☻ ♫ Jefferson Airplane ♪ ♫ }
Day ☼☼☼ { Joe Cocker ♪ Country Joe & the Fish ♪ Ten Years After ♪ The Band ♪ Blood Sweat & Tears ♪ Johnny Winter ♪ Crosby, Stills & Nash ♪ ♬ ♫ Paul Butterfield Blues Band ♪ Sha-Na-Na ♪ Jimi Hendrix ♪ ★ ♫ }

posted to MetaFilter by pruner at 6:20 AM on May 15, 2007 (50 comments)